by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Wesley J. Smith says that laws dealing with Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) “are increasingly authorizing doctors to unilaterally overturn surrogate wishes and patient advance directives….”

  The laws vary from state to state, but in Vermont and Maryland, a physician can place a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order on a patient’s chart without the consent of the patient or designated patient advocate. Smith writes:
  

  Not coincidentally, Vermont has a single payer healthcare plan it can’t pay for. Some have called for the cost savings to come from assisted suicide legalization – now done – and healthcare rationing.

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Moral Outcry and Wesley J. Smith explain why the Department of Health and Human Services’ so-called “compromise” is really just more of the same – a violation of religious freedom.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Phill Kline on the Sebelius/Six Shreddergate controversy in Kansas: If it is routine to destroy evidence that implicates a key political ally of the governor in criminal activity, then that simply means there is routine corruption.

4/4, 10:13a: The goal has just been reached, thanks! 4/1, 2:18p: Actress Patricia Heaton is best known for her role as Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond. But Heaton is also a rare pro-lifer in the liberal Hollywood community, currently functioning as the honorary chairperson of Feminists for Life. Now Heaton is trying to help […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, Rebecca Sive at RH Reality Check. She’s really mad. A NC minister named Ronnie Wallace

In June 2009 the RH Reality Check launched penned by then editor Scott Swenson, speaks of a naive time that seems so long ago and far away, although it was only last year: In so many ways, the election of President Obama is viewed through a lens of its healing potential…. President Obama is asking […]

Following are excerpts from a pretty remarkable

by David MacDonald shares the story of a young woman he met while protesting at an abortion clinic: Afterwards she wanted to die. She cut herself with razor blades all over her body and ended up in a psych ward. The walls were blank but she saw children running all around on the walls and […]