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Mandate Busting Resources

One More Soul Staff — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:18:40 +0000

Welcome to One More Soul’s “Mandate Busting Resources” store. We believe that these resources will help you challenge the government’s mandated coverage of contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization by all “health” insurance plans.

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PROLIFE ACTIVISM has paid off- Pepsi stops using Fetal Cells Lines to test flavors

One More Soul Staff — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:06:33 +0000

by Steven Ertelt

After months of pro-life protests and opposition, PepsiCo has indicated it will alter its contract with biotech firm Senomyx Inc., which uses cells from a baby killed in an abortion to conduct flavor testing.

Autism, traffic, and unstudied vaccine components

One More Soul Staff — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:19:11 +0000

by Matthew Hanley

Back in November, the Wall Street Journal featured a prominent article with the following headline: “The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams; Scientists Increasingly Link Vehicle Exhaust With Brain-Cell Damage, Higher Rates of Autism”. It was careful to point out that current evidence is circumstantial; no one is certain about such a connection between traffic, exhaust, brain-cell damage and autism. After all, vehicles today put out far, far less pollution than those operating decades ago, when autism rates were far, far lower.

Porque Importa la Anticoncepción

One More Soul Staff — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:18:17 +0000

Por Stephen Patton

Traducido por: Lydia Mendez y Liliana Cote de Bejarano

Grabado en los estudios de SEMACOM Foundation

Voces: Padre Antonio La Roca y Daniel Bejarano

Introducción:

Saludos. Soy el obispo Víctor Galeone de la Diócesis de San Agustín en la Florida. A continuación usted
oirá una presentación maravillosa por Steve Patton, el director de la oficina de Vida Familiar. Steve explica claramente por qué la sabiduría para todos los tiempos de la Iglesia que trata del amor conyugal trae mucha alegría a las parejas casadas y una profunda satisfacción para los sacerdotes que les sirven. Tenga cuidado, sin embargo, este mensaje podría tener un impacto duradero para bien en su vida. Disfrute de la presentación.

Confessions from an UNWANTED Child

One More Soul Staff — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:35:41 +0000

By Rebecca Peck

With the buzz of OCTOBERBABY fresh in the air, I imagine there will be many new questions posed by children to their parents, “mom (or dad), was I a WANTED child????”

Is abortion safe?

One More Soul Staff — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:18:59 +0000

by drfrankobgyn

As an obstetrician and gynecological surgeon, it is my duty to inform women of the risks of any procedure they undergo. Providing honest and accurate medical information to a woman before a procedure is required to live up to the ethical standard of informed consent. The need for such informed consent is especially critical when the procedure being considered is an induced abortion.

Livonia 2011 Video Presentations

One More Soul Staff — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:59:55 +0000

Congressman Jeff Fortenberry

R-Nebraska

Gene Diamond

CEO Sisters of St. Francis

Bill Saunders

Americans United For Life

John Bruchalski

Founder, Tepeyac Family Ctr.

Believe In Me

One More Soul Staff — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:53:20 +0000

Not too long ago I went to my family doctor for a yearly physical wellness exam. A very friendly nurse measured me, weighed me, and took my temperature. She also asked me the regular series of questions for women, such as, “When was your last menstrual period,” and “Is there any chance that you are pregnant?” To the latter question, I answered no. At that point I was a 21-year-old college student who, by God’s grace, was saving my virginity for marriage, trying to live a chaste life, and feeling very strongly about my convictions in this area. The nurse proceeded to ask me, at this point seemingly deviating from the questions on the form, if I was on any kind of birth control. I again said no and briefly informed her, in a patient-to-health professional way, that I was not planning on needing birth control because I was waiting until marriage to have sex (I didn’t even bring up the fact that I will not be using contraception after marriage either!). At my answer, the nurse smiled at me condescendingly and said, “Well, dear, I’m sure that is how you feel now, but I can’t tell you how many girls I’ve met who had similar intentions, but then weren’t prepared with contraception when in the heat of the moment they changed their minds.” Lord, have mercy, when a young unmarried girl goes to the office of a Christian family practice doctor, and, rather than being commended and encouraged in her desire to save herself for her future husband, is told that she will not have the self-control to do so.

An Opus for God

One More Soul Staff — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:26:25 +0000

by Thomas Kneier

We had negotiated our mid-life passage without the proverbial crises. My wife pierced another hole in her ears for a second set of earrings. I started wearing contact lenses because she told me it made me look younger. That was about it.

Women Physicians Respond to Women Senators’ Column

One More Soul Staff — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:16:17 +0000

President Obama’s HHS Mandate Is Bad for Women’s Health and the Practice of Medicine

Source: cathmed.org

Dear Senators Boxer, Murray, and Shaheen:

In a Feb. 7, 2012 Wall St. Journal op-ed, you claimed that President Obama’s HHS mandate, which forces everyone, including religious institutions, to pay for abortifacients, oral contraceptives (OCPs), and sterilizations as mandatory benefits in health insurance policies, was a victory for women’s health. As practicing physicians, we can attest that nothing is further from the truth. President Obama’s mandate is bad for women’s health and for the profession of medicine.

First, birth control is not preventive medical care like breast exams and pap smears performed to prevent a late diagnosis of cancer or immunizations to prevent pneumonia and influenza. A child is not a disease, nor are fertility and pregnancy. They are physiological states of healthy individuals.

Second, OCPs contribute to significant disease and dysfunction, such as increased rates of blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks (especially in smokers); increased rates of HPV transmission; and increased incidence of cervical cancer and liver tumors. The same synthetic hormones in OCPs that make a woman’s body behave as if pregnant all the time also change her body chemistry, rendering her more susceptible to STIs. As physicians, we frequently must care of women suffering from the unanticipated side effects of OCPs.

OCPs can lower the incidence of ovarian cancer. But only 1 in 72 women will develop ovarian cancer. Of greater concern should be the many studies showing that OCPs increase the risk of breast cancer—especially in young women who use them for more than 4 years before their first full-term pregnancy—since breast cancer rates have increased from 1 in 12 (in 1960 when the pill was first introduced) to 1 in 8 fifty years later. The International Agency for Research on Carcinogens declared estrogen and progesterone Class I carcinogens in 2005. Why would we promote any substance which increases the risk of cancer, and describe it as preventive care?

With regard to “cost savings” in health care, the Guttmacher Institute’s own data show that increases in contraception use lead to increased demand for abortions, and that women are more likely to have unplanned pregnancies when using contraception. There are no valid statistics demonstrating that use of contraception and abortion have improved the health of women and children. In fact, the rates of premature and low birth weight infants have been rising precipitously since rates of abortion and OCP use have increased. One in 8 babies is now born prematurely. NICU care now accounts for 25% of the entire maternal/newborn budget!

Finally, it is important to realize that mandating “free contraception” is not free—it will mean higher insurance premiums for everyone and/or less money for the treatment of real diseases.

A President who is willing to use the power of the federal government to violate the rights of religious freedom, conscientious objection, and free speech of thousands of religious institutions, and of many other Americans who object to this mandate on grounds of conscience, will also have no qualms about ordering physicians to participate in providing contraception, sterilization, and abortion even if it violates their ethical and professional judgment. In gutting the conscience protection rule enacted in 2008, and in refusing to include clear protections for conscience in PPACA, the Obama administration has demonstrated its hostility to the conscience rights of health-care professionals. Attempted coercion in this area will drive out of medical practice many physicians who take their ethical obligations and the Hippocratic Oath seriously. If this happens, millions of women will lose access to physicians who share their beliefs, and all patients will be more at the mercy of future government dictates about what health-care services can be offered or not.

As Catholic physicians, we swear before God to serve the sick with competence, compassion, and charity, always to their benefit and never to their harm. Abortifacients, OCPs, and sterilization do not belong in a preventive services mandate because they are not preventive medicine and not good for women’s health. President Obama’s mandate will prove harmful to women’s health and to the practice of medicine. It must be rescinded immediately.

Maricela P. Moffitt, M.D., M.P.H., President, Catholic Medical Association
Mary Keen, M.D., M.R.M.
Rebecca Peck, M.D.
Kathleen M. Raviele, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., Past President, Catholic Medical Association
Laura G. Reilly, M.D., A.B.P.N.