MCFL: In a 2009 article in the NY Times, "Why We Must Ration Health Care", Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer said that if you don't agree that spending a million dollars for a cancer treatment that will give a patient six extra months of life is a good value for the money, then you think that health care should be rationed.
BALCH: The fundamental difference about what Singer calls "rationing" and the rationing we are talking about: governmental involvement in limiting or apportioning health care resources. About Singer's comment, it's true that resources are not unlimited, but the difference is that when you are making health care decisions, it is the government making a specific recommendation on what your insurance will or will not pay for. When the government limits by law what can be charged for health insurance, it limits what people are allowed to pay for medical treatment, it's an artificial constraint.
When an employer is deciding about choosing an insurance plan, he balances the costs and benefits of specific plans, using cost as one of the criteria. It's not the same thing as the government saying, for example. "In order to buy a television set, people have to meet a certain criteria."
MCFL: In the article, Singer's argument rapidly shifts to the idea that certain lives are more valuable than others, "The death of a teenager is a greater tragedy than the death of an 85-year-old and this should be reflected in our priorities."
BALCH: Singer is clever in that after making his view of rationing seem reasonable he decides that the amount of health care anyone can get should be based on discriminatory criteria, such as age. The fundamental difference is that Singer advocates using quality and efficiency standards as criteria for who may get treatment, rather than for assessing the treatment itself.
MCFL: Is there a difference between your concept of exchanges and the state-based exchanges in the health care bill?
BALCH: An exchange is based on a concept of a market place where you can pick among a variety of competing health care plans. It's a good way to comparison shop. The critical problem is how the exchanges are regulated under Obamacare. These exchanges will limit what people can pay for insurance. Government officials will exclude health insurers whose plans inside or outside the exchange allow private citizens to spend whatever government officials think is an "excessive or unjustified" amount on their own health insurance.
Bad Medicine, A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law, by Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute
Conclusions The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
1) Doesn't accomplish its goals of universal coverage reducing costs or increasing health quality and value.
2) Increases the federal budget deficit
3) People will lose plans they like.
4) Expanded coverage may not lead to expanded access because of the lack of available physicians.
5) Doesn't control costs and will actually increase US health care spending
6) Will cost over $2.7 trillion over 10 years and add $352 billion to the national debt.
7) Shifts $4.3 trillion to businesses, individuals and state governments
8) Makes government rationing more likely
9) Includes $669 billion in new or increased taxes.
Part I: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Individual mandate a) The requirement that every American obtain health insurance coverage that meets the government's definition of "minimal essential coverage" is unprecedented in US governance, the government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the US. If you don't buy insurance, there is a tax penalty.
b) Simply having insurance isn't enough to satisfy the mandate. The Secretary of health and Human Services (HHS) is given the authority to define the terms of "minimal essential coverage." (See below in notes on Massachusetts for how residents are "gaming the system.")
Employer mandate a) If a company with 50 or more employees doesn't provide health insurance and even a single worker qualifies for a subsidy to purchase insurance through the exchange, the company must pay a tax penalty. Estimated costs to businesses are $52 billion from 2014 -2019.
b) This will force employers to offset added costs by passing them of to consumers, lowering wages, reducing future wages, cut back on hiring, or laying-off employees.
Subsidies a) Massive spending does not necessarily mean that health outcomes improve. For ex., Tennessee saw Medicaid costs rise 149% after expanded Medicaid eligibility, while other states saw costs rise 71% over a ten year period. Health outcomes did not improve in Tennessee under a program called Tenncare. (My note, this has also been the case in Britain, despite massive spending health care outcomes have not improved.)
b) The expansion of Medicaid will dramatically drive up costs for both state and federal governments. Initially, the federal government will pay 100% of the cost for new enrollees, but the states will be required to pay 5% beginning in 2017, increasing to 10% by 2020.
The Exchanges Exchanges function as a middlemen or wholesalers, matching customers with providers and products. They allow small companies and individuals to take advantage of scale, both in administration and risk pooling like large companies. The exchanges would be able to "use market share to bargain down the price of services." The exchanges will start in 2014 using rules developed by each state.
a) The plans they offer must meet federal requirements for minimum benefits.
b) Each state must offer at least two multi-state insurance plans contracted with private insurers. Of these, one plan must not include abortion coverage.
c) The Massachusetts experience with the health "connector" (see below) shows that claims that exchanges will reduce premiums should be greeted with skepticism.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) doesn't live up to its proponents' own criteria: 1) The new law fails to control rising health-care costs or increasing health-insurance premiums. The legislation will increase US health-care spending by $311 billion over ten years. Premiums will actually double in cost over the next six years, about what was expected before the law was passed.
2) It doesn't restructure programs to improve quality.
3) It doesn't achieve universal coverage. By 2019, 21 million Americans will remain uninsured, nearly half those people will be thrown into Medicaid.
4) Reforms have expensive price tags. For ex. You may keep your children on your insurance plan until they reach age 26, but it will cost an average of $3,380 per year per child in higher premiums.
PPACA costs much more than advertised, it was officially expected to cost $950 billion over 10 years, but that figure was misleading: 1) The price didn't include the "doc-fix," repealing the scheduled 21-23% cut in Medicare reimbursements. Congress never makes those cuts and has just passed a 6 month delay.
2) Doesn't include $105 billion in non-appropriated costs for implementing various programs.
3) 10 year budget window (2010-2019) is very misleading since most spending doesn't occur until 2014.
Jul 31 Sat 9AM No Abortions but stop by for Prayer Vigil Protest on Pleasant St.
Aug 6, First Friday 8PM Mass with Fr. Gallagher, all night Eucharistic Adoration.
Scheduled Adorers
8:30 PM - Nina T. 9PM - Chris T. 10PM - Julie S - Paul T
11PM - Eileen D, 12 AM midnight - Shawn S.
1AM - Jim R 2AM - Fran Warner
3AM - Jay Guillette 774-263-6969 Call Jay if problem, anytime.
4PM - Kyle McD, 5AM - Fred M - Bob D
6:00 AM - Mike and Chris, 7:00 AM - Kathy L
Aug 7 Sat 7:30-11AM Prayer Vigil Protest at Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. 8AM Mass with Fr. Roy after all night Eucharistic Adoration. Prayers to rear, sidewalk counselors up front, park on the side streets.
Thank Sen. Scott Brown with an email to scott_brown@brown.senate.gov
and a subject of "THANKS FOR COMMITTEE VOTE ON MILITARY ABORTIONS " because Sen. Brown voted against. He also voted against the anti-Pro-Life/Conservative DISCLOSE Act. 202-224-4543 or 617-565-3170
http://www.nationformarriage.o...
Cahill follow-up http://www.masscitizensforlife... He would not make abortion illegal, but these answers indicate a willingness to put limits on abortion. Many are torn, the choice is to not vote for Governor or to vote for Cahill as the least Pro-abortion candidate. Alternate view that Cahill may have had a conversion of convience, including scrubbing his Pro-Choice links from his web site.
http://throwthebumsoutin2010.b...
Catholics United announced they are preparing to spend $500,000 to defend members of Congress who voted FOR the pro-abortion healthcare law. Catholics United are an affiliate of Catholics in Alliance, which has received heavy funding from athiest billionaire and Nazi collaborator George Soros. Catholic Vote Action & Cathlic Advocate are fighting back.
http://www.catholicvoteaction....http://catholicadvocate.com/
MASS. CITIZENS FOR LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
529 Main Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
For immediate release: For more information:
July 20, 2010 Jack Rowe 978-531-8565
Massachusetts Citizens for Life Federal PAC
Endorses Jeff Perry for 10th Congressional District Seat
Boston The Massachusetts Citizens for Life Federal PAC, the political arm of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, has endorsed Jeff Perry for Congress in the Tenth Congressional District.
According to Jack Rowe, Chairman of the Fed PAC, "As a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Jeff Perry has been a strong advocate for life. He even voted against state funding of embryonic stem cell research."
Rowe further stated, "Perry opposes tax funding of abortion and takes a pro-life position on all important issues. He also will work to replace Obamacare with ethical, affordable health care for all. Jeff Perry has proven his commitment to protect our most vulnerable citizens our unborn children. Jeff Perrys record should earn him the support of all voters who are concerned with the right to life and the protection of the most vulnerable members of the human family."
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Please call Senator Brown's office and thank him for this pro-life vote. 202-224-4543 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 202-224-4543 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or 617-565-3170
Isn't it nice not to have to hang our Massachusetts heads all the time!
On New Year's Day, I was madly switching television channels in order to enjoy the myriad of early morning parade offerings seemingly available only to those who had spent a relatively sober evening before. During the Tournament of Roses Parade, the announcer mentioned that the rose was a symbol of life. I reflected on his comment for a moment. While I had always taken it for granted, I started to wonder exactly how the rose became a symbol for the pro-life movement.
The Rose in Antiquity According to Wikipedia, the red rose was traditionally associated with Venus, the Roman goddess of love, and her attendants, the three graces. The rose was also associated with Flora, symbolizing love and beauty. "As told by Ovid, Flora was pursued by Zephyr, the west wind, who married her and made her the mother of Spring. The Floralia was the festival for this Roman goddess of the flowers and was celebrated on May 1.
Close-up of Cloris (Greek name for Flora) from Botticelli's Primavera "The goddess [Flora] replied to my questions, as she talks, her lips breathe spring roses." - Ovid, Fasti 5. 193
The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses, including Isis and Aphrodite. The ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with their goddesses of love, Aphrodite and Venus. In Rome a wild rose would be placed on the door of a room where secret or confidential matters were discussed. The phrase sub rosa, or 'under the rose,' means to keep a secret, derived from this Roman practice."
In Persian and Indian culture, "gardens were a foretaste of paradise," writes editors Andrew Moore and Christopher Garibaldi in flower power: The Meaning of Flowers in Art.
The email for Senator Brown isn't working. The best way to contact him seems to be http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme. Please go to this website page and email him from there. Praise him for his positions on Disclose and abortion funding in the military and request that he vote against confirmation for Kagan (the last email has full explanations).
I am sorry to take your extra time!
Thanks again, Anne
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State's Largest Abortion Provider Targets Latino Population
"Total allocation to our Title X project for 2010 is $779,074. Budget for key personnel includes money to support the salary of our Latino Initiatives Director, who will be responsible for increasing awareness of Title X family planning services among Latino populations in Central Massachusetts." -Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts Title X grant application
"While Title X money is not to be used for abortions, it is used to gain the trust of women in minority neighborhoods in order to bring them into Planned Parenthood facilities, supposedly for health care, and then persuade them to become Planned Parenthood birth control clients. Then, when birth control fails, the organization has a built-in minority clientele for abortion, which is Planned Parenthood's cash cow."-Rita Diller
The economy remains in the tank and the unemployment rate refuses to budge. Weary job-seekers may want to refresh themselves in the waters of Central Massachusetts where, like a veritable Niagara, federal and state money floods into the coffers of Planned Parenthood.
While businesses go under or lay-off employees, PP's plans call for expansion into a number of new towns and the jobs that go with them.
Planned Parenthood needs a sufficient number of satellite clinics to feed its new abortuary in Worcester. Despite claims by the Guttmacher Institute that access to birth control prevents unwanted pregnancies, a recent report by Rita Diller shows that the more money Planned Parenthood gets, the more abortions it performs.
This comes on the heels of a report showing that abortion related organizations received nearly 1 billion dollars between 2002 and 2009.
In "Report Shows Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Got $650 Million in Taxpayer Funds," Steve Ertelt said,"Although the money does not directly pay for abortions, which is stopped in most part by the Hyde amendment, the report makes it clear that federal funds are propping up the abortion industry.
Giving taxpayer money to organizations that promote and provide abortion, even if the money is not used for that purpose, frees up other funds for abortion purposes and gives the government's stamp of approval to their abortion industry."
They say that any communication with a legislator should contain only one topic.
This week we have to contact Senator Brown about the dreadful Disclose Act, Abortions in the military,and the Kagan confirmation, all of which are expected to be voted on before the Senate recesses at the end of next week.
Usually we need to make phone calls instantly. For these three items, emails will do as long as each of us sends three separate emails now which tell the whole message in the subject. scott_brown@brown.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme
The first two are great big THANK YOU'S, These are possible subject lines:
1) THANK YOU FOR OPPOSING DISCLOSE AND CLOTURE
2) THRILLED WITH YOUR STATED OPPOSITION TO DISCLOSE
3) VERY PROUD THAT YOU ARE OPPOSING DISCLOSE
1) THANKS FOR COMMITTEE VOTE ON MILITARY ABORTIONS
2) SO GRATEFUL WE CAN COUNT ON YOUR VOTE AGAINST MILITARY ABORTIONS
3) ABORTIONS IN THE MILITARY - THANKS FOR YOUR OPPOSITION
Please send a separate email on Disclose and on funding abortions in the military. The subject line is the most important. Say whatever you want in the body and be sure to give your name and address as a Massachusetts resident.
As far as Kagan nomination. To us, this is the most important of the three! Because she is from Massachusetts, it was protocol for the two Massachusetts Senators to introduce her. Scott Brown is polite, etc and I am afraid he feels honor-bound to vote for a "native (ha) daughter"
Portions of a modern version of the Hippocratic Oath written by Dr. Louis Lasagna, Dean, School of Medicine, Tufts Universty, 1964
• I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
Will those hard-won scientific gains be ethical? • I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of over-treatment and therapeutic nihilism.
Huh? • I will respect the privacy of my patients. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
Except when taking someone's life... • I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
My humility vanishes when I take it upon myself to decide whether to kill someone or not...
Jul 24 Sat 7:30-11AM Prayer Vigil Protest on Pleasant St. Abortion Day so sidewalk counselors up front, prayers in back, park on Hudson St. The Iron Curtain has been erected on Pleasant.St!
The MCFL State PAC has asked us to share this news with you.
MCFL State Political Action Committee
P.O. Box 320382
West Roxbury, MA 02132
For Immediate Release:
For More Information:
July 19,2010
Madeline McComish
(617) 378-7820 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (617) 378-7820 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
MCFL State PAC Endorses Tim Cahill for Governor
Boston- Madeline McComish, Chairman of MCFL State Political Action Committee, today announced that the MCFL State PAC has endorsed State Treasurer, Tim Cahill, for Governor in the November election.
Tim Cahill will be an outstanding advocate for the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly. He will bring commonsense solutions to protecting their rights and their lives. Cahill holds pro-life positions on all aspects of the issue, from abortion funding to informed consent, to partial birth abortion and parental consent. Very important also is his opposition to Physician Assisted Suicide which is currently being proposed in the state legislature, according to McComish.
She added, Currently pro-life people across the state are collecting signatures to repeal Obamacare. They welcome Tim Cahills pledge to opt out of the abortion funding in Obamacare. People remember that Cahill was the first to point out that Romneycare in Massachusetts will go bankrupt in four years, thus subjecting everyone in the state to rationing and denial of care. The other gubernatorial candidates have publicly stated their support for the pro-choiceposition. In other words, they support abortion and take anti-life positions on the other life issues."
MCFL State PAC is in the process of contacting pro-life people across the state and will mobilize more than 100,000 activists in Massachusetts in support of Cahill. For more information about MCFL State PAC, please visit, http://MCFLStatePAC.intuitwebs...
RUINS: Dunstanburgh Castle, once among the largest and grandest castles in the north of England. It is a reminder that valuable things, such as the Hippocratic Oath, must be protected or fall into decline.
"I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. I will not give a woman an abortive remedy. I will never do harm to anyone." Traditional Oath of Hippocrates
Dating back to at least the fourth century B.C., the Hippocratic Oath marked a sea change in the pagan world. Anthropologist Margaret Mead said, "For the first time in our tradition there was a complete separation between killing and curing. Throughout the primitive world, the doctor and the sorcerer tended to be the same person. He had the power to kill and the power to cure. With the Greeks the distinction was made clear. One profession, the followers of Asclepius, were to be dedicated completely to life under all circumstances, regardless of rank, age or intellect - the life of a slave, the life of the Emperor, the life of a foreign man, the life of a defective child..."
"People are shocked to learn that physicians no longer take the oath upon graduation from medical school, said Marianne Luthin, Director of the Pro-life Office of the Archdiocese of Boston. "They want their doctors to subscribe to the ethic of 'do no harm.' "
The traditional Hippocratic Oath survived for over two thousand years. It survived the Roman Empire, Nazism and the Black Plague. It throve with the growth of Christianity and Western culture.
But the Oath couldn't survive in the America of the 1960s and 70s. With the Supreme Court's decision in 1973 decriminalizing abortion, the Oath became instantly obsolete.
The Obamacare Abortion Lie Is Up [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Douglas Johnson from the National Right to Life Committee points out this afternoon that the federally funded Maryland high-risk pool was going to use federal funds for abortion coverage in their new Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), too. Just like in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.
(National Right to Life Committee has looked through five states' documentation, and an abortion-funding siren has gone off in three of them.)
After NRLC, NR, the House Republican leader, and others highlighted this from the Pennsylvania and New Mexico plans this week, the Department of Health and Human Services finally issued a release yesterday assuring that they will, in fact, issue guidelines forbidding abortion coverage in the Obamacare federally funded PCIP state programs.
And today, the National Women's Law Center, among others, are upset with the administration for saying they'll do such a thing.
Which means the lie is up: Obamcare never prohibited abortion funding. It's a matter of administrative discretion.
The Obama administration and other Democrats have been hawking the myths that
a) there is some kind of global Hyde amendment that forbids all federally funded abortions and b) the executive order solves all problems.
If a and b were true, how were any state plans approved that were covering abortions?
The truth of the matter is that news today that Maryland was planning on funding abortions in their high-risk pool is but the tip of the iceberg. Don't be surprised if another story drops. And if it's not a high-risk pool. And the administration will have to provide a new myth or actually act as HHS is saying it plans to to prohibit that which is not currently prohibited.
But don't expect them to admit they've been lying to us all this time.
From MCFL:
States are attempting to sneak in abortion any way they can and we have to stop it piecemeal. We need a law!
Congressman Joe Pitts (R, Pa) and Dan Lipinski (D, Ill) have filed HR5111, "Protect Life Act", which would amend Obamacare to restrict the several different ways in which the measure funds abortions. HR 5111 restores the Stupak language to ObamaCare. There are 115 co-sponsors.
So far no Massachusetts Congressmen have co-sponsored the bill. Certainly Congressmen Lynch and Neal, who voted for original language in Stupak, are logical co-sponsors.
Please call your own Congressman urging him or her to co-sponsor HR 5111, the Protect Life Act. Then please contact someone you know who lives in the Lynch or Neal district and make sure that person calls also.
John W. Olver (D-01), 202-225-5335
Richard E. Neal (D-02), 202-225-5601
James P. McGovern (D-03), 202-225-6101
Barney Frank (D-04), 202-225-5931
Niki Tsongas (D-05), Phone: (202)225-3411
John F. Tierney (D-06), 202-225-8020
Edward J. Markey (D-07, 202-225-2836
Michael Capuano (D-08), 202-225-5111
Stephen F. Lynch (D-09), 202-225-8273
William D. Delahunt (D-10), 202-225-3111
Bad Medicine: National Review Online interviews the author of a new Cato Institute report on Obamacare. The financial implications for seniors, workers, people who are unemployed, and young people is even worse than we thought. The report concludes that repeal of Obamacare is the only thing which will save medical care in this country. The author expresses concern about the will of Republicans in Congress to repeal.
The Obama Administration has just allocated $160 million tax dollars for insurance plans in Pennsylvania that cover any legal abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/nat653...
If you are not already working on your Repeal Obamacare Petitions, please go to www.masscitizensforlife.org to print out the petition. You will also see an example of the "push" card. We have thousands of these informative cards for you to hand out which we'll be glad to send to you. Please let us know how many you want and where to send them. Email action@masscitizensforlife.org or call the MCFL office (617-242-4199 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 617-242-4199 end_of_the_skype_highlighting) for your cards.
As you fill petitions, please return them to the MCFL office, 529 Main Street, Charlestown, 02129. You can put one stamp on an envelope that has five petitions in it. So fill five and then five more...
We must get tens of thousand of people to sign the MCFL Repeal Obamacare Petitions! We must put backbone into Congress. If we don't, each of us will have no access to quality health care by 2014 and people will die in droves!
I am ready to send you petitions and cards! Thanks, Anne
For Immediate Release:
For More Information:
July 13, 2010
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Mass Citizens for Life Board Seeks Removal of Controversial Proviso in Caritas Christi Health Care Sale
Boston The Board of Directors of Massachusetts Citizens for Life has expressed serious concern about a proviso in the sale of the Caritas Christi Health Care system by the Archdiocese of Boston. The Board urges the Archdiocese to remove this proviso or to work with the buyers to appoint an independent committee consisting of experts in the fields of medical ethics and health care financing, who have proven adherence to the Caritas commitment to life, to fully vet any decision to end compliance with the Ethical and Religious Directives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Steward Health Care System, a subsidiary of Cerberus Capital Management, will be running the hospitals. Steward has agreed to abide by the ERDs, thus continuing the pro-life commitment of the hospitals. If, however, Steward decides that compliance with the ERDs would jeopardize the welfare of its patients, employees, or the community it serves, it can pay the Archdiocese twenty-five million dollars to end compliance.
The MCFL Board reasons that this escape clause provides inadequate protection to pro-life physicians and patients and threatens the existence of pro-life hospitals in Massachusetts. It could result in the Caritas hospitals providing abortion and rationing care, thus ending the systems commitment to pro-life principles.
According to Anne Fox begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, President of the organization, Massachusetts Citizens for Life has always been grateful for the hospitals in the Caritas Christi Health Care system. While MCFL is a non-sectarian organization, having hospitals where patients can go to receive ethical medical care has been very important whether it be a woman with a problem pregnancy or a person who needs food and hydration administered artificially. Pro-life medical professionals have been able to practice in good conscience. We feel every effort must be made to ensure continuation of these ethical standards
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Massachusetts Citizens for Life was incorporated in 1973 and is the Commonwealth's largest pro-life organization. MCFL is an affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee.
Mass Citizens for Life, Schrafft Center 529 Main St., Charlestown, MA 02129-1100. www.masscitizensforlife.org
On April 29, I wrote to tell you that President Obama planned to name Dr Donald Berwick as administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) saying, "Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the CMS administrator defines the quality of health care for every insurance plan in the country, sets reimbursement rates for physicians in Medicare and Medicaid, and decides what treatments are more 'valuable' than others.
"For the past 15 years Berwick has consulted for - or, in his words, been 'starry-eyed' over - Britain's National Health Service. In 2008, at a 60th anniversary of NHS, he told a UK crowd, 'I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country.' Berwick complained the American health system runs in the 'darkness of private enterprise'."
Why did Obama wait until yesterday to name Berwick? Because the U S Senate, which should confirm the appointment, is in recess and Berwick is more extreme than even they can stomach. As the excellent Wall Street Journal article below points out, the recess is only two weeks. It also tells a typical story of death in the UK.
Mass Citizens for Life Urges Kerry and Brown to Vote Against Kagan Confirmation
Boston- Massachusetts Citizens for Life calls on Senators Scott Brown and John Kerry to vote against confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The organization is concerned that Kagan espouses two ways to change the Constitution: the amendment process under Article 5 and judicial activism.
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