California Abortion Bill SB 1501

What is the California SB 1501?

SB 1501 is a Senate Bill being introduced  by Senator Kehoe (D-SanDiego).  If passed, SB 1501 would allow non-doctors to perform aspiration abortions on women throughout their first trimester.  According to Planned Parenthood, more than half of the counties in California do not have ‘access to care’.   With approximately 522 abortion providers in California, we do not need more ‘access to care’ than we already have.  SB 1501 would move California further and further away from the pro-choice’s own  mantra of  ‘safe, legal and rare’.   As other states are passing bills to protect life in the womb, California is attempting to pass a bill that endangers  women and their unborn child.

From Planned Parenthood website –

“This bill would remove barriers to care by allowing nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to provide safe early abortion under the terms of their licenses and will ensure women to receive comprehensive reproductive health care from local providers they know and trust. Women share their stories – Why SB 1501 is so important! Read the stories>> All women deserve the same access to care! Low income and underserved women do not have access to comprehensive reproductive health care and as a result, many delay care. More than half the counties in CA do not have an accessible abortion provider. Without access to providers in her community, a woman must travel a significant distance to receive care. In rural areas some women must drive five hours or travel by bus or train. Allowing these clinicians to perform early safe abortion means women will receive care from providers they know and trust in their own communities.”

According to the Huffington Post –

“If passed, the bill would allow licensed nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives to perform aspiration abortions on women in their first trimester. Currently, only doctors and surgeons are authorized to perform that type of abortion. The procedure, also known as “manual vacuum aspiration abortion,” involves passing a small tube into the uterus. The tube is attached to a pump that vacuums fetal tissue away from the uterus. Aspiration can only be performed during the first trimester of pregnancy.”

A spotlight is on the Hispanics.  It is time to rise up and elect pro-life candidates in California!  Let’s make a difference!  Let your vote be a voice for the voiceless.

From Moral Outcry… Losing Our Freedom of Religion: What Obama’s Mandate Could Mean For Our Nation

From Moral Outcry

By Susan Michelle • February 17, 2012 11:00 AM

Picture a world in which we are required by the government to pay for people’s abortions. Guess what? We’re there. The abortion industry has been allowed a back- door entrance to get mandated abortifacient coverage for the nation and violated the rights of all pro-life Americans.

What some thought was a Catholic issue has instead proven itself to be an issue of religious liberty. The Obama administration’s mandate for employer funded birth control violates the First Amendment rights of every pro-life American. We must respond to this crisis in our nation’s history.

One of the FDA approved contraceptives is actually an abortion pill. Ella (which chemically resembles RU-486), effectively, turns this birth control mandate into an abortion mandate.

Although many Catholics have taken the lead in fighting this, this is not a Catholic issuebut a matter of religious freedom which threatens to violate the very rights on which our nation was founded. In fact, other religious leaders are weighing in:

“I’d go to jail rather than cave in to a government mandate that violates what God commands us to do. Would you?” Acts 5:29- Rick Warren

“This is bad news for freedom of conscience and for respect for the freedom of religion protections guaranteed in the American Constitution.” – Southern Baptist leader Richard Land

Some say it’s a woman’s “right” to have birth control; however, nowhere in the Bill of Rights is birth control mentioned.

The American Center for Law And Justice reported:

“With this rule, hundreds of religious colleges and hospitals, for example, will now be required –in fact, coerced — into providing insurance coverage for practices they believe to be morally wrong and violate of their religious beliefs. These institutions, which have educated citizens and cared for the infirm for hundreds of years, will now have to cave into the federal government or close their doors.”

Last year the health care bill the president signed required insurance companies to cover “preventative care” at no cost and, President Obama later accepted a recommendation that “preventative care should include contraceptive services.” Important issues must be noted here:

• Birth control isn’t preventative medicine because a baby isn’t an illness.
• Ella is an abortion pill; therefore, the birth control mandate actually becomes an abortion mandate.
• Many of the covered contraceptives act as abortifacients which violate the conscience right of virtually every pro-life person in the nation.

This mandate led to backlash when the president announced religious organizations would also be required to provide even abortifacient coverage, without exemption for the most part.

Responding to the objections, last week President Obama announced a “compromise” which shifted from the organization paying for the abortifacient coverage to the organization paying the insurance company for the abortifacient coverage, that Archbishop Timothy Dolan summed it up as “a hill of beans.” Indeed, the compromise was revealed to be only a political shell game because the organization still ends up paying for coverage with no opt-out.

More disturbing is that Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, was actually in on White House meetings where even Vice President, Joe Biden and White House Chief-of-Staff Bill Daley advised the president against this decision. Since the original announcement, Planned Parenthood has sent its followers many emails about how it thinks the president has made a good decision.

The president’s abortifacient mandate has created a tipping point for the pro-life movement and for people of prayer at every end of the religious spectrum who see abortion as a biblical issue. As other notable leaders have said, there comes a point where loyalty to God must take preeminence over loyalty to a government.

On Wednesday a group of 50 members of Congress held a press conference, demanding conscience protections from the mandate. Meanwhile, Senator Roy Blunt (MO) hasintroduced an amendment that could be voted on soon. This amendment would be one that, according to this fact sheet, “simply restores conscience protections that existed before President Obama’s flawed health care law – the same protections that have existed for more than 220 years since the First Amendment was ratified.”

Ultimately, that’s the issue at play here. It’s not about a pill but about the liberty of Americans to continue to enjoy freedom of religious expression.  The First Amendment of our Constitution is abundantly clear:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….”

Congress passed this health care plan. Only a meaningless executive order holds back a full-throttle of abortion, and Obama’s mandate to add free birth control to the preventative care aspect of the plan has already allowed a back-door abortion fund to violate the First Amendment rights of Americans.

Fasting and prayer are the tools that revere the course, no matter how fast it seems to be going. This is our answer, and God’s holy prescription for a nation in crisis. Please commit to fast and pray in this hour; let’s ask God to change the heart of a leader and the course of our nation.

For a well-written summary of all that’s happened thus far, click here.

About the Author

Susan edits the Bound4LIFE blog and has been with Bound4LIFE since October 2009.

From Moral Outcry…. ‘Dissatisfied with both parties, Latino voters could decide the 2012 election’

From Moral Outcry

By Jael Zeballos • March 02, 2012 01:45 PM

Latinos have often been referred to as a “sleeping giant” in the arena of national politics. They “account for more than half of U.S. population growth and one in four American newborns,” writes Michael Scherer, a White House correspondent for Time magazine and author this week’s cover story, which argues that Latino voters could swing the 2012 election. In other words, the sleeping giant has woken up.

Scherer writes that Latinos, who currently make up 16 percent of the U.S. population, are dissatisfied with both Republican and Democratic parties— it is a dissatisfaction centered mostly on the issue of immigration. In a radio interview about the article, Scherer said summed it up this way:  “Latino activists believe Republicans look like them on paper, but don’t want Latino votes, while Democrats want Latino votes, but don’t look like them on paper.”

What does Scherer mean by referring to Latinos as “Republicans on paper?” In the article, he explains that most Latinos are traditionally against such issues as abortion and gay marriage. “What’s happened is the rhetoric around immigration — and it’s really the way these issued are talked about more than the policy itself, has so turned off this community of people,” Scherer said.

In a January survey for the Spanish-language network Univision, pollster Matt Barreto found that 27% of Latinos felt the Republican Party was hostile toward Hispanics, while an additional 45% believed Republicans “don’t care much” about them–a total of 72% who don’t feel welcomed by the party.”

The article goes more into depth on these topics, including the fact that Latinos are also unhappy about the Democratic Party’s stand on immigration, which has lead to an increased number of deportations. However, the fact remains that when it comes to the issue abortion, Latinos have the potential to stand up and be a powerful voice for life.

As a first-generation immigrant Latina in this country myself, I made the decision to vote the most closely to the values of God’s Kingdom when I became a naturalized citizen in 2008. It was my first chance to vote in this country, and I remember that as I stood in that voting booth, my heart was drawn to His on the issue of abortion. I made the commitment then, and reaffirmed it later as well when I joined Bound4LIFE, to never vote for a pro-abortion political candidate.

I also have to be honest by expressing that I have felt most of the sentiments that Latinos have expressed about the Republican Party in this article. But while the issue of immigration is close to my heart, I believe that the issue of abortion is one of the most pressing issues in God’s heart. There are 54 million lives that have been lost since Roe vs. Wade passed in 1973. Those are 54 million individual faces that God loved, and counting. We can’t turn our backs to this issue, no matter what race or ethnicity we might be.  Let us stand up and be His ambassadors on this earth on the issue of LIFE: pray, vote and obey.

About the Author

Jael is originally from Bolivia, but grew up in the Northern Virginia area most of her life. She leads worship and directs the House of Prayer at Iglesia Nueva Jerusalen, a local Latino church pastored by her father. Just out of graduate school, she finds Jesus to be the most fascinating, awe-inspiring,mind-bending, speechless-enabling God that she’s ever encountered.

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