What is really in The Executive Order - or not: SHOCKING!

We are very fortunate to have the excellent analysis below, done for us by one of our local lawyers. You may also want to check the USCCB website for their fine analysis.   When you read our analysis, I think you will agree with me that President Obama never intended to restrict one penny of money for abortion and everyone knew it.  It doesn't matter whether the Executive Order would stand because there is nothing in it.  See what you think.   We are so grateful for the chance to share our analysis with you!  Anne     Brief Legal Analysis of Presidential Executive Order on Abortion   Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund & Massachusetts Citizens for Life March 30, 2010   Footnoted Version   In a recent column published in the Washington Post[1] and other newspapers around the country,[2] Rep. Bart Stupak claims that President Barak Obama's March 24th executive order on abortion would ensure that the Hyde Amendment's restriction on federal funding of abortion "would apply to the health care reform bill."  He does not quote any specific language in the order to support this assertion nor can he since there is none.    The executive order has four sections but only two directives.[3]  The first directive concerns bookkeeping matters.[4]  The second directive, beginning with the words "I hereby direct," only requires federal agencies to comply with "existing law" on abortion funding.[5]  The sentence in question reads in full:  "I hereby direct the Secretary of HHS [Health & Human Services] to ensure that program administrators and recipients of Federal funds are aware of and comply with the limitations of abortion services imposed on CHCs [community health centers] by existing law."   Just before this sentence the order states, not as a directive, but as an observation of a supposed fact, that "Under the Act [the new reform bill], the Hyde Amendment shall apply to the authorization and appropriations of funds" for community health centers.[6]  This is what is known in non-technical terms as a head fake.  By referring only to the reform bill, and not to the President's own executive authority (by using words such as "I direct"), this statement is not expressly and independently imposing an executive ban on abortion funding but only claiming that the reform bill contains such a ban.    If the President had intended to ban abortion funding separately, then he would have written "I direct that no funds authorized by the Act be used for abortion" or "that the Hyde Amendment shall apply to the Act."  No such language is included in his order.    While those who argue that the President's executive order cannot be enforced if it conflicts with the statute it is implementing are correct, they give too much credit to the President.[7]  As made clear by the way his order is carefully worded, he did not intend to issue a separate and more expansive executive ban on abortion funding than authorized in the new reform bill, and his order should not be characterized as attempting to do so.   Rep. Stupak refers in his column to a brief exchange between him and Rep. Henry Waxman on the floor of the House during the debate on the reform bill, called a "colloquy."   Colloquies are devices for putting congressional intent for legislation into the official record.  Rep. Stupak claims the colloquy made clear that "the provisions of the bill, combined with the executive order" would "further protect against federal funding for abortion."[8]   However, in the actual exchange during the debate as recorded in the March 21st Congressional Record,[9] Rep. Stupak stated only that "the intent behind this legislation and the Executive Order . . . is to ensure that, as is provided for in the Hyde Amendment, that health care reform will maintain a ban on the use of Federal funds for abortion services. . . ."  Using the verb "maintain" instead of "expand" or "extend" is a significant word choice.  Rep. Waxman replied in like manner, agreeing only that the intent of the bill and the order "is to maintain a ban on Federal funds being used for abortion services, as is provided in the Hyde amendment."   The only assurance that opponents of abortion funding can derive from this colloquy is that the reform legislation and executive order will not repeal current bans on abortion funding.  However, avowing an intent to "maintain" current bans by not interfering with their present scope is not the same as expressing an intent to expand the scope of existing bans to apply to new authorizations.   No one opposed to federal funding of abortion has ever claimed that an intent to repeal existing protections was at issue with the final version of the reform bill.  Yet, supporters of abortion funding have fought against including an express new ban in the bill.  Their concern would be heightened by the fact that Rep. Stupak, who had been insisting on amending the bill to do just that, was now supporting the bill after the President announced his order.  It thus appears that the only real purpose of the colloquy is to signal to abortion rights supporters that no such expansion of existing bans was intended.   The reform bill authorizes billions of new funds for the community health centers[10] but no language can be found in the new bill that restricts these new funds or that otherwise refers to and incorporates the Hyde Amendment.  The language of the Hyde Amendment only applies to funds authorized under older and different laws and thus by its own terms cannot apply to the new law.[11]    The reform bill requires the new funds for the centers to be used for obstetrical and gynecological procedures.[12]  Under similar laws in the past the courts have ruled that pregnancy-related funding mandates must include abortion services when Congress does not expressly ban their use for abortion.[13]    Thus "existing law" contains no ban on the new funds authorized by the health care reform bill.  Instead, taking into account the legal force of prior court rulings, "existing law" mandates that abortion be funded when not explicitly banned.[14]  Consequently, in ordering federal agencies only to comply with "existing law" without expressly banning the new funds from being used for abortion, the executive order locks into place a new abortion funding mandate in the health reform plan.   Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund, based in Massachusetts, provides legal assistance dedicated to the protection of human life and Massachusetts Citizens for Life is the oldest and largest right to life advocacy group in the Commonwealth. [1] Bart Stupak, Why I Wrote the 'Stupak Amendment' and Voted for Health Care Reform, Wash. Post, Mar. 27, 2010, at A13, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032602921.html. [2] E.g., Bart Stupak, Why I Wrote the 'Stupak Amendment' and Voted 'Yes', Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Mar. 29, available at http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100329/EDIT05/303299996/1021/EDIT. [3] Barak Obama, Executive Order: Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Mar. 24, 2010), available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-acts-consistency-with-longst. [4] Id.at Section 2 (directing Office of Management and Budget and Health and Human Services to develop guidelines for setting up procedures to comply with requirement of segregating abortion premium funds from federal funds used to subsidize premium payments). [5] Id. at Section 3. [6] Id. [7] See, e.g., Kathleen Parker, Stupak's Fall from Pro-Life Grace, Wash. Post, Mar. 24, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/23/AR2010032302841.html (characterizing presidential order as promising to ban use of health care reform funds for abortion, and calling such a promise "useless"). [8] Stupak, Why I Wrote the 'Stupak Amendment', supra note 1. [9] 156 Cong. Rec. H1859-60 (daily ed. Mar. 21, 2010) (statements of Reps. Stupak & Waxman). [10] Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, § 10503 (2010) (creating Community Health Center Fund and authorizing the appropriation of a total of seven billion dollars from 2011 to 2015 to this fund to "enhance" the funding of the community health centers). [11] See Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life Comm., Memorandum to Interested Persons, Senate-Passed Health Bill [H.R. 3590] Opens Door to Direct Funding of Abortion Without Restriction to 1,250 Community Health Centers, available at http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCMemoCommHealth.html. [12] Id. citing 42 U.S.C. 254b (defining "required primary health services" to be provided by community health centers as including "health services related to . . . obstetrics, or gynecology"). [13] See Letter regarding Abortion Coverage in the Senate Health Care Bill to Rep. Bart Stupak from Prof. Robert A. Destro (Mar. 20, 2010), available at http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/DestroLetterToStupakOnCommHealthCenters.pdf. [14] See Anthony Picarello & Michael Moses, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Legal Analysis of the Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Corresponding Executive Order Regarding Abortion Funding and Conscience Protection 4-6 (Mar. 25, 2010), available at http://www.usccb.org/healthcare/03-25-10Memo-re-Executive-Order-Final.pdf.         PLEASE SUPPORT OUR LIFE SAVING WORK

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Boston case shows futility of Executive Order

A  Massachusetts judge's decision last Monday in Boston shows the folly of trusting an Executive Order on abortion over a statute that does not limit abortion. The case of the ACLU v. Health and Human Services involves Congress' Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Since 2001 the Act has ordered HHS to spend about $10 million a year to "expand benefits and services to victims of severe forms of [sexual] trafficking." HHS agreed, however, to disperse the money in such a way that the money could not be spent on abortion or contraception because the Catholic church is the best contractor to handle these cases. The ACLU sued HHS, arguing that the statute's funding for victim services can't exclude abortion or contraception. This week, the judge denied HHS's motion to dismiss and ordered the case to proceed. If the statute had directed or even authorized HHS to exclude abortion from the spending, there would be nothing to challenge. But a mere executive branch decision not to fund abortion under such a statute is simply a legal challenge waiting to happen. An Executive Order can be revoked.  More important: the Executive Order cannot trump the statute it is interpreting.  The federal courts are not only ready to hear those challenges, they are eager to rule in favor of abortion advocates. We appreciate Matt Bowman's analysis.  Matt is with the Alliance Defense Fund.  Round one to Pelosi, Obama, and Reid.  We must keep up the heat.  Keep educating everyone you know.  Your good work will make a difference in November!  Thank you, Anne PS The "benefits" are not supposed to kick in yet.  Do you know anyone who is retired and still has any company health benefits like prescription drugs or help with premiums?  The Wall Street Journal report what is happening to those people.          PLEASE SUPPORT OUR LIFE SAVING WORK

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Worcester: Good Friday, Pro-Life Saturdays

Problems with embedded links so yo'll have to copy and paste the links in this
email.  I apologize.
40 Days for Life Battlefront Houston: http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=784
Please join us in prayer on Pleasant St. in Worcester.
Mar 27 Sat 9-10AM 39th day of the 40 Days for Life Prayer Vigil Protest in front
of Planned Parenthood 472 Pleasant St. Worcester.
Mar 27 Sat 5PM No Vespers at Cathedral of St. Paul due to Palm Sunday
preparations.

Who's to blame for Obama Healthcare and government funded abortions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_nQ9GTrEA

Representative Stephen Lynch (D, MA-09) was the only member of the Massachusetts
Congressional delegation to vote against the abortion funding ObamaCare H.R.
3590 bill.  He did not however vote to include the Stupak language to prevent
abortion funding in the Health Care through a motion to recommit H.R.4872 (
known as MTR H.R. 4872, which was defeated with Lynch's help).  He and all other
Massachusetts delegates did vote for this wide-open to abortion funding H.R.4872
bill, which is what Obama will sign into Law and which will have government
funded abortions and abortion coverage with tax monies.  Please remember these
Sick Six in seven months in November 2010.
Representative Richard E. Neal (D, MA-02) YES
Representative James P. McGovern (D, MA-03) YES
Representative Ed Markey (D, MA-07) YES
Representative Michael E. Capuano (D, MA-08) YES
Representative Stephen F. Lynch (D, MA-09) YES
Representative William D. Delahunt (D, MA-10) YES
http://www.catholicadvocate.com/?p=1684
http://throwthebumsoutin2010.blogspot.com/2010/03/brown-not-ready-to-repeal-bill
.html

Tarleton State University in Texas is planning to stage the blasphemous play
Corpus Christi this Saturday, March 27.  Please Sign this petition against - htt
p://www.tfpstudentaction.net/campaigns/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chrono
formname=protest_1008&Itemid=169

Apr 2, Good Friday – Worldwide praying of the Rosary from noon-3PM Remember
Lepanto!
Apr 2, Good Friday – NO First Friday Mass and Adoration at Problem Pregnancy
Chapel.
Apr 2, Good Friday 9-10AM Annual Stations of the Cross outside Planned
Parenthood, 1055 Commonwealth Ave., Allston.
Apr 2, Good Friday 9AM Way of the Cross for Life Government Center MBTA stop
Boston
Apr 9 Fri 7-10PM Anna Maria College, Fundraiser for Little Audrey's cause
http://littleaudreysanto.org/April%20Event.htm

Apr 10 Sat 8AM-11AM Sidewalk counseling with Ann Scheidler.  She's on the DVD
we've been pasing around, on the Chicago Method of sidewalk abortion counseling.
Meet at Blessed Sacrament at 8AM, walk to Planned Parenthood, for prayers and
counseling, then back to Blessed Sacrament for follow-up.  RSVP if you can
please, but we'll still welcome all comers. Donations accepted.

Apr 10 Sat 9AM-4PM MCFL Statewide convention Boston College Law School

Apr 24 Sat 9:30AM St. Martha's Church Enfield, CT, NE Traditional Catholic
Conference, http://conference.stmartha-ct.org/

Dems Fire on Ft. Sumpter
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=947218

Thanks and God Bless,
Jay G.
http://www.dtf-jayg.blogspot.com/

Prayer Needs;
http://dtf-jayg.blogspot.com/2009/08/latest-prayer-needs.html

Health and spiritual needs: To keep Planned Parenthood out of Fitchburg, Dorene,
Deacon Bill Griffin's son Billy in ICU, Dorothy, Ethel, and Katherine, Stella;
David; Urgent:Anne, Katherine, and Dorothy, Jeanne, Louise who's son Marcello
just passed away, Gracie, Juliette, Victor, Dora,  Katie O'Connell, Isabel
Stankus, Cheryl's mom Barbara H.,Carol; Flo- high blood pressure; Bill Clinton-
heart problems, Pat H., has stage 4 cancer, Irene's dad with Throat cancer and
cousin with broken back, Update - Edward Joseph Parker-Gagne born prematurely
weighing only 1lb.14oz doing better but pray his eye get well if it be God's
will, Jim Call currently in hospital & headed for pallative care, Barbara
Hoaglund in hospital, Paul Ann & Kevin, George's nephew Joey's wife (Elaine's
daughter-in-law) cancer and had surgery, Michele and Alicia, Haiti, Bob
Chernisky Jr. leukemia, Bob M. serious cancer, Chloe born 13 weeks premature,
grieving family of Nathan N., 3-year old Matthew in ICU with flu/pneumonia,
Helen Wright - brain aneurysm;Mark- employment; Ed heart, Jim, Caroline needs a
job to make ends meet while she short-sells her home, Ashley and her family;
Ken W. who is dying;  Sara M.- battling 2 cancers; Raymond with heart problems;
Cheryl G.- in Thanksgiving to Saint Joseph for answered prayer, Jessica 21 has
15 month old son and has MRSA and only has 8 months to live (her sister is at
Visitation House), Deacon Bob Conner who lost his mother and brother recently,
Little Edward Joseph, Jack McGuirk leukemia, Bob recently widowed, with two boys
to raise, Peachie with Sjögren's disease/Lupus, Barbara R.- URGENT as she is
dying NOW;   Brian N.- cancer;    David- whose wife left family with 3 children;
Lisa- who left husband and 4 children- that they reunite and the children and
Dad find strength, comfort, and faith, and that the Mom returns home, Ron's
sister with brain tumor, My cousin Barbara B. who's back on chemo, Chris T.
second operation, Sherry, (waiting for lung transplant), Robbie Coudert, Lauri,
four babies now at Visitation House Damien the newest and Grace gained weight
and is a real fighter, Marilyn Birnie from "Friends of the Unborn", George
recovery from leg surgery, John Benoit who's in Life Care in Auburn, Sean Seely
married with 5 yr old twins has leukemia going for 2nd bone marrow, Pam G. and
Molly full recoveries from Cancer, Georgia and her daughter 2 lb. 1 oz. daughter
Grace who needs heart surgery, Keishela.  Abortion workers seeking new jobs …

Recently Deceased: Irene Johnson, Marcello, Laurel, Darrell "Shifty" Powers,
Lisa Lauring Kennedy just passed away after a long battle with lung cancer,
Susan the cab driver's wife who recently accepted Jesus but as a Protestant has
no one to pray for her soul, Shirley Somadelis, Ian H's family after his
mother-in-law found dead under suspicious circumstances, David Cross, David
Scott, Janesse Hoaglund, Patrick Swayze, 19 year old Brittany was in i.c.u., Ted
Kennedy, Skip, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Al Thoman, Patty G., John Bellione, Bob
DeMarco 51 father of three boys, Georga's father, Mike Paul's mother-in-law
Dorothy, Dom DeLuise, Mari Loli of Garabindal, Jerry, Wes Schaefer, Defender of
Life Pat Taylor…

Health Care: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Massachusetts Citizens for Life Annual Convention Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Boston College Law School   8:45 - 9:15,    Dean John Garvey, Welcome and Conscience Clause 9:15 - 10:30,  Robert Alt,Esq, Healthcare:  Where Do We Go From Here?   10:30 -11:15, Patricia Stewart, Esq.,  Making Ethical Medical Decisions  Registrants will receive a copy of Pat's book                                          10:30 -11:15, Deacon Daniel Moloney,  AIDS, Contraception Policy, and the Pro Life Movement                                                                                                      11:15 -12:15, Fr Nicanor Austriaco, O P, New Studies with PVS Patients 12:15 - 1:15,   Lunch, Tapes: Mike Rienzi, Esq. Buffer Zone Appeal and Burke Balch, Esq.,  Follow-up on 2009 Convention, Anne Fox, Politics Chapter Treasurer Session 1:15 - 2:15,    Angela Lanfranchi, MD, Abortion, Breast Cancer Link - latest research 2:15 - 3:00,     Marianne Luthin, Marriage-Abortion Connection            2:15 - 3:00,     Daniel Avila, Esq., Physician Assisted Suicide 3:00 - 4:00,    Don Feder, Philosophical Roots of Demographic Winter, address Don recently gave to the World Conference of Families   REGISTER:  March/April MCFL News  www.masscitizensforlife.org                        617-242-4199         PLEASE SUPPORT OUR LIFE SAVING WORK

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National Right to Life on health care abortion "deal"

For immediate release:                                       For more information: Sunday, March 21, 2010                                        Derrick Jones, (202) 626-8825 or                                                                                   (202) 642-1675 (mobile)                                                                                    mediarelations@nrlc.org   Statement by the National Right to Life Committee on abortion "deal" on health care legislation   WASHINGTON -- (Sunday, March 21, 2010, 6 PM EDT) --  In response to today's announcement regarding an agreement between Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.) and President Obama on the pending health care bill (H.R. 3590), the following statement was issued by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in the 50 states:   The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) remains strongly opposed to the Senate-passed health bill (H.R. 3590).  A lawmaker who votes for this bill is voting to require federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that will pay for elective abortion, and voting to undermine longstanding pro-life policies in other ways as well.  Pro-life citizens nationwide know that this is a pro-abortion bill.  Pro-life citizens know, and they will be reminded again and again, which lawmakers deserve their gratitude for voting against this pro-abortion legislation.    The executive order promised by President Obama was issued for political effect.  It changes nothing.  It does not correct any of the serious pro-abortion provisions in the bill.  The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says.     To elaborate:  The order does not truly correct any of the seven objectionable pro-abortion provisions described in NRLC's March 19 letter to the House of Representatives, which is posted here:  www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCToHouseOnHealthBill.pdf.   Regarding Community Health Centers (CHCs), NRLC has documented the problem created by H.R. 3590 here:  www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCMemoCommHealth.html. Prof. Robert Destro, a professor of law and former dean of the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and an expert on abortion-related litigation, has sent lawmakers a letter explaining why the bill opens the door to direct federal funding of abortion in Community Health Centers:  www.nrlc.org/ahc/DestroLetterToStupakOnCommHealthCenters.pdf. Prof. Destro clearly explains why it is the statutory language that will govern.   Regarding the new program to provide tax credits to purchase private insurance, the executive order merely tinkers with the formalities of a bookkeeping scheme under which federal subsidies will pay for plans that cover elective abortion -- a break from the longstanding principles of the Hyde Amendment.   The order does nothing at all to mitigate the other abortion-related problems described in the NRLC letter, dealing with bill provisions that create dangerous regulatory mandate authorities, revise Indian health programs, and create pools of directly appropriated funds that are not covered by existing restrictions on funding of abortion.  Nor can the order correct the omission from the pending legislation of the necessary conscience-protection language that had been included in House-passed health care legislation last November (the "Weldon language").   For additional information regarding the abortion-related components of the legislation, and NRLC's assessment of the gravity of these issues, please refer to the March 19 letter linked above, and other materials posted on the NRLC website at www.nrlc.org/AHC/Index.html.   For interviews on this issue, please call the NRLC Communications Department at (202) 626-8825.   PLEASE SUPPORT OUR LIFE SAVING WORK

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Worcester: Pro-Life Visitation

Fr. Pavone of Priests for Life video message on Health Care http://www.priestsforlife.org/video/index.aspx?flv=make-voice-count 

Mar 19 Fri 5PM College of Holy Cross, Traditional Latin Mass (Missa Cantata) in St. Joseph's Chapel. It's been a long time for this up on St. James Hill!

Mar 19 Fri 7PM Rosary and short Bible Study at my house in Holden. Topic: abortion in the Old Testament and Jewish teachings. http://dtf-jayg.blogspot.com/2010/02/abortion-in-old-testament.html 

Mar 20 Sat 40 Days for Life prayer vigils continue on Pleasant St. with St. Bernadette of Northborough. No abortions scheduled, but still 40 Days for Life. - also Catholic Men's conference at the Centrum.

Lobby Day! Large Crowd needed at State House in Boston.

Mar 23 Tues 10:30AM, Opposing the Bathroom Bill, aka the Transgender Bill, HB 1728, which would allow cross-dressing men access to women's rest rooms and locker rooms,

Location: MA State House in Boston. RSVP: info@coalitionformarriage.org or 781-569-0509

Mar 23, Tues 6:30PM Visitation House Dinner at St. Paul's http://www.visitationhouse.org/

Visitation House is looking for a part time relief worker. Send Resume to 119 Endicott Street

Worcester, MA 01610, or Fax: 508-798-8902, or E-mail: susanarraje@visitationhouse.org

Planned Parenthood and the "marketing" of Sex education to kids. http://www.masscitizensforlife.org/pdf/MCFL%20News%20Sept.%20-%20Oct..pdf 

Operation Home Front provides Easter baskets to military children. Please help. http://www.operationhomefront.net/NewEngland/ 

Apr 2, Good Friday – NO First Friday Mass and Adoration at Problem Pregnancy Chapel.

Apr 10 Sat 9AM-4PM MCFL Statewide convention Boston College Law School

Remember Audrey - http://www.anchornews.org/news/february_2010/february_19_2010_2.php 

Apr 24 Sat 9:30AM St. Martha's Church Enfield, CT, NE Traditional Catholic Conference, http://conference.stmartha-ct.org/ 

Haitian Nuns waiting for relief to arrive. http://www.anchornews.org/news/february_2010/february_26_2010_1.php 

Say NO to Catholic Campaign for Human Development http://www.realcatholictv.net/cia/ 

Thanks and God Bless,

Jay G. http://www.dtf-jayg.blogspot.com/ 

Prayer Needs; http://dtf-jayg.blogspot.com/2009/08/latest-prayer-needs.html 

Health and spiritual needs:

Deacon Bill Griffin's son Billy in ICU, Dorothy, Ethel, and Katherine, Stella; David; Urgent:Anne, Katherine, and Dorothy, Jeanne, Louise who's son Marcello just passed away, Gracie, Juliette, Victor, Dora, Katie O'Connell, Isabel Stankus, Cheryl's mom Barbara H.,Carol; Flo- high blood pressure; Bill Clinton- heart problems, Pat H., has stage 4 cancer, Irene's dad with Throat cancer and cousin with broken back, Update - Edward Joseph Parker-Gagne born prematurely weighing only 1lb.14oz doing better but pray his eye get well if it be God's will, Jim Call currently in hospital & headed for pallative care, Barbara Hoaglund in hospital, Paul Ann & Kevin, George's nephew Joey's wife (Elaine's daughter-in-law) cancer and had surgery, Michele and Alicia, Haiti, Bob Chernisky Jr. leukemia, Bob M. serious cancer, Chloe born 13 weeks premature, grieving family of Nathan N., 3-year old Matthew in ICU with flu/pneumonia, Helen Wright - brain aneurysm;Mark- employment; Ed heart, Jim, Caroline needs a job to make ends meet while she short-sells her home, Ashley and her family; Ken W. who is dying; Sara M.- battling 2 cancers; Raymond with heart problems; Cheryl G.- in Thanksgiving to Saint Joseph for answered prayer, Jessica 21 has 15 month old son and has MRSA and only has 8 months to live (her sister is at Visitation House), Deacon Bob Conner who lost his mother and brother recently, Little Edward Joseph, Jack McGuirk leukemia, Bob recently widowed, with two boys to raise, Peachie with Sjögren's disease/Lupus, Barbara R.- URGENT as she is dying NOW; Brian N.- cancer; David- whose wife left family with 3 children; Lisa- who left husband and 4 children- that they reunite and the children and Dad find strength, comfort, and faith, and that the Mom returns home, Ron's sister with brain tumor, My cousin Barbara B. who's back on chemo, Chris T. second operation, Sherry, (waiting for lung transplant), Robbie Coudert, Lauri, four babies now at Visitation House Damien the newest and Grace gained weight and is a real fighter, Marilyn Birnie from "Friends of the Unborn", George recovery from leg surgery, John Benoit who's in Life Care in Auburn, Sean Seely married with 5 yr old twins has leukemia going for 2nd bone marrow, Pam G. and Molly full recoveries from Cancer, Georgia and her daughter 2 lb. 1 oz. daughter Grace who needs heart surgery, Keishela. Abortion workers seeking new jobs …

Recently Deceased: Irene Johnson, Marcello, Laurel, Darrell "Shifty" Powers, Lisa Lauring Kennedy just passed away after a long battle with lung cancer, Susan the cab driver's wife who recently accepted Jesus but as a Protestant has no one to pray for her soul, Shirley Somadelis, Ian H's family after his mother-in-law found dead under suspicious circumstances, David Cross, David Scott, Janesse Hoaglund, Patrick Swayze, 19 year old Brittany was in i.c.u., Ted Kennedy, Skip, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Al Thoman, Patty G., John Bellione, Bob DeMarco 51 father of three boys, Georga's father, Mike Paul's mother-in-law Dorothy, Dom DeLuise, Mari Loli of Garabindal, Jerry, Wes Schaefer, Defender of Life Pat Taylor…

ALL MA. CONGRESSMEN SLAUGHTER VOTERS

Democrats plan a vote on a rule on Sunday that would make changes to the Senate-passed bill while deeming the original legislation to have passed the House.     This means the House will never vote on the Senate bill!  The Senate bill will be deemed "passed".  This morning Steve Lynch said, "It would really call into question the credibility of the House".   This afternoon he voted for it. There is a distinct possibility that some democrats who voted to allow Slaughter will vote "no" on Sunday.  Besides Lynch, Neal, Capuano, and Tierney have been mentioned.  Breaking: as of 6:37 pm, Lynch told CBS News that he will vote against the bill on Sunday. In November, our calls on Friday and Saturday produced results.  Please keep at it! I'll be in DC on Friday and Saturday.  The National Right to Life Board meeting is Saturday.  I'll visit all the MA congressional offices tomorrow to let them know how we feel.  I hope the phones will be ringing off the hooks while I am there. Thank you,   Anne  MA-1:  John Olver, Washington: 202-225-5335 Holyoke: 413-532-7010; Pittsfield: 413-442-0946; Fitchburg: 978-342-8722 MA-2: Richard Neal, Washington: (202) 225-5601 Springfield: (413) 785-0325; Milford: (508) 634-8198  MA-3:  James McGovern:  Washington: (202) 225-6101 Worcester: 508-831-7356; Attleboro: 508-431-8025; Marlborough: 508-460-9292; Fall River: 508-677-0140 MA-4: Barney Frank, Washington: 202-225-5931 Taunton: 508-822-4796; New Bedford: 508-999-6462; Newton: 617-332-3920 MA-5: Niki Tsongas, Washington: 202-225-3411 Acton: 978-263-1951; Lowell: 978-459-0101; Lawrence: 978-681-6200 MA-6: John Tierney, Washington: 202-225-8020 Peabody: 978-531-1669; Lynn: 781-595-7375 MA-7: Edward Markey, Washington: 202-225-2836 Framingham: 508-875-2900; Medford: 781-396-2900 MA-8: Michael Capauano, Washington: 202-225-5111 Cambridge: 617-621-6208 MA-9: Stephen Lynch, Washington: 202-225-8273 Boston: 617-428-2000; Brockton: 508-586-5555 MA-10: William Delahunt, Washington: 202-225-3111 Quincy: 800-794-9911; Hyannis: 800-870-2626   PLEASE SUPPORT OUR LIFE SAVING WORK

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