Bill Introduced In Congress to Repeal Forced Insurance Mandate
Last week I (Ron Paul) introduced a very important piece of legislation that I hope will gain as much or more support as my Audit the Fed bill. HR 4995, the End the Mandate Act will repeal provisions of the newly passed health insurance reform bill that give the government the power to force Americans to purchase government-approved health insurance. The whole bill is rotten, but this provision especially is a blatant violation of the Constitution.
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Neb. Antiabortion Law Expected To Face Long Legal Battle
Expected legal challenges could mean that a new Nebraska law (LB 1103) banning abortion beginning at 20 weeks' gestation "won't go into effect anytime soon, if ever," the AP/Miami Herald reports.
According to AP/Herald, although the law is scheduled to take effect in October, supporters acknowledge that it likely will not take effect unless the U.S. Supreme Court deems it constitutional. Because of the time it takes for a case to reach the Supreme Court and for the court to rule, "a final decision on the law is several years away," the AP/Herald writes.
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Youths Rally Against Abortion
Young people from throughout the area on Sunday evening listened to pro-life messages during the third annual Youth Rally for Life at John Hardin High School in Radcliff. Church youth ministers brought their members to the evening rally, and others showed up on their own. Informational booths were set up and, during a mingling time, a video on a large screen showed fetuses at various developmental stages. Other events scheduled for the evening included an opening skit featuring a boxing theme with pro-life youths "knocking out" grim reapers; a rap song; a representative of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, which is made up of women who regret having an abortion; prizes; pizza; and other speakers.
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USA Today: Embryo Genetic Screening Controversial
A "slippery slope" to "a world of eugenics," as bioethics authorities once worried, or a healthy life for a teenage girl? Once at the center of a science controversy, Molly Nash, 15, represents the human answer to the debate over a genetic screening technique, " pre-implantation genetic diagnosis," (PGD) that made headlines a decade ago. In Molly's case, her mother and father turned to PGD to pick out the embryo implanted to give birth to her brother, Adam, in an effort to save Molly's life. "She's a typical teenage girl, she loves to dance, loves the theater," says nurse Lisa Nash of Denver, Molly's mom. "We never thought she would live to see 15."
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Wisconsin stands on 'slippery slope'
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has again denied an open records request for a threat assessment on pro-life activity in Wisconsin.
In February 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Middleton Police Department improperly shared a Homeland Security assessment prepared by the federal agency that targeted pro-life activities in Wisconsin.
"The threat assessment concerned free speech at a University of Wisconsin hospitals and clinics meeting in Middleton, Wisconsin, at which a vote was taken to approve a late-term abortion facility at the Madison Surgery Center on the UW-Madison campus," explains Peggy Hamill, state director for Pro-Life Wisconsin.
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Executive order less than lawful?
A lawsuit against a presidential edict to use federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research has gone to an appeals court.
On March 9, 2009, President Obama issued an executive order, rescinding an order from former President George W. Bush that prohibited federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. Steven H. Aden of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) argued in court that the Obama administration is violating federal law.
"In the Dickey/Wicker Amendment, Congress prohibited federal funding for destructive embryonic stem-cell research," the attorney explains. "That didn't matter to the Obama administration, which issued the executive order allowing the funding of research on lines that had been derived from the destruction of human embryos."
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