As you may have heard by now, the Health and Human Services Department has issued a mandate that all private health insurance plans must offer coverage for all FDA-approved “contraceptive services” without copay or deductible. “Contraceptive services” includes: sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception.

This means that an employer must now, by law, pay for a plan that includes sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception. This is clearly a problem for those employers (and individuals for that matter) who morally object to sterilization, abortifacients, or contraception.

This causes serious problems…

Problem 1: No Options for You

If you morally or religiously objects to sterilization, abortifacients, or contraception, you have no options for health insurance. All private and public plans will cover these things.

If you are like me and want nothing to do with anything that causes an abortion because it takes a human life then you will be forced to pay for the destruction of human life in order to have health insurance.

Basically the government wants to force you to choose between your life and health and the life of pre-born children.

Actually, they don’t want you to choose. Obamacare’s individual mandate (if upheld in court) will force you to have to have a health insurance policy. So, if you are altruistic and are willing to give up your own health and life for the sake of the pre-born, you’ll have to pay a fine to the government to be allowed to do that.

Problem 2: No More Religious Freedom

This is the problem that you’ve probably heard the most about. Religious run schools, hospitals and charitable institutions will be required to provide ‘contraceptive services’ with their insurance plans. As you know, many of these institutions are run by religious organizations (the largest of which is the Catholic Church) that explicitly teach as a tenant of morality that these services are contrary to their belief and practice.

So much for the free exercise of religion…

These institutions could be fined $2,000 per employee per year that they do not provide this government mandated insurance. For Catholic Charities, which has about 70,000 employees and serves about 10 Million poor people each year that amounts to $140,000,000 a year in fines just because they want to practice their religion (the practice of which happens to help 10 Million people a year!).

Do you really think Catholic Charities can afford an extra $140 Million a year? The poor will suffer while suppliers of birth control get richer.

In conclusion…

1. Your rights are being thrown under the bus.
2. Freedom of Religion is being thrown under the bus.
3. Millions of poor people served by religious organizations are being thrown under the bus.

With this type of power, it won’t be long before direct abortions are mandated.

With this type of power, the ‘healthcare’ lobbyists that can front the most money will get special governmental treatment at our expense.

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Thank you for standing with me for life, freedom and human dignity.

P.S. It appears that the ‘Compromise’ put forth by President Obama is merely a rewording of the initial rule.

Whenever someone makes a difficult public decision, they need support to know that they made the right decision.

Well, the Susan G. Komen Foundation is getting some backlash from deciding not to support abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

Please take just a moment to either call or write the Susan G. Komen foundation and thank them for removing their funding from Planned Parenthood. Let them know that this action will increase your support and good will towards their organization!

Phone: 1-877 GO KOMEN (1-877-465-6636)

Email: news@komen.org

This only takes a second and it is very important! Please call now!

So, after going back and forth, the Rockford Abortion Center is closing for good!

This is great news! This closure was my birthday wish and it looks like I got it!

I hope you will join me in celebrating by clicking here to share this on facebook!

From the story:

“The clinic’s director confirmed today that the clinic’s owners have decided to close the clinic’s doors for good after being closed by the state for three months.

The clinic’s decision is based on a lack of support from the community, the political climate surrounding the abortion issue both locally and nationally and the challenge the clinic would face in rebuilding staff, the director said.”

The director claims that it is because of falling community support, but this abortion facility was never supported by the community in Rockford. So, personally, I think there is a deeper reason that isn’t coming out.

I posted about the original health and safety violations here and the fake-out that had everyone thinking that they would re-open here.

Don’t forget to click here to share the good news on facebook!

Well, it looks like I didn’t get my birthday wish.

The Rockford abortion center can now reopen after they struck a deal with the state. As usual, this deal doesn’t feel right to me.

It appears that they are getting off with a reduced fine after some pretty serious violations.

From the story in the Tribune:

An Illinois abortion clinic that’s been closed since September because of health and safety violations can pay a $9,750 fine to reopen under a settlement the state Department of Public Health approved Wednesday.

Dr. Kenneth Soyemi, the health department’s acting director, signed the agreement, said agency spokeswoman Melaney Arnold. The deal includes a provision that would allow the state to immediately revoke the license of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center in Rockford, without holding a hearing, if any serious violations are repeated.

The clinic could decide to remain closed and give up its license with a reduced fine of $1,000, Arnold said.

I’ve gotten a lot of great birthday presents and love, but this news was definitely not happy!

However, I think we should stay focused on the positive and move forward with saving lives!

[P.S. Thanks to all the Rockford pro-lifers who do so much there to save lives from this horrible clinic!]

Theresa (right) at last year's March for Life

I’d like to introduce you to a student who is making amazing headway on her campus!

You’re about to hear a story of what happens when a student’s passion and dedication to saving lives meets the expert guidance of SFLI’s campus mentor, Kevin Grillot.

When I heard about the amazing things that this student was doing, I asked Kevin to write about her for the blog.

Here’s what he had to say:

Theresa Weber joined Loyola Students for Life (LSFL) less than one year ago after going on the March for Life. Wanting to make a bigger change on her campus, she came to me early this semester.

I had no idea just how big of change she was going to make.

She sought to improve the attendance and organization of the March for Life trip. After learning effective ways to organize and recruit from SFLI, she took off implementing them!

Theresa organized tabling for the trip and had 7 other members present at the table. As a result, the group got over 30 interested students’ contact information.

To reach the most students, she informed every member of LSFL about the trip. Her enthusiasm encouraged members to talk to their friends. Reminding the Loyola community, she distributed concise and attractive fliers.

Then Theresa followed up personally with each student who expressed interest.

When the overwhelming response started coming in, LSFL did not have enough money to keep the costs down for everyone to attend.

Yet, that was not about to stop Theresa. Committed to wanting to make the trip accessible for every student, Theresa strived forward.

She learned how to fundraise, taught others how to do so, and provided them with ways to reach out to friends and family. Going above and beyond, yet again, she contacted her home parish, relatives, and businesses for financial support.

Because of her passionate and relationship based efforts, Theresa has produced amazing results. She has increased the participants on the trip from last year by about four times!

Through her leadership, LSFL has fundraised over $3,000, so every student can stand up for life.

Through her initiative, she has not only set the record for LSFL’s largest March for Life trip, she has grown the membership of LSFL in ways that will continue to break new ground in building a culture of life.

Without a doubt, Theresa’s passion for changing hearts and saving lives is an inspiration to all.

 - Kevin Grillot, SFLI Campus Mentor

Kevin didn’t give the exact numbers, but Theresa actually increased attendance for her school’s March for Life trip from 8 people last year to 39 people this year. That’s a 387.5% increase!

What Kevin also didn’t mention is that Theresa credits Kevin and SFLI with a lot of her success.

Here’s what she said:

“Without you, we would not have grown this much. We have changed so much since last year just as a group. The energy has been incredible and it’s crazy to think about. I feel like we are at a point where we can make a really big change.” – Theresa

This is what happens when a student’s passion and dedication to saving lives meets the expert guidance of SFLI’s campus mentor, Kevin Grillot.

To be honest, I really want this to happen more often on more campuses!

Don’t you?

Will you help me and Kevin to guide more passionate pro-life students towards success?

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