Bill Could Reduce The 30,000 Abortions In North Carolina Annually By As Much As 10 Percent
Steven Ertelt, Founder and Editor, Life News — The North Carolina Attorney General will appeal a federal appeals court’s ruling striking down a North Carolina law allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child before an abortion is done.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit struck down a North Carolina law requiring a 24-hour waiting period and informed consent of a woman before an abortion is performed. In January 2013, a district court imposed a temporary injunction on the law, claiming that its mandated disclosures about abortion are an unconstitutional imposition of “the state’s philosophic and social position discouraging abortion,” rather than being factually based.
The appeals court agreed and essentially said that showing women an ultrasound before an abortion and giving them information on abortion’s risks and alternatives unconstitutionally has the state of North Carolina taking sides in the abortion debate and making abortion practitioners its spokespeople.
According to AP, Roy Cooper, the state attorney general and a Democrat considered to be a 2016 gubernatorial candidate, says he will appeal the ruling. He says he does not support the pro-life law but believes it is his office’s obligation to defend laws the state legislature passes.
Nevertheless, he plans to seek clarity from the U.S. justices on the mixed opinions from other U.S. circuit court panels on similar topics.
The courts have upheld ultrasound laws in Texas and struck them down in Oklahoma.
“Monday’s opinion holding North Carolina’s law unconstitutional is now in conflict with Lakey, a case involving a similar Texas law which the 5th Circuit Court upheld,” Cooper said through his spokeswoman, Noelle Talley.
Rep. Paul Stam, a Republican from Wake County, issued a statement on Tuesday, praising the request for review from the country’s highest court.
“While this is not the decision we hoped for, most parts of the Woman’s Right to Know Act have been in effect since 2011,” Stam said. “Since 2010, abortions have been reduced by 23 percent in North Carolina. The Woman’s Right to Know Act of 2011 set the path for better care for women and children in North Carolina.”
The law, which gives women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby before considering an abortion, faced a lawsuit from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. The law also requires the abortion practitioner to allow a woman considering an abortion to hear the heartbeat of her baby and to describe what the ultrasound shows.
A study shows 99% of abortion clinics do ultrasound prior to the abortion to determine the age of the baby beforehand. The question then becomes whether the abortion practitioner will allow women to see the ultrasound beforehand — and most do not.
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden is involved in the case.
“Pro-life laws provide women with crucial information that they wouldn’t otherwise get from abortionists,” said Aden. “The court was wrong to view these reasonable disclosures of fact as merely ideological. This law simply provides women the adequate time and information they need to make such an important decision.”
“Abortionists should not be exempted from the standard that anyone performing risky surgery fully inform the patient of what the procedure is and what it does. Giving women the information they need before such a weighty decision is more important than any abortionist’s bottom line. Because this law places the best interests of women and their children first, we hope that it will ultimately be upheld,” he added.
“Women in need deserve laws that are in the best interest of their physical and emotional well-being, and that take into consideration their unborn child,” added Aden.
“The State has a compelling interest in ensuring that women are not rushed or coerced into having an abortion,” the brief in Stuart v. Camnitz explains. “The General Assembly could appropriately take notice that some women who seek to obtain an abortion may have been pressured into doing so, and that women who have the opportunity to see and hear specific information about fetal development have time to ponder the decision and a chance to discuss it with their physician.
Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D., director of state legislation for the National Right to Life Committee, responded to the lawsuit the abortion advocates files, saying, “What are abortion advocates afraid of? Probably that when mothers see the recognizable images of their unborn children as they kick and move inside the womb, with beating hearts, abortionists will lose business.”
Balch added: “As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in Gonzalss v. Carhart in 2007, ‘Whether to have an abortion requires a difficult and painful moral decision….The State has an interest in ensuring so grave a choice is well informed. It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns, only after the event, what she once did not know…’”
“This law would protect a mother’s right to receive vital information prior to making a life or death decision about her unborn child,” said Mary Spaulding Balch, director of state legislation for the National Right to Life Committee.
“We are disappointed by the decision of the Court striking down North Carolina’s Ultrasound law,” Barbara Holt, executive director of North Carolina Right to Life, told NRL News Today. “Turning the screen at an angle where the mother may view it if she wishes is very little to ask, considering that a human life hangs in the balance.”She noted that “Ultrasound technology has made tremendous advancements and provides a window to the womb that allows mothers to see their unborn children in real time. It is absolutely vital that a woman, at this most crucial life-and-death juncture, be provided all the information possible about the abortion procedure and the development of her unborn child. Simply put, the abortion decision cannot be undone. Women deserve all the facts.”
Holt added, “We will continue to work and urge the legislature to pass legislation that seeks to protect mothers and their unborn children.”
The informed consent bill provides that a booklet containing scientifically accurate information about risks, alternatives and information on the development of the unborn child, compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services, be offered to the mother at least 24 hours prior to an abortion so that she might have the opportunity to read and understand the information. It also provides that an ultrasound image of the unborn child be displayed at least four hours prior to an abortion so that the mother might view it.
“The abortion industry, working in league with Governor Perdue, attempted to place a financial bottom line above the rights and protection of mothers,” Balch added.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles in Greensboro issued the initial ruling about the law, which also provides for a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion. The lawsuit, filed in the Middle District of North Carolina, claims the new law violates the rights of women and abortion facilities.
The law is important because women frequently complain they were not shown any ultrasound information before the abortion even though abortion centers routinely do them to determine the age of the unborn child at the time of the abortion.
The pro-life measure received approved from the state legislature this summer and became law when lawmakers overturned a veto from pro-abortion Governor Bev Perdue, a Democrat. The measure helps women obtain information about abortion’s risks and alternatives they may not otherwise receive before an abortion. The bill also allows women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby, something abortion centers routinely do but don’t let women see.
Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina and the Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based pro-abortion legal group, joined the lawsuit the ACLU filed. But Rep. Ruth Samuelson, a Mecklenburg County Republican who sponsored the bill, told AP she expected the law to survive the legal challenge and said it is in the best interest of women to have it in place.
The Woman’s Right to Know bill, H 854, is similar to legislation other states have passed and is proven to reduce abortions. When women are given information about abortion that Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses don’t routinely provide, they frequently consider alternatives.
Some 34 other states already have a waiting period on abortion on the books and Republican Sen. Warren Daniel of Morganton, on the Senate floor, told lawmakers, “We know statistically that this type of legislation helps to make abortions more rare.” He said the bill could reduce the 30,000 abortions in North Carolina annually by as much as 10 percent.
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REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: DEC 27, 2014
Because much rewriting of history is destroying the truth.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
40th President of the United States (1981–1989)
Quote in Contrast
Barack Hussein Obama: “There have been times when America showed arrogance.”
Biography
RONALD WILSON REAGAN (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989). Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975), and a radio, film and television actor. As president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed “Reaganomics”, advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered an invasion of Grenada. He was re-elected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was “Morning in America.”
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Current Events And Commentaries
“And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come,
he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.” ~ Jesus
he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.” ~ Jesus
Luke 12:39
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You Won’t Believe What Obama Says About
His Leadership And Race Relations In America!
His Leadership And Race Relations In America!
One defining characteristic of the Obama Administration is a hard-headedness that borders on the delusional. Time and time again, President Obama and his staff have made statements that run strictly contrary to reality.He continues to insist that there is no corruption to be found in the IRS scandal, that Obamacare is working great and- how could we ever forget- the continued defense of his administration as “transparent” leaves the mind struggling to comprehend just how the president could utter such nonsense that is simply and unequivocally untrue.
Now, the most-divisive president in history claims that racial tensions, under his watch, have lessened.
Tell that to the murdered NYPD officers…
In a recent interview with NPR News, Obama was asked whether or not racial tensions have worsened under his administration.
“I actually think that it’s probably — in its day-to-day interactions — less racially divided,” Obama replied.
President Obama’s legacy once he has moved on from the Oval Office will be a sad one; the man who rose to national prominence touting “hope and change” and a different method of leadership that would spur from unity has, instead, become the most-polarizing, most-divisive, most-tyrannical president in our nation’s history.
His failed leadership has worsened America in incalculable ways and though he was in a unique position, as our nation’s first president of color, to unite, he has, instead, divided amongst racial and class lines....
Thousands Of NYPD Officers Turn Their Backs
As De Blasio Speaks At Funeral
As De Blasio Speaks At Funeral
By Katie McHugh, Breitbart — Thousands of NYPD officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio as his speech at Officer Rafael Ramos’s funeral Saturday morning.Last Saturday, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley shot Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in their patrol car, parked at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Area of Brooklyn at 2:47 PM. Earlier that day, Brinsley posted a photo of a gun with the caption, “I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today… Let’s Take 2 of Theirs #ShootThePolice #RIPErivGarner #RIPMikeBrown This May Be My Final Post… I’m Putting Pigs in A Blanket.”
Brinsley shot himself in a G-Train subway station after ambushing the officers.
“It’s difficult to find the words,” New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said last Saturday night. “They were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform.”...
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Congresswoman Bachmann: Obama Supports ‘Agenda’ Of Muslims
Who Want To Turn ‘U.S.’ Into ‘Islamic Caliphate’
Who Want To Turn ‘U.S.’ Into ‘Islamic Caliphate’
By Ben Barrack, Shoebat.com — During a radio interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC), outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) asserted that President Barack Obama has embraced ‘the agenda of Islamic jihad’, which includes the destruction of Israel and the conversion of the ‘United States into an Islamic Caliphate’. While acknowledging that the charge sounds outrageous, Bachmann insisted that is what’s happening.The admission by Bachmann that what she was saying was so unbelievable but true, likely contributes significantly to the refusal of so many Americans to believe it. Here is the quote:
“While the president continues to say that this is not about the religion of Islam. I beg to differ. This has everything to do with the tenets of Islam… it is a new state that is being put together for the purpose of destroying Israel and to turn the United States also into an Islamic Caliphate… I have been very surprised to see the president of the United States at every turn… embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad.”...
ISIS Hacked Into ‘Albuquerque Journal’
And Threatened Their Citizens!
And Threatened Their Citizens!
Gabor (Gabe) Zolna
It appears that ISIS has picked Albuquerque, New Mexico to launch their terror into that city first.
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ISIS Hacks U.S. News Site: ‘We Are Already Here’
Claims to know ‘where you live, what you eat,
your diseases, health insurance cards’
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By Chelsea Schilling — “You’ll see no mercy, infidels. We are already here, we are in your PCs, in each house, in each office. With Allah’s permission we begin with Albuquerque.”That was the ominous message posted by someone purporting to be affiliated with the Islamic State who apparently hacked the app of New Mexico’s largest newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal, and threatened Albuquerque residents on Wednesday morning.
The posting was accompanied by the headline, “Christmas will never be merry any longer” and a dark photo of a figure wearing a black-and-white checkered head scarf. Text in the middle of the photo read “CyberCaliphate” and “I love you isis” [sic].
The post also stated, “While the us [sic] and its satellites are bombing the Islamic State, we broke into your home networks and personal devices and know everything about you.”
The hacker told Albuquerque residents, “You will look around more often, will call up your children more often, think of your security more often, but that won’t help you.”
The website shut down for several hours while the posting was removed.
The Journal posted a note on its website confirming the attack. It also stated that the FBI has been notified and “there was no data breach.”
Information Systems Director Monty Midyette said the alterations appeared to be limited to just one story.
News outlets have been reporting for months that ISIS has planned a “cyber caliphate” against U.S. technology using encrypted software.
In September, the FBI warned of possible cyber attacks in retaliation for U.S. air strikes against ISIS.
NBC News reported the FBI released a bulletin to law enforcement and U.S. businesses that cited “recent nonspecific and probably aspirational threats made on social media platform to carry out cyber as well as physical attacks in response to the U.S. military presence in the Middle East.”
The FBI warned that such attacks could include “messages expressing support for ISIS and/or … imagery such as the black ISIS flag or graphic imagery, e.g. pictures or videos of ISIS executions.”
Some Islamic militants have boasted online that they will soon be capable of attacking America’s infrastructure or financial system, according to Fox News.
“The jihadists are investing a lot in encryption technologies, and they have developed their own software to protect their communications, and when Western agencies work out how to crack them, they adapt quickly,” Steve Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, told Fox News in September. “They are forward-thinking and are experimenting with hacking. In the future, the jihadist cyber army’s activities will become a daily reality.”
Also in September, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers said he has been observing the cyber capabilities of the media-savvy terrorist group.
Rogers told a cybersecurity conference in Washington, D.C., “We need to assume that there will be a cyber dimension increasingly in almost any scenario that we’re dealing with. Counterterrorism is no different. Clearly, [ISIS] has been very aggressive in the use of media, in the use of technology, in the use of the Internet.”...
Obama Green Lights Race War Says DHS Source
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Joining the broadcast are government watchdogs Hagmann & Hagmann, who are releasing details about a government-brewed race war they received from a source within DHS.
Muslims Are Calling To Revive An Ancient Horrifying Execution
Method Against U.S. Led Coalition Pilots
Method Against U.S. Led Coalition Pilots
By Walid Shoebat (Shoebat Exclusive) — If you think ISIS’s killing methods are bad wait till you see what one video in Arabic done by a Muslim lady dressed in a Hijab circulated to Muslims worldwide. The video was a complaint to Caliph al-Baghdadi of ISIS as “the call of Muslim mothers” arguing that such methods as “beheading” and “shooting” are just too humane and will not work to stop the U.S. led coalition air raids which she complained that this is persecution against her living in Syria. To eliminate the attacks she suggested that an Ottoman method of execution be used to detract pilots from joining the coalition against ISIS.She suggested to use the captured Jordanian pilot Moaz Kasasbeh and begged not to execute him mercifully by using a bullet or a knife, but begged them to reinstitute the Khazouk.
Everyone in the Middle East knows three things told to them by their grand parents about the Ottoman Turks and what they spread throughout the Middle East: Sihr “sorcery,” Baksheesh “bribery”, and the Khazouk which is a spike driven through the victim’s rectum, which the Ottomans used to terrify locals and deter potential insurgents. And this is exactly what this lady wanted to reinstitute:...
A Rough Year
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Jesus Privately Briefing His Inner Circle of Disciples
Regarding The Last Days
Regarding The Last Days
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” ~ Matthew 24:3-14