lifesitenews--2020-06-30--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

June 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
Join us today !
Send photos or videos of you and your family praying the rosary with Father Pillari to [ email protected ]

(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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lifesitenews--2020-06-30--Huge number of COVID deaths in Canada were long-term care residents

June 30 , 2020 ( Euthanasia Prevention Coalition ) — We need to rethink nursing homes and support community based care .
A few days ago I republished an article by Michael Cook concerning the abuse of “ palliative drug ” cocktails in Sweden , during the COVID-19 crisis , that led to higher percentages of deaths and at least 50 % of the deaths being residents of nursing homes .
Kelly Grant , the Globe and Mail Health Reporter , published a report on June 25 , 2020 confirming that 81 % of Canadian COVID-19 deaths were long-term care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ listed below ) warning that the COVID-19 triage guidelines and protocols were leading to many seniors being denied admittance to hospital and many others receiving morphine and comfort care rather than effective treatment .
I knew that many of the seniors may have died anyway , but others , who would have survived , were denied the option of recovery .
This was a form of discrimination , elder abuse and even murder .
The horrific number of Canadian nursing home deaths is twice the OECD average and worse than any other OECD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done a far worse job of protecting nursing-home residents from the coronavirus than other wealthy countries , according to a new analysis that shows the places that fared best made sweeping changes at seniors ’ facilities as soon as they shut their societies down .
Just over 80 per cent of Canada ’ s known COVID-19 deaths were in residents of nursing or retirement homes as of May 25 , nearly double the average for countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development , says a new report from Canada ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next , with 66 per cent of its total COVID-19 deaths in residents of seniors ’ facilities , followed by Norway and Israel at 58 per cent and Ireland at 56 per cent .
Some of the countries examined in the report , including Slovenia , Hungary and the Netherlands , had fewer than 20 per cent of their COVID-19 deaths in such homes .
Grant refers to the report from the Public Health Agency of Canada by stating : The most recent in-depth report from the Public Health Agency of Canada ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shows Canada has logged coronavirus outbreaks in 971 nursing and retirement facilities , leading to nearly 6,000 deaths .
PHAC reported 8,454 COVID-19 deaths overall as of Tuesday .
The tragedy that unfolded inside Canada ’ s long-term care homes during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic has prompted Quebec to call a public inquiry and Ontario to launch an independent commission .
Both provinces called in the military to help at the hardest hit homes .
Grant reported that Canada had fewer COVID-19 deaths in general but more nursing home deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in long-term care is that Canada has done a better job of protecting people outside of seniors ’ homes from the virus than many of its peer countries .
As of May 25 , Canada had recorded fewer COVID-19 deaths per million than the OECD average , better than Belgium , Spain , Britain , the U.S. and others , but worse than standouts such as Australia , Israel and Norway .
Canadian triage protocols , during the COVID-19 crisis denied many elderly people and people with disabilities hospital admittance and often only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rather than effective treatment .
More articles on this topic : • Pandemic palliative care protocol .
Selecting people to die and abusing the purpose of palliative care ( Link ) .
• Report on Quebec nursing homes confirms the need to rethink nursing homes ( Link ) .
Published with permission from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition .

The horrific number of Canadian nursing home deaths is twice the OECD average and worse than any other OECD country.
June 30, 2020 (Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — We need to rethink nursing homes and support community based care.
A few days ago I republished an article by Michael Cook concerning the abuse of “palliative drug” cocktails in Sweden, during the COVID-19 crisis, that led to higher percentages of deaths and at least 50% of the deaths being residents of nursing homes.
Kelly Grant, the Globe and Mail Health Reporter, published a report on June 25, 2020 confirming that 81% of Canadian COVID-19 deaths were long-term care residents.
I published several articles (listed below) warning that the COVID-19 triage guidelines and protocols were leading to many seniors being denied admittance to hospital and many others receiving morphine and comfort care rather than effective treatment. I knew that many of the seniors may have died anyway, but others, who would have survived, were denied the option of recovery. This was a form of discrimination, elder abuse and even murder.
The horrific number of Canadian nursing home deaths is twice the OECD average and worse than any other OECD country. Grant reports:
Canada has done a far worse job of protecting nursing-home residents from the coronavirus than other wealthy countries, according to a new analysis that shows the places that fared best made sweeping changes at seniors’ facilities as soon as they shut their societies down. Just over 80 per cent of Canada’s known COVID-19 deaths were in residents of nursing or retirement homes as of May 25, nearly double the average for countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, says a new report from Canada’s health care statistics agency. Spain was next, with 66 per cent of its total COVID-19 deaths in residents of seniors’ facilities, followed by Norway and Israel at 58 per cent and Ireland at 56 per cent. Some of the countries examined in the report, including Slovenia, Hungary and the Netherlands, had fewer than 20 per cent of their COVID-19 deaths in such homes.
Grant refers to the report from the Public Health Agency of Canada by stating:
The most recent in-depth report from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), released last Friday, shows Canada has logged coronavirus outbreaks in 971 nursing and retirement facilities, leading to nearly 6,000 deaths. PHAC reported 8,454 COVID-19 deaths overall as of Tuesday. The tragedy that unfolded inside Canada’s long-term care homes during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic has prompted Quebec to call a public inquiry and Ontario to launch an independent commission. Both provinces called in the military to help at the hardest hit homes.
Grant reported that Canada had fewer COVID-19 deaths in general but more nursing home deaths.
The flip side of the tragedy in long-term care is that Canada has done a better job of protecting people outside of seniors’ homes from the virus than many of its peer countries. As of May 25, Canada had recorded fewer COVID-19 deaths per million than the OECD average, better than Belgium, Spain, Britain, the U.S. and others, but worse than standouts such as Australia, Israel and Norway.
Canadian triage protocols, during the COVID-19 crisis denied many elderly people and people with disabilities hospital admittance and often only offered these people morphine and comfort measures rather than effective treatment.
More articles on this topic:
Published with permission from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-30--Leftists are taking conservative Americans hostage through cultural tyranny

June 30 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — Cultural tyranny reigns in America , the last step before full-fledged political tyranny .
Lurking beneath the surface of virtue-signaling leftists are tyrants seeking to exert their will over those they despise .
The defining leftist culture enables them to ruthlessly use all the power at their disposal , both real and imagined , to enforce a single acceptable viewpoint on society .
In some geographic areas , this is more obvious than in others , but no area will ultimately be spared .
This week , my wife volunteered during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came by the booth to get information on the candidates , she offered these Republican voters an opportunity to sign up for yard signs .
Most whispered that they could never put something like that up in their neighborhood .
That 's understandable .
Unless a family is willing to stand guard 24/7 over their property , a Trump bumper sticker or sign here is a risky proposition at best .
And so the Northern Virginia neighborhoods surrounding us are dotted with almost exclusively Democrat yard signs and the ubiquitous and unintentionally ironic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ signs that blare that their homes are sanctuaries of vile hatred and small-minded contempt .
When people ca n't put a bumper sticker for their preferred candidate on their car , they have suffered a loss of liberty .
No Republicans who have paid even a little bit of attention expect the prevailing powers in Democrat areas to safeguard their property or even their lives and liberty .
The very reason for establishing a government has been upended .
In this area , liberty-minded people almost operate like a secret society , sending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this country do not feel they need to hide their political allegiance or culturally approved viewpoints .
Most never shut up about it , believing they are speaking truth to power , even as they bask in the approval of the corrupt and wicked power centers .
Nobody gets to sit this one out .
The cultural enforcers expect everyone to parrot their talking points publicly , to destroy all resistance , forcing dissenters to grovel in submission .
That 's the whole idea behind the `` silence is violence '' aggression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of silence ; it is forcing people to say what no sane person should believe in order not to be destroyed .
Few stand against this pressure , which is why nearly all major companies and organizations have come out with quisling statements of support of the name of a vile Marxist organization like Black Lives Matter .
It 's why Hillsdale College 's response was so notable , because it was a rare exception to the rule .
( This was not surprising coming from one of the only places in America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tremendous heritage of liberty when the cultural zeitgeist is to rip them all down and start at a Marxist Year Zero . )
Hate groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter operate quite freely in this environment , serving as the cultural shock troops and the terrorist wing of the cultural tyrants who have taken over the Democrat party .
Consider just a few of the displays we 've watched over the last few weeks .
A football coach had to apologize for wearing a One America News sweatshirt ... in Oklahoma .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ military leaders bowed before their cultural masters .
We watched as statues of George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , Francis Scott Key , Theodore Roosevelt , Abraham Lincoln , and even an assortment of abolitionists either were destroyed or came under attack , even as discussions of replacing the National Anthem erupted from the propaganda and activist cultural tyrants .
We watched as the weaponization of the federal bureaucracy by a U.S. president against a president of the opposite party was unveiled before our eyes to a massive shrug by the seditious media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use of state power by their fellow leftist travelers in the bureaucracy .
They are smug in their belief that they can use their cultural power to protect the perpetrators , whom they regard as heroes .
We even watched as a sports league that caters to a conservative audience was complicit in perpetrating a crazy Jussie .
We observed an emboldened social media giant censoring the president of the United States for promising to protect Americans .
We also watched what I believe is the vilest propaganda campaign of my lifetime , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a racist with barely a protest .
The guardians of civil order , who put their lives on the line every day , often under unimaginably difficult circumstances , to protect their fellow Americans , are being demoralized and hounded out of service .
This has created the fertile ground for a massive increase in lawlessness that will result in a significant rise in the deaths of black Americans , showing that black lives matter not a lick to those claiming that name .
I wish I had a dollar for every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in my lifetime did I expect to see ... '' over the last few weeks .
We are living in the upside-down when patriotism is outlawed , the vilest of criminals are celebrated , and brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line daily are slandered as the worst of society so thoroughly that it descended into evil farce , when a kid 's show , Paw Patrol , came under attack since it is apparently racist to have a positive police character in a children 's show .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ playing to win .
Anyone who does n't get that by now , to include most of the NeverTrumps , is either irredeemably stupid or an active collaborator .
Every pillar of cultural power in America , to include the unholy trinity of academia , the media , and government , has declared cultural war on at least half the country .
Yet NeverTrumps reserve almost all of their scorn for those with the audacity not to drop to their knees and surrender .
It is long past time for Republicans to fully @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fight .
The phrase `` silent majority '' has been bandied around quite a bit in the last couple weeks .
Americans are silent because the cultural tyrants ensure there is a price to pay for any peep of sane protest , which is also why Republican voters are undercounted in polls .
The problem is that the silence enables the leftists to continue to drive the narrative and normalize ideas and behaviors that would have been considered unfathomable just a few short years ago while winning more converts , which shrinks that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideas that are being force-fed to every young person in America , and we are paying a heavy price for that .
I 'd like to see far more people vocally pushing back against the mob within their social circles .
Every person who pushes back emboldens others to do the same .
There also needs to be a sustained and concerted effort to retake academia , the true center of gravity whose main product that it is returning to America is Marxist cultural tyrants .
The culture war matters when you are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you believe Andrew Breitbart , that politics is downstream of culture , we are getting dangerously close to losing everything , to include our liberty .
Fletch Daniels can be found on Twitter at @ fletchdaniels .
Published with permission from the American Thinker .

In many parts of the country, Republicans cannot even put a bumper sticker on their cars without fear of violent retaliation.
June 30, 2020 (American Thinker) — Cultural tyranny reigns in America, the last step before full-fledged political tyranny.
Lurking beneath the surface of virtue-signaling leftists are tyrants seeking to exert their will over those they despise. The defining leftist culture enables them to ruthlessly use all the power at their disposal, both real and imagined, to enforce a single acceptable viewpoint on society.
In some geographic areas, this is more obvious than in others, but no area will ultimately be spared. This week, my wife volunteered during the Virginia Republican primary. As people came by the booth to get information on the candidates, she offered these Republican voters an opportunity to sign up for yard signs. Most whispered that they could never put something like that up in their neighborhood. That's understandable. Unless a family is willing to stand guard 24/7 over their property, a Trump bumper sticker or sign here is a risky proposition at best.
And so the Northern Virginia neighborhoods surrounding us are dotted with almost exclusively Democrat yard signs and the ubiquitous and unintentionally ironic “Hate Has No Home Here” signs that blare that their homes are sanctuaries of vile hatred and small-minded contempt.
When people can't put a bumper sticker for their preferred candidate on their car, they have suffered a loss of liberty. No Republicans who have paid even a little bit of attention expect the prevailing powers in Democrat areas to safeguard their property or even their lives and liberty. The very reason for establishing a government has been upended. In this area, liberty-minded people almost operate like a secret society, sending quiet signals to one another.
Democrats in this country do not feel they need to hide their political allegiance or culturally approved viewpoints. Most never shut up about it, believing they are speaking truth to power, even as they bask in the approval of the corrupt and wicked power centers.
Nobody gets to sit this one out. The cultural enforcers expect everyone to parrot their talking points publicly, to destroy all resistance, forcing dissenters to grovel in submission. That's the whole idea behind the “silence is violence” aggression. Cultural violence is quite the opposite of silence; it is forcing people to say what no sane person should believe in order not to be destroyed.
Few stand against this pressure, which is why nearly all major companies and organizations have come out with quisling statements of support of the name of a vile Marxist organization like Black Lives Matter. It's why Hillsdale College's response was so notable, because it was a rare exception to the rule. (This was not surprising coming from one of the only places in America still putting up statues to honor our tremendous heritage of liberty when the cultural zeitgeist is to rip them all down and start at a Marxist Year Zero.) Hate groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter operate quite freely in this environment, serving as the cultural shock troops and the terrorist wing of the cultural tyrants who have taken over the Democrat party.
Consider just a few of the displays we've watched over the last few weeks. A football coach had to apologize for wearing a One America News sweatshirt…in Oklahoma. We watched as most of our senior military leaders bowed before their cultural masters. We watched as statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Scott Key, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and even an assortment of abolitionists either were destroyed or came under attack, even as discussions of replacing the National Anthem erupted from the propaganda and activist cultural tyrants.
We watched as the weaponization of the federal bureaucracy by a U.S. president against a president of the opposite party was unveiled before our eyes to a massive shrug by the seditious media, who see it as a wonderful use of state power by their fellow leftist travelers in the bureaucracy. They are smug in their belief that they can use their cultural power to protect the perpetrators, whom they regard as heroes.
We even watched as a sports league that caters to a conservative audience was complicit in perpetrating a crazy Jussie. We observed an emboldened social media giant censoring the president of the United States for promising to protect Americans.
We also watched what I believe is the vilest propaganda campaign of my lifetime, when every cop in America was slandered as a racist with barely a protest. The guardians of civil order, who put their lives on the line every day, often under unimaginably difficult circumstances, to protect their fellow Americans, are being demoralized and hounded out of service. This has created the fertile ground for a massive increase in lawlessness that will result in a significant rise in the deaths of black Americans, showing that black lives matter not a lick to those claiming that name.
I wish I had a dollar for every American who uttered the phrase “never in my lifetime did I expect to see…” over the last few weeks. We are living in the upside-down when patriotism is outlawed, the vilest of criminals are celebrated, and brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line daily are slandered as the worst of society so thoroughly that it descended into evil farce, when a kid's show, Paw Patrol, came under attack since it is apparently racist to have a positive police character in a children's show.
This is war, and the left is playing to win. Anyone who doesn't get that by now, to include most of the NeverTrumps, is either irredeemably stupid or an active collaborator. Every pillar of cultural power in America, to include the unholy trinity of academia, the media, and government, has declared cultural war on at least half the country. Yet NeverTrumps reserve almost all of their scorn for those with the audacity not to drop to their knees and surrender.
It is long past time for Republicans to fully understand the enemy and take up this fight. The phrase “silent majority” has been bandied around quite a bit in the last couple weeks. Americans are silent because the cultural tyrants ensure there is a price to pay for any peep of sane protest, which is also why Republican voters are undercounted in polls.
The problem is that the silence enables the leftists to continue to drive the narrative and normalize ideas and behaviors that would have been considered unfathomable just a few short years ago while winning more converts, which shrinks that sane majority. It is their toxic ideas that are being force-fed to every young person in America, and we are paying a heavy price for that.
I'd like to see far more people vocally pushing back against the mob within their social circles. Every person who pushes back emboldens others to do the same. There also needs to be a sustained and concerted effort to retake academia, the true center of gravity whose main product that it is returning to America is Marxist cultural tyrants.
The culture war matters when you are living in a cultural tyranny. If you believe Andrew Breitbart, that politics is downstream of culture, we are getting dangerously close to losing everything, to include our liberty.
Fletch Daniels can be found on Twitter at @fletchdaniels.
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-30--Liberal media outlet tries, fails to refute report on pro-abortion Ohio former health director

June 30 , 2020 ( Operation Rescue ) — USA Today has taken a sudden interest in a series of articles originally published at www.OperationRescue.org and reprinted by www.LifeNews.com related to former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton , who resigned on June 11 , 2020 .
In particular , USA Today decided to “ fact check ” four claims made in a December 5 , 2019 , article , “ Ohio Official that Licensed Dangerous Late-Term Abortion Mill Worked on Obama Presidential Campaign.
” USA Today ’ s “ fact-check ” can be read in its entirety here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Today ’ s reactions to them — will be addressed one at a time .
1.
“ Acton was an ‘ activist ’ for the campaign of Barack Obama .
While USA Today seemed to take issue with our calling Acton an “ activist ” instead of a “ volunteer , ” it found that our statement was factual .
There was also a discussion about claiming Acton was a Democrat , because in certain elections she did not declare a party .
However , we stand by our statement that Acton identifies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has declared a party affiliation , it has always been for the Democrat Party , even according to USA Today ’ s own information .
USA Today disputed this claim as “ specious at best.
” However , it admitted that before Acton accepted the job as Ohio Department of Health Director , she worked at the Columbus Foundation , where she served as a “ Community Research and Grants Management officer ” who directed funds to non-profit organizations specified by the donor .
It also confirmed that NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such accounts managed by Acton , along with various other non-profits , some of which were pro-life organizations .
USA Today noted that “ Acton ’ s specialty was assisting homeless youth ” because “ Acton herself says she was homeless for a winter growing up.
” It implied heavily , without documentation , that the 4 % of undesignated funds went to help homeless youth .
It insisted that Acton had no “ connection ” to abortion charities .
However , Operation Rescue never made any claims as to where Acton placed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Acton ’ s claims of homelessness are disputed by her mother , Donna Arthur , who contacted Operation Rescue to tell her side of the story after reading Acton ’ s public claims about her childhood .
Arthur insists her daughter was never homeless , was always fed , and was never neglected while Arthur had custody of her up until she was 12 years old .
It is noteworthy that Arthur also claims that from early childhood , her daughter had a propensity to lie .
Therefore , Acton ’ s homeless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Today , are disputed by the one person who would actually know the truth .
We stand by our assertion that Action has “ ties to abortion charities.
” She arranged for designated financial gifts to go to NARAL of Ohio and Planned Parenthood .
Because she serviced those accounts — apparently without known complaint — that makes her “ tied ” or connected to them .
It would only be fair to say she was not connected to abortion charities if Acton had never serviced those accounts 3 .
“ Acton used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ keep open a suburban Dayton abortion clinic.
” USA Today claims that statement is false because Acton followed the law .
The clinic , owned and operated by nationally-known late-term abortionist Martin Haskell had been engaged in a long-running licensing dispute with the Ohio Department of Health , which had acted to revoke its facility license due to failure to meet licensing requirements that mandated abortion facilities maintain a local hospital transfer agreement or an approved agreement with back-up physicians that could provide hospital care to patients since no abortionist on staff with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dayton held such privileges , including Haskell .
Those facts are not in dispute .
Operation Rescue stands by its claim that a license was granted due to Acton secretly working with the Women ’ s Med Center of Dayton to circumvent the abortion license revocation after the Ohio Supreme Court announced it would not hear Haskell ’ s appeal of a State Appellate ruling that cleared the way for the ODH to revoke the facility license .
A timeline with links to documents is presented here to help clear up the confusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State Appeals Court rules against Plaintiff Women ’ s Med Center of Dayton , clearing the way for abortion license revocation .
( Ruling . )
§ June 26 , 2019 : Women ’ s Med Center of Dayton submits an agreement with three back-up physicians and requests it be used to grant a variance from the hospital transfer requirement .
That agreement was not accepted .
§ August 21 , 2019 : Ohio Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of the March 29 , 2019 , ruling .
§ August 25 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Med Center of Dayton submits a new application changing the name of the clinic to Women ’ s Med Dayton — one day Acton ’ s letter informing them one was needed .
This indicates coordination between Acton and the Dayton abortion facility .
§ August 26 , 2019 : Acton sent a letter to Women ’ s Med Center of Dayton informing them that if they want an abortion facility license , they must refile a new application — something WMCD had already prepared .
§ Also that same day , Women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not the new Women ’ s Med Dayton as on the application ) , resubmitted a revised variance application and back-up physician agreement .
§ October 25 , 2020 : Acton sends a letter to WMCD approving the August 26 variance even though it does not reference the Women ’ s Med Dayton .
She also informs WMCD that the new application ( under Women ’ s Med Dayton ) , will be reviewed and an inspection scheduled .
She adds , “ It is my expectation that the Women ’ s Med @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a new license .
§ October 29 , 2020 : The Ohio Supreme Court issues a refusal to revisit their decision not to hear the WMCD licensing case .
This exhausts WMCD ’ s appeals .
§ Also that day , Acton revoked Women ’ s Med Center Dayton ’ s abortion facility license and listed it as “ closed.
” § The Women ’ s Med Dayton application was listed as pending .
§ November 5 , 2019 : Acton issues a new abortion facility license to the Women ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the name of the now shuttered Women ’ s Med Center Dayton , even though her August 26 letter notes that , “ Any variance request would have to be in support of a new license application.
” Based on this documentation , it is clear that Acton acted in cooperation with Haskell to make sure the Dayton facility was licensed .
She accepted a back-up physician agreement filed under the name of the shuttered Women ’ s Med Center Dayton to support the new Women ’ s Med Dayton application , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Women ’ s Med Dayton clinic complied with licensing requirements .
This is the very definition of a “ duplicitous paperwork shuffle ” and Operation Rescue stands by that claim .
4 .
“ The Dayton abortion clinic is allowed to ‘ abort babies up to birth.
’ ” USA Today finds this claim to be false , which shows Darrel Rowland , who conducted the “ fact check ” has little understanding of how late-term abortions for “ fetal indications ” fit into the exemptions in Ohio law .
It is true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that a 2017 state law prohibits abortions beyond 20 weeks gestation with exceptions for non-viable fetuses or if the mother will suffer a “ substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function ” if the pregnancy were allowed to continue .
Viability is always determined by the abortionist .
An unborn baby may be considered “ non-viable ” at any stage of pregnancy — including up to the time of birth — if the abortionist decides that the baby will not survive birth , or will not experience “ sustained survival ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from KFF.com , which is the website for a California-based health care policy organization .
Therefore , if an unborn baby is determined by the abortionist attending the mother to be non-viable due to health conditions of the baby , a baby may indeed be legally aborted up until the time of birth , even in Ohio due to the non-viability exemption .
The Dayton clinic ’ s own website confirms that it does in fact offer abortions for “ fetal indications ” on unborn babies it deems “ non-viable.
” In conclusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by USA Today inaccurately classifies various claims made by Operation Rescue as not factual or only partially factual , when in reality , every claim we have made is backed up by substantiating documentation .
Operation Rescue President Troy Newman summarized , “ It would be accurate and fair to say , based on the flaws in the USA Today ’ s fact-checking story , that their false conclusions are ‘ fake news .
’ ”

USA Today has taken a sudden interest in a series of articles related to former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton.
June 30, 2020 (Operation Rescue) — USA Today has taken a sudden interest in a series of articles originally published at www.OperationRescue.org and reprinted by www.LifeNews.com related to former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton, who resigned on June 11, 2020.
In particular, USA Today decided to “fact check” four claims made in a December 5, 2019, article, “Ohio Official that Licensed Dangerous Late-Term Abortion Mill Worked on Obama Presidential Campaign.”
USA Today’s “fact-check” can be read in its entirety here.
The four claims — and USA Today’s reactions to them — will be addressed one at a time.
1.“Acton was an ‘activist’ for the campaign of Barack Obama.
While USA Today seemed to take issue with our calling Acton an “activist” instead of a “volunteer,” it found that our statement was factual.
There was also a discussion about claiming Acton was a Democrat, because in certain elections she did not declare a party. However, we stand by our statement that Acton identifies as a Democrat because every time she has declared a party affiliation, it has always been for the Democrat Party, even according to USA Today’s own information.
2. “Acton has ‘ties to abortion charities.’”
USA Today disputed this claim as “specious at best.” However, it admitted that before Acton accepted the job as Ohio Department of Health Director, she worked at the Columbus Foundation, where she served as a “Community Research and Grants Management officer” who directed funds to non-profit organizations specified by the donor. It also confirmed that NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation and Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio were among such accounts managed by Acton, along with various other non-profits, some of which were pro-life organizations.
USA Today noted that “Acton’s specialty was assisting homeless youth” because “Acton herself says she was homeless for a winter growing up.” It implied heavily, without documentation, that the 4% of undesignated funds went to help homeless youth. It insisted that Acton had no “connection” to abortion charities.
However, Operation Rescue never made any claims as to where Acton placed the 4% of undesignated gifts.
Acton’s claims of homelessness are disputed by her mother, Donna Arthur, who contacted Operation Rescue to tell her side of the story after reading Acton’s public claims about her childhood. Arthur insists her daughter was never homeless, was always fed, and was never neglected while Arthur had custody of her up until she was 12 years old. It is noteworthy that Arthur also claims that from early childhood, her daughter had a propensity to lie. Therefore, Acton’s homeless claims, repeated as fact by USA Today, are disputed by the one person who would actually know the truth.
We stand by our assertion that Action has “ties to abortion charities.” She arranged for designated financial gifts to go to NARAL of Ohio and Planned Parenthood. Because she serviced those accounts — apparently without known complaint — that makes her “tied” or connected to them. It would only be fair to say she was not connected to abortion charities if Acton had never serviced those accounts
3. “Acton used ‘a duplicitous paperwork shuffle’ to keep open a suburban Dayton abortion clinic.”
USA Today claims that statement is false because Acton followed the law.
The clinic, owned and operated by nationally-known late-term abortionist Martin Haskell had been engaged in a long-running licensing dispute with the Ohio Department of Health, which had acted to revoke its facility license due to failure to meet licensing requirements that mandated abortion facilities maintain a local hospital transfer agreement or an approved agreement with back-up physicians that could provide hospital care to patients since no abortionist on staff with the Women’s Med Center of Dayton held such privileges, including Haskell.
Those facts are not in dispute.
Operation Rescue stands by its claim that a license was granted due to Acton secretly working with the Women’s Med Center of Dayton to circumvent the abortion license revocation after the Ohio Supreme Court announced it would not hear Haskell’s appeal of a State Appellate ruling that cleared the way for the ODH to revoke the facility license.
A timeline with links to documents is presented here to help clear up the confusion.
§ March 29, 2019: State Appeals Court rules against Plaintiff Women’s Med Center of Dayton, clearing the way for abortion license revocation. (Ruling.)
§ June 26, 2019: Women’s Med Center of Dayton submits an agreement with three back-up physicians and requests it be used to grant a variance from the hospital transfer requirement. That agreement was not accepted.
§ August 21, 2019: Ohio Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of the March 29, 2019, ruling.
§ August 25, 2019: The Women’s Med Center of Dayton submits a new application changing the name of the clinic to Women’s Med Dayton — one day before Acton’s letter informing them one was needed. This indicates coordination between Acton and the Dayton abortion facility.
§ August 26, 2019: Acton sent a letter to Women’s Med Center of Dayton informing them that if they want an abortion facility license, they must refile a new application — something WMCD had already prepared.
§ Also that same day, Women’s Med Center of Dayton (not the new Women’s Med Dayton as on the application), resubmitted a revised variance application and back-up physician agreement.
§ October 25, 2020: Acton sends a letter to WMCD approving the August 26 variance even though it does not reference the Women’s Med Dayton. She also informs WMCD that the new application (under Women’s Med Dayton), will be reviewed and an inspection scheduled. She adds, “It is my expectation that the Women’s Med Center will comply with the requirements” for a new license.
§ October 29, 2020: The Ohio Supreme Court issues a refusal to revisit their decision not to hear the WMCD licensing case. This exhausts WMCD’s appeals.
§ Also that day, Acton revoked Women’s Med Center Dayton’s abortion facility license and listed it as “closed.”
§ The Women’s Med Dayton application was listed as pending.
§ November 5, 2019: Acton issues a new abortion facility license to the Women’s Med Dayton using the variance submitted in the name of the now shuttered Women’s Med Center Dayton, even though her August 26 letter notes that, “Any variance request would have to be in support of a new license application.”
Based on this documentation, it is clear that Acton acted in cooperation with Haskell to make sure the Dayton facility was licensed. She accepted a back-up physician agreement filed under the name of the shuttered Women’s Med Center Dayton to support the new Women’s Med Dayton application, and used it to make it appear the Women’s Med Dayton clinic complied with licensing requirements. This is the very definition of a “duplicitous paperwork shuffle” and Operation Rescue stands by that claim.
4. “The Dayton abortion clinic is allowed to ‘abort babies up to birth.’”
USA Today finds this claim to be false, which shows Darrel Rowland, who conducted the “fact check” has little understanding of how late-term abortions for “fetal indications” fit into the exemptions in Ohio law.
It is true, and the news organization states, that a 2017 state law prohibits abortions beyond 20 weeks gestation with exceptions for non-viable fetuses or if the mother will suffer a “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function” if the pregnancy were allowed to continue.
Viability is always determined by the abortionist. An unborn baby may be considered “non-viable” at any stage of pregnancy — including up to the time of birth — if the abortionist decides that the baby will not survive birth, or will not experience “sustained survival” after birth.
Here is a quote from KFF.com, which is the website for a California-based health care policy organization.
In a subsequent Supreme Court case on abortion, the court defined viability as follows: “Viability is reached when, in the judgment of the attending physician on the particular facts of the case before him, there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus’ sustained survival outside the womb, with or without artificial support. Because this point may differ with each pregnancy, neither the legislature nor the courts may proclaim one of the elements entering into the ascertainment of viability — be it weeks of gestation or fetal weight or any other single factor — as the determinant of when the State has a compelling interest in the life or health of the fetus.” Colautti v. Franklin (1979)
Therefore, if an unborn baby is determined by the abortionist attending the mother to be non-viable due to health conditions of the baby, a baby may indeed be legally aborted up until the time of birth, even in Ohio due to the non-viability exemption.
The Dayton clinic’s own website confirms that it does in fact offer abortions for “fetal indications” on unborn babies it deems “non-viable.”
In conclusion, the “fact check” done by USA Today inaccurately classifies various claims made by Operation Rescue as not factual or only partially factual, when in reality, every claim we have made is backed up by substantiating documentation.
Operation Rescue President Troy Newman summarized, “It would be accurate and fair to say, based on the flaws in the USA Today’s fact-checking story, that their false conclusions are ‘fake news.’”
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lifesitenews--2020-06-30--‘Clueless’ Planned Parenthood staffer flounders with 911 while patient lies unresponsive

AURORA , Illinois , June 30 , 2020 ( Operation Rescue ) — As one of Planned Parenthood ’ s abortion patient was lying unresponsive , an employee of the abortion facility located in Aurora , Illinois , phoned 911 for help .
The conversation between the obtuse clinic worker and the 911 dispatcher revealed a familiarity that only comes from repeated interaction .
“ It is obvious that the Aurora 911 dispatchers are very familiar with the Planned Parenthood in their community , ” said Troy Newman .
“ That shows that women are being injured far too often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unsafe.
” In fact , with the help of the Pro-life Action League , which has supplied Operation Rescue with 911 records for this facility , there have been at least eleven documented medical emergencies known to have occurred at this facility since it opened in 2012 .
The Planned Parenthood worker seemed to be completely incapable of answering questions made by the 911 dispatcher .
Even a simple request for her to give a proper address seemed to be beyond her capacity .
911 : 911 , can I help you ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ please ?
911 : I ’ m sorry , you broke up .
[ Audio did not actually break up . ]
911 : I need you to provide the address , please .
PP : Sure , give me one second .
[ Pause . ]
3051 .
No street name was given .
At this point , there are doubts that the Planned Parenthood caller even knows what a street address is .
The dispatcher gives up and moves on .
911 : And who needs the ambulance .
911 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m asking you .
PP : A patient .
Yes .
We have a patient here – 911 : And what ’ s wrong with her ?
The dispatcher seems to understand very well the types of injuries to expect from this Planned Parenthood facility , and that is reflected in the questioning .
Having a patient who is not responsive is a very serious thing , and there are a number of things that could cause that , none of which were volunteered by the Planned Parenthood worker .
But that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Parenthood caller seemed completely unaware of her orientation to basic ordinal directions , something most people are taught how to determine as children .
At this point the caller consults with others at Planned Parenthood and a debate begins about whether the side door is on the north side of the building .
Finally , the caller returns to the dispatcher .
“ It ’ s the west entrance .
Use the west entrance , ” she finally said .
“ Planned Parenthood should never let this woman touch a telephone again .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be this incapable , if the situation wasn ’ t so deadly serious , ” said Newman .
The unresponsive woman was transported to a local hospital for emergency care that the Planned Parenthood facility could not provide .
“ This was a very dangerous situation for the woman involved , and we hope she got the care she needed , despite the clueless Planned Parenthood caller .
But honestly , women should think long and hard before submitting to an abortion at Planned Parenthood or any other abortion facility , ” said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the precious unborn baby , who deserves a chance a life .
But it is also often extremely dangerous for women , and we have literally hundreds of documented cases of hor-rific abortion injuries and death to prove it .
”

There are doubts that the Planned Parenthood caller even knew what a street address is.
AURORA, Illinois, June 30, 2020 (Operation Rescue) — As one of Planned Parenthood’s abortion patient was lying unresponsive, an employee of the abortion facility located in Aurora, Illinois, phoned 911 for help.
The conversation between the obtuse clinic worker and the 911 dispatcher revealed a familiarity that only comes from repeated interaction.
“It is obvious that the Aurora 911 dispatchers are very familiar with the Planned Parenthood in their community,” said Troy Newman. “That shows that women are being injured far too often and that abortions at Planned Parenthood are unsafe.”
In fact, with the help of the Pro-life Action League, which has supplied Operation Rescue with 911 records for this facility, there have been at least eleven documented medical emergencies known to have occurred at this facility since it opened in 2012.
The Planned Parenthood worker seemed to be completely incapable of answering questions made by the 911 dispatcher. Even a simple request for her to give a proper address seemed to be beyond her capacity.
911: 911, can I help you? PP: Can I have an ambulance please? 911: Sure, what address? PP: We’re at three-zero Planned Parenthood in Aurora. 911: I’m sorry, you broke up. [Audio did not actually break up.] PP: Yes, Planned Parenthood in Aur— 911: I need you to provide the address, please. PP: Sure, give me one second. [Pause.] 3051.
No street name was given. At this point, there are doubts that the Planned Parenthood caller even knows what a street address is. The dispatcher gives up and moves on.
911: And who needs the ambulance. PP: Yes. 911: Who needs the ambulance is what I’m asking you. PP: A patient. Yes. We have a patient here – 911: And what’s wrong with her? PP: She’s not responding.
The dispatcher seems to understand very well the types of injuries to expect from this Planned Parenthood facility, and that is reflected in the questioning.
911: Did she have a procedure? [Aka, abortion.] PP: Yes, she did. 911: Is she breathing, at least? PP: She is. 911: Is she hemorrhaging at all? PP: Um, no. 911: Any medical conditions we should know about? PP: No, not on this one.
Having a patient who is not responsive is a very serious thing, and there are a number of things that could cause that, none of which were volunteered by the Planned Parenthood worker.
But that wasn’t all. The Planned Parenthood caller seemed completely unaware of her orientation to basic ordinal directions, something most people are taught how to determine as children.
911: What door do you want the ambulance to use? PP: They can come to the side door. 911: Which side. You’ve got four sides to your building.
At this point the caller consults with others at Planned Parenthood and a debate begins about whether the side door is on the north side of the building. Finally, the caller returns to the dispatcher.
“It’s the west entrance. Use the west entrance,” she finally said.
“Planned Parenthood should never let this woman touch a telephone again. It would be laughable that someone could be this incapable, if the situation wasn’t so deadly serious,” said Newman.
The unresponsive woman was transported to a local hospital for emergency care that the Planned Parenthood facility could not provide.
“This was a very dangerous situation for the woman involved, and we hope she got the care she needed, despite the clueless Planned Parenthood caller. But honestly, women should think long and hard before submitting to an abortion at Planned Parenthood or any other abortion facility,” said Newman. “Abortion is fatal to the precious unborn baby, who deserves a chance a life. But it is also often extremely dangerous for women, and we have literally hundreds of documented cases of hor-rific abortion injuries and death to prove it.”
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lifesitenews--2020-06-30--St. John Henry Newman would not tolerate leaving people outside the Church

June 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Today , on the traditional Roman rite calendar , is the Commemoration of the Apostle St. Paul .
In olden times , June 29 was so focused on celebrating the figure of St. Peter ( see Propers for June 29 ) that St. Paul was thrown somewhat into the shade , and , out of that sentiment of courtesy so characteristic of Western civilization at its height , the feast was extended into a second day on which Peter ’ s Roman companion Paul would receive the lion ’ s share of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
St. Paul is often put forward as a representative of Protestantism or as an emblem of ecumenism , but he is neither ; he is as Catholic a saint as St. Philip Neri or St. John Henry Newman .
Last month , I spoke about Newman ’ s devotion to St. Philip Neri , who lived at the time of the Protestant revolt , when Christians were abandoning Holy Mother Church in favor of self-constructed churchettes .
Neri understood that a major incentive ( if not justification ) for such defections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corruption displayed by the earthly members of the Catholic Church .
For the love of God , he — like history ’ s greatest evangelist , St. Paul — devoted all his energies to the recovery and deeper conversion of nominal Catholics , a spiritual work of charity our age needs just as much as , if not more than , his own .
We can see an analogous passionate devotion to the revitalization of Catholicism in St. Philip ’ s most famous disciple , St. John Henry Newman , for whom it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an earnest attempt to “ recatholicize ” the Anglican Church ; second , after abandoning the Anglican Church as a lost cause , a no less earnest attempt to help his fellow countrymen rediscover the truth of Catholicism and to embrace it wholly , as he had done , leaving behind a national church that had been fashioned by men out of bits and pieces of Christian tradition .
A striking passage in the Apologia Pro Vita Sua ( Note E ) expresses just this point : [ U ] nwilling as I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I am bound to confess that [ upon my conversion ] I felt a great change in my view of the Church of England .
I can not tell how soon there came on me , — but very soon , — an extreme astonishment that I had ever imagined it to be a portion of the Catholic Church .
For the first time , I looked at it from without , and ( as I should myself say ) saw it as it was .
Forthwith I could not get myself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , than what I had so long fearfully suspected , from as far back as 1836 , — a mere national institution [ . ]
... And so I recognize in the Anglican Church a time-honoured institution , of noble historical memories , a monument of ancient wisdom , a momentous arm of political strength , a great national organ , a source of vast popular advantage , and , to a certain point , a witness and teacher of religious truth [ ] .
... [ B ] ut that it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oracle of revealed doctrine , that it can claim a share in St. Ignatius or St. Cyprian , that it can take the rank , contest the teaching , and stop the path of the Church of St. Peter , that it can call itself “ the Bride of the Lamb , ” this is the view of it which simply disappeared from my mind on my conversion , and which it would be almost a miracle to reproduce .
In spite of passages like this , there were not lacking Catholic bishops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Newman ’ s canonization on October 13 , 2019 , who hailed Newman as a forerunner of today ’ s ecumenism .
He was , in fact , nothing of the sort .
He would have held in contempt the idea that “ we should all just faithfully continue to be whatever we are ” : Lutherans should be good Lutherans , Anglicans should be good Anglicans , and so forth , until at some unspecified Omega Point all confessional differences melt away and we find ourselves as one Church , not through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of passive convergence .
In truth , Newman expended himself in the effort to explain to non-Catholics why the Catholic Church was the one true Church , and consequently — with their prejudices removed and drawn by God ’ s grace — why they should become Catholics , even as he had done ( and at immense personal cost , living for decades with the burdens of his decision ) .
On the day of his reception into the Catholic Church , October 9 , 1845 , he sent out thirty letters to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called the Catholic Church “ the one true Fold of the Redeemer.
” After 1845 , he always prayed that England would return to the Faith , and he worried seriously about the salvation of those outside the fold .
In a letter of 1850 , Newman shows that he considers other Christians to possess individual truths , but that these truths find their normal , natural , and complete form and home in the Catholic Church : I do really think the character and variety of the converts to Catholicism of late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that there is such a thing as ascertainable truth in religion — and I am willing that a man should set against them , Luther , Cranmer , and Co. , if he wishes .
Next , it must be considered that , though there is a profession of certainty among Protestants , and pious earnest people among them , yet their certainty commonly relates to , and their religious life is seated in , doctrines which are included in Catholicism — so that their certainty can not be considered to contradict @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Ward i , 622–24 ) In a letter to Francis William Newman on January 18 , 1860 , he wrote : “ I think many a Protestant has principles in him which ought to make him a Catholic , if he followed them out.
” In a letter to Lady Heywood , November 15 , 1875 , Newman assessed the benefits of the Anglo-Catholic movement precisely by its fruits of conversion : In a letter on November 22 , 1875 , he advised one correspondent , Mrs. William Robinson Clark , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she was ready in conscience to do so : To another who had already converted , Miss Emily Buchanan , he wrote on April 16 of the same year : St. Paul lived and taught the Catholic faith in the 1st century , St. Philip Neri in the 16th , St. John Henry in the 19th , and every saint in every century did the same , regardless of changing circumstances and expressions .
This is the Faith all of us , too , are called to embrace , profess , and live @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , fighting a good fight , witnessing bolding for God and religion in the midst of sinners , overcoming ourselves and doing our whole duty .
By the prayers of the great Apostles of Rome Peter and Paul , of the “ Second Apostle ” of Rome , Philip , and of his saintly follower , may God be very gracious to us , as He was to them .

June 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Today, on the traditional Roman rite calendar, is the Commemoration of the Apostle St. Paul. In olden times, June 29 was so focused on celebrating the figure of St. Peter (see Propers for June 29) that St. Paul was thrown somewhat into the shade, and, out of that sentiment of courtesy so characteristic of Western civilization at its height, the feast was extended into a second day on which Peter’s Roman companion Paul would receive the lion’s share of attention (see Propers for June 30).
St. Paul is often put forward as a representative of Protestantism or as an emblem of ecumenism, but he is neither; he is as Catholic a saint as St. Philip Neri or St. John Henry Newman.
Last month, I spoke about Newman’s devotion to St. Philip Neri, who lived at the time of the Protestant revolt, when Christians were abandoning Holy Mother Church in favor of self-constructed churchettes. Neri understood that a major incentive (if not justification) for such defections was the lack of fervor and the corruption displayed by the earthly members of the Catholic Church. For the love of God, he — like history’s greatest evangelist, St. Paul — devoted all his energies to the recovery and deeper conversion of nominal Catholics, a spiritual work of charity our age needs just as much as, if not more than, his own.
We can see an analogous passionate devotion to the revitalization of Catholicism in St. Philip’s most famous disciple, St. John Henry Newman, for whom it took two basic forms: first, an earnest attempt to “recatholicize” the Anglican Church; second, after abandoning the Anglican Church as a lost cause, a no less earnest attempt to help his fellow countrymen rediscover the truth of Catholicism and to embrace it wholly, as he had done, leaving behind a national church that had been fashioned by men out of bits and pieces of Christian tradition. A striking passage in the Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Note E) expresses just this point:
[U]nwilling as I am to give offence to religious Anglicans, I am bound to confess that [upon my conversion] I felt a great change in my view of the Church of England. I cannot tell how soon there came on me, — but very soon, — an extreme astonishment that I had ever imagined it to be a portion of the Catholic Church. For the first time, I looked at it from without, and (as I should myself say) saw it as it was. Forthwith I could not get myself to see in it any thing else, than what I had so long fearfully suspected, from as far back as 1836, — a mere national institution[.] … And so I recognize in the Anglican Church a time-honoured institution, of noble historical memories, a monument of ancient wisdom, a momentous arm of political strength, a great national organ, a source of vast popular advantage, and, to a certain point, a witness and teacher of religious truth[]. … [B]ut that it is something sacred, that it is an oracle of revealed doctrine, that it can claim a share in St. Ignatius or St. Cyprian, that it can take the rank, contest the teaching, and stop the path of the Church of St. Peter, that it can call itself “the Bride of the Lamb,” this is the view of it which simply disappeared from my mind on my conversion, and which it would be almost a miracle to reproduce.
In spite of passages like this, there were not lacking Catholic bishops and cardinals, shortly before and after Newman’s canonization on October 13, 2019, who hailed Newman as a forerunner of today’s ecumenism. He was, in fact, nothing of the sort. He would have held in contempt the idea that “we should all just faithfully continue to be whatever we are”: Lutherans should be good Lutherans, Anglicans should be good Anglicans, and so forth, until at some unspecified Omega Point all confessional differences melt away and we find ourselves as one Church, not through active conversion, but by a kind of passive convergence.
In truth, Newman expended himself in the effort to explain to non-Catholics why the Catholic Church was the one true Church, and consequently — with their prejudices removed and drawn by God’s grace — why they should become Catholics, even as he had done (and at immense personal cost, living for decades with the burdens of his decision).
On the day of his reception into the Catholic Church, October 9, 1845, he sent out thirty letters to his closest friends, in which he called the Catholic Church “the one true Fold of the Redeemer.” After 1845, he always prayed that England would return to the Faith, and he worried seriously about the salvation of those outside the fold.
In a letter of 1850, Newman shows that he considers other Christians to possess individual truths, but that these truths find their normal, natural, and complete form and home in the Catholic Church:
I do really think the character and variety of the converts to Catholicism of late in England form a most powerful argument, that there is such a thing as ascertainable truth in religion — and I am willing that a man should set against them, Luther, Cranmer, and Co., if he wishes. Next, it must be considered that, though there is a profession of certainty among Protestants, and pious earnest people among them, yet their certainty commonly relates to, and their religious life is seated in, doctrines which are included in Catholicism — so that their certainty cannot be considered to contradict and invalidate the certainty of Catholics. (Ward i, 622–24)
In a letter to Francis William Newman on January 18, 1860, he wrote: “I think many a Protestant has principles in him which ought to make him a Catholic, if he followed them out.”
In a letter to Lady Heywood, November 15, 1875, Newman assessed the benefits of the Anglo-Catholic movement precisely by its fruits of conversion:
The Catholic movement in the Anglican body has now been going on for forty years and more, and what has it actually done? May we not determine God’s purpose in it, by its effects? Well, then, has it not carried on a great number of earnest individual Anglicans to Catholicism? … [C]an a divine work fail? and may we not determine what the movement was intended to do by what it has actually done? (Letters and Diaries 27:377–78)
In a letter on November 22, 1875, he advised one correspondent, Mrs. William Robinson Clark, to enter the Church because he saw that she was ready in conscience to do so:
I have but one answer to your questions — You say “Thank God, I have no longer any doubt about the Catholic Faith, I firmly believe Jesus Christ founded one Church, and that the head of the Church is the Pope.” Then you are bound to be received into that Church without delay. (Letters and Diaries 27:381)
To another who had already converted, Miss Emily Buchanan, he wrote on April 16 of the same year:
I am very glad to receive from you the tidings of your conversion, and am thankful to God both for it and for the circumstances under which it occurred. God has been very gracious to you — and you may feel confident that He who has done so much for you will do still more. (Letters and Diaries 27:278)
St. Paul lived and taught the Catholic faith in the 1st century, St. Philip Neri in the 16th, St. John Henry in the 19th, and every saint in every century did the same, regardless of changing circumstances and expressions. This is the Faith all of us, too, are called to embrace, profess, and live — persevering in the grace of God, fighting a good fight, witnessing bolding for God and religion in the midst of sinners, overcoming ourselves and doing our whole duty.
By the prayers of the great Apostles of Rome Peter and Paul, of the “Second Apostle” of Rome, Philip, and of his saintly follower, may God be very gracious to us, as He was to them.
Peter Kwasniewski, Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, and choral composer, is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College in California (B.A. Liberal Arts) and The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC (M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy). He taught at the International Theological Institute in Austria and the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austria Program, then helped establish Wyoming Catholic College in 2006. There he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history and directed the choirs until leaving in 2018 to devote himself full-time to writing and lecturing. Today he contributes regularly to many websites and publications, including New Liturgical Movement, OnePeterFive, LifeSiteNews, Rorate Caeli, The Remnant, and Catholic Family News, and has published thirteen books, including four on traditional Catholicism: Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis (Angelico, 2014, also available in Czech, Polish, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belarusian), Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness (Angelico, 2017), Tradition and Sanity (Angelico, 2018), and Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass (Angelico, 2020). His work has been translated into at least eighteen languages. Kwasniewski is a scholar of The Aquinas Institute in Green Bay, which is publishing the Opera Omnia of the Angelic Doctor, a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, and a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center. He has published over a thousand articles on Thomistic thought, sacramental and liturgical theology, the history and aesthetics of music, and the social doctrine of the Church. For news, information, article links, sacred music, and the home of Os Justi Press, visit his personal website, www.peterkwasniewski.com.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-30--Prominent COVID-19 contact tracing org has strong ties to pro-abortion globalists

June 29 , 2020 ( Operation Rescue ) — The coronavirus pandemic has created a climate in the U.S. that favors the business of abortion .
As legitimate businesses were forced to close , and non-essential surgeries were banned , abortion facilities remained open under gubernatorial and health department exemptions .
States that attempted to shutter abortion businesses to prevent an overtaxing of the health care system were generally overruled in court .
During the coronavirus pandemic , there was a massive push — generally successful — to redefine the elective abortion procedures as “ essential health care.
” Limits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clinics .
At least in the early stages , women and their companions flocked into packed abortion clinic waiting rooms without personal protective gear such as masks or gloves , which were mandatory elsewhere — and still are in many places .
While Americans were ordered to stay in their homes , women — many who came from coronavirus “ hot spots ” — were free to travel through multiple states in order to get abortions .
This raised a very real concern that these abortion travelers were accelerating the spread of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ordered to stay in their homes .
“ It became obvious to me that the most important thing in America during the height of the pandemic was not to slow the spread of the China Virus , but to keep abortion facilities open and killing as many babies as possible , ” said Troy Newman , President of Operation Rescue .
“ The restrictive orders that put people out of work and shut down legitimate businesses were not about a virus , but were about control and advancing a political agenda that was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in nature.
” Now , as America opens up , the focus of efforts to control the virus has shifted to testing and contact tracing .
Those who test positive for COVID-19 are required share the names of all people with whom they recently have been in contact , so that those people can be notified of their exposure .
This allows contact tracing organizations and states to accumulate a massive data-base on people .
But can these tracers , organizations , and governmental officials be trusted with such a huge database containing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ family , friends , movements , and way of life ?
One of the first organizations to offer state-wide contact tracing programs was Partners in Health , a Massachusetts organization co-founded by globalist Paul Farmer , who also serves as Chief Strategist and Co-Chairman of the Board for PIH .
This organization does work around the globe , particularly in Rwanda and Haiti .
Partners in Health first came to Operation Rescue ’ s attention while researching now-former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton , who resigned on June 3 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Acton hired Partners in Health to manage its state-wide contact tracing program .
Ohio Gov .
Mike DeWine has extensive ties to Haiti and reportedly took Acton for a visit there before she became ODH Director in February 2019 .
It was in Haiti that Acton met Paul Farmer for the first time .
Also operating in Haiti is the Clinton Global Initiative ( CGI ) , a program of the Clinton Foundation , which is tied closely to PIH .
In fact , both organizations share a common board member : Chelsea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clinton .
To show how closely these organizations work , in 2012 , the Clintons and CGI joined with Farmer and PIH and the Rwandan government to create a program that was meant to increase the number of physicians , nurses , and midwives in Rwanda .
The Clinton Foundation has produced a series of videos with interviews related to the coronavirus pandemic , featuring former President Bill Clinton .
During an interview between Clinton and California Governor Gavin Newsom , conducted on April 23 , 2020 , Clinton mention his friend , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Health .
This mention by Clinton of his work in Haiti , done in conjunction with Farmer and Partners in Health — who also worked with Gov .
DeWine in Haiti — raises red flags .
In January 2010 , while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama , a massive 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti causing the deaths of approximately 300,000 people and widespread damage .
There was widely reported evidence that the Clinton Foundation profited from a pay-to play scheme where Secretary Clinton would direct millions in aid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then contribute a portion of that money to the Clinton Foundation .
There are also reports that the Clintons may have been involved to some extent with Laura Silsby , the woman who was caught trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake .
Many of these children were not orphans , but had family searching for them .
This led to questions about the Clintons ’ involvement in the sex-trafficking of Haitian children .
A Wikileaks drop of some of Hillary Clinton ’ s e-mails showed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s activities — perhaps as early as 2001 — and even made attempts to spin the Silsby story as Secretary of State .
When Silsby was arrested , Bill and Hillary Clinton almost immediately intervened on her behalf .
Whether Clinton , PIH , DeWine and/or Acton was involved with the corruption and alleged child sex-trafficking trade that sprung up after the Haitian earthquake disaster is left up to the reader to decide .
On May 13 , 2020 , PIH launched a new “ domestic unit ” with the official-sounding name @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Its purpose is to handle contract tracing in the U.S .
Primarily , it provides small teams , which are embedded within Departments of Health for three months , to help establish a state-wide contact tracing program and establish “ long-term ” computer surveillance systems .
The PIH ’ s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit ( USPHAU ) also provides advisory services for free through funding provided by the Audacity Project , ( housed at TED , of TED Talk fame ) .
Already , PIH has contracted with several states to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New Jersey , Ohio , and North Carolina .
It serves in an advisory capacity in the states of California , Minnesota , Maryland , the Navaho Nation , and the City of Boston .
While Partners in Health downplays its position on abortion , it is obviously in favor of it .
PIH released press statements opposing President Donald Trump ’ s reinstatement of the pro-life Mexico Policy and denouncing the U.S. defunding of the pro-abortion World Health Organization .
But a closer look at its supporters and “ partner ” organizations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , anti-life agenda .
Partners in Health is funded by a who ’ s who list of global depopulation advocates , including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , George Soros ’ Open Society , and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation — all big supporters of Planned Parenthood .
Microsoft , Facebook , Apple , Google , Bank of America , and the World Bank are named in the long list of globalist financial partners listed on PIH ’ s web site .
The PIH is also heavily funded by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Cleveland Right to Life , discovered this disturbing connection and wrote about it in a recent article : What do contact tracers do ?
When someone tests positive for the China virus , that person is assigned to a contract tracer .
If possible , it is desirable for the infected person to isolate at home as long as it can be done without any contact with other family members , including pets .
If that can not be done , other housing accommodations may be needed .
This is supposed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Disease Control states , “ However , health departments have the authority to issue legal orders of quarantine , should the situation warrant that measure.
” According to a video recommended by Cleveland Right to Life , in order to ensure that the home is capable of isolating a sick individual , a cell phone video of the home may be required to determine suitability for home isolation .
The contact tracer will then need to know everyone with whom the infected person has recently had contact .
Additional information will be collected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asked to self-quarantine for 14 days .
Contract tracers are supposed to connect individuals with social services , so if a single person with children must isolate or quarantine , and they have no one to care for their children , social services may remove the children from the home .
All information about anyone who has been infected or exposed is kept in a database , which is set up by the Marxist , globalists at PIH or some other similar entity — some of which share an agenda that includes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other means .
Even though the CDC stresses the need to protect privacy , this system is ripe for abuse .
“ If any of this sounds scary , that ’ s because it is , ” said Newman .
“ It is ironic that pro-abortion organizations that scream about patient privacy when it comes to abortion are the same ones gathering extremely personal information about everyone that might be exposed to the China virus .
We need to be vigilant and take responsibility for making sure our rights are protected .
”

June 29, 2020 (Operation Rescue) — The coronavirus pandemic has created a climate in the U.S. that favors the business of abortion. As legitimate businesses were forced to close, and non-essential surgeries were banned, abortion facilities remained open under gubernatorial and health department exemptions. States that attempted to shutter abortion businesses to prevent an overtaxing of the health care system were generally overruled in court.
During the coronavirus pandemic, there was a massive push — generally successful — to redefine the elective abortion procedures as “essential health care.” Limits on group sizes were waived for abortion clinics. At least in the early stages, women and their companions flocked into packed abortion clinic waiting rooms without personal protective gear such as masks or gloves, which were mandatory elsewhere — and still are in many places.
While Americans were ordered to stay in their homes, women — many who came from coronavirus “hot spots” — were free to travel through multiple states in order to get abortions. This raised a very real concern that these abortion travelers were accelerating the spread of the virus into areas where people were otherwise ordered to stay in their homes.
“It became obvious to me that the most important thing in America during the height of the pandemic was not to slow the spread of the China Virus, but to keep abortion facilities open and killing as many babies as possible,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “The restrictive orders that put people out of work and shut down legitimate businesses were not about a virus, but were about control and advancing a political agenda that was provably pro-abortion, globalist, and Marxist in nature.”
Contact tracing
Now, as America opens up, the focus of efforts to control the virus has shifted to testing and contact tracing. Those who test positive for COVID-19 are required share the names of all people with whom they recently have been in contact, so that those people can be notified of their exposure.
This allows contact tracing organizations and states to accumulate a massive data-base on people. But can these tracers, organizations, and governmental officials be trusted with such a huge database containing intimate information about Americans’ health, family, friends, movements, and way of life?
Partners in Health
One of the first organizations to offer state-wide contact tracing programs was Partners in Health, a Massachusetts organization co-founded by globalist Paul Farmer, who also serves as Chief Strategist and Co-Chairman of the Board for PIH. This organization does work around the globe, particularly in Rwanda and Haiti.
Farmer and the PIH openly espouses a Marxist, globalist world view.
Partners in Health first came to Operation Rescue’s attention while researching now-former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton, who resigned on June 3, 2020. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Acton hired Partners in Health to manage its state-wide contact tracing program.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has extensive ties to Haiti and reportedly took Acton for a visit there before she became ODH Director in February 2019. It was in Haiti that Acton met Paul Farmer for the first time.
Also operating in Haiti is the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), a program of the Clinton Foundation, which is tied closely to PIH.
In fact, both organizations share a common board member: Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
To show how closely these organizations work, in 2012, the Clintons and CGI joined with Farmer and PIH and the Rwandan government to create a program that was meant to increase the number of physicians, nurses, and midwives in Rwanda.
More on Haiti
The Clinton Foundation has produced a series of videos with interviews related to the coronavirus pandemic, featuring former President Bill Clinton.
During an interview between Clinton and California Governor Gavin Newsom, conducted on April 23, 2020, Clinton mention his friend, Paul Farmer, and the Partners in Health.
Massachusetts has recently announced that they’re going to try to build a state-wide tracking program and they’ve asked Partners in Health to run it for them, and they’re one of my partners in the work we’ve done in Africa, Haiti, and other places.
This mention by Clinton of his work in Haiti, done in conjunction with Farmer and Partners in Health — who also worked with Gov. DeWine in Haiti — raises red flags.
In January 2010, while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, a massive 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti causing the deaths of approximately 300,000 people and widespread damage. There was widely reported evidence that the Clinton Foundation profited from a pay-to play scheme where Secretary Clinton would direct millions in aid to companies and organizations, which would then contribute a portion of that money to the Clinton Foundation.
There are also reports that the Clintons may have been involved to some extent with Laura Silsby, the woman who was caught trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. Many of these children were not orphans, but had family searching for them. This led to questions about the Clintons’ involvement in the sex-trafficking of Haitian children.
A Wikileaks drop of some of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails showed that Clinton was kept informed of Silsby’s activities — perhaps as early as 2001 — and even made attempts to spin the Silsby story as Secretary of State. When Silsby was arrested, Bill and Hillary Clinton almost immediately intervened on her behalf.
Whether Clinton, PIH, DeWine and/or Acton was involved with the corruption and alleged child sex-trafficking trade that sprung up after the Haitian earthquake disaster is left up to the reader to decide.
Pro-Abortion, Pro-Surveillance (in every sense)
On May 13, 2020, PIH launched a new “domestic unit” with the official-sounding name “U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit.” Its purpose is to handle contract tracing in the U.S. Primarily, it provides small teams, which are embedded within Departments of Health for three months, to help establish a state-wide contact tracing program and establish “long-term” computer surveillance systems.
The PIH’s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit (USPHAU) also provides advisory services for free through funding provided by the Audacity Project, (housed at TED, of TED Talk fame).
Already, PIH has contracted with several states to provide contact tracing, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, and North Carolina. It serves in an advisory capacity in the states of California, Minnesota, Maryland, the Navaho Nation, and the City of Boston.
While Partners in Health downplays its position on abortion, it is obviously in favor of it. PIH released press statements opposing President Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the pro-life Mexico Policy and denouncing the U.S. defunding of the pro-abortion World Health Organization.
PIH Funding
But a closer look at its supporters and “partner” organizations is even more revealing of its leftist, anti-life agenda.
Partners in Health is funded by a who’s who list of global depopulation advocates, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation — all big supporters of Planned Parenthood.
Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, Bank of America, and the World Bank are named in the long list of globalist financial partners listed on PIH’s web site.
The PIH is also heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies. Molly Smith, Director of Cleveland Right to Life, discovered this disturbing connection and wrote about it in a recent article:
Funders to the organization include multinational pharmaceutical companies who make billions of dollars selling their deadly contraceptive products to 1st and 3rd world countries through programs established by the above-mentioned groups. Check it out for yourself — Pfizer, who manufactures Depo-Provera , and was one of the first pharma companies to develop and sell the contraception pill are listed as funders. Their deadly concoctions are marketed and distributed by … PIH! The same PIH who is now deeply embedded with our own ODH Director, the Governor, and Lt. Governor of Ohio.
What do contact tracers do?
When someone tests positive for the China virus, that person is assigned to a contract tracer. If possible, it is desirable for the infected person to isolate at home as long as it can be done without any contact with other family members, including pets. If that cannot be done, other housing accommodations may be needed. This is supposed to be voluntary, but the Centers for Disease Control states, “However, health departments have the authority to issue legal orders of quarantine, should the situation warrant that measure.”
According to a video recommended by Cleveland Right to Life, in order to ensure that the home is capable of isolating a sick individual, a cell phone video of the home may be required to determine suitability for home isolation.
The contact tracer will then need to know everyone with whom the infected person has recently had contact. Additional information will be collected on those people and they will be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days.
Contract tracers are supposed to connect individuals with social services, so if a single person with children must isolate or quarantine, and they have no one to care for their children, social services may remove the children from the home.
All information about anyone who has been infected or exposed is kept in a database, which is set up by the Marxist, globalists at PIH or some other similar entity — some of which share an agenda that includes the depopulation of Planet Earth through abortion or other means.
Even though the CDC stresses the need to protect privacy, this system is ripe for abuse.
“If any of this sounds scary, that’s because it is,” said Newman. “It is ironic that pro-abortion organizations that scream about patient privacy when it comes to abortion are the same ones gathering extremely personal information about everyone that might be exposed to the China virus. We need to be vigilant and take responsibility for making sure our rights are protected.”
Published with permission from Operation Rescue.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-30--Texas hospital starves quadriplegic COVID-19 patient to death against wife’s protests

June 29 , 2020 ( Texas Right to Life ) — Michael Hickson , a 46-year-old COVID-19 patient , was starved and left without adequate treatment for his illnesses at St. David ’ s South Austin Medical Center .
His wife , Melissa , says the hospital refused to treat his illnesses because of his disability .
Michael Hickson became quadriplegic due to receiving CPR after he went into sudden cardiac arrest while driving Melissa to work in May 2017 .
Melissa and their five children stayed by Michael ’ s side throughout his recovery .
He landed back in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and pneumonia from a staff member at his nursing home .
Michael was conscious and alert but could not communicate verbally .
He responded to jokes , shook his head , and puckered his lips on a FaceTime call when Melissa requested a kiss .
Melissa asked if she could pray with her husband and their children , to which he nodded “ yes.
” But the doctor soon told Melissa her husband would be placed in hospice against her will .
In a recorded conversation , the St. David ’ s doctor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treatment because of his disability , despite her wishes .
St. David ’ s doctor : “ So as of right now , his quality of life — he doesn ’ t have much of one.
” Melissa : “ What do you mean ?
Because he ’ s paralyzed with a brain injury he doesn ’ t have quality of life ?
” While Michael ’ s wife and another family member were litigating in court who would be Michael ’ s permanent guardian , a judge named an Austin-area organization called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Family Eldercare granted the doctor ’ s orders to not treat Michael and instead place him in hospice .
Alarmingly , the doctor reiterated the scary reality that she had zero say in whether her husband lived or died .
The doctor told Melissa , “ but at this point , we are going to do what we feel is best for him along with the state and this is what we decided ... this is the decision between the medical community and the state.
” Michael was left without food or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s will to save her husband .
He passed away from the untreated illnesses on June 11 , 2020 .
Now , Melissa and her children grieve their beloved husband and dad .
Melissa stated , “ I ’ m struggling to understand how and why this could ever happen .
I lost my best friend , my better half , the other half of my heart.
” She continued : I was stripped of my rights as a wife , and left helplessly watching my husband be executed .
I now have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
My children left with no father to celebrate Father ’ s Day .
All taken away from us .
I have no other words to express how I feel today except hurt , angry , and frustrated .
Published with permission from Texas Right to Life .

'At this point,' the doctor said, 'we are going to do what we feel is best for him along with the state, and this is what we decided.'
June 29, 2020 (Texas Right to Life) — Michael Hickson, a 46-year-old COVID-19 patient, was starved and left without adequate treatment for his illnesses at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center. His wife, Melissa, says the hospital refused to treat his illnesses because of his disability.
Michael Hickson became quadriplegic due to receiving CPR after he went into sudden cardiac arrest while driving Melissa to work in May 2017. Melissa and their five children stayed by Michael’s side throughout his recovery. He landed back in the hospital in 2020 after contracting COVID-19 and pneumonia from a staff member at his nursing home.
Michael was conscious and alert but could not communicate verbally. He responded to jokes, shook his head, and puckered his lips on a FaceTime call when Melissa requested a kiss. Melissa asked if she could pray with her husband and their children, to which he nodded “yes.” But the doctor soon told Melissa her husband would be placed in hospice against her will. In a recorded conversation, the St. David’s doctor told Melissa her husband would not receive treatment because of his disability, despite her wishes.
St. David’s doctor: “So as of right now, his quality of life — he doesn’t have much of one.” Melissa: “What do you mean? Because he’s paralyzed with a brain injury he doesn’t have quality of life?” St. David’s doctor: “Correct.”
While Michael’s wife and another family member were litigating in court who would be Michael’s permanent guardian, a judge named an Austin-area organization called Family Eldercare as temporary guardian over Michael. Family Eldercare granted the doctor’s orders to not treat Michael and instead place him in hospice. Alarmingly, the doctor reiterated the scary reality that she had zero say in whether her husband lived or died. The doctor told Melissa, “but at this point, we are going to do what we feel is best for him along with the state and this is what we decided… this is the decision between the medical community and the state.”
Michael was left without food or treatment for six days despite Melissa’s will to save her husband. He passed away from the untreated illnesses on June 11, 2020.
Now, Melissa and her children grieve their beloved husband and dad. Melissa stated, “I’m struggling to understand how and why this could ever happen. I lost my best friend, my better half, the other half of my heart.” She continued:
I was stripped of my rights as a wife, and left helplessly watching my husband be executed. I now have no husband, a widow at 47. My children left with no father to celebrate Father’s Day. All taken away from us. I have no other words to express how I feel today except hurt, angry, and frustrated.
Published with permission from Texas Right to Life.
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