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LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 6/30/14

June 30, 2014

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Monday, June 30, 2014

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Top Stories
• Supreme Court Rules Obama Admin Can’t Make Hobby Lobby Obey Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate
• Obama Wants to Force Americans to Pay for Abortion-Causing Drugs Since He Can’t Force Hobby Lobby
• Hobby Lobby in Pictures: Americans Cheer and Thank God After SCOTUS Victory
• Pro-Abortion Activists Threaten to Burn Down Hobby Lobby Stores After SCOTUS Ruling

More Pro-Life News
• EWTN Wins Big Pro-Life Victory Against HHS Mandate on Heels of Hobby Lobby Decision
• Bobby Jindal Punks Obama on Hobby Lobby: “He’s Googling ‘Can an Executive Order Override Supreme Court?’”
• Kathleen Sebelius Totally Silent on Hobby Lobby Decision Bearing Her Name
• Justina Pelletier: “No One Should Be Put Through That — No One”
• Gosnell Worker Who Said Baby “Jumped” When I Snipped Her Neck in Abortion Heads to Prison
• Judge Upholds Ohio’s Decision Ordering Martin Haskell’s Late-Term Abortion Biz Closed
• New Poll: 58% of Americans Agree All Or Most Abortions Should be Banned
• Baby Delivered at 25 Weeks After Mom Was Shot and Killed Goes Home, Born as Mom Took Her Last Breath
• Planned Parenthood Gives Clinic Award for Killing More Babies in Abortions
• Euthanasia Activists Want Nursing Homes to Starve Patients to Death
• Asheville, North Carolina Abortion Clinic Closes Down For Good
• Activists: Fish Feel Pain So Protect Them; But Ignore Babies Who Feel Pain in Abortions
• 10 Truths I Learned About Planned Parenthood at the National Right to Life Convention

Supreme Court Rules Obama Admin Can’t Make Hobby Lobby Obey Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate
 The Supreme Court ruled today that the Christian-run Hobby Lobby doesn’t have to obey the HHS mandate that is a part of Obamacare that requires businesses to pay for abortion causing drugs in their employee health care plans.

The Obama administration was attempting to make Hobby Lobby and thousands of pro-life businesses and organizations comply with the HHS mandate that compels religious companies to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for their employees. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/supreme-court-rules-obama-admin-cant-make-hobby-lobby-obey-pro-abortion-hhs-mandate/

Obama Wants to Force Americans to Pay for Abortion-Causing Drugs Since He Can’t Force Hobby Lobby
So just how is the Obama administration spinning the Supreme Court’s decision today that dealt it a devastating blow? Now that President Barcack Obama can’t force Hobby Lobby and other companies and businesses to pay for abortion-causing drugs, he’s wanting to force Americans to pay for birth control and very early drugs that may cause abortions.

The White House has quickly converted the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision into a campaign-trail wedge issue, by calling on Congress to continue providing abortion-related drugs to a small number of women who work for Catholic employers. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/obama-wants-to-force-americans-to-pay-for-abortion-causing-drugs-since-he-cant-force-hobby-lobby/

Hobby Lobby in Pictures: Americans Cheer and Thank God After SCOTUS Victory
 The Supreme Court gave the pro-life movement a huge victory today. It determined the Obama administration couldn’t force Hobby Lobby and any other company or business that doesn’t want to pay for abortion-causing drugs or birth control for its employees to obey the HHS mandate forcing it to do so.

Before and after the decision, pro-life advocates flooded the steps of the Supreme Court building with signs and pictures and led chants as the justices were preparing to hand down their decision. Afterwards, they cried tears of joy, cheered and prayed to thank God for the decision. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/hobby-lobby-in-pictures-americans-cheer-and-thank-god-after-scotus-victory/

Pro-Abortion Activists Threaten to Burn Down Hobby Lobby Stores After SCOTUS Ruling
’The Supreme Court has ruled on behalf of Hobby Lobby against ObamaCare mandating them to pay for at least four drugs they deem abortive which would violate their religious freedoms! According to experts, the 5 to 4 decision applies to “closely-held” corporations.

Following the ruling, Twitter filled up with treats to burn Hobby Lobby to the ground. WARNING: Strong language and violence. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/pro-abortion-activists-threaten-to-burn-down-hobby-lobby-stores-after-scotus-ruling/

EWTN Wins Big Pro-Life Victory Against HHS Mandate on Heels of Hobby Lobby Decision
On the heels of the Supreme Court ruling today that the Christian-run business Hobby Lobby doesn’t have to obey the HHS mandate that is a part of Obamacare that requires businesses to pay for abortion causing drugs in their employee health care plans, EWTN has won a victory of its own.

The Catholic television network is asking the courts to stop the Obama administration from enforcing the mandate against it while its own lawsuit continues. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/ewtn-wins-big-pro-life-victory-against-hhs-mandate-on-heels-of-hobby-lobby-decision/

Bobby Jindal Punks Obama on Hobby Lobby: “He’s Googling ‘Can an Executive Order Override Supreme Court?’”
Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is already a pro-life rock star, but the governor may have one-upped himself with this excellent response to the Supreme Court decision today saying the Obama administration can’t force Hobby Lobby to obey the HHS mandate.

Jindal may have earned the prize for the best response to the decision. Well played Mr. Governor, well-played! http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/gov-bobby-jindal-punks-obama-on-hobby-lobby-hes-googling-can-an-executive-order-override-supreme-court/

Kathleen Sebelius Totally Silent on Hobby Lobby Decision Bearing Her Name
Hours after the Supreme Court knocked down Obama’s contraception mandate with regard to Hobby Lobby and other small business owners, there seems to be silence from the architect of this mandate, former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

The last post on her twitter is from June 9th – so far she has not tweeted anything about this today: http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/kathleen-sebelius-totally-silent-on-hobby-lobby-decision-bearing-her-name/

Justina Pelletier: “No One Should Be Put Through That — No One”
 Justina Pelletier, the teenager at the heart of a controversial case of whether or not government can take away children from their parents and make their medical decisions for them, has spoken out now that a judge has allowed her to return home safely with her parents and family. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/justina-pelletier-no-one-should-be-put-through-that-no-one/

Gosnell Worker Who Said Baby “Jumped” When I Snipped Her Neck in Abortion Heads to Prison
 It’s been over three years since the release of a Grand Jury report documenting the horrors of Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic, and since he and his wife and several workers were charged. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/gosnell-worker-who-said-baby-jumped-when-i-snipped-her-neck-in-abortion-heads-to-prison/

Judge Upholds Ohio’s Decision Ordering Martin Haskell’s Late-Term Abortion Biz Closed
 Today, a Hamilton County magistrate ruled to uphold the Ohio Health Department’s decision to close the Lebanon Road Surgery Center, Martin Haskell’s Sharonville abortion clinic, for failure to meet Ohio medical standards. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/judge-upholds-ohios-decision-ordering-nartin-haskells-late-term-abortion-biz-closed/

New Poll: 58% of Americans Agree All Or Most Abortions Should be Banned
 At the National Right to Life convention last week, NRLC Executive Director, Dr. David O’Steen, unpacked polling data that reveals our nation’s view on abortion and explains why National Right to Life supports incremental or “step by step” legislation. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/new-poll-58-of-americans-agree-all-or-most-abortions-should-be-banned/

Baby Delivered at 25 Weeks After Mom Was Shot and Killed Goes Home, Born as Mom Took Her Last Breath
 Lailani Casara entered the world far too early on Christmas Day 2013. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/baby-delivered-at-25-weeks-after-mom-was-shot-and-killed-goes-home-born-as-mom-took-her-last-breath/

Planned Parenthood Gives Clinic Award for Killing More Babies in Abortions
 Maybe you’ve seen those awards given to local businesses for having a certain number of accident free days or hitting certain regional or area sales quotas. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/planned-parenthood-gives-clinic-award-for-killing-more-babies-in-abortions/

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Euthanasia Activists Want Nursing Homes to Starve Patients to Death
 No line in bioethics is ever fixed. Rather, the push to eradicate the boundaries that keep medical professionalism tied to Hippocratic values (sniffed at as “paternalism” by many in the field) continues unabated, with new boundary lines created, consolidated, and then moved again into ever-more extreme territory. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/euthanasia-activists-want-nursing-homes-to-starve-patients-to-death/

Asheville, North Carolina Abortion Clinic Closes Down For Good
 On the same day as the wonderful news came of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of pro-life free speech rights outside of abortion facilities, Asheville’s only abortion clinic, Femcare, announced that it is shutting down on Saturday. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/asheville-north-carolina-abortion-clinic-closes-down-for-good/

Activists: Fish Feel Pain So Protect Them; But Ignore Babies Who Feel Pain in Abortions
 Animal activists continually try to corral the acceptable methods and use of animals. Sometimes this is great.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/activists-fish-feel-pain-so-protect-them-but-ignore-babies-who-feel-pain-in-abortions/

10 Truths I Learned About Planned Parenthood at the National Right to Life Convention
 Thursday night at the 44th National Right to Life Convention in Louisville, Ky., pro-life Drs. Randall K. O’Bannon and David N. O’Steen led a workshop entitled, “Planned Parenthood: Playing Politics, Selling Obamacare, But Abortion is Still the Bottom Line.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/10-truths-i-learned-about-planned-parenthood-at-the-national-right-to-life-convention/

 
   
   


 

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Justices ask tough questions on Hobby Lobby case

March 27, 2014
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            A Message from the Executive Director
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Dear Friends,

Immediately after Hobby Lobby’s oral argument on Tuesday, Bill and I, as well as our team of lawyers, accompanied the Greens, the courageous owners of Hobby Lobby, down the steps of the Supreme Court.

 

As you can see, it was snowing but none of us were cold. During the 90-minute argument which had just concluded, the Justices had asked tough questions–most of them to the government. We were feeling encouraged. Besides, we could hear hundreds of supporters chanting: “Hobby Lobby! Hobby Lobby!”

By the next day, many major publications had sided against the government. The Wall Street Journal article read: “Five and maybe even six Justices across ideological lines seemed discomfited by the Administration’s cramped conception of religious liberty.” The New York Times lead was: “In a long and lively argument that touched on medical science and moral philosophy, the Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed ready to accept that at least some for-profit corporations may advance claims based on religious freedom.” The Washington Post reported Justices were: “sympathetic…to the views of business owners​.” And the list goes on and on.

We were also inundated with press requests. Here are some of the TV clips. If you have a few minutes, please watch them.

 

There are many reasons the press turned against the government. One of them is that it realizes that the government’s position is radical, illegal and unprecedented.

Unbelievably, during the argument, the government still insisted it can compel Americans–against their deeply held convictions–to obey government regulations such as the HHS mandate.

It also made the argument that once an individual steps into commerce, he/she loses his Constitutionally-guaranteed right to follow his own conscience. It is chilling. Please read this for yourself in the Court’s transcript here.

We do not expect to hear the results until June. And, although we feel encouraged, we cannot predict how the Court will decide.

The times ahead are dangerous for all of us, and for all of our clients, including the Little Sisters of the Poor. They are next. And the government is ready.

But, so are we.

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