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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: patrick jane Date: January 31, 2019, 7:34 am
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Fallen Angels Taught Abortion (It's Demonic, Pagan, and
Luciferian)
Fallen Angels Taught Abortion (It's Demonic, Pagan, and
Luciferian)
New York Abortion Law
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Re: Abortion Is Wrong - Change My Mind
By: guest17 Date: January 31, 2019, 11:57 am
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=53.msg412#msg412
date=1534313463]
I’m Pro-Life | Change My Mind
Change My Mind: Abortion.
In a new segment called "Change My Mind", Steven Crowder takes
to the streets to have real conversations with everyday people
on hot button issues.
HTML https://youtu.be/OCSZYJywQPM
[/quote]
I was watching one of his I'm Pro Life Change My Mind videos and
this woman actually said that unborn babies are parasites. I
think that's probably the worst thing I've ever heard someone
say about an unborn baby.
Whereas scripture says: Psalm 139:13-16 For you formed my inward
parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise
you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your
works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from
you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the
depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in
your book were written, every one of them, the days that were
formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit
of the womb is a reward.
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: guest17 Date: January 31, 2019, 12:15 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=53.msg3577#msg3577
date=1548941670]
Fallen Angels Taught Abortion (It's Demonic, Pagan, and
Luciferian)
Fallen Angels Taught Abortion (It's Demonic, Pagan, and
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The Luciferians/Satanists want to influence and change the way
people view abortions to be more in line with the way they think
and what they practice when it comes to unborn babies and even
babies at full term and unfortunately they are succeeding in
doing that. People who support abortions really need to educate
themselves about this because I don't think they would want to
align themselves with Luciferians/Satanists. But that's what
they're doing although they would deny that.
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: patrick jane Date: February 3, 2019, 3:49 am
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REBUTTAL: The Left's EVIL Infanticide Agenda! | Louder With
Crowder
Steven thoroughly dissects the Democrats' evil push for abortion
and infanticide. Brace yourselves for the truth.
15 minutes
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: guest8 Date: February 4, 2019, 7:45 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=53.msg3660#msg3660
date=1549187346]
REBUTTAL: The Left's EVIL Infanticide Agenda! | Louder With
Crowder
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15 minutes
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Everything just got worse....Now in at least two cities, one can
deliver the Baby and then decide if you need to keep it even if
it does not have problems. They can abort the baby and the
mother is dilated.
SO SAD.....
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: patrick jane Date: February 7, 2019, 5:46 am
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Ashton Kutcher’s Pro-Life Post Gets 6 MILLION VIEWS In Response
To NY Abortion Law
Frank Stevens, a man with Downs Syndrome speaks to Congress -
Very Touching
7 minutes
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: patrick jane Date: March 7, 2019, 8:56 am
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I'm Pro-Life (3rd Edition) | Change My Mind
25 minutes
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: patrick jane Date: March 19, 2019, 12:26 am
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I'm Pro-Life (4th Edition) | Change My Mind
Steven Crowder visits a college campus to have real
conversations with everyday people on hot-button issues. In this
installment, he addresses the ever-controversial topic of
abortion.
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: patrick jane Date: May 2, 2019, 4:42 pm
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New HHS Rule Protects Pro-Life Health Care Workers
UPDATE: Under Trump, federal policy keeps shifting away from
abortion rights in favor of religious conscience protections.
Update (May 2): A year after establishing a new division to
safeguard health care workers’ freedom of religion and freedom
of conscience, the Trump Administration has formalized
protections for those who decline to participate in certain
medical treatments like abortion, sterilization, or assisted
suicide due to their faith or moral convictions.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed the
new rule last January (see below) and issued a final version in
a 440-page document on Thursday. The policy is meant to provide
stronger protections and more guidance around enforcing
conscience protections passed by Congress, according to HHS.
“This rule ensures that healthcare entities and professionals
won’t be bullied out of the health care field because they
decline to participate in actions that violate their conscience,
including the taking of human life,” said Roger Severino,
director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights and former legal
council with the religious liberty group Becket Fund.
“Protecting conscience and religious freedom not only fosters
greater diversity in healthcare, it’s the law.”
This updated policy represents a major religious freedom
victory, particularly for pro-life evangelicals who fear being
forced to violate their conscience on the issue of abortion.
In a Barna Group survey released last month, the issue of
“religious hospitals being required to perform abortions and
other services they deem to violate their religious convictions”
was US faith leaders’ top religious freedom concern (71% deeming
it a “major or extreme” threat). A majority also worried about
“religious organizations being required to provide healthcare
options they object to” (64%) and “religious owners of
businesses being required to provide healthcare options they
object to” (61%).
-----
Original post (“New HHS Division Defends Pro-Life Health Care
Workers,” January 18, 2018): Ahead of Friday’s annual March for
Life, pro-life Christians celebrated new federal protections for
health care workers who decline to administer procedures such as
abortion, sterilization, or euthanasia on religious or moral
grounds.
The Trump administration announced a new division of the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) dedicated to
hearing complaints from those who face discrimination for
refusal to accommodate services that violate their beliefs.
The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the
existing Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforces existing laws
designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions
under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow
providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted
suicide.
Thursday’s announcement continues the administration’s efforts
to beef up federal protections for religious liberty, as
President Trump laid out in a May 2017 executive order. In
contrast, the Obama administration had rescinded conscience
protections for health care workers, despite pushback from
religious leaders.
“President Trump promised the American people that his
administration would vigorously uphold the rights of conscience
and religious freedom,” said acting HHS secretary Eric Hargan.
“That promise is being kept today. The Founding Fathers knew
that a nation that respects conscience rights is more diverse
and more free, and OCR’s new division will help make that vision
a reality.”
Evangelicals fighting for religious liberty have tried to resist
efforts to confine expressions of faith to within church walls,
and have pushed for greater protections for their beliefs in the
workplace and public life—particularly when it comes to
increasingly unpopular ones around LGBT and life issues.
“It’s not the ability to have a religion and practice it in your
house of worship; it’s the ability to have a faith and practice
your faith wherever you are,” said Sen. James Lankford, a
Baptist from Oklahoma who introduced a 2017 bill defending
conscience protections.
“There is a long tradition of providing this
protection—especially in the abortion context—and that tradition
was, until very recently, a bipartisan one,” according to
Richard W. Garnett, professor at Notre Dame Law School.
“To me, there should be nothing particularly surprising or
troubling about an administration—this one or any other—deciding
that the civil rights [office] should allocate resources to make
those protections meaningful.”
OCR is already tasked with enforcing several nondiscrimination
and conscience protection statutes, including the Church,
Coats-Snowe, and Weldon amendments. But the new division
indicates that such cases will take greater priority under
Trump.
“Unlike the administration’s useless gestures around the Johnson
Amendment, these regulations signal meaningful enforcement of
existing protections for religious liberty,” said John Inazu, a
law professor at Washington University and a First Amendment
expert.
“But it’s important to remember that this emphasis is merely
executive branch policy that can—and in all likelihood, will—be
narrowed or reversed by a subsequent administration.”
Already, the conscience division has drawn criticism from civil
groups concerned that the protections will be used as a license
to discriminate, particularly against gay or transgender
patients, as well as from abortion rights groups.
Everett Piper—the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University,
which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control
mandate—and Montse Alvarado—executive director of Becket, a
leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little
Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight—spoke at the
HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and
Muslim representatives.
“I just want to say how good it is to be here thanking [HHS and
OCR] rather than suing them,” Piper quipped.
Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, also applauded the
move.
“I am thankful that HHS recognizes how imperiled conscience
rights have been in recent years in this arena, and is actively
working and leading to turn the tide in the other direction,” he
said in a statement. “Health care professionals should be freed
up to care for the bodies and minds of their patients, not tied
up by having their own consciences bound.”
In recent years, Christian pharmacists have fought in court for
their right to decline to dispense emergency contraception. A
2015 case in Washington ruled against pharmacists who refused to
carry the drugs; however, state law allows that “an individual
pharmacist with religious objections may refuse to fill the
prescription if another pharmacist working for the pharmacy does
so.”
Prior to the new division, the Trump administration had
appointed multiple pro-life advocates to positions of leadership
within HHS, including former Americans United for Life president
Charmaine Yoest and former National Right to Life lobbyist
Teresa Manning, who reportedly stepped down last week.
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Re: Abortion Is Murder - Change My Mind
By: guest8 Date: May 2, 2019, 7:56 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=53.msg5346#msg5346
date=1556833333]
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HTML https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/january/hhs-division-conscience-protections-prolife-abortion-trump.html
New HHS Rule Protects Pro-Life Health Care Workers
UPDATE: Under Trump, federal policy keeps shifting away from
abortion rights in favor of religious conscience protections.
Update (May 2): A year after establishing a new division to
safeguard health care workers’ freedom of religion and freedom
of conscience, the Trump Administration has formalized
protections for those who decline to participate in certain
medical treatments like abortion, sterilization, or assisted
suicide due to their faith or moral convictions.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed the
new rule last January (see below) and issued a final version in
a 440-page document on Thursday. The policy is meant to provide
stronger protections and more guidance around enforcing
conscience protections passed by Congress, according to HHS.
“This rule ensures that healthcare entities and professionals
won’t be bullied out of the health care field because they
decline to participate in actions that violate their conscience,
including the taking of human life,” said Roger Severino,
director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights and former legal
council with the religious liberty group Becket Fund.
“Protecting conscience and religious freedom not only fosters
greater diversity in healthcare, it’s the law.”
This updated policy represents a major religious freedom
victory, particularly for pro-life evangelicals who fear being
forced to violate their conscience on the issue of abortion.
In a Barna Group survey released last month, the issue of
“religious hospitals being required to perform abortions and
other services they deem to violate their religious convictions”
was US faith leaders’ top religious freedom concern (71% deeming
it a “major or extreme” threat). A majority also worried about
“religious organizations being required to provide healthcare
options they object to” (64%) and “religious owners of
businesses being required to provide healthcare options they
object to” (61%).
-----
Original post (“New HHS Division Defends Pro-Life Health Care
Workers,” January 18, 2018): Ahead of Friday’s annual March for
Life, pro-life Christians celebrated new federal protections for
health care workers who decline to administer procedures such as
abortion, sterilization, or euthanasia on religious or moral
grounds.
The Trump administration announced a new division of the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) dedicated to
hearing complaints from those who face discrimination for
refusal to accommodate services that violate their beliefs.
The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the
existing Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforces existing laws
designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions
under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow
providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted
suicide.
Thursday’s announcement continues the administration’s efforts
to beef up federal protections for religious liberty, as
President Trump laid out in a May 2017 executive order. In
contrast, the Obama administration had rescinded conscience
protections for health care workers, despite pushback from
religious leaders.
“President Trump promised the American people that his
administration would vigorously uphold the rights of conscience
and religious freedom,” said acting HHS secretary Eric Hargan.
“That promise is being kept today. The Founding Fathers knew
that a nation that respects conscience rights is more diverse
and more free, and OCR’s new division will help make that vision
a reality.”
Evangelicals fighting for religious liberty have tried to resist
efforts to confine expressions of faith to within church walls,
and have pushed for greater protections for their beliefs in the
workplace and public life—particularly when it comes to
increasingly unpopular ones around LGBT and life issues.
“It’s not the ability to have a religion and practice it in your
house of worship; it’s the ability to have a faith and practice
your faith wherever you are,” said Sen. James Lankford, a
Baptist from Oklahoma who introduced a 2017 bill defending
conscience protections.
“There is a long tradition of providing this
protection—especially in the abortion context—and that tradition
was, until very recently, a bipartisan one,” according to
Richard W. Garnett, professor at Notre Dame Law School.
“To me, there should be nothing particularly surprising or
troubling about an administration—this one or any other—deciding
that the civil rights [office] should allocate resources to make
those protections meaningful.”
OCR is already tasked with enforcing several nondiscrimination
and conscience protection statutes, including the Church,
Coats-Snowe, and Weldon amendments. But the new division
indicates that such cases will take greater priority under
Trump.
“Unlike the administration’s useless gestures around the Johnson
Amendment, these regulations signal meaningful enforcement of
existing protections for religious liberty,” said John Inazu, a
law professor at Washington University and a First Amendment
expert.
“But it’s important to remember that this emphasis is merely
executive branch policy that can—and in all likelihood, will—be
narrowed or reversed by a subsequent administration.”
Already, the conscience division has drawn criticism from civil
groups concerned that the protections will be used as a license
to discriminate, particularly against gay or transgender
patients, as well as from abortion rights groups.
Everett Piper—the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University,
which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control
mandate—and Montse Alvarado—executive director of Becket, a
leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little
Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight—spoke at the
HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and
Muslim representatives.
“I just want to say how good it is to be here thanking [HHS and
OCR] rather than suing them,” Piper quipped.
Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, also applauded the
move.
“I am thankful that HHS recognizes how imperiled conscience
rights have been in recent years in this arena, and is actively
working and leading to turn the tide in the other direction,” he
said in a statement. “Health care professionals should be freed
up to care for the bodies and minds of their patients, not tied
up by having their own consciences bound.”
In recent years, Christian pharmacists have fought in court for
their right to decline to dispense emergency contraception. A
2015 case in Washington ruled against pharmacists who refused to
carry the drugs; however, state law allows that “an individual
pharmacist with religious objections may refuse to fill the
prescription if another pharmacist working for the pharmacy does
so.”
Prior to the new division, the Trump administration had
appointed multiple pro-life advocates to positions of leadership
within HHS, including former Americans United for Life president
Charmaine Yoest and former National Right to Life lobbyist
Teresa Manning, who reportedly stepped down last week.
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