After a day filled with pro-abortion threats, pro-life people hiding in secure areas of the capitol fearing for their safety, jars of feces and urine and protestors disrupting the Senate proceedings, democracy finally prevailed.
Members of the state Senate approved the bill to ban late-term abortions on a 19-11 margin on second reading. The chamber then approved the bill in third reading by the same 19-11 vote.
The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks and hold abortion clinics accountable by making them meet basic health and safety standards that have closed facilities in other states that are unable to comply. The bill also requires all abortion clinics to meet the same health and safety regulations as an ambulatory surgical center, requires a doctor providing abortions to secure admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and lastly, requires a doctor to personally administer the abortion-inducing drugs to the patient.
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Abortion advocates talk about protecting women’s health, but an abortion clinic in North Carolina that has been shut down by state officials because it is putting women’s health in danger.
As pro-life blogger Bruce Carroll reports:
According to news reports, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services suspended The Baker Clinic for Women’s certificate of operation last Friday based on conditions at the abortion clinic "present an imminent danger to the health, safety and welfare of the clients and that emergency action is required to protect the clients."
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court decisions June 26 striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act and refusing to rule on the merits of a challenge to California’s Proposition 8 mark a "tragic day for marriage and our nation," said Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage.
Please come and join us as we pray for these two men, their victims and their families.
Prayer Vigil June 18th, 5:00pm-6:00pm for James DeRosa who is scheduled for execution at 6:00pm.
Prayer Vigil June 25th, 5:00pm-6:00pm for Brian Davis who is scheduled for execution at 6:00pm.
There is a rumor that the Holy Innocents' Foundation (HIF) has started a petition against the Abolish Human Abortion (AHA) protestors outside the HIF chapel office complex. We know of no such petition.
The group [AHA], it seems in our opinion and from our observation that, they are very disruptive, extremely anti-Catholic, hateful and accusatory toward anyone who enters the driveway regardless of where they are going.
We asked the other owners their opinions and they said leave it be. After multiple calls to WAPD from other office complex residents, the police asked and it was unanimous that they should remain on public space not on private.
The mission of the HIF is to peace and prayer. The AHA is completely opposite of our mission. We have already saved 6 babies. I don't believe they can say the same.
Sincerely
Fr M Price Oswalt
President & Chaplain
Response from Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
The Holy Innocents Foundation is not a ministry of the Archdiocese. They were established to be a quiet prayerful witness to the sanctity of life and to pray for an end to abortion, especially here in Oklahoma City. Their chief means of achieving this end is through adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
If you are pregnant, this is a crucial time in your life. You deserve the care and attention provided by trained volunteers. Please visit BirthChoice.org for more information.
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