Category Archives: HHS

by | September 29, 2013 · 3:54 pm

We Will Not Comply

Civil disobedience - Gandhi

October 1, 2013 – Obamacare Exchanges open, ushering in mandated direct and/or indirect funding for abortion in most health insurance policies.

  • The ACA requires that health insurance premiums include at least a monthly one dollar surcharge that will be used directly to underwrite abortions.
  • The HHS Mandate requires all non-exempt businesses and institutions – including religious institutions – facilitate contraception, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs in their policies.

Civil disobedience - composite

A coalition of pro-life leaders has developed a unified “We Will Not Comply” response to this assault on life, conscience and religious liberty.

A Pledge for the Preservation of Life and Liberty

PLEDGE

This Pledge has been carefully crafted to stand as a ‘line in the sand’. In its final paragraph, it states:

We declare that we will not comply with any regulation of the ACA wherein we are forced to pay for abortion or forced to willfully participate in the killing of innocent children.

In practicality, this means we will not choose an insurance policy that contains abortion funding, whether directly or indirectly, even to the point of choosing no insurance, at all. Furthermore, we support any citizen who chooses to act in peaceful protest, including non-violent civil disobedience, as the government has no authority to force us, as free citizens, to violate our conscience or forfeit our religious freedoms.

http://www.prolifenation.org/pledge/

Civil disobedience - St Thomas More

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a nationwide bulletin in June 2012, calling all American Catholics to prepare themselves to engage in civil disobedience to Obamacare. It’s brief and to the point:

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/upload/BW-USCCB-Conscience-Bulletin-Insert_ENG.pdf

Source:

Pro-Life Leaders Pledge: We Will Not Obey Obamacare’s Abortion Funding, HHS Mandate

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by | September 20, 2013 · 9:18 am

This is not my country any more

Negotiations [1:08]

Candidate Obama said often that we could solve all our problems if we just talked to each other. President Obama is being hailed now for his willingness to negotiate with rather than bomb Syria. What a hypocrite! He has consistently refused to even sit down and talk to anyone who disagrees with him, especially if they’re Republicans.

I remember when the HHS mandate came out and the Catholic Bishops raised an uproar. The White House invited them to come and have a sit down about the issue, but afterwards, the Bishops said all that happened was that Obama aides pompously informed them that Obama knew more about Catholic teaching than the Bishops did and anyway shut up and do what you’re told.

The Obama administration has just filed suit in the Supreme Court trying to force Hobby Lobby to obey the HHS mandate, despite the fact that it violates the owners’ right to religious freedom. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/19/obama-admin-takes-hobby-lobby-to-supreme-court-to-force-it-to-obey-hhs-mandate/

Students Banned from Passing Out Constitutions on Constitution Day at Modesto Junior College [6:19]

Modesto Junior College in California told a student that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day.

Captured on video, college police and administrators demanded that Robert Van Tuinen stop passing out Constitution pamphlets and told him that he would only be allowed to pass them out in the college’s tiny free speech zone, and only after scheduling it several days or weeks ahead of time.

The links to the full, unedited videos taken by students are posted below this edited version, which contains the most relevant portions of the experience.

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Filed under Abortion, Barack Obama, Catholic Church, Constitution, HHS, John Kerry, National Debt, Obamacare, Religious Liberty, Republicans, Supreme Court, Vladimir Putin

by | September 12, 2013 · 12:57 am

Obama’s assault on Freedom of Conscience

Liberal Logic - Encouraged vs Unacceptable

To date, there are at least 67 court cases challenging the HHS Mandate. Of those cases, 37 involve FOR-PROFIT businesses.

The HHS Mandate requires nearly all employers to provide insurance coverage for life-ending drugs and devices, regardless of the employers’ consciences or religious beliefs.

There have been rulings touching on the merits in 32 of those 37 FOR-PROFIT cases.

Rulings are 26 to 6 in favor of Freedom of Conscience.

Source:

Pro-Lifers Are 26-6 in Legal Challenges to the Obama HHS Mandate

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Filed under First Amendment, HHS, Life Issues, Obamacare

by | August 17, 2013 · 10:14 am

It’s going to get worse

Seizing Elian

Under Obamacare, the federal government will have total control over the standards by which parents are allowed to raise their children.

These standards will be enforced via mandatory home visits conducted by entities appointed and funded by the federal government.

Their job will be to identify families that “need” to be visited and to intervene in the home life so as to meet federally mandated benchmarks.

Visitation mandates may include children being required to go to certain schools, take certain medications, receive certain vaccines, or even have limited – or no – interaction with parents.

  • A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to ‘intervention’ in ‘school readiness’ and ‘social-emotional developmental indicators.’
  • A farm family may be subject to ‘intervention’ in order to ‘prevent child injuries’.

Home visit “intervention” will be at the discretion of the agency, which could target families for any reason.

The Health and Human Services’ website states that families in the following “high-risk” categories will be definitely targeted:

  • Mom is not yet 21.
  • A child has low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.
  • Someone uses tobacco.
  • Someone is serving or formerly served in the armed forces.

This will not be a voluntary program.

Failure to allow home visits or to comply with dictates could result in removal of children from the home.

The Obama administration claims the provision applies only to Medicaid families. The statute, by its own definition, has NO LIMITATION whatsoever.

Intervention may be with any family for any reason and parents will have no right to do anything but comply.

Sources:

Obamacare Allows Government To Use Force To Do Home Inspections

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by | July 22, 2013 · 10:01 am

NØPE

2013_06 19 NØPE

July 19, 2013: Today, a federal court granted Hobby Lobby a preliminary injunction against the HHS abortion-drug mandate. The injunction prevents the Obama administration from enforcing the mandate against the Christian company, which does not want to be compelled to pay for birth control or drugs that may cause abortions.

This victory comes less than a month after a landmark decision by the full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled 5-3 that Hobby Lobby can exercise religion under the First Amendment and is likely to win its case against the mandate. That decision helped the Christian craft store not be force to pay fines while its lawsuit continues.

“The tide has turned against the HHS mandate,” said Kyle Duncan, General Counsel with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and lead attorney for Hobby Lobby. “This is a major victory for not only Hobby Lobby, but the religious liberty of all for-profit businesses.”

Source:

Hobby Lobby Wins Injunction Stopping Enforcement of HHS Mandate

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by | July 1, 2013 · 6:58 pm

Obama supports war on Christians at home and abroad

June 26, 2013: The Department of Health and Human Services today released the final text of the final adjustments to the Obamacare regulation that requires virtually all health-care plans to provide cost-free coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obamas-final-word-catholics-must-buyprovide-coverage-abortion-drugs

Syrian insurgents supported by Barack Obama have beheaded two Christians before a video camera and a cheering crowd. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are also supporting these butchers who also recently executed a Catholic priest and last month burned an entire Christian village in to the ground. Meanwhile, two Christian bishops kidnapped in Aleppo at the beginning of the year are still missing.

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/western-backed-syrian-terrorists-behead-christians-for-helping-military-as-cia-ships-in-arms/

2013 RIP Father Murad

As far as I’m concerned, the Second Coming cannot happen too soon.

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by | January 31, 2013 · 4:26 pm

Pro-Life Updates

2013_01 31 Pope tweets

The Republican Party is now officially on record as supporting the de-funding of the taxpayer-supported Planned Parenthood abortion business. On Friday, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution to end “any and all” taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion company, and to send money to legitimate women’s health care efforts instead.

Republican Party Backs De-Funding Planned Parenthood

Also on Friday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson (a President Obama appointee) dismissed a lawsuit against the government that had been filed by The Archdiocese of Washington, The Catholic University of America, Consortium of Catholic Academies, Archbishop Carroll High School, and Catholic Charities of D.C. Her reason? The organizations had NOT YET been adversely affected by the HHS mandate. Catholic University says it will keep fighting the Obamcare HHS mandate.

Catholic University Will Keep Fighting Mandate After Defeat

An abortion facility in Lima, Ohio, succumbed to financial problems and and increasingly strong pro-life presence in Central Ohio. It’s closed! According to 40 Days for Life, this closing makes 27 abortion facilities that have gone out of business following peaceful 40 Days for Life vigils outside their doors. Praise God! The Lima abortuary had employed two baby killers. Sadly, Harley Blank is still killing babies in Columbus, Thomas Michaelis in Toledo. Blank was honored earlier this year by Planned Parenthood for his bloody 30-year career. Michaelis was convicted in 1991 of two counts of Attempted Gross Sexual Imposition, one count of Voyeurism, and one count of Public Indecency.

Abortion Clinic Closes in Ohio After Pledging to Stay Open

At 20 weeks, ultrasound showed Baby Gudrum had part of his brain growing down the front of his face. The docs suggested aborting. The family has 7 other children and the mom is 40. For many in our anti-life culture, it would be a no-brainer (sorry, pun intended). But these parents said no. “That’s my child. It’s that simple. I’m not going to take the life of my child.” I can’t do this story any kind of justice in a blerb. You gotta go read it! Kleenex Alert!! (Cool factoid: The Dad in this uber Pro-Life, faithful Catholic, homeschooling family is an appellate court judge!)

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/28/family-agonizing-trail-leads-infant-rare-surgery-children-hospital/WEmUG3hQ3ghz8rKdPMBfhN/story.html

Dominic Pio Gundrum

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by | December 30, 2012 · 3:22 pm

Hobby Lobby Courage

If you want to support them and do not have a Hobby Lobby in your area, they have an on-line store @ http://www.hobbylobby.com/.

Hobby Lobby Defies Obama Administration with Civil Disobedience for Religious Liberty by Ken Klukowski – Dec 28, 2012

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/28/Hobby-Lobby-Defies-Obama-Administration-with-Civil-Disobedience-for-Religious-Liberty

“We must obey God rather than men!”—Acts 5:29.

Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction protecting them from Obamacare’s HHS Mandate on abortion and birth control, Hobby Lobby has decided to defy the federal government to remain true to their religious beliefs, at enormous risk and financial cost.

Hobby Lobby is wholly owned and controlled by the Green family, who are evangelical Christians. The Greens are committed to running their business in accordance with their Christian faith, believing that God wants them to conduct their professional business in accordance with the family’s understanding of the Bible. Hobby Lobby’s mission statement includes, “Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company … consistent with Biblical principles.”

The HHS Mandate goes into effect for Hobby Lobby on Jan. 1, 2013. The Greens correctly understand that some of the drugs the HHS Mandate requires them to cover at no cost in their healthcare plans cause abortions.

Today Hobby Lobby announced that they will not comply with this mandate to become complicit in abortion, which the Greens believe ends an innocent human life. Given Hobby Lobby’s size (it has 572 stores employing more than 13,000 people), by violating the HHS Mandate, it will be subject to over $1.3 million in fines per day. That means over $40 million in fines in January alone. If their case takes another ten months to get before the Supreme Court—which would be the earliest it could get there under the normal order of business—the company would incur almost a half-billion dollars in fines. And then of course the Supreme Court would have to write an opinion in what would likely be a split decision with dissenters, which could easily take four or six months and include hundreds of millions of dollars in additional penalties.

This is civil disobedience, consistent with America’s highest traditions when moral issues are at stake. The Greens are a law-abiding family. They have no desire to defy their own government. But as the Founders launched the American Revolution because they believed the British government was violating their rights, the Greens believe that President Barack Obama and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are commanding the Greens to sin against God, and that no government has the lawful authority to do so.

The Christian tradition of defying government commands to do something wrong goes back to the very birth of Christianity. When the apostles were ordered not to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with anyone, the Book of Acts records: “Peter and the other apostles replied: ‘We must obey God rather than men! The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead—whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.’”

Eleven of the twelve apostles—including Peter—would lose their lives for the sake of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ; only the apostle John died of old age. They were determined to obey God’s will at all costs.

This issue of civil disobedience is never to be undertaken lightly. The Bible teaches Christians to submit to all legitimate governmental authority (e.g., Romans 13:1), and so a person can only disobey the government when there is no other way to obey God.

But here in America, the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, and in its First Amendment it protects against a government establishment of an official religion and separately protects the free exercise of religion. On top of that, Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) to specifically add an additional layer of protection against government actions that violate a person’s religious beliefs.

The HHS Mandate is a gross violation of the religious beliefs of the Green family. The issue before the courts here is whether the Greens religious-liberty rights include running their secular, for-profit business consistent with their religious beliefs. In other words, is religious liberty just what you do in church on a Sunday morning, or does it include what you do during the week at your job?

The Greens are now putting their fortunes on the line to do what they believe is right. The courts should side with them, affirming a broad scope of religious liberty under the Constitution and RFRA. And the Supreme Court should resolve this matter with dispatch in their favor.

Millions of Christians across the country feel exactly the same way as the Greens. The Obama administration has issued a statist command that is a declaration of war on people of faith who object to abortion, and civil disobedience could break out all over the country unless the courts set this matter right—and quickly.

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by | November 2, 2012 · 12:32 am

YES! Another court victory against HHS mandate!

Federal Judge Robert H. Cleland (Michigan) issued a decision issued late Wednesday, October 31, 2012, affirming that “potential for harm to plaintiffs exists, and with the showing plaintiffs have made thus far of being able to convincingly prove their case at trial, it is properly characterized as irreparable.”

The judge’s decision means the federal government will not be allowed to enforce its HHS mandate until the lawsuit is resolved.

In an earlier case in Denver, U.S. District Judge John J. Kane of Colorado issued a similar order preventing enforcement of the mandate.

The “HHS mandate” is a set of regulations adopted by Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services, run by the emphatically pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius, that forces employers, regardless of religious faith, to pay for insurance coverage for contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization.

Read more @
2nd judge halts enforcement of Obamacare mandate – Nov 1, 2012
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/2nd-judge-halts-enforcement-of-obamacare-mandate/

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Filed under Abortion, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Obamacare, Religious Liberty

by | October 21, 2012 · 1:58 pm

2012 The Stark Choice

In today’s political climate, there is NO

Pro-Choice “personally opposed but” option.

There is only Pro-Abortion or Pro-Life.

  • Obama/Biden want to force all Americans to not just tolerate, but actually finance abortion “without limit and without apology.”
  • Romney/Ryan want to see Roe v. Wade overturned and legal protection for unborn citizens restored.

Christians Can’t Sit This Election Out, Most Important in History
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/christians-cant-sit-this-election-out-most-important-in-history/

Not clear about the fact that those are the ONLY choices?

Know someone who needs help understanding that those are the ONLY choices?

Check out any and all of the following.

Romney: I Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
In an interview with the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, once again, that he wants the Supreme Court to overturn the infamous Roe v. Wade decision that has paved the way for 55 million abortions.
Romney wants states to be able to protect unborn children and, in his interview with the newspaper, indicated overturning Roe was more possible in the current political climate than a Human Life Amendment.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/romney-i-want-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/

The Obama Abortion Agenda: Reviewing The Last Four Years
Over the four years of Barack Obama’s presidency, substantial damage has been inflicted to longstanding pro-life policies. In addition, new programs have been created which, during the years ahead, will result in large-scale federal subsidies to health plans that pay for abortion, other federally driven expansions of abortion, and rationing of lifesaving medical care, unless remedial legislation is enacted. In addition, Obama placed two strongly pro-abortion justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/the-obama-abortion-agenda-reviewing-the-last-four-years/

Obama Campaign Can’t Name One Abortion Limit He Would Support
Leaders of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign insisted that Obama doesn’t support unlimited abortions but, when asked, they failed to come up with a single abortion limit Obama would support. The failure is not surprising given that Obama has taken 231 pro-abortion actions as president.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/obama-campaign-cant-name-one-abortion-limit-he-would-support/

Biden Lies About HHS Mandate; Catholic Bishops Cry Foul
The nation’s Catholic bishops said Vice President Joe Biden misrepresented the pro-abortion HHS mandate in his debate with Paul Ryan.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/catholic-bishops-biden-misrepresented-hhs-mandate-in-debate/

Joe Biden Lies Again: Planned Parenthood DOES Perform Abortions”
Campaigning in Wisconsin, pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden misled voters today by saying Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business doesn’t do any abortions. Planned Parenthood does about one-in-four of all the abortions in this nation. Under law, Planned Parenthood can’t use the federal funding it gets to pay for abortions, which is a distinction without a difference, since it does use federal funding for rent, utilities and staff salaries, all of which contribute toward its thriving abortion business.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/joe-biden-under-law-planned-parenthood-cant-perform-abortion

Every Major Pro-Abortion Group Has Endorsed Obama Again
Planned Parenthood. NARAL Pro-Choice America. EMILY’s List. The Center for Reproductive Rights. These shameless advocates for the unlimited killing of unborn babies in the womb are all endorsing Obama/Biden.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/every-major-pro-abortion-group-has-endorsed-obama-again/

Obama Campaign’s New Ad Hits Romney on Planned Parenthood Funding
The Obama campaign has run millions of dollars worth of ads attacking Mitt Romney’s pro-life views.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/obama-campaigns-new-ad-hits-romney-on-planned-parenthood-funding/

Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Blasts Romney in New TV Ad
The nation’s largest abortion company is up with a new television ad blasting Mitt Romney over his positions to overturn Roe v. Wade and revoke its taxpayer funding. The ad will air in the battleground states of Virginia and Colorado.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-blasts-romney-in-new-tv-ad/

MoveOn Ad With Johansson, Longoria Hits Romney on Abortion
Pro-abortion actresses Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington attack Mitt Romney’s pro-life positions in a new ad sponsored by the George Soros-funded group MoveOn.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/pro-abortion-actresses-attack-mitt-romney-in-new-moveon-ad/

Romney Campaign Ad Blasts Obama on Abortion-HHS Mandate
Catholics for Romney has a new ad blasting President Barack Obama on his HHS mandate that forces religious groups to fund abortion-causing drugs.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/romney-campaign-ad-blasts-obama-on-abortion-hhs-mandate/

Billy Graham Offers Support to Mitt Romney’s Presidential Bid
The Rev. Billy Graham, one of America’s most well-known and respected Christian leaders, told Romney he will do all he can to help him win the election against pro-abortion President Barack Obama.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/billy-graham-offers-support-to-mitt-romneys-presidential-bid/

Chris Christie, Ralph Reed: Mitt Romney is Strongly Pro-Life
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey and leading pro-life activist Ralph Reed have both given new interviews in which they vouch for presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s pro-life credentials. Christie said Wednesday and said he firmly believes Romney is pro-life and talked about his own conversion on the issue of abortion.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/chris-christie-ralph-reed-mitt-romney-is-strongly-pro-life/

Bus Driver Tells Kid With Romney Sign: You Should Have Been Aborted
A bus driver recently told a 12-year-old boy who was riding the bus he should have been aborted.
The boy’s parents have a Romney/Ryan sign in their front yard and the bus driver seemed to have a problem with it. When the bus driver engaged the young boy into a political conversation, the boy told the bus driver that Obama was pro-abortion.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/bus-driver-tells-kid-with-romney-sign-you-should-have-been-aborted/

Roseanne Barr Tweets
Romney is Pro-Rape Because He Opposes Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/roseanne-barr-romney-is-pro-rape-because-he-opposes-abortion/

Liberals Tweet
Wish Paul Ryan’s Daughter “Bean” Was Aborted, Gets Pregnant
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/12/liberals-wish-paul-ryans-daughter-bean-was-aborted-gets-pregnant/

Obamacare: A Pro-Rationing Law That Assaults Religious Liberty
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/obamacare-a-pro-rationing-law-that-assaults-religious-liberty/

On the Road to Death Panels: Abortion, Population and Rationing
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/on-the-road-to-death-panels-abortion-population-and-rationing/

Botched Abortion at Planned Parenthood Caused “Extreme Loss of Blood”
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/botched-abortion-at-planned-parenthood-caused-extreme-loss-of-blood/

Planned Parenthood Continues Misusing Abortion Drug, Hurting Women
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/planned-parenthood-continues-misusing-abortion-drug-hurting-women/

Planned Parenthood Disregards Women’s Health and Safety
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/15/planned-parenthood-disregards-womens-health-and-safety/

Planned Parenthood Sex-Ed Programs are Going After Children
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/planned-parenthood-sex-ed-programs-are-coming-after-children/

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