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Obamacare in Court: Abortion Premium Mandate Violates Free Exercise
Obamacare's individual mandate not only forces individuals into private purchases, it also mandates individuals in many plans to pay a separate personal payment for surgical abortion coverage, without exemption for individual's religious or moral objections. This is the argument presented by seven medical organizations in an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by lead counsel Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), along with several leading public-interest legal organizations.
The BDF amicus brief was filed in support of the twenty-six State Attorneys General. Read the full brief, or a summary of the argument, and learn about the HHS abortion premium regs issued on 3/12/2012.
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Speaking Engagements & Debates
BDF attorneys Nikolas T. Nikas and Dorinda C. Bordlee provide engaging Powerpoint Presentations and debates in Legislatures, Law Schools, Medical Schools, Universities, and Professional Organizations in the United States and around the world -- on bioethics issues including Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research, Abortion and its Impact on Women, and Healthcare Rights of Conscience.
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Media Circus Reveals Planned Parenthood Deceived Komen and the Public about Mammograms
Keep up with the breaking Komen-Planned Parenthood news on the BDF Facebook page.
According to a Jan. 31, 2012 Associated Press article, Komen adopted new polcies that halt all grants to Planned Parenthood clinics. After a defense by Komen founder Nancy Brinker pointing out that Planned Parenthood clinics never provided mammograms, a Feb. 3, 2012 blog seems to show Komen is apologizing. While the status of Komen's position is ironed out, what is certain is this: Planned Parenthood deceived the public and Komen about mammogram screenings. The nation's largest abortion provider should be defunded by federal and state government.
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Signs of Hope Legislation: Abortion Alternatives Sign and Mobile Website
The innovative "Signs of Hope" legislation drafted by Bioethics Defense Fund has been enacted for the first time, and is now in development at the Louisiana Department of Health. The law requires abortion clinics to post 16 x 20 signs that give women information about their rights and alternatives, and features a web address that converts to a mobile format when it is accessed by an iPhone or any mobile device.
Studies show that 64% of American women felt pressured into abortion, and that they often don't know their rights and alternatives. The "Signs of Hope" inform women that they can't be forced to abort, that the father must provide child support even if he's offered to pay for the abortion, that adoptive parents may pay costs of prenatal care and childbirth, and that there are many agencies able to help the women during and after the pregnancy.
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Court Challenge: Tax-Funded Human Embryo Research
Pro-Life Court Victory: On August 23, 2010, a federal district court ruled that the Obama policy of using public funds for stem cell research that destroys human embryos violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. The Obama Justice Department appealed, and the case of Sherley v. Sebelius is still pending in the D.C. Circuit.
Tabs Below: Read the brief filed by Bioethics Defense Fund on behalf of stem cell scientist/embryologist Dr. Maureen Condic. And learn the background and scientific facts about a breakthrough in ethical stem cell research that President Obama ignored in issuing his executive order.
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Holistic Feminism: Abortion Harms Women & Children
A mountain of studies confirm that abortion harms women's physical and psychological health, in addition to destroying the life of her child. "Holistic Feminism" is a term that BDF uses to describe our policy strategies that integrate the interests of the woman, the unborn child, and the often ignored interests and duties of men who can easily shirk their legal and moral duties of child support and fatherly guidance.
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The Changing Face of Cloning & Stem Cells
Months after the cloner of Dolly the Sheep abandonned his U.K. license to clone human embryos based on the ethical "skin cell method" of creating embryonic-like stem cells, a California-based lab has claimed to have cloned human embryos.
Learn the facts, and contact us for the BDF legislation that prohibits state funding and/or the practice of human embryo cloning for both destructive research or for childbirth.
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Ultrasound Before Abortion Model Legislation
Science tells us when life begins. The real question is when love begins. For many abortion-minded women, love began when they had the opportunity to see their unborn child on an ultrasound screen.
Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker focused her Wash Post column on BDF ultrasound before abortion legislation – a common-sense approach that recognizes that “abortion truthfully presented would eliminate itself or vastly reduce its numbers.”
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BDF bill addresses "Octomom" abuses
The intense “Octomom” news coverage has highlighted the moral and social problems inherent in the powerful and unregulated IVF industry. Bioethics Defense Fund attorneys have drafted “The Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act” (Ga. S.B. 169 of 2009) that will be heard in a Georgia Senate committee this Thursday, March 5, 2009.
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Protecting Women's Ovarian Health from EGGsploitation
The cloning of human embryos for destructive research requires millions of human eggs. How do embryo cloners and fertility clinics that supply them get their eggs? By advertising on college campuses, offering thousands of dollars to cash-strapped college women to incentivize them to risk their lives and future fertility for unethical and unproven science.
BDF has assisted seven states in banning human cloning for any reason. But the IVF industry is increasingly acting as a supplier of human eggs to biotech for human cloning. Learn the facts, and protect the women you love from being exploited by Big Biotech as egg farms.
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BDF Films and Books for Life!
BDF has compiled a list of entertaining and inspiring fiction and non-fiction works that convey a respect for the inherent dignity of human life. Flip through a carousel of films, and help form yourself and your family using the power of cinema![ more ]
Did You Know...?
Kathryn Jean Lopez to be honored with BDF Witness for Life Award
Bioethics Defense Fund "Passion for Life 2011" honors NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez as the recipient of the "Witness for Life Award." Join us at our relaxed and enjoyable benefit at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort on November 18 to hear an intelligent and entertaining address by "K-Lo" and learn about Bioethics Defense Fund's recent progress to put law in the service of life.[ more ]
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FROM THE BLOG:
LA Planned Parenthood Hopes You'll be Silent: Speak up on La. Pro-Life Legislation
Published: Sunday April 22 2012 10:02:24 PM
BDF at the Supreme Court Obamacare Oral Arguments
Published: Tuesday March 27 2012 08:31:11 AM
UPDATED: HHS Issues Rules on Abortion Premiums in the Obamacare Exchanges
Published: Tuesday March 13 2012 11:51:01 AM
The Fig Leaf on Obamacare's HHS Mandate: 3 Things Everyone Should Know
Published: Friday February 10 2012 03:39:35 PM
Statement of Bioethics Defense Fund on the Susan G. Komen Foundation
Published: Friday February 10 2012 12:29:46 PM
Three Things Everyone Should Know about the HHS Mandate
Published: Wednesday February 8 2012 12:16:08 AM
Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Scam
Published: Thursday February 2 2012 11:44:39 AM
BDF Statement on Komen Defunding Planned Parenthood
Published: Wednesday February 1 2012 12:00:08 PM
Komen Defunds Planned Parenthood
Published: Tuesday January 31 2012 06:57:47 PM