Respected Christian leader and author James Dobson makes it clear his pro-family ministry puts the issue of life first and foremost – even if it means shutting down.
Dr. Dobson didn’t hold back Thursday during an interview regarding his organization, Family Talk, and its challenge of a federal mandate for employers to cover abortifacients.
“We are suing [HHS Secretary] Kathleen Sebelius for forcing or trying to force all of us to give abortifacient medications to our employees,” he summarized on American Family Radio, “and I just absolutely refuse to do it. We’ll close down before I’ll do it.”
Several other employers are challenging the mandate, including the for-profit Hobby Lobby.
“Ours is a Christian non-profit,” he explained. “[The government has] exempted churches from having to do this, but they’ve concluded that other Christian non-profits are not ‘Christian enough.'”
If you graduate from high school, work full time, and postpone marriage and childbearing until after the age of 21, your chances of being in poverty are only 2 percent. If you don’t do all of those three things, your chances of poverty rise to 77 percent.
Our president just finished his State of the Union address. I watched it live on YouTube. (The live link is gone, but archive links abound.) Many statements were laudable. Some represented some degree of obfuscation and thus were irritating. Sometimes I agreed, while at other times I disagreed strongly. However, one phrase in particular both “stuck out” and especially irritated me. There was nothing terribly wrong with the statement itself. What was wrong was the conflict between the statement and the extreme pro-abortion attitude of the man who issued the statement. He indicated that the best thing we can do for our children is to invest in early education (referring to pre-K schooling).
After his speech, his supporters (who organized the follow-through) invited online viewers to go to a White House-operated website and watch while questions from Twitter and the blogosphere were answered by a panel appointed by the administration. The hashtag (to post a question or participate in the conversation) is: #SOTUchat
So, I fired up my Twitter account, put in the hashtag, and tweeted this:
#SOTUchat Mr Pres. does that investment in early education of children include not ripping them to pieces while inside their mothers’ wombs?
Feel free to copy and paste. If you have a Twitter account, retweet it. If you have a Facebook, a blog, or whatever, use your platform say something for the cause of Life. Regardless, do something, even if it’s just teaching your family in devotions or discussing it with a neighbor or coworker. Do something to participate. Be part of the Pro-Life Generation that will see Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton overturned in our lifetime.
Note: If you are looking for solid stats and amazing information to bolster your argument in favor of life—great information that is usable in everything from family devotions to debates with liberals—click to watch the awesome video below.
During quite a few of these frozen days of being snowed in, I spent many, many hours editing the video of a major Pro-Life event, at the request of Dr. Wanda Franz, Ph.D., who is the former head of the National Right To Life Committee, and current President of West Virginians For Life, and Mary Anne Buchanan, who is the Program Director for West Virginians For Life. Recently I finished the DVD production phase, and this past Monday I mailed out the DVDs to the WV For Life office. The next phase was to distill the video stream for YouTube. Last night I finished that aspect of this project, and started the upload to YouTube. Early this morning (in the wee hours) the upload to YouTube was finally completed. Behold:
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Family Research Council released a report this week that gave valuable insight to those who want to understand the women in our culture who are most vulnerable to abortion industry pressures and what risk factors affect them. This valuable research about the demographics of women who have had abortions reinforces what common sense would suggest – the more sexual partners a woman has, and the earlier she becomes sexually active, the more likely she is to have one or more abortions in her lifetime. Most importantly, the research shows how important strong families are in decreasing the likelihood of a woman having an abortion. Read more at LifeNews.com.
WASHINGTON (January 16, 2014) – Yesterday, the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved NRLC-backed legislation to permanently prohibit subsidies for abortion in federally funded health programs. [Read more…]
The articles and blog posts leading up to the 40th commemoration of the single greatest American tragedy all tell a similar story. The thread that runs common through all the stories is the unimaginable numbers. And the numbers drive the narrative of a nation painfully realizing that there are now fifty-five million children, who have been poisoned, dismembered, shredded and suffocated by abortionists who were given the right to do so by judicial fiat. [Read more at LifeNews.com.]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Barack Obama’s new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control.
The Board of Directors of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia has formally named Allen Whitt as the new President of the state’s leading faith-based public policy organization. Whitt is a former media writer and consultant for Dr. Billy Graham. He also served as Assistant to the President for Dr. James Dobson while at the international radio ministry Focus on the Family. Whitt is returning home to Appalachia after winning several pro-life and pro-family legislative victories in his roll as the Director of Policy for the Montana Family Policy Council. He is the successor to Jeremy Dys who pioneered the post for six years. Dys, now Senior Counsel for the Liberty Institute based in Dallas, TX, continues the fight for freedom by litigating cases to restore religious liberty according to the vision of the founding fathers. Chairman of the Council’s Board of Directors Jim Larrita, said, “Opposition groups on the left have recently… [Read more at the Family Policy of WV website.
The World Health Organization classified birth control pills with estrogen and progestin as a “Group One” carcinogen.
“That’s the highest level that a cancer-causing drug can be listed as,” says Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer.
And Plan B, known as the morning-after pill, is nothing short of an extremely high dose of contraceptive.
“It’s highly carcinogenic,” Malec advises. “It’s listed on the same page with mustard gas and benzene, cadmium, etc. Asbestos and tobacco are also listed.”
Malec has filed a brief with the Supreme Court informing the justices of these stats.
“They already have 300,000 cases of breast cancer expected this year so this is only going to further increase it,” she says.
