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NATIONAL DOCTORS GROUP FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST HEALTH CARE LAW

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 29
, 2010

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A nationwide doctors group is the first medical society to file a lawsuit against the new pro-abortion health care law President Barack Obama recently signed. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons filed suit in federal court against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

nursingAAPS filed the suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

"If the PPACA goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it," Jane Orient, M.D., the director of AAPS, said in a statement. "Courts should not allow this massive intrusion into the practice of medicine and the rights of patients."

"There will be a dire shortage of physicians if the PPACA becomes effective and is not overturned by the courts," Dr. Orient added.

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AP Confirms Hyde Amendment Doesn't Prevent Abortion Funding in Health Care

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 23 , 2009

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may want to add a Friday news story from the Associated Press to his to-do list today. The article disabuses Gibbs on claims he made in recent weeks saying the Hyde amendment prevent taxpayer-funding of abortion in the health care bills.

The Associated Press acknowledges what pro-life groups have been saying all along -- that the Hyde amendment, which stops abortion funding in Medicaid, doesn't apply to these new health care bills.

"Currently a law called the Hyde amendment bars federal funding for abortion - except in cases of rape and incest or if the mother's life would be endangered - and applies those restrictions to Medicaid," AP writer Erica Werner reports. "Separate laws apply the restrictions to the federal employee health plan and military and other programs."

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STATES MOVE TO OPT OUT OF ABORTION FUNDING UNDER PRO-ABORTION HEALTH CARE LAW


by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 26 , 2010

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The new pro-abortion health care bill President Barack Obama signed into law contains massive abortion funding and promotion. But, states legislatures can decide to opt out of making their residents pay for abortions and some states are already moving ahead with legislation to do so.

Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, told LifeNews.com about the opportunity states have despite the pro-abortion law .

"The new law explicitly allows states to pass laws prohibiting qualified health plans offered through the Exchanges in their states from offering abortion coverage," she said today.

She indicated responses from federal and state legislators have been pouring into her organization's offices.

"We've already heard from legislators in Delaware, Georgia, and Kansas who want to get this legislation passed in their states."

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OPTING OUT
Click here to view the map which shows the number of states that desire to “opt out” of the recently passed health care reform measure.

 

ABORTION STATISTICS DOWNWARD TREND REPORTED BY NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE NEWS

After reaching a high of over 1.6 million in 1990, the number of abortions annually performed in the U.S. has dropped back to levels not seen since the late 1970s.

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REMEMBER ROE!
YES NANCY, THEY ARE YOUNG AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM!

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/15/remember-roe.html

 

THE SLED TEST

What follows here is a way of presenting a clear rationale for the defense of unborn human life. The summary here is brief, but full details of this argument can be found here.

A way to demonstrate the value of the unborn child can be offered by using the SLED test.

SLED stands for Size, Level of Development, Environment and Degree of Dependency. As the defense unfolds it is easy to see that all of the “qualifications” society places on the unborn child for continued existence are artificial and would never be imposed on a child, perhaps a toddler, present before us.

Size: we come in all sizes—big, small, short, tall. Size clearly does not determine the value of life

Level of Development---we develop as individuals throughout the continuum of our lives—we never stop learning, experiencing and expanding our abilities

Environment—we all need a place to live, food to eat and air to breathe. Some of us live in mansions, some in bungalows. Some of us eat caviar and steak, some of us eat chicken and potatoes. Some of us have full lung capacities, some of us breathe less well—but breathe we do!

Level of Development—the infant develops physically into the toddler, to the child, to the teen, to the adult, to the mature person. As he/she develops physically, mental development takes place also. We do not say that the toddler had more value than the infant or the mature person more than the adult. Again, such development is a continuum.

 

RATIONING IN THE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL

By Wanda Franz, Ph.D.

The National Right to Life Committee is committed to protecting the lives of innocent persons from conception to natural death. Thus, our mission ranges from defending the unborn from abortion to protecting older people and those with disabilities from euthanasia. One form of involuntary euthanasia occurs when people are denied health care that they need to save their lives.

Patient Denial of lifesaving care occurs when rationing of health care is imposed in order to cut costs. Such cases of care denial have been reported in many countries with government-run health care programs, especially those in Canada and England. Care is rationed by simply denying the use of expensive newer drugs and denying or delaying therapies—especially for elderly patients. Data from Canada and England indicate that the survival rates for many illnesses are much lower than in the United States where the drugs and therapies are readily available.

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More Adult Stem Cells for Parkinson’s

By David Prentice

Editor’s note. This appeared earlier today on Dr. Prentice’s blog at http://www.frcblog.com/2010/05/more-adult-stem-cells-forparkinsons/

Yale scientists have shown that adult stem cells from human endometrium can substitute for the brain cells lost in Parkinson’s disease. Using a mouse model of Parkinson’s, they showed that they could successfully transplant adult stem cells derived from one tissue, the endometrium (the lining of the uterus), into another kind of tissue (the brain) and that the adult stem cells could develop into cells with the properties of brain tissue, in particular the dopamine-secreting neurons.

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MICHIGAN BILL REQUIRES ABORTION CENTERS SHOW WOMEN BETTER ULTRASOUND IMAGES

Lansing , MI (LifeNews.com)

States across the country are passing laws requiring abortion centers to show women an ultrasound of their unborn child prior to doing an abortion. In Michigan , where ultrasound laws are already in place, legislators are looking to strengthen them by ensuring the ultrasound is of the highest quality possible.

Ultrasound picThe notion is that if women deserve a chance to see their baby before having an abortion, they deserve to see a high-quality image -- not a low-quality one abortion centers might use to discount the ultrasound and persuade women to have an abortion.

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Obama Supporter Krugman Admits “Death Panels” in Health Care Rationing

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 7 , 2010

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Now that President Barack Obama has signed the pro-abortion health care bill into law, a supporter of his has admitted the rationing components in it. During an appearance on ABC's "This Week" Paul Krugman admits some of the concerns that pro-life groups pointed out during the debate.

Krugman claims accurately that the cost/benefit board established over private medicine by the new health care program will be able to impose “more or less binding judgments” refusing care.

He said these judgments will save “a lot of money” in the context of treating the elderly and people with disabilities and terminal illnesses.

Krugman also said the panel will prevent treatment that isn't “medically” useful.

Wesley J. Smith, an author and attorney who is a bioethics watchdog, noticed the interview.

"No, the money won't be taken out of the hide of patients who want physiologically useless treatment, it will come at the lethal cost to patients whose treatment will be refused because it could work, based on the invidious judgment that the patient's life is not worth the money to support," he said in response.

"In short, Krugman has admitted that contrary to the many mendacious denials by Obamacare supporters, the new regime will impose rationing," as happens in the UK, Smith added.

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If you or a loved one are checking into a hospital, hospice or nursing home be sure that you understand the terminology used and have a Protective Medical Decision Document and an agent you trust who will look out for your interests. Comfort care, Palliative care and futile care all too often mean the withholding of food and fluids and cause the patient's death. See story below.

FAMILY ALLEGES FAILURE OF CARE AT SF HOSPITAL

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POLLING DATA: AMERICA 'S YOUTH BECOMING PRO-LIFE

The link below takes you to a new Gallup poll that shows that young people 18-29 are more prolife than not. It has never been more important than now for those of us who have been in nursing for a number of years to mentor our young nurses, just entering the field. The pressures on them are greater than ever, their patients are sicker than ever and more is expected of them than ever before. They are willing to be prolife, but need our example and support to hold fast to that belief.

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