Doctor Fired for Refusing to Do Abortions Wins Major Court Case

By Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
Life News

A Polish Catholic doctor who lost her job for refusing to insert abortifacient devices has had her case upheld by a Norwegian Court.

Katarzyna Jachimowicz, an experienced family doctor who moved from Poland with her family to the municipality of Sauherad in Norway in 2010 to respond to the country’s shortage of medical professionals, became the first medical professional in Norway sacked for exercising her conscience rights.

Trampling conscience rights

According to LifeSiteNews, Dr. Jachimowicz’s employers accepted her conditions, that she would not refer for abortions or insert intrauterine devices (IUDs), which can act as abortifacients, before hiring her. Her ethical stance caused no problems in the four years she worked in the clinic, but in 2015, the Norwegian Government eliminated conscience rights for family doctors, making it illegal for them to refuse any form of birth control, including the insertion of IUDs, which are not considered abortifacients by the government.

Dr. Jachimowicz said that family doctors could refuse to insert IUDs by claiming a lack of skill, but she did not wish to resort to this loophole. She was asked to either comply or leave, but after refusing to resign, was fired in 2015.
A legal saga

In February, Dr. Jachimowicz lost her first legal battle, where she argued that her rights were violated and that her dismissal by the state-run health care system was illegal. 

Now, the court of appeals in Skien has upheld her case and reversed the previous decision by the court in Notodden. The appellate court ruled that her employer, the municipality of Sauherad, has to pay her 600,000 Norwegian Krone (about £53,000) in legal fees.

The case marks the first legal victory for freedom of conscience in Norway.

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Abortion Business Turns One California Main St. Into "Murderer's Row"

By Cheryl Sullenger
Operation Rescue

El Cajon, CA - It did not take long for the FPA Women's Health abortion business in San Diego to find a new location once it shut down its location on Miramar Road. Now, it is open for business in the East County community of El Cajon - right on Main Street next door to a large grocery store - and just 220 yards away from its competitor, Planned Parenthood.


Why would FPA want to move within easy walking distance of Planned Parenthood? Probably because their new Planned Parenthood neighbor is a non-profit that only offers medication abortions, while FPA is a for-profit abortion business that offers both medication and surgical methods. To complicate matters, Planned Parenthood and FPA have long been fierce competitors in California.


"FPA has turned Main Street into 'Murderer's Row,' and I'm guessing there won't be enough room in town for both abortion businesses. At least one of them is bound to fail," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue.

Continue reading to find out how you can take action to help clean up Main Street!

   

Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation and has become a strong voice for the pro-life movement in America. Operation Rescue is now headquartered in a former abortion clinic that it bought and closed in 2006. From there, Operation Rescue launches its innovative new strategies across the nation, exposing and closing abortion clinics through peaceful, legal means. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to stop abortion and ultimately restore legal personhood to the pre-born in obedience to biblical mandates. For more information or to make a donation to help them with their work, please use this link. 

Annual 'Peace in the Womb' Christmas Caroling to Take Place on Dec 16th at PP in NE Philly

"Peace in the Womb" Christmas Caroling Day 

Planned Parenthood

2551 Comly Road

Philadelphia, Pa.  (map)

Saturday, December 16th - 9:30 – 10:30 am 

Once again a "Peace in the Womb" Christmas Caroling Day will be held outside  the Comly Road Planned Parenthood in Northeast Philadelphia, Pa.

We gather around a large empty Christmas crèche manger -- symbolizing both the hopeful anticipation of a child's birth and the emptiness left behind by abortion – and sing carols about the Christ child. Babies have been SAVED from abortion when their mothers heard these carols and were moved by the thought of how Mary said "YES" to be the mother of Jesus.

Please dress warm and invite your family and friends.  All are welcome!

These events are sponsored by the Pro-Life Action League.

 

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Pregnant, need help or know someone who does?  

National Hotline: Call 1-800-712-HELP or Text 'HELPLINE' to 313131. 
In Southeast Penna:  Call the Community Women's Center at  215-826-8090

If you or someone you know is suffering after abortion, confidential non-judgmental help is available.  Call Project Rachel's national toll-free number 888-456-HOPE (4673) or visit hopeafterabortion.org.  

HHS Mandate Call to Action Alert!

from Barbara Rose, NP CFCP
on behalf of the 

FertilityCare Professionals of Philadelphia


Please take a moment of your time to register your support for a recent action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which provided religious and moral exemptions to the Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate. HHS has called for the public to submit comments by 11:59 PM EST on December 5. Over 10,000 comments opposing this return to common sense have already been submitted by the public. It is critical our voices are heard too. Please take action now.

On October 6, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued two interim final rules that, together, create a broad religious and moral exemption from the HHS contraceptive Mandate. Although this action does not rescind the Mandate itself, it does give religious and moral objectors immediate relief from its onerous burdens. HHS has called for public comments about this policy change, and we urge you to offer comments in support of the exemptions before the public comment period ends on December 5.

The USCCB has submitted comments that you can download here. Please add your voice to theirs and let the Trump Administration know that although we still urge the Administration to reconsider and rescind the Mandate, as long as the Mandate is in place these broader exemptions are laudable and mark a return to common sense. Click here to learn more and to send your comments.

We are grateful for your assistance in protecting life and liberty of conscience in law. Consider sharing this campaign on your social media accounts.

 

The Friends of FertilityCare Philadelphia are a group of health care professionals and members of our community who wish to promote effective, integrated health care for women and couples.

 To that end, the Friends of FertilityCare are dedicated to making Creighton Model FertilityCare™ services and NaProTechnology known, respected and applied throughout the Greater Philadelphia region.

 The primary intention of the Friends of FertilityCare is to educate all people in the "good news" of Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System and NaProTechnology.  To learn more about this program, follow this link. 

UN Human Rights Committee Pushes Abortion as a “Preventative Measure” to ”Avoid” Down Syndrome

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

As if aborting approximately 90 percent of unborn babies with Down syndrome is not enough, some United Nations leaders want more.

Earlier this month, UN Human Rights Committee member Yadh Ben Achour argued that the group should continue supporting abortion as a “preventive measure” against babies with disabilities, Breitbart reports.

“If you tell a woman, ‘Your child has Dow…’ — what is it called? Down syndrome, Dawn syndrome — if you tell her that, or that he may have a handicap forever … it should be possible for her to resort to abortion to avoid the handicap as a preventive measure,” Ben Achour said (translated from French).

The Tunisian lawyer said he is an “ardent defender of the handicapped,” but he sees no problem with babies with disabilities being aborted as long as they are in the womb.

“[This] doesn’t mean that we are against the disabled or that we won’t help the disabled when born disabled,” Ben Achour said. “But that does not mean that we have to accept to let a disabled fetus live. This is a preventive measure.”

Birth is the line Ben Achour drew to determine a baby’s worth. He argued that society only has an obligation to help people with disabilities who are already born.

“So this is where we will find the difference between the birth of the human being. Once he is born, it is finished; with a handicap or without a handicap, he must live and we must protect absolutely, in an absolute manner, his right to life,” he said.

“So us, we defend the right of the handicapped, but, but we can avoid the handicaps, and we must do everything we can to avoid them,” Ben Achour continued. “And it is not contradictory.”

Studies indicate that unborn babies with Down syndrome already are targeted for abortions at very high rates. A CBS News report earlier this year shocked the nation by reporting that Iceland has an almost 100-percent abortion rate for unborn babies with the genetic disorder. Other studies put the rate in the United States somewhere between 60 percent and 90 percent.

Parents whose unborn babies have Down syndrome or other disabilities also frequently report feeling pressure to have abortions. In 2016, a Florida mom’s letter to her doctor went viral after she exposed how the doctor pressured her to abort her unborn daughter with Down syndrome. Courtney Baker said she wanted her former doctor to see how valuable her daughter’s life is and how wrong it is to pressure anyone to have an abortion.

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Pro-Life Waco Action Request: Complain to builder about fence to shield baby killing in Waco

from John Pisciotta, Director  

Pro-Life Waco

ACTION REQUEST: Complain to builder about fence to shield baby killing in Waco

 

An action request for you, Whether you live in Waco or Warsaw.

A 10-foot high fence is just what Planned Parenthood needs in Waco for their 9,000 sf building designed to boost PP’s 300,000 yearly abortions nationwide. As you can see from these photos, All About Roofing started the project today. PP’s purpose is to try to block out our prayer and sidewalk counseling outreach to their deceived customers.

I appeal to you to contact and complain to this company erecting the fence at the most deadly and treacherous address in Waco: 700 W. HWY 6. Write, call, send email or, better yet, do all three:

All About Roofing 

2513 Weaver St., Suite B, Haltom City, TX 76117.

817-915-1738

Website:  All About Roofing & Company

allen@aaroofs.com   -   don@aaroofs.com

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas is so radioactive they could not get a fencing company in Waco to take their blood money. In fact, Planned Parenthood cannot even get a fencing company at all and ended up with a roofer! Not a roofer from Waco. No, PPGT had to go 93 miles north of Waco to find folks who would tarnish their souls. We may not be able to stop construction. However, from Waco and worldwide, we need to send the message that anyone profiting from the shedding of innocent preborn blood will be challenged in the public square. I will have signage to call out the company by name for contracting with Planned Parenthood. We are called to action. Perhaps you live near Haltom City, Texas and can drop by to talk personally to company officials.

A final note of lamentation. Wed Nov 29, Thurs Nov 30, and Friday Dec 1 are the first days for the slaughter of the innocents at 700 W. HWY. Could you come out an pray in solidarity with those suffering this enormous injustice on at least one hour on at least one of these days. There is a 6-foot high side walk for your standing, sitting, and praying. And at least for this week, you will not be blocked off by a fence.

   

Pro-Life Waco is a local community-based organization with collaborative relationships with regional and national pro-life affiliations. Pro-Life Waco is committed to ending abortion, its damaging effects among women, and promoting chastity.  For more information on Pro-Life Waco, please use this link.

The Spirit of Adoption Welcoming Children Is at the Heart of the Gospel

by John Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris 

BreakPoint

Choosing love may make it easier for someone to choose life. And yet, there’s a whole lot more to adoption than that.

It’s a beautiful story, and trust me on this: Grab your tissues before watching this video I’m about to describe to you. Miranda and Daniel Perry, already parents of a six-year-old girl, wanted to adopt another child. They were matched with a pregnant mother in Texas, and prepared to welcome their new son. But this Christian couple’s hopes were dashed when the little boy’s mother changed her mind, and decided to keep him.

That’s when the Perry family learned of an expecting mother who had attempted a medicinal abortion that failed. After speaking with her doctor, the woman decided not to go through with a surgical abortion but instead to put her little girl up for adoption. I won’t spoil the ending for you, but there was yet another twist in store for the Perry family before they could welcome little Lydia into their home.

Continue reading this BreakPoint article here

   

Begun by Chuck Colson in 1991 as a daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today’s news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print. Today BreakPoint commentaries, co-hosted by Eric Metaxas and John Stonestreet, air daily on more than 1,200 outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. 

The BreakPoint.org  features Metaxas and Stonestreet commentaries as well as columns and feature articles by leading Christian writers, and "Youth Reads," which offers a Christian perspective on books for teens and preteens. On "BreakPoint This Week," John Stonestreet and co-host Ed Stetzer host a weekly conversation with leading Christian writers and thinkers. These compelling discussions cover a wide variety of topics, but center on the issues shaping our culture. “RE:News” gathers need-to-know news headlines, and the BreakPoint Blog equips visitors with a biblical perspective on a variety of issues and topics.


 

Voices for Life is an e-publication dedicated to informing and educating the public on pro-life and pro-family issues. To read our Mission Statement, use this link.  Follow us on Facebook, Google, and Pinterest.  Help us spread the pro-life message by sharing our articles on your favorite social networks.

Pregnant, need help or know someone who does?  

National Hotline: Call 1-800-712-HELP or Text 'HELPLINE' to 313131.
In Southeast Penna:  Call the Community Women's Center at  215-826-8090


If you or someone you know is suffering after abortion, confidential non-judgmental help is available.  Call Project Rachel's national toll-free number 888-456-HOPE (4673) or visit hopeafterabortion.org.  

Join Us for our Annual 'Peace in the Womb' Christmas Caroling Event in Warminster, Pa.

"Peace in the Womb" Christmas Caroling Day 

Warminster Planned Parenthood

610 Louis Drive, Warminster, PA (map)

Friday, December 15th - 9:30 – 10:30 am 

Every year pro-lifers across the nation bring the joy and hope of Christmas to the darkness of abortion facilities with a Christmas Caroling day.

We gather around a large empty Christmas crèche manger -- symbolizing both the hopeful anticipation of a child's birth and the emptiness left behind by abortion – and sing carols about the Christ child. Babies have been SAVED from abortion when their mothers heard these carols and were moved by the thought of how Mary said "YES" to be the mother of Jesus.

Please plan to join us on Friday, December 15th for our annual "Peace in the Womb" Christmas Caroling Day. For more information, please contact Barney Byrne at 267-337-0660.

Please dress warm and invite your family and friends. 
All are welcome!

The Christmas Caroling Day has become an important annual event for pro-life groups across the country. In the past it was known at the Empty Manger Christmas Caroling Day; however, it was changed to the Peace in the Womb Christmas Caroling Day. The new name is clearer and, hopefully, will help bring more people out to give witness, sing and pray.

This event is sponsored by the Pro-Life Action League and the Bucks County Pro-Life Coalition. 

   

The mission of the Bucks County Pro-Life Coalition is to provide financial support to area crisis pregnancy centers and educate the community regarding sanctity of life issues from conception until natural death.  For more information about what is happening in Bucks County, please 'like' our Facebook page by clicking here.  

Arkansas Defunds Planned Parenthood After It’s Caught Selling Aborted Baby Parts

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

Arkansas cut off tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to the abortion chain Planned Parenthood last week after winning a lengthy legal battle.

Lawmakers in Arkansas voted to defund the abortion chain of Medicaid dollars in 2015after a series of undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood potentially illegally selling aborted baby body parts. However, abortion activists challenged the law.

The case made its way to a panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the state could defund Planned Parenthood. The abortion group appealed to the full court, but the court refused to hear the case, allowing the ruling to stand.

On Monday, the state Department of Human Services said it ended the abortion chain’s Medicaid provider status last week, the AP reports. This means Planned Parenthood facilities in Arkansas no longer will receive tax dollars through Medicaid.

In 2015, Planned Parenthood received more than $51,000 in taxpayer-funded Medicaid payments in Arkansas. Even though the funding does not go to abortions directly, it is fungible and frees up money to promote and perform abortions.

Earlier this month, Judd Deere, a spokesman for state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, emphasized the importance of states being allowed to cut of tax dollars to groups engaging in unethical practices.

“… [the ruling] reaffirms that Planned Parenthood and the three patients it­ recruited could not contest in federal court Arkansas’s determination that a medical provider has engaged in misconduct that merits disqualification from the Medicaid program,” Deere said in an email to the Democrat Gazette.

The abortion chain still could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but a spokesperson said they have not decided yet, according to the AP. When the state defunded the abortion business in 2015, Gov. Asa Hutchinson expressed outrage at the abortion chain’s barbaric practices.

“It is apparent that after the recent revelations on the actions of Planned Parenthood, that this organization does not represent the values of the people of our state and Arkansas is better served by terminating any and all existing contracts with them. This includes their affiliated organization, Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma,” Hutchinson said at the time.

In a statement, Hutchinson said he was ending the contracts after videos surfaced showing top Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the price of aborted babies’ body parts, admitting to altering abortion procedures to procure better organs and casually discussing ways their doctors “crush” unborn babies to obtain fully intact body parts.

Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion business in the United States, performing more than 320,000 abortions on unborn babies every year.

Website: Life News

“There Are No Unwanted Children, Only Unfound Parents”

By Jean Garton
National Right to Life

Editor’s note. November is Adoption Awareness Month. NRL News Today has run adoption related stories, new and previously posted, all this month. The following was written by the late Dr. Jean Garton, author of the pro-life classic “Who Broke the Baby?”

In a classroom of six-year-olds, the teacher was discussing a picture of a family. One of the children featured had a different hair color than did the other family members. A little girl in the class said maybe that was because the boy had been adopted.

“I know all about adoptions,” she said, “because I was adopted.” “What does that mean if you’re adopted?” asked a classmate. “It means,” said the little girl, “that you grew in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.”

In its defense of mother and unborn child, the pro-life movement has always been a strong proponent of adoption. Yet there are whole organizations that exist for the sole purpose of aborting the adoption option. They believe that babies are better dead than with parents who are not theirs by birth.

When the founder of an anti-adoption group was asked how she would counsel a teenage daughter who became pregnant, she said she would counsel her daughter “first to keep the baby, second to have an abortion, third to commit suicide, and only fourth to put the baby up for adoption.”

Why all the hostility? A National Review article once suggested several reasons including…

1. In order for abortion to be legal and accepted, the unborn child has to be seen as the woman’s property.

2. Every happy adoptee is a reminder to aborting mothers of the road not taken.

Adoption is a tried and true family-building option. Adoption, all in all, has served women, children, and society very well.

As one professional noted, 

“There are no unwanted children, only unfound parents.”

In the United States today there are millions of couples seeking to adopt. There are numerous reasons. Here are two.

First, the number of infertile couples in the U.S. exceeds one million, and even recent advances in reproductive technology can only help one in five.

 Second, America’s annual abortion rate of over one million drastically reduces the number of children available for adoption.

The desperation of childless couples is evident in ads which appear daily in newspapers across the country. The following are actual placements. 

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