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Face of Pro-Life #87 – Eileen Bianchini ( 30min) >>> Play

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Eileen Bianchini discusses with Corinn Dahm the threat of legalized assisted suicide coming to the state of Connecticut and the resulting horrors that could be unleashed. These include almost no ability to confirm weather the person is actually consenting to being killed and whether real pressure is being put on them from family, doctors or government to “Not be a burden”. All of which leads to the specter of a universal distrust of the entire medical institution that is supposed to be the one we trust to save our very lives.

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Face of Pro-Life #88 -Corinn Dahm and Susan Boyce on CT Health Care ( 30min) >>> Play

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Susan Boyce outlines with Corinn Dahm the health care plan for Connecticut that is very similar to the enormously unpopular plan proposed by President Obama that failed on a federal level.  The mass media is not talking about this but it is already passed by the state congress who even overrode a veto by Governor Rell. Listen as Susan itemizes the many problems of the plan including, Obesity Task Forces, more bureaucracy, more taxes, less privacy and freedom, automatic enrollment at least once a year and usually more often. And the plan does not do any of the needed improvements like law suit reform that would truly reduce medical costs.  All of these extra costs are being proposed when the state budget in has record deficits.

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Face of Pro-Life #86 -  ( 60min) >>> Play

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Fra Roderic Burke, David Smith and Eileen Bianchini give an account of their experience in the March for Life on January 22nd, 2010 with host Corinn Dahm. They cover how large the march was (over 350,000 people) and yet how many people they knew there and how little representation there was from mass media for such a large event that has been an annual institution for the last 35 years.

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Face of Pro-Life #89 – Susan Boyce with the Health Care facts that will surprise you.  ( 30min) >>> Play

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Susan Boyce explains how the federal health care plan which seems to have been defeated when Scott Brown won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts is not at all defeated and still needs to be vigorously opposed. There is a real danger of stealth efforts to bypass normal rules by sneaking it into reconciliation without bringing it past the new senator. She further outlines the many problems that still exist in the plan, including half a trillion of new spending that will increase costs and taxes on employers reducing the number of jobs, unelected boards with unprecedented powers to dictate what gets funded, who gets health care or not. There are many indications that this rationing will be based on how ‘useful’ you are to society, similar to the Nazis.

It would also be a blow to religious freedoms due to the lack of conscience clauses in regard to abortion and abortifacients, mandated home visits, government oversight of marriage counseling. And, of course, abortion funding is still in the plan.

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Face of Pro-Life #84 – Fra Roderic Mary on the Face of Pro-life show ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Roderic is the guest on the Face of Pro-Life as he relates what AirMaria.com does for the pro-life movement, including posting episodes of … Face of Pro-Life. So if you have never heard of AirMaria.com, have a listen.

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Face of Pro-Life #83 – Fr. Angelo on youth ( 29min) >>> Play

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Fr. Angelo discusses the problem of helping the lost generation by directing them spiritually by hands-on involvement with those in need, by witnessing to the faith with acts of charity, sharing with them the road to faith and charity. He discusses these as remedies to the various social problems, drug abuse and bad spirituality that so adversely effects their spiritual development.

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Face of Pro-Life #78 – ( 29min) >>> Play

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Fra Isaac Haas, FI outlines his experience in the battle for marriage while he worked with National Organization for Marriage (NOM) before he became a friar. He covers the reason for NOM being created, how it counters the very well funded machine that is advocating for the radical changes in the definition of marriage which has far ranging consequences in regard to religious freedom and the ill effects on family and children.

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Face of Pro-Life #85 – Gabriella and her  mom, Leticia, with hostess Corinn Dahm ( 29min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez and her daughter Gabriella relate their decades long experience in going as a family to the March for Life in Washington, DC. They highlight the sacrifices but also the thrill of joining so many pro-lifers in one of the grandest annual events in our nation’s capitol. They also offer their insights about bringing the y0ungest member of their family, Christina, who has Down Syndrome, 90% of whom get aborted, and the joys and challenges of contending with her handicaps on such a busy day.

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Face of Pro-Life #77 – John Martin and Corinn Dahm ( 59min) >>> Play

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John Martin discusses with host Corinn Dahm the growing conflict between Catholic morals and government policy which is pitting Bishops vs Politicians. This is exemplified by the recent clash between Senator Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island and Archbishop Tobin of Providence, RI over abortion funding in health care. They discuss the ramifications of the government funded heath care on the quality of medical services and its effects on religious liberty for medical personnel and Catholic Hospitals.

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Face of Pro-Life #82 – Leticia Velasquez on how to Keep Infants with Down Syndrome ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez tells her plight on the difficulties of finding health care for her child Christa who has Down Syndrome. In her effort to look out for her child and help others in the same situation she started an organization called K.I.D.S. for Keep Infants with Down Syndrome. The group especially tries to encourage expectant mothers who have a pre-born child diagnosed with Down to keep their child in the face of tremendous pressure from their medical community, family and friends to have an abortion. She focuses on the joys of having one of these special children and how they go down to Washington DC each year for the March for Life.

You can read her blog:
Keep Infants with Down Syndrome blog

and Facebook:
Keep Infants with Down Syndrome Facebook Group

Last year’s K.I.D.S. trip to March for Life in DC!

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Face of Pro-Life #81 – Susan Boyce on the Health Care Plan ( 30min) >>> Play

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Susan Boyce discusses how the proposed Health Care is against the Catholic social principle of Subsidiarity. Bishops are doing good by fighting for the Stupac Amendment but ignore the fact that it is against the Catholic principle of subsidiarity where the smallest organization should take care of any given issue and only go to a state or national organization if this is needed. She mentions how the bill saddles us with too high of a tax burden, and bureaucratic institutions that are too large. As such, once it passes it will be hard to get rid of. She praises two bishops in Kansas City who are are advocating opposition of the bill because it does not achieve the Catholic balance of not being too individualistic nor too socialistic.

Sources referenced in the talk:

The Kansas City Bishops’ Pastoral Letter:
http://www.diocese-kcsj.org/news/viewNews.php?nid=60

Solidarity vs. Subsidiarity:
http://axisofright.com/2009/11/09/the-catholic-bishops-complicity-in-pushing-obamacare/

Raymond Arroyo’s Seen & Unseen:
http://www.ewtn.com/news/blog.asp?blog_ID=2

Msgr Barreiro’s Commentary from HLI
http://www.hli.org/index.php/about/hli-experts/698?task=view

Politico’s article:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=233E3ECC-18FE-70B2-A83503850AAC10EE

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Face of Pro-Life #80 – Susan Boyce ( 29min) >>> Play

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Susan Boyce outlines the hidden horrors of the latest National Health Care Bill, HR 3590. She covers the fact that 1000 pages have been added to the bill just since the summer. Now is 2074 pages, 2.5 trillion cost over ten years,  mandatory visitation of government officials to your homes, massive increase in family health care costs in very high taxes. For all US employees an abortion premium will be charged that goes diectly to the procurement of abortions. Also the head of Health and Human Services, currently pro-abortion Kathleen Sabelius, will have carte blanche powers to make changes to the plan with no recourse for the people to protest. Rationing by denial of care to long term or elderly patients, realtime access to bank accounts in, requirements to. Why, based on Catholic measures, the whole thing needs to be scrapped because of its neglect of Catholic principles of whether the Stupac Amendment is added or not and how the Catholic bishops and the USCCB are the only ones that can make this happen. National ID Card.

Update – Sources referenced in talk:

John Boehner explaining the monthly abortion fee:
http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=690

Liberty Counsel’s Comparison chart (more…)

Face of Pro-Life #79 – Fr. Angelo Geiger and Corinn Dahm on St Maximilian Kolbe ( 29min) >>> Play

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Fr. Angelo Geiger of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FI) explains the life of St Maximilian Kolbe who is a patron of the FIs and how it relates to our current battle for the Culture of Life and Religious Freedom.

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Face of Pro-Life #76 – Corinn Dahm and Theresa Krankowski ( 29min) >>> Play

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Theresa Krankowski on St Gerard’s Center for Life which is right across the street from an abortion clinic in Wethersfield, CT.  She discusses what they do for pregnant mothers, their efforts to get a sonogram  to help mothers see their unborn child and why the center is named after St Gerard.

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Face of Pro-Life #75 – Bill O’Brien and Corinn Dahm ( 29min) >>> Play

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Bill O’Brien of CT Right to Life discusses with our host Corinn Dahm recent attempts to challenge the constitutionality of Connecticut suicide laws. They bring out the fact that right to die becomes duty to die, placing great pressure on the elderly and generally cheapens life.

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