Saturday, September 2, 2017

Woman Who Aborted Her 32-Week-Old Unborn Baby is Upset Your Insurance Premiums Didn’t Pay for It

Woman Who Aborted Her 32-Week-Old Unborn Baby is Upset Your Insurance Premiums Didn’t Pay for It

 NATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   SEP 1, 2017   |   12:04PM    WASHINGTON, DC
Erika Christensen aborted her unborn baby at 32 weeks of pregnancy because she says her baby was probably going to die anyway.
Complaining that her insurance did not cover the full cost of her baby’s abortion death, Christensen now wants her home state of New York to legalize late-term abortions and make it easier for insurance companies and taxpayers to pay for them.
Vox reports Christensen could have chosen to give birth to her unborn child, who she says she wanted, and treasure those few moments they had together before the child died. But when doctors told her that her unborn baby was unlikely to live, she chose to travel to Colorado for a late-term abortion instead.
Christensen said she had to pay $10,000 out of pocket for the abortion at Warren Hern’s Colorado abortion clinic. LifeNews, which previously covered Christensen’s story when she told it anonymously, reported that Hern lied to her about the excruciating pain that her unborn baby would feel during the abortion. Christensen said she chose abortion because she did not want her child to suffer.
Garin Marschall, Christensen’s husband, told Vox that they have been actively involved in promoting late-term abortion legislation in New York state and taxpayer funding of abortions.
According to the report:
Since their experience, Christensen and Marschall have become advocates for theReproductive Health Act, which would make abortion after 24 weeks legal in New York state if the fetus is not viable or if the mother’s health is threatened. That would allow women in Christensen’s situation to stay in New York and get abortions from in-network doctors, making it more likely for insurance to cover the procedure. New York allows state Medicaid coverage for abortion, and most private insurers also cover the procedure, said Liz Krueger, a state senator and sponsor of the bill.
… But one of the biggest barriers to insurance coverage for abortion around the country is the Hyde Amendment. Though it restricts only federal funding for abortion, it affects the private insurance markets as well, since many private insurers take their cues from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Marschall, who has become something of an insurance expert since Christensen’s abortion.
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… Until New York changes its law, “I will feel like I’m not allowed to grieve,” she said. “I’m going to stay acutely angry and rageful until it’s made right.”
The average cost of an abortion up to 10 weeks is $500 and about $1,500 up to 20 weeks, according to the report. However, late-term abortions tend to be extremely expensive, ranging in the tens of thousands. Many states prohibit Medicaid from covering abortions, and a number of others prohibit insurance plans in the Obamacare exchanges from covering abortions.
Kate Carson, another woman who had a late-term abortion at 36 weeks after her unborn daughter was diagnosed with a fatal brain condition, also advocated for better insurance coverage of abortion.
She told Vox that she had to pay $25,000 for her abortion, and had to find the huge chunk of money on short notice. She said her insurance company only reimbursed her for a small amount of the abortion procedure.
“Every bill that came in the mail and every refusal from insurance was like a knife in my heart,” she said.
But these women had other options. Their lives were not being threatened, and their unborn babies deserved to live as long as nature allowed. Our society would consider it horribly inhumane to kill dying toddlers by stabbing them in the hearts with poison or dismembering them. It should be no different for babies in the womb who are dying. Unborn children deserve the same rights and treatment as born children.
And there are a growing number of programs to help families through tragic fetal diagnoses. Perinatal hospice programs provide support and comfort to families as they plan for their baby’s natural death. They offer everything from counseling and help with funeral plans to ideas for making memories in the short time they have with their child.

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Donation Processing Company Cancels Christian Group’s Service Because SPLC Labeled It a “Hate Group”

Donation Processing Company Cancels Christian Group’s Service Because SPLC Labeled It a “Hate Group”

 NATIONAL   STEVEN ERTELT   SEP 1, 2017   |   1:33PM    WASHINGTON, DC
A company that processes online donations for organizations cancelled its service with a Christian organization after the pro-abortion Southern Poverty Law Center labeled it a “hate group” over its conservative political views. This action highlights longstanding concerns pro-life conservatives have had about of the kind of discrimination pro-life Christians can expect for their beliefs.
The Ruth Institute, whose primary focus is family breakdown, and its impact on children, informed LifeNews today about the discrimination. Officials indicated Ruth Institute’s on-line donation processor cut them off from further funding for allegedly promoting “hate, violence, harassment or abuse.”
The Ruth Institute learned late Thursday that Vanco Payment Solutuons, their on-line donation processing service, was cancelling their service immediately.
Their letter stated: “Vanco has elected to discontinue our processing relationship with The Ruth Institute. The organization has been flagged by Card Brands as being affiliated with a product/service that promotes hate, violence, harassment and/or abuse. Merchants that display such attributes are against Vanco and Wells Fargo processing policies.”
Ruth Institute immediately went to the donation page on its web site and found it had already been shut down. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., Founder and President of the Ruth Institute, told LifeNews she is very upset by the decision.
“The Ruth Institute’s primary focus is family breakdown and its impact on children: understanding it, healing it, ending it. If this makes us a “hate group,” so be it,” she said. “We surmise that Vanco dropped us because we hold [pro-life and conservative] views about marriage, family and human sexuality.”
The Ruth Institute is listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map,” which was recently in the news. It has been on this “Hate Map,” since 2013. No one from Vanco, Card Brands or Wells Fargo ever contacted the Ruth Institute to inquire about how it supposedly “promotes hate, violence, harassment and/or abuse,” she added.
The Vanco company markets itself to religious organizations. Many churches use their services for processing donations but they may be reconsidering following this discrimination.
“Our beliefs are the common heritage of all Christian groups. Christian organizations that utilize Vanco’s services may wish to reconsider,” Morse told LifeNews.

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Her Father Abandoned Her on the Side of the Road Because He Was Tired of Caring for a Daughter With Cerebral Palsy

Her Father Abandoned Her on the Side of the Road Because He Was Tired of Caring for a Daughter With Cerebral Palsy

 OPINION   MIKE SPENCER   SEP 1, 2017   |   12:49PM    WASHINGTON, DC
My daughter, Katerine, was born with Cerebral Palsy. As a result, she is unable to walk, has extremely limited use of her hands, and at 17, functions mentally at the level of a 4-year-old.
When Barb and I take Katerine to a restaurant or anywhere in public, perfect strangers frequently open doors for her. At concerts and sporting events she is sometimes ushered to the front to take the best seat in the house.
Why such preferential treatment for a child bereft of any political power or celebrity status? It is because God has placed in each of us a moral intuition that wells up when we see need, vulnerability or handicap. We naturally want to help. In fact, the greater the need, the greater our urge to offer assistance.
Unfortunately, not everyone responds to the voice of moral intuition. Katerine’s biological father didn’t. He abandoned her on the side of the road at 6:00am in Guatemala City (her birthplace) to fend for herself at 6 years of age. She was eventually discovered by a security guard and spent the entire day, until 10:00pm, in the police department before an orphanage was found to take her. This is where she spent the next three years of her life.
Katerine’s father’s actions are revolting. In many wombs, however, she would be aborted for the very same reason strangers now open doors for her: she is handicapped. Cerebral Palsy has severely arrested Katerine’s level of development, rendering her disposable in the minds of many.
Today, many defend the abortion choice by drawing an artificial line between “humanness” and “personhood”, arguing that it is morally permissible to kill humans so long as they’re not actual “persons.” And when does a human become a “person”? According to many, it is when he/she reaches a certain level of development.
When does this happen? Good luck getting a straight answer from abortion supporters; they don’t agree on which “standard” confers personhood status. One says it occurs when measurable brain activity is detected. Another says it happens at viability – that moment when the embryo could survive outside of the mother. Still another insists the embryo must be free of any fetal abnormality before the honor of “personhood” is bestowed on her.
In short, these tiny womb-dwellers are only deemed worthy of life if they pass whatever arbitrary test the big and powerful establish for them. If they don’t, they’re crushed like vermin and disposed of like trash. Conveniently for the abortion industry, none of the above-mentioned milestones are compelling enough to build consensus among abortion supporters, which means none of these tests make any difference in the end. The only real “test” is whether or not mom wants her baby.
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Although we undergo a myriad of developmental changes from the time we are conceived until the time we die, our nature never changes. We are the same person now as we were then. As Randy Alcorn says,  “Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger. Whatever is human is human from the beginning.” He’s right. Katerine’s disabilities do not alter her human nature, nor do they diminish her value. She is intrinsically valuable, and Barb and I are blessed to be her parents.
Clinton Wilcox, who serves on our staff at Life Training Institute recently wrote, “The question of when human life begins is not a difficult one. It only becomes difficult if you want to justify killing people.” How true. Katerine escaped the womb with her cerebral palsy undetected. Many others aren’t so lucky.
We’re not “human doings,” we are human beings. In other words, Katerine is valuable, not because of what she can do, but simply because of what she is: God’s image-bearer. This makes all the difference.
Let’s apply our compassion consistently across the spectrum to all human beings. Recognizing the worth of all humans as God’s image bearers, may the same hands that would open a door for a young girl in a wheel chair hold back the door of death as it slams on her no-less-human neighbors in the womb.
LifeNews Note: Mike Spencer grew up in a non-Christian home in Detroit, Michigan, and considered himself “pro-choice” until shortly after coming to faith in Christ in 1983 when the church he attended showed the pro-life film, The Silent Scream. Upon being confronted with the reality of abortion, Mike became deeply convicted and prayed for God’s forgiveness, offering himself as a voice for the unborn.Mike served as a pastor for 23 years before joining the staff of LTI in 2012. Spencer writes for PregnancyHelpNews, where this originally appeared.


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