Life Issues
Obama Administration Seeks to Deny Pro-Life Medical Professionals the Right to Refuse to Kill Children
"If you don't want an abortion, don't have one," the raving-at-the-mouth pro-choicers insist.
As a pro-life advocate in medical school, I was told, "If you don't want to do abortions, don't do them!"
If Obama's dream for American healthcare materializes, that will not be possible for pro-life healthcare workers anymore. Last month, the Obama administration moved to overturn regulation designed to protect the conscience rights of health care workers, so that they aren't forced by their superiors to participate in the aborting of an innocent human being. (To be reminded why we shouldn't be involved in the abortion of little pre-born children, click HERE.)
If Obama is successful is ending this protection, hospitals and even our own government may discriminate against doctors and medical professionals who do not want to participate in activities they find morally objectionable. Medical students may be denied physician licenses if they do not commit abortions when ordered by their superiors. Religious hospitals may be forced to allow abortionists to butcher babies at their facility or else may be forced to close their doors. Medical researchers may be be forced to participate in embryo-killing stem cell research or else face harsh penalties.
The Department of Health and Human Services allows the public one month to comment on new regulations before they go into affect. You may visit http://www.freedom2care.org/ or else E-mail your comments directly to proposedrescission@hhs.org. Tell them to retain the conscience regulations! Contact your Congressman and insist that they protect the rights of pro-life medical professionals.
Pro-life patients should prefer pro-life doctors. Does your doctor kill babies on the side? Do you know for sure? Visit the webpage of the Association of Pro-Life Physicians today and make sure you aren't trusting your health to a doctor who has the blood of the innocent children of God on his hands. Abortion isn't healthcare: it's murder!
By Dr. Patrick Johnston
Revelation 13, a Metaphor for Today
The Bible speaks of a government in the last days that "makes war with the Lamb" (Rev. 13). This totalitarian state demands worship of its image - "the beast." This government mandates a "mark" on the forehead or back of the hand in order to buy or sell. This government slays many martyrs. "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man..." The mark represents the worship of man.
Throughout the book of Revelation, there is a distinction between those who "worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark" and those who "had gotten victory over the beast and his image, and his mark." The former are judged and condemned to the lake of fire; the latter are received into heaven's glory to rule and to reign with Christ forever.
What's so evil about receiving a government-mandated mark in order to buy or sell? One must take care of his family, right? One must obey the "higher powers", right? (Romans 13:1-4) "Obey those that have rule over you," right? Receiving the "mark" is evil because one must violate God's law and worship the image of the state in order to receive it. To worship the state is to commit idolatry, to rebel against God Almighty. God is the "highest power", and disobeying God's law to submit to man's evil mandates is to receive a "mark" that brings condemnation.
The State Demands, "Render Unto Caesar That Which Is God's"
The Roman pagans asked the church patriarch Polycarp, "What harm is it to say ‘Lord Caesar' and sacrifice, and save yourself?"
Association of Pro-Life Physicians
Director, Patrick Johnston, D.O.
http://www.prolifephysicians.org/
November 4, 2011
Press Release regarding Mississippi's Personhood Amendment
The original Hippocratic was a commitment to never intentionally kill a human being, including a human being in the womb. "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy." (circa 400 B.C.)
After physicians in Germany were found guilty of experimenting on Jewish concentration camp prisoners in World War II, the Declaration of Geneva was adopted by the World Medical Association in 1948, which stated, "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of its conception."
Adhering to the honorable medical tradition of "First, do no harm", the Association of Pro-Life Physicians fully endorses Mississippi's Personhood Amendment, which would amend the state constitution to protect the inalienable right to life of all Mississippians.
“You and three others were in a boat in the middle of the ocean. You are healthy and fit, one is morbidly obese and out of shape, one is an elderly woman with cancer, and one is a child with Downs syndrome. You must row at least three days and nights to get to land, and there is no food and barely enough water to sustain no more than three of you. If the four of you split it four ways, all of you will die. Which one should you throw overboard to keep the others alive?”
This was my first exposure to relative morality in a classroom at the Florida State University in the 1990s. Many were thoroughly shaken by the argument, and it was horrifying to hear students argue about which person in the boat was most disposable. Rather than shaking my faith in Christianity, these arguments strengthened my faith. It was plain to see that abandoning God’s Word would lead ordinary college students to drown an obese man or an elderly woman, or to murder and eat a Down’s syndrome child. If placed in certain circumstances in which they speculated more good could be done from their actions than harm, these college students would commit atrocities, push Jews into ovens, euthanize their loved ones, cannibalize children, or abort babies.
The pro-life movement in the United States has proven its willingness to push one person out of the boat in order to try to save another. In our compromise, we become the greatest hindrance to occupying the Promised Land of liberty and justice for all. In our capitulation to arbitrary standards that reek of godlessness, we become accomplices in the Abortion Holocaust and violators of the spirit of the sixth commandment.
By Patrick Johnston
We finally have a black President. Actually, half black. I have been told by liberals that the reason I didn’t vote for Obama was that I’m secretly racist. Actually, I voted for a black man more black than he: Republican Alan Keyes.
In the last presidential election, the leading contenders were a woman, an African American, and a Mormon.
President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is Hispanic – an openly racist Hispanic at that, who is a member of the racist Hispanic organization La Raza (“the race”) and has supported quotas in order to favor minority races over whites. Obama has boasted that her experiences as a Hispanic make her more qualified to be on the Supreme Court than any white male. If George W. Bush had said that Samuel Alito’s experiences as an Caucasian male make him more qualified for the High Court than any female non-white, do you think for a second that Bush would have been universally hailed to be a bigoted, sexist hatemonger, and that his nominee would have been tarred and feathered faster than you can say “Clarence Thomas”?
In a speech in Germany recently, Obama boasted that his skin color was different than that of most Americans who have historically spoken on American policy in Germany. Actually, the last eight years, Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice have been the primary faces representing American policy in Germany. This tendency to favor minorities in positions of leadership is bipartisan – indeed, even the Grand Ol’ Party of the “old, white males” has an African American leader named Michael Steele! Democrats don’t have a monopoly on minority leadership. They are the party that fought for legal slavery of blacks in America, let us not forget.
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Why Pro-Lifer Groups Love Obama
By Dr. Patrick Johnston
Pro-life organizations around the nation are in a full sprint fund-raising campaign to get signed petitions to Washington, D.C., to try and sabotage Obama's announced plan to sign the Freedom of Choice Act. The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), in essence, will overrule all of the restrictions that states have passed limiting abortions. It would be the most pro-abortion piece of legislation that Congress has ever passed, finally putting to rest the argument that legal abortion is a Supreme Court usurpation of Constitutional limitations. With FOCA, Congress would finally transcend the absurdity of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision to make abortion a fundamental right - like freedom of speech.
With every Email or fear-filled mass mailer, you can just sense the hand-wringing and brow-sweating. "FOCA Would Wipe Away Every Restriction on Abortion Nationwide," reads one website, warning of the eradication of state pro-life legislation such as "Bans on Partial Birth Abortion - Requirements that women be given information about the risks of getting an abortion - Only licensed physicians can perform abortions - Parents must be informed and give consent to their minor daughter's abortion... Sign this petition and send a much needed donation right away!" (quoted from the website FightFOCA.com.) The more pro-life Americans are outraged about FOCA, the more money that pro-life groups can make. They stand to be more financially successful under the Democrats than they do under the Republicans!
Sincere pro-lifers look with admiration upon a President and a Party who takes their commitment about abortion seriously. Unfortunately, the only President and Party with serious devotion to the abortion issue are the Democrats who want abortion-on-demand. The Republicans had their six years with a "pro-life" President and a Republican majority in the House and Senate, and how many lives have been saved as a result? How many millions of dollars have we expended to pass our Unborn Victims of Violence Act, our Fetal Pain Awareness Act, and our Partial Birth Abortion Act, all the while never delivering justice? The Holocaust continues unabated by our political victories, our pro-life speeches, our calls to our Congressman, and our million-dollar fundraisers "for the children". If only the Republicans would be as enthusiastic about doing justice for the preborn as the Democratic Party is about killing them.
In February, a conservative political group besought the Lord in prayer, and encouraged others to pray that the Lord would foil the efforts of a state Governor who was pushing for a state law that would declare abortion to be a "fundamental right" for women. This dangerous state law had the potential to overturn Roe v. Wade, but not in the manner that conservatives envisioned. This Governor's legislation could have the potential to force states to pay for abortions.
According to Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families, this Governor "has tried to license homosexual marriages... [and] harassed pro-life crisis pregnancy centers." This Governor "has embraced anti-family planning public policies since day one." In 2002, this Governor tried to shut down all Crisis Pregnancy Centers in his state by charging them with practicing medicine without a license.
The Family Research Council described this Governor as "long-time abortion advocate who rose to power with support from NARAL and Planned Parenthood." On February 28, the FRC made this Governor one of its "prayer team targets."