A fierce fight was launched last week over a proposed Department of Health and Human Services regulation that would attach financial strings to laws that have been in place for 35 years guaranteeing health care providers and institutions the right to practice medicine without violating conscience.

See my previous post for backdrop.

If you've paid attention to the news, you've seen the other side has inundated MSM outlets, the White House, and DHHS with ferocious protests.

Pro-lifers must fight back, and today....

First, call the DHHS and White House comment lines and simply state:

Health care professionals have a right to practice medicine without violating conscience. Please issue regulations protecting conscience rights soon.

DHHS: 202-205-5445
WH: 202-456-1414

Also please call your congressperson and ask him or her to sign on to a letter sponsored by Reps. Dave Weldon of FL and Lincoln Davis of TN expressing this same sentiment. Deadline to sign on to this letter is close of business tomorrow.

The other side is circulating a letter to its pro-abort members. Currently they have about 90 signers and we only have about 60. We need to get our numbers up.

A letter is also being drafted in the Senate, but it has not yet been formalized. For now just call House members.

Action again: Call White House, DHHS, and your US rep now. It'll take 5 minutes total. Don't worry about being asked to engage in conversation and being asked questions you don't have the answers to. That won't happen.

This regulation will help ensure faithful pro-life hospitals, health care workers, and pharmacists aren't forced to participate in abortion or dispense potentially abortive drugs.

Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO, has been touted as one of John McCain's potential vice-presidential picks.

But on July 7, Fiorina exposed herself as either a political airhead or saboteur by handing pro-aborts a wider opening to attack McCain than they could possibly have fantasized....

Since early this year, NARAL has been sounding the alarm that its polling showed independents and pro-abortion Republicans have taken McCain's "maverick" reputation to mean he bucks his party's platform and is pro-abortion.

But recently, pro-abortion groups have adopted the deceptive strategy of portraying McCain as anti-contraception.

Apparently, their follow-up polls showed McCain's simply being anti-abortion has not raised the dander of targeted voters, particularly in light of mounting evidence that Barack Obama is an abortion extremist....

So Fiorina could not have played more perfectly into pro-abort hands.

On July 10, a reporter asked McCain about Fiorina's mother of all verbal gifts to pro-aborts.

This prompted "some of the most riveting campaign footage of the entire year so far," reported MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. You can view it in its entirety online here....

Continue reading my column today, "McCain and Viagra," on WorldNetDaily.com.

[Photo courtesy of RTTNews]

by Colleen W.

News from the pro-life blogs today....

Alexa also links to an article about a group of women in the Philippines who testified to the Catholic bishops there about women in the rural areas of that country having abortions because "women tended to have less access to family planning and maternal health care facilities." The women who testified "agree with the Catholic Church's teachings that abortion is a sin...." Furthermore:

When a bishop asked the women if they were open to Christian values formation, [Susanah] Reyes [research director of the Asian Social Institute] said the women readily agreed to it.

Many of women who underwent abortion were desperate and treated abortion as the last option, she noted.

"They lacked information on family planning and how it is to become a better Christian," Reyes said.

It's not clear to me what Reyes means by "family planning," whether it's artificial birth control or natural family planning. However, the concerns the group of rural women raise are significant. These mothers who are aborting their children seem to think that they have no choice, and clearly more needs to be done to provide them adequate support and care.

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