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Medicare Advantage is slated for severe cuts starting early in 2011 (right after the fall elections). If you belong to a plan like Harvard Pilgrim Seniority, Tufts Secure Horizons, or Medicare PPO Blue Plus Rx,it appears that your premiums will immediately go up by 14% or more and your benefits will be cut. These cuts include $500 billion from the Medicare Advantage program, which currently creates savings for seniors and gives them more options and control over their care. The goal, according to government documents, is to eliminate Medicare Advantage.
Medicare is due to become insolvent in 2016, with long-term unfunded liabilities exceeding $38 trillion. Congress did not include a permanent way to repeal and pay for the cuts to physician reimbursement rates in their health care bills. Instead, they added a similar and even more unlikely “fix” for Medicare: more than $500 billion in cuts to the program.
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Secret Abortion on Seattle Teenager Draws Pro-Life Condemnation, Outrage
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The Pro-Life Comeback of 2009
The health-care debate has shown the movement’s continuing strength.
In the aftermath of the 2008 election, offering advice to Republicans became a cottage industry among Beltway pundits. For the most part, it was the same advice Republicans always receive when their candidates fare poorly: Moderate your positions on abortion and other social issues and focus on defense and fiscal policy. Even many conservative analysts agreed with this line of thought.
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Healthcare access better overseas?
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Congressmen Stephen Lynch and Richard Neal were among the 64 Democrats who voted for the Stupak Amendment to restrict abortion funding in the House version of the health care bill. You are directly responsible! You wrote the letters, sent the emails, the articles, and the FAXes. Most of all, you called and called and called!!!!
Your support also made it possible for Mass. Citizens to put ads on radio stations WRKO in Boston, WTAG in Worcester, and WHYN in Springfield, as well as newspaper ads.
You will be interested to know that WBZ radio in Boston refused our ads during the last few days. We will be letting you know more about that.
We are most grateful to Congressmen Lynch and Neal for voting against abortion funding and to you for urging them to do so!
As you know, this is another beginning, not the end. The Senate still has to debate and vote on their version. The vote may take place after the New Year. If the Senate passes a bill, the two bills will go to Conference Committee and each house will have to vote again on the bill that comes out of Conference. That gives us a lot of places to stop it.
Of course, they are hoping that we will wear down. We have shown them once that we are vigilant and we will show them as often as necessary!
Again, thank you for this amazing feat!
Anne Fox, President
11 / 9
The "Hand of Hope" Photograph: This is a picture of the hand of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner.
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You are invited to view Edward's photo album: March For Life
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We at Mass. Citizens for Life maintained our conviction that Cardinal Sean would do the right thing concerning the Caritas Christi arrangements. He has just announced that Caritas has pulled out of the arrangement with CeltiCare. Please read the details on Michael Paulson's Globe blog. Deo gratias!.
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The First Christians Condemned Abortion as “Among the Worst of Sins"
The article comes in the wake of scandals involving Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who are both Catholic but who have claimed in interviews with media that the morality of abortion has been a question of debate throughout Christian history.
6/16
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks with Gov. Patrick at Tufts last Friday about healthcare 'reform'
6/9
Massachusetts Citizens for Life
For immediate release
Massachusetts Citizens for Life deplores the killing of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas.
According to Anne Fox, President of the organization, “We are saddened to learn of the killing of George Tiller this morning.
We are pro-life. Our mission is to protect all human life. We are also pro-rule-of-law. We expect to have things resolved legally.
“We have been very concerned that Tiller had for years been aborting babies who were perfectly capable of living outside the womb. He had bragged about aborting babies who were older than the legal limit for abortion. We had welcomed the news that the Kansas Board of Healing Arts had been considering taking action against Tiller’s medical license.
“We join pro-life groups across the country in condemning the shooting. Murder is never justified. Every life must be protected, without regard to age or views or actions.”
Nurse wins conscience ruling from state Supreme Court
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5/24/09
The FDA Is Killing Adult Stem Cell Therapy Thus Killing Patients
Caritas update
All out efforts continue to keep abortion "clinic" out of Brookline
5/17/09
Stimulus package, which has just passed, mandates rationing of health care
RIGHT TO KNOW BILL, PUSHED BY PRO-LIFE GROUP, HAS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT
Arguing that women receive more information during visits to a dentist than they do at an abortion clinic, pro-life advocates lobbied lawmakers on Tuesday for a Womens Right to Knowbill. The bill, filed by Rep. Elizabeth Poirier (R-North Attleboro) and co-sponsored by 18 lawmakers, is also named Lauras Law,after Laura Hope Smith, a 22-year-old Bay State woman who died in 2007 as a result of anesthesia during an abortion procedure. Her parents feel if she had information about an abortion, she would still be alive,said Anne Fox, the president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. You get more information during dental surgery.The bill requires that a woman be offered the opportunity to view an ultra-sound or hear the heartbeat of the fetus, and requires that the operating physician asking each woman if she has received comprehensiveinformation through a pamphlet, web page or other means. Advocates said they were undeterred by the largely pro-choice Legislature. Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, which operates clinics that provide contraception, pregnancy testing, and abortion services, opposes the legislation, calling the bill unnecessary government interference.Our position on that is that Massachusetts already has extensive informed consent regulations in place, and we provide not only options counseling on all of the counseling, but also extensive information to the patient,said Diane Luby, president of the association. I think that women are given the full explanation, the full information about their procedure. If theres any ambivalence whatsoever on the part of the patient during the information session, we would never ever perform the abortion.According to Citizens for Life, Democratic lawmakers who have signed onto the bill include Reps. Angelo Scaccia of Boston, Colleen Garry of Dracut, John Fresolo of Worcester, Michael Kane of Holyoke, Michael Rush of Boston, James Miceli of Wilmington, Willie Mae Allen of Mattapan, Cleon Turner of Dennis, Paul Donato of Medford and Sen. Thomas Kennedy of Brockton. This is not an abortion bill,Fox said. Its a womens medical right to know bill.The bill is law in 40 other states, according to Fox.
- New US law may see more Down syndrome babies survive.
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The Chapter Leadership Conference, held on Sunday, November 9th, attracted more than fifty Chapter leaders from across the state. Ben Wetmore, Helen Cross, Tom Day, Henry Luthin, Priscilla Keough, Marie Sturgis, Chris Hanley, and Anne Fox provided rigorous training. Participants were extremely enthusiastic and energized. For more information, contact Helen Cross, Chapter Field Director at MCFL@masscitizensforlife.org.
- On Wednesday Sept 10, a new born baby was abandoned on a door step in Newton. Reports said the Newton Police Chief wanted to talk to the mother of the baby. What a difficult situation this mother must have been in! If she had only known about the Baby Safe Haven Law she could have left her baby confidently knowing the baby would be cared for and she would not be an object of police investigation.
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