<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000">
<br>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<img alt="" src="cid:part1.00070704.04000302@pfli.org" height="137"
width="887"><br>
<font color="#3333ff"><b><big><big><font face="Calisto MT">PharmFacts
E-News Update -- 25 Aug 2009 AD -- Special #2<br>
</font></big></big></b></font><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><font size="3"><font
color="#990000"><strong>This daily e-newsletter is only possible
through the generous gifts of our readers and supporters. Please help
us continue to fight for the defense of babies by donating
today!</strong></font><strong> </strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pfli.org/shop/index1.html"><strong>Click
here</strong></a><strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pfli.org/shop/index1.html">
</a><font color="#990000">to
help.</font></strong></font></span><br>
<font color="#3333ff"><big><big><font face="Calisto MT"><small><small><font
color="#000000"><br>
</font></small></small></font></big></big></font><font face="Verdana"
size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><tt><font color="#ff0000"><font
face="Calisto MT, serif"><font size="+1"><font
face="ARIAL, VERDANA, HELVETICA"><font size="6"> <img
src="cid:part2.04090602.05010303@pfli.org"><br>
<img src="cid:part3.05080905.06050108@pfli.org" width="240"><br>
<a href="http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=3416">
<b><i><u><font color="red"><font size="+3">IL PHARMACISTS WIN HUGE
PRELIM INJUNCTION VICTORY...</font></font></u></i></b></a></font></font></font></font></font></tt></font></font><br>
<font color="#3333ff"><big><big><font face="Calisto MT"><small><small><font
color="#000000"></font></small></small></font></big></big></font>
<hr size="2" width="100%"><font color="#3333ff"><big><big><font
face="Calisto MT"><small><small><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></small></small></font></big></big></font>
<p><b>Abp. Chaput Steps up Pressure on Obamacare: Funding
Abortions not 'Common Ground'</b><a name="1"></a><br>
<br>
</p>
<p><small>By
Kathleen Gilbert</small></p>
<p><small>DENVER, Colorado, August 25, 2009 (<a
href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) - Archbishop
Charles Chaput of Denver has penned <a
href="http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/2420">another column</a> on
the health care debate, this time slamming efforts to frame President
Obama's health care legislation as a vehicle for the "common
good." </small></p>
<p><small>In an editorial titled "U.S. bishops must back
Obama" in the U.K.'s Tablet last week, the journal <a
href="http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/13499">claimed</a> that U.S.
bishops "have so far concentrated on a specifically Catholic issue
- making sure state-funded health care does not include abortion -
rather than the more general principle of the common
good." </small></p>
<p><small>The journal's editors suggested that the
bishops should, instead, join forces to help President Obama overcome
the "awkward alliance of Republicans and conservative
Democrats" blocking the bill. "Through the influence
they wield as leaders of America's largest Christian denomination,
they could play a central role in salvaging Mr Obama's health-care
programme," they suggested.</small></p>
<p><small>Archbishop Chaput responded to
the article by noting that "abortion is not, and has never been, a
'specifically Catholic issue,' and the editors know
it." Also, he said, "the growing misuse of Catholic
'common ground' and 'common good' language in the
current health-care debate can only stem from one of two sources:
ignorance or cynicism."</small></p>
<p><small>"No system that allows or helps
fund - no matter how subtly or indirectly -- the killing of unborn
children, or discrimination against the elderly and persons with
special
needs, can bill itself as 'common ground.' Doing so is a
lie," said the archbishop. </small></p>
<p><small>Chaput published an email written
to him by a mother who recounted the many health needs of her Down
Syndrome daughter, and who said she did not trust the Obama
administration "to mold policy that accounts for my daughter in all
of her humanity or puts 'value' on her life."</small></p>
<p><small>What
most struck him about the email, the bishop said, was the "parental
distrust" - which he has heard from many parents - that has already
raised the red flag on the attitude of government-related programs
toward more vulnerable members of society.
</small></p>
<p><small>"Health-care reform is vital. That's why
America's bishops have supported it so vigorously for decades.
They still do," he said. "But fast-tracking a flawed,
complex effort this fall, in the face of so many growing and serious
concerns, is bad policy. It's not only imprudent; it's
also dangerous." </small></p>
<p><small>Chaput concluded, "If
Congress and the White House want to genuinely serve the health-care
needs of the American public, they need to slow down, listen to
people's concerns more honestly -- and learn what the 'common
good' really means."</small></p>
<p><small>The White House has recently invited
several "faith groups" to join in its own campaigning to pass
the health care reform bill. In several meetings with religious
leaders, President Obama has referred to his health care overhaul in
heavily religious terms, calling on people of faith to fight opposition
to his legislation as an impediment to "a core ethical and moral
obligation ... that we look out for one another, that I am my
brother's keeper and I am my sister's keeper."
Several left-leaning religious groups <a
href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09082014.html">have
launched</a> a corresponding "40 Days for Health Reform"
campaign, borrowing the Judaeo-Christian temporal symbol of prayer and
fasting in the push to pass the bills through Congress. </small></p>
<p><small>Yet
faith groups that oppose the killing of the unborn, including the U.S.
Conference of Catholic bishops, have refused to come aboard the
campaign
despite their support for true heatlh care reform.</small></p>
<p><small>Several U.S.
bishops, including Bishop Robert Vasa, Bishop R. Walter Nickless, and
Cardinal Justin Rigali of the USCCB pro-life office have come down hard
against Obama's abortion-promoting health care legislation in recent
weeks. In a column last week, Bishop Nickless said that "no
health care reform is better than the wrong sort of health care
reform."</small></p>
<p><small>"First and most important, the Church will not
accept any legislation that mandates coverage, public or private, for
abortion, euthanasia, or embryonic stem-cell research," <a
href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081810.html">Nickless
wrote</a>. "We refuse to be made complicit in these evils,
which frankly contradict what 'health care' should
mean." </small></p>
<p><small>In a Huffington Post column last week on the
health care bill, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards
directly <a
href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081910.html">attacked</a></small>
the U.S. bishops' opposition to abortion as "hard-line
opposition to women's rights." </p>
<p>See related
LifeSiteNews.com coverage:</p>
<p>Obama: 'We are God's Partners
in Matters of Life and Death' <br>
<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09082014.html">http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09082014.html</a></p>
<p>The
Gloves are Off: Planned Parenthood President Slams U.S. Bishops on
Abortion, Healthcare <br>
<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081910.html">http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081910.html</a></p>
<p>Bishop
Nickless: "No Health Care Reform is Better than the Wrong Health
Care Reform" <br>
<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081810.html">http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081810.html</a></p>
<a
href="mailbox:///C%7C/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Thunderbird/defaults/profile/bo/Mail/Local%20Folders/Inbox?number=4873018#0">Back
to Top</a> | <a
href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/printerfriendly.html?articleid=09082501">Print
this Story</a> | <a
href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/sendtofriend.html?articleid=09082501">Email
to a Friend</a> | <a
href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/viewonsite.html?articleid=09082501">View
Story on LifeSiteNews.com</a><font color="#3333ff"><big><big><font
face="Calisto MT"><small><small><font color="#000000">
<br>
</font></small></small></font></big></big></font>
<hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Calisto MT">PFLI
PharmAid Center<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pfli@pfli.org">pfli@pfli.org</a><br>
PO Box 1281<br>
Powell, OH 43065-1281 USA</font><font face="Calisto MT"><br>
800-227-8359</font><font face="Calisto MT"><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.pfli.org">www.pfli.org</a>
</font><br>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="%3Cform%20action=%22https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr%22%20method=%22post%22%3E,%3Cinput%20type=%22hidden%22%20name=%22cmd%22%20value=%22_s-xclick%22%3E,%3Cinput%20type=%22image%22%20src=%22https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif%22%20border=%220%22%20name=%22submit%22%20alt=%22Make%20payments%20with%20PayPal%20-%20it%27s%20fast,%20free%20and%20secure%21%22%3E,%3Cinput%20type=%22hidden%22%20name=%22encrypted%22%20value=%22-----BEGIN%20PKCS7-----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
%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
VQQ%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-----END%20PKCS7-----,%22%3E,%3C/form%3E"><br>
<img alt="" src="cid:part4.03090408.00060509@pfli.org" height="44"
width="73"></a><br>
</p>
<p><font color="#3333ff"><big><big><font face="Calisto MT"><small><small><font
color="#000000">PFLI supports
pharmacist rights of conscience NOT
to be forced to dispense or counsel for chemicals which violate their
sincerely held religious, moral or ethical beliefs. For more info see:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pfli.org/main.php?pfli=conscienceclausefaq">http://www.pfli.org/main.php?pfli=conscienceclausefaq</a></font></small></small></font></big></big></font></p>
<p><small>*** PFLI is the only pharmacy association which is
exclusively
pro-life.
<br>
It represents thousands of pharmacists and many lay supporters
<br>
in the USA, Canada and all around the globe. For membership info, key
<br>
PFLI texts, PFLI archives, late-breaking news, abridged newsletter
excerpts
<br>
or general information, visit the PFLI web site at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.pfli.org">http://www.pfli.org</a>.
<br>
Or e-mail us at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pfli@pfli.org">mailto:pfli@pfli.org</a>.
</small></p>
<p><small>*** We do NOT send out SPAM. To subscribe to PharmFacts
E-News, just send an e-mail
with the
word
<br>
"subscribe" in the subject area or better yet, just enroll right from
our main news page at<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pfli.org">http://www.pfli.org</a>; to cease your
subscription [although
we can't
<br>
imagine anyone would!] self-manage your account at:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://pfli.org/mailman/listinfo/pflienews_pfli.org">http://pfli.org/mailman/listinfo/pflienews_pfli.org</a><br>
</small></p>
<p><small>*** You may contact PFLI at any/all of the following:
Pharmacists
For
Life International,
<br>
PO Box 1281, Powell, OH 43065-1281 USA, 1-800-227-8359 [US &
Canada only],
<br>
+1-740-881-5520 [voice] or +1-707-667-2447 [fax]; e-mail us at
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pfli@pfli.org">mailto:pfli@pfli.org</a>.
<br>
</small></p>
<p><small>*** You can order our publications as well as begin/renew
your
membership
or donate right on our
<br>
secure website at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.pfli.org">http://www.pfli.org/shop</a>.
Click
on the "PFLI Store" link on the toolbar and
<br>
follow the prompts!
There you can also donate to PFLI as well as purchase a wide range of
publications. </small></p>
<font color="#3333ff"><b><big><big><font face="Calisto MT">
</font></big></big></b></font><br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<img src="cid:part5.08020706.00070009@pfli.org" border="0"></div>
<br>
</body>
</html>