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5/17/2012 | Healthcare
More States Work to Implement Health Care Law
eNews Park Forest
Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--May 16, 2012. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington will receive more than $181 million in grants to help implement the new health care law. The grants will help states establish Affordable Insurance Exchanges. Starting in 2014, Affordable Insurance Exchanges will help consumers and small businesses in every state to choose a private health insurance plan. These comprehensive health plans will ensure consumers have the same kinds of insurance choices as members of Congress. Including today’s awards, 34 states and the District of Columbia have received Establishment grants to fund their progress toward building Exchanges.
HHS also issued two guidance documents today to help states build Affordable Insurance Exchanges.
“States across the country are implementing the new health care law,” said Secretary Sebelius. “In 2014, consumers in every state will have access to a new marketplace where they will be able to easily purchase affordable insurance.”
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Michael Barry, Director of Pastoral Care, Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Phila.Karl Benzio, Founder and Executive Director , Lighthouse NetworkTwila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA5/17/2012 | Abortion
South Carolina OKs Bill to Stop Abortion-Infanticides
LifeNews.com
One day after a legislative panel approved a measure to stop abortion funding in its statewide Obamacare health care exchange, pro-life legislators in the state House approved a bill helping to stop abortion-infanticides.
The South Carolina Senate has already approved the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act to protect unborn children who are born alive after a failed abortion but may be purposefully left to die afterwards.
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Twila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomRev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource NetworkSteve Curtis, LifeCommercials.comMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListLen Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy CouncilWilliam Devlin, Senior Pastor-Manhattan Bible ChurchJessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumTim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPactGeorgette Forney, Co-Founder, Silent No MoreDr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers MinistriesBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesPhyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle ForumChristopher Slattery, Founder and President, EMC Frontline Pregnancy CentersDavid Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family InstituteDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com5/16/2012 | Healthcare
South Carolina House Panel OKs No Abortion $ in Obamacare
LifeNews.com
Earlier this year, the South Carolina Senate approved a bill that would make the state the 16th to opt out of covering abortions with taxpayer dollars under the Obamcare health care law that pro-life organizations adamantly opposed because of abortion funding.A subcommittee of the S.C. House Labor, Commerce, and Industry Committee rebuffed pro-abortion groups Tuesday afternoon and passed Senate bill S102 to opt South Carolina out of paying for most abortions if ObamaCare insurance exchanges are implemented in 2014.
Without the Opt Out law in place, government funding would pay for all elective abortions. In 2010, the lasted year for which information is available, there were 6,464 abortions in South Carolina, according to the SC Department of Health and Environment Control.
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Michael Barry, Director of Pastoral Care, Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Phila.Karl Benzio, Founder and Executive Director , Lighthouse NetworkTwila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA5/14/2012 | Israel
Egyptians Want to Ditch Peace Treaty With Israel, Poll Shows
CNS News
As Egyptians prepare to vote for their first post-Mubarak president next week, the antipathy towards Israel espoused by the frontrunners aligns with the findings of a new survey, in which 61 percent of Egyptian respondents favor abandoning the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, up from 54 percent a year ago.
The poll, by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, also finds a small decline among Egyptians in favorable views of the United States – now just 19 percent – while 61 percent of respondents said the billions of dollars the U.S. gives their country in military and economic aid has a “mostly negative” impact.
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William Devlin, Senior Pastor-Manhattan Bible ChurchPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationJim Showers, Executive Director, President, The Friends of IsraelTom Wallace, Fortress of Faith5/14/2012 | Israel
Israel Won’t Be at ‘Biggest Summit in NATO History’
CNS News
NATO’s summit in Chicago this month – the first on U.S. soil in 13 years – will be the biggest in its history, with some 60 countries and organizations represented, but Israel will not be among them, the alliance has confirmed.
Turkey, NATO’s only Muslim member and a country whose government is openly hostile towards Israel, has vetoed Israel’s participation in other NATO activities, but both NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Obama administration officials insist that Israel was not blocked from the May 20-21 summit.
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William Devlin, Senior Pastor-Manhattan Bible ChurchPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationJim Showers, Executive Director, President, The Friends of IsraelTom Wallace, Fortress of Faith5/11/2012 | Healthcare
House Votes to Prohibit DOJ From Using Funds to Defend Challenges to Obamacare
CNS News
The GOP-led House of Representatives approved an amendment to a 2013 appropriations bill on Wednesday that would prohibit the Department of Justice (DOJ) from using its departmental funds to defend against legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.
“My amendment prohibits DOJ from spending funds we don’t have in defense of a program the American people do not want," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who introduced the amendment, said in a statement.
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Michael Barry, Director of Pastoral Care, Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Phila.Karl Benzio, Founder and Executive Director , Lighthouse NetworkTwila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA5/11/2012 | Homosexuality
House Panel, Citing Gay 'Marriage' Pressure, Passes Measure Protecting Religious Liberty of Service Members
CNS News
Just hours after President Obama came out Wednesday in favor of homosexual "marriage," members of the House Armed Services Committee voted 36 to 25 to adopt an amendment protecting the religious liberty of military service members, especially chaplains, on the issue of same-sex marriage.
“Moral or religious concerns about same-sex marriage or the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell have become potentially career-ending,” said the amendment's sponsor, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.).
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Karl Benzio, Founder and Executive Director , Lighthouse NetworkBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryAlex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical SeminaryJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com5/10/2012 | Homosexuality
Obama: ‘Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married’
CNS News
Led by his own vice president, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced what many people already suspected -- he supports homosexual marriage.
“I’ve just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told ABC News reporter Robin Roberts.
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Karl Benzio, Founder and Executive Director , Lighthouse NetworkBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryAlex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical SeminaryJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com5/10/2012 | Healthcare
De-Funding Planned Parenthood Helps Poor Women Get Health Care
LifeNews.com
As our nation’s largest abortion-committing organization, Planned Parenthood tirelessly claims that without its facilities, low-income women will be doomed and unable to obtain affordable health care services. Just the opposite is true: not only is defunding Planned Parenthood and reallocating said funds to Federally Qualified Health Centers more economically beneficial, but it will allow more low-income women and families to obtain truly comprehensive health care.
Do the math: low-income women are better off without Planned Parenthood.
It’s all in the numbers.
According to their latest annual report (from 2010), Planned Parenthood saw three million patients. They also operate nearly 800 facilities across the country while receiving $487,000,000 in taxpayer dollars.
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Michael Barry, Director of Pastoral Care, Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Phila.Karl Benzio, Founder and Executive Director , Lighthouse NetworkTwila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA5/9/2012 | Politics
North Carolina: 61% vote for biblical marriage
Associated Press
Associated Press video buttonRALEIGH, NC - North Carolina approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman, becoming the latest state to effectively slam the door shut on same-sex "marriages."
With most of the precincts reporting Tuesday, unofficial returns showed the amendment passing with about 61 percent of the vote to 39 percent against. North Carolina is the 30th state to adopt such a ban on "gay marriage."
5/9/2012 | Abortion
White House: Abortion OK, But Visitors Must Register Unborn Children
LifeNews.com
The Obama administration is plenty content with legalized abortion and funding abortions with taxpayer funds, but when it comes to Americans visiting the White House, they must register their unborn children when they check in at the front door.
The Director of the White House Visitor’s Office, Ellie Shafer, today distributed an email newsletter to members of Congress and others providing detailed instructions on how to register an unborn child (“a baby that has not yet been born,” as Shafer puts it) into the security system the White House uses to arrange group tours.
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Twila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomRev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource NetworkSteve Curtis, LifeCommercials.comMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListLen Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy CouncilWilliam Devlin, Senior Pastor-Manhattan Bible ChurchJessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumTim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPactGeorgette Forney, Co-Founder, Silent No MoreDr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers MinistriesBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesPhyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle ForumChristopher Slattery, Founder and President, EMC Frontline Pregnancy CentersDavid Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family InstituteDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com5/8/2012 | Healthcare
Mandate challenge premature?
OneNewsNow
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a judge to dismiss a religious school's lawsuit against the federal healthcare mandate requiring it to provide contraceptive and sterilization coverage for employees.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Greg Baylor says the Justice Department is out of line in contending that the lawsuit filed by western Pennsylvania's Geneva College was premature. The college is seeking to have controversial parts of the Affordable Health Care Act struck down.
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China Still Selling “Health Pills” Made From Aborted, Dead Babies
LifeNews.com
News reports today are focusing on an update of a South Korean SBS TV documentary released last August that focuses on Chinese pharmaceutical companies selling “health pills” made from the bodies of babies dying in abortion and miscarriages.
Chinese hospitals and abortion clinics are notifying pharmaceutical companies when a baby dies. The companies purchase the bodies of the deceased children and reportedly store them in private refrigerators of families who are paid to help the companies avoid suspicion by locating the bodies off site.
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Twila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomRev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource NetworkSteve Curtis, LifeCommercials.comMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListLen Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy CouncilWilliam Devlin, Senior Pastor-Manhattan Bible ChurchJessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumTim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPactGeorgette Forney, Co-Founder, Silent No MoreDr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers MinistriesBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesPhyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle ForumChristopher Slattery, Founder and President, EMC Frontline Pregnancy CentersDavid Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family InstituteDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com5/7/2012 | Israel
Obama - pro-Israel or pro-Palestine?
OneNewsNow
A worldwide pro-Israel Christian ministry says the results of a poll in Israel indicate that Israelis are taking a close look at President Barack Obama's record on issues dealing with the Jewish state.
The poll sponsored by The Jerusalem Post asked Israelis whether they believe U.S. President Obama's administration is more pro-Israel or more pro-Palestinian. The results were evenly split, with 24 percent believing Obama is pro-Israel, 24 percent pro-Palestinian, 36 percent neutral, and 16 percent not expressing an opinion.
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William Devlin, Senior Pastor-Manhattan Bible ChurchPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationJim Showers, Executive Director, President, The Friends of IsraelTom Wallace, Fortress of Faith5/7/2012 | Abortion
Lawmaker: Obama Admin Must Press China to OK Chen’s Application
LifeNews.com
A top Republican in the U.S. House says the tenuous situation regarding forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng may not be over unless the Obama administration pushes China to accept Chen’s application to come to the United States.
The U.S. and China struck a tentative deal today that, if China approves, would allow the campaigner against the one-child policy to come to the United States to study as a visiting student.
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Twila Brase, President and Co-founder, Citizens' Council on Health FreedomRev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource NetworkSteve Curtis, LifeCommercials.comMarjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board, Susan B. Anthony ListLen Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy CouncilWilliam Devlin, Senior Pastor-Manhattan Bible ChurchJessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumTim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPactGeorgette Forney, Co-Founder, Silent No MoreDr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers MinistriesBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesPhyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle ForumChristopher Slattery, Founder and President, EMC Frontline Pregnancy CentersDavid Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family InstituteDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com5/4/2012 | Radical Islam
Osama bin Laden Al-Qaida memo to Bin Laden warns of 'cunning methods' of US news networks
The Guardian
Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from the tenth anniversary of 9/11 last year, and concluded that CBS was "close to being unbiased". But an American-born media adviser for al-Qaeda warned Bin Laden to beware of the broadcasters' "cunning methods" as he described Fox News as a channel in the "abyss" that should "die in anger", CNN as too close to the US government and MSNBC as questionable after it fired one of its most prominent presenters, Keith Olbermann.
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Israel gets 4th nuke-capable German submarine
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Thursday received its fourth German-made submarine capable of launching nuclear warheads, expanding a fleet that experts say could be used in an attack on Iran.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the submarine would increase Israel's capabilities and strength "in the face of the growing regional challenges."
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107 charged in Medicare fraud busts in 7 cities
CBS
Federal authorities charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud Wednesday in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly billed the taxpayer-funded program of $452 million — the highest dollar amount in a single Medicare bust in U.S. history.
It was the latest in a string of major arrests in the past two years as authorities have targeted fraud that's believed to cost the government between $60 billion and $90 billion each year. Stopping Medicare's budget from hemorrhaging that money will be key to paying for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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Methodists reject anti-Israel move
OneNewsNow
As expected, the United Methodist Church has rejected a resolution calling for the divestment of three companies doing business with Israel.
Despite a high-profile lobbying campaign by pro-divestment activists, delegates to the governing body of the 12-million-member United Methodist Church voted Wednesday 685-246 to reject the resolution that would have instructed the denomination's General Board of Pension and Health Benefits to sell investments in Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola (see earlier story). Proponents of the resolution had argued the three firms profit from Israel's military presence in the West Bank.
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Employers save $422 billion if they dump health coverage. Will they?
The Washington Post
In the health reform debate, there’s a lot of crystal-ball gazing about what employers will do when, in 2014, tens of millions of Americans become eligible for publicly-subsidized health insurance. Will they continue paying for workers’ health plans, as they’ve done for decades? Or, will they save a lot of cash, and let the government fill that role?
Financially, there’s a lot at stake. If workers use public subsidies at a higher rate than expected, the cost of Obamacare could skyrocket. So the looming question is: What will these large companies do?
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