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Face of Pro-Life #147 – Robert Bogue ( 59min) >>> Play

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Robert Bogue is both an insurance broker and involved in politics of health care and insurance. He discusses the effects that some public health plans (including Connecticut’s Sustinet program) have on the health insurance business, that these are being put out of business and the health plans that replace them are so poorly calculated in regard to cost that there will inevitable be healthcare rationing.

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Face of Pro-Life #133 – Zachary Janowski on the problems of Goverment Health Care ( 60min) >>> Play

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Zachary Janowski an investigative reporter for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy and hostess Corinn Dahm cover the problems with proposed state of Connecticut health care programs, including Sustinet (Wikipedia) and the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut (Wikipedia).

• Raising Hale
• www.yankeeinstitute.org

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MaryCast Specials #85 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Miravalle reflects on how devotion to Mary helps so much for the tremendous difficulties of our current times whether they be social, economic or health issues and how these sufferings then become a means to participate in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Face of Pro-Life #91 – Host Corinn Dahm with Bill O’Brien ( 30min) >>> Play

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Corinn Dahm and Bill O’Brien discuss the many problems with the National Healthcare Bill that was recently passed including:

• How tax money is being used to fund abortion despite Nancy Pelosi’s claim to the contrary.
• Unprecedented use of reconciliation.

• Death Panels and Rationing of limited resources.
• Better alternatives  being ignored such as the health saving accounts that would actually save money.
• Assisted suicide, legal in 3 states, more  states have bills pending.
• Under funded pregnancy centers that are so incredibly helpful to give women real choices
• How Pro-aborts are limiting choices to women.

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Face of Pro-Life #101 – Dr. Lorraine Hartnett sounds-off ( 06min) >>> Play

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Lorraine Hartnett gives a quick passionate run-down of the effects on medicine of legislation like Obamacare, bringing up:

• Loss of Judeo-Christian principles
• Starving the Elderly
• Physician assisted suicide
• Rationing Healthcare
• Culture of death
• Elderly being undervalued
• Fragility of our good health
• Youth need to watch out as well
• Holiness of life
• Need for action, wake-up
• Catholic Values

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Face of Pro-Life #90 – Bill O’Brien of CT Right to life with Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Bill O’Brien, President of Connecticut Right to Life talks about the very busy upcoming legislative session in Hartford. Mentions some pro-life legislation that they are trying to start. This includes a parental notification law for abortion for minors which CT is only one of six states that do not have one. It is easier to get an abortion in CT Schools without parental consent than it is to get Tylenol. This is very important even for the safety of the child in regard to prompt response to medical and emotional complications due to the abortion. And also important in regard to child sexual abuse being exposed. Ironically, this all points out that the Pro-abortion movement ends up being oppressive to women rather than Pro-choice.

On the defensive side he hopes to stop an education standards bill that will require all students to have comprehensive sex education (under the cover of “Health Education”) with no ability to opt out. He points out the very high rate of teen pregnancy and this after many years of sex education.

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Face of Pro-Life #97 -  Susan Boyce with hostess Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Susan Boyce discusses Sustinet, a new Connecticut State Health care Plan, an apparently good-looking  plan which is in fact very problematic, being a means of control, an expansion of bureaucracy. Due to the signing of the National Health Care Bill the vote on this will be accelerated to the end of May, 2010, this law will be pushed to a vote at the state legislature. But nobody knows about it and therefore it would be a mere ceremony in making it the law. Susan shows how Sustinet goes beyond the National Health Care plan.

The Yankee Institute of Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank at Trinity College. They have published the only professional rebuttal of SustiNet’s claims. Here is a link:

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2010/03/obamacare-for-ct-to-bust-budget/

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http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/docs/20100302.pdf

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The Yankee Institute of Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank at Trinity College.  They have published the only professional rebuttal of SustiNet's claims. Here is a link:

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2010/03/obamacare-for-ct-to-bust-budget/

and

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/docs/20100302.pdf

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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 #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 #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

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