The Pasta House in Union, Mo will be helping us with a fundraiser in May. Anytime you dine with them in the month of May, they will donate 10% of your bill to  ECA-MRL.  For more information and a downloadable flyer, please see the tab "Fundraiser Flyer."
You do not have to have the flyer with you but you must ask your server to about the fundraiser.

ObamaCare’s federally mandated state exchanges are set up to send private patient data directly to federal agencies, according to an expert familiar with their inner workings.
But another aspect of the law is what’s known as the federally affiliated state health insurance exchanges. Though just as intrinsic to the new program’s success as the individual mandate, it’s gotten far less media attention. And that’s a problem, says Citizens Council for Health Freedom President Twila Brase, because they eventually will force everyone to give up their medical privacy.
“It’s been sold as one federal and several state systems,” she explained. But in reality, it will operate like a computer network: The federal government is the server — collecting and processing all the data — and the states will only be portals where data entry takes place. At least five federal agencies will have access to individuals’ medical data.
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by Jay Sekulow from ACLJ
(Day 2 of Supreme Court hearing)
What was very encouraging today is that Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered to be the swing vote in this issue, expressed deep skepticism about the constitutionality of the mandate. In fact, he called such an idea "unprecedented" and told the Solicitor General that the government needed to answer a "very heavy burden of justification" to show how the Constitution authorizes Congress to require that people buy insurance. 
     As I told Megyn Kelly on FOX News today, the concerns raised by Justice Kennedy, are very telling. You can watch the interview here.     As you know, I have repeatedly said it's difficult to judge the outcome of a Supreme Court case based on oral arguments. What did become clear today is that with an increasing level of skepticism about the individual mandate - and now from Justice Kennedy - could spell real trouble for the survival of ObamaCare.
(link to blog)

The 2nd Annual Coalition For Life Benefit Dinner is scheduled for Monday, April 23.
TIME: 6:00 p.m. VIP Reception for Table Sponsors
      7:00 p.m. Dinner/Program
WHERE: Andre’s Banquet Center
       4254 Telegraph Rd.
       St. Louis, MO 63129

For more info or to register for the event:
www.coalitionforlifestl.com/bignews

* Find out about the comprehensive impact of the Coalition For Life 
* Learn about the social indicators that have many people believing that we really are witnessing the beginning of the end of abortion
* Hear amazing success reports from local pro-life leaders
* Discover the BIG NEWS about what's next for this international movement -- utilizing input from some of the top pro-life leaders in the state
* Find out how YOU can make a difference in the next steps of this crucial effort!

The Rally for Religious Freedom is scheduled for March 27 at the Missouri State Capitol.  
Anyone who is concerned about religious freedom and the Obama administration's overstepping of its authority in mandating that religious affiliated organizations and businesses provide health insurance that includes procedures, devices and services to which they are morally opposed needs to be at this rally and demand your constitutional right to religious liberty.
Registration begins at 9:00 am in the First floor Rotunda. Rally around noon.
 (link for more info.)

Thousands of pro-life Americans took to nearly 200 local rallies in cities and towns across the country to stand up for religious freedom and against the Obama mandate that requires employers to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.
The rally in Washington, D.C. was so large organizers had problems getting the entire crowd in one picture.
Kristan Hawkins, the head of Students for Life of America, was one of the pro-life leaders to address the crowd in the nation’s capital.
“The new mandate, which was released last month, violates  our civil liberties and free exercise of religion by forcing every American, every public and private University Student Health Care Plan, and every U.S. Employer, regardless of religion or conscience, to pay for abortion-causing drugs, like Ella, in health insurance plans, she said.
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NEW YORK, March 23 (C-FAM) The United States burned diplomatic bridges during this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women by using force and deception to pass an unpopular resolution calling for international access to contraception. 

Countries accused the US of manipulating the negotiations process from start to finish through proposing the initial text of the resolution on maternal mortality, tightly controlling the ongoing negotiation and then using its prerogative as conference chairman to ram home a final document that other countries could not realistically change.
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DAY 32: “300 people came to pray”
Some inspiring stories and great pictures today … from 40 Days for Life campaigns from Miami to Manassas to Montreal!
(478 babies saved)

(link to blog for updates)

This film follows Hannah as she searches for her birth mother after finding out she is adopted and that she is an abortion survivor.
(link to official site for information)
(link to take action to bring movie to your community)

Rally for Religious Freedom
We are getting down to the wire on the biggest grass roots event in Missouri for many years.  Not since the veto override in 1999 for the ban on partial-birth abortion and in 2003 for the the Women's Right to Know legislation will so many like-minded citizens come to the Capitol to stand as one body and speak with one voice.  
According to the Missouri Baptist Convention Pathway, "For the first time anyone can recall, the executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention will join with the St. Louis Archbishop in a religious freedom rally March 27 here at the Missouri State Capitol."  Archbishop Robert Carlson will join with Dr. John Yeats of the Missouri Baptist convention and Maggie Karner, with the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church as speakers for the rally.  
Anyone who is concerned about religious freedom and the Obama administration's overstepping of its authority in mandating that religious affiliated organizations and businesses provide health insurance that includes procedures, devices and services to which they are morally opposed needs to be at this rally and demand your constitutional right to religious liberty.
Registration begins at 9:00 am in the First floor Rotunda. Rally around noon.
 For transportation information, click here.