Obamacare in Court: Abortion Premium Mandate Violates Free Exercise
BDF Exposes Obamacare's "Tax on Pro-Life Conscience." Obamacare's individual mandate not only forces individuals into private purchases, it also mandates individuals to either pay a separate personal payment for surgical abortion coverage or include abortifacient drugs, or both, without exemption for individual's religious or moral objections.
Read the amicus brief filed by BDF on March 7, 2013 in the U.S. Fourth Circuit in a comprehensive Obamacare challenge revived by the U.S. Supreme Court itself, Liberty University v. Geithner. BDF represents 281 individual members of Legatus and the Catholic Medical Association.
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Speaking Engagements & Debates
BDF attorneys Nikolas T. Nikas and Dorinda C. Bordlee provide engaging Powerpoint Presentations and debates in Legislatures, Law Schools, Medical Schools, Universities, and Professional Organizations in the United States and around the world -- on bioethics issues including Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research, Abortion and its Impact on Women, and Healthcare Rights of Conscience.
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HHS Mandate: The Real War on Women
UPDATE: BDF is filing amicus briefs in HHS lawsuits across the country exposing how Obamacare's HHS "preventive health" Mandate ignores serious health risks to women, including stroke, heart attack, breast cancer, HIV and more.
The USA Today editorial board concluded that the Obama administration's so-called contraceptive mandate "not only crossed the line. It galloped over it." Learn more about this religious liberty violation, and read our official comment to HHS addressing (1) material cooperation with evil still required under the so-called accomodation, and (2) the science showing that the mandated drugs are capable of terminating human life.
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20 Week Abortion Restriction: Protecting Women's Health & Pain-Capable Unborn Children
Read about the federal district court victory upholding the constitutionality of the Arizona 20-week abortion restriction to protect the health of women and the lives of unborn children who are capable of feeling pain. BDF is legal consultant to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, who argued the case against the ACLU and CRR representing 3 late-term abortion providers. Read the decision, the transcript of the oral argument, the statute, and learn about the November 5, 2012 oral argument.
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Court Challenge: Tax-Funded Human Embryo Research
Read the brief filed by Bioethics Defense Fund on behalf of stem cell scientist/embryologist Dr. Maureen Condic. And learn the background and scientific facts about a breakthrough in ethical stem cell research that President Obama ignored in issuing his executive order.[ more ]
Holistic Feminism: Abortion Harms Women & Children
A mountain of studies confirm that abortion harms women's physical and psychological health, in addition to destroying the life of her child. "Holistic Feminism" is a term that BDF uses to describe our policy strategies that integrate the interests of the woman, the unborn child, and the often ignored interests and duties of men who can easily shirk their legal and moral duties of child support and fatherly guidance.
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The Changing Face of Cloning & Stem Cells
Months after the cloner of Dolly the Sheep abandonned his U.K. license to clone human embryos based on the ethical "skin cell method" of creating embryonic-like stem cells, a California-based lab has claimed to have cloned human embryos.
Learn the facts, and contact us for the BDF legislation that prohibits state funding and/or the practice of human embryo cloning for both destructive research or for childbirth.
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Ultrasound Before Abortion Model Legislation
Science tells us when life begins. The real question is when love begins. For many abortion-minded women, love began when they had the opportunity to see their unborn child on an ultrasound screen.
Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker focused her Wash Post column on BDF ultrasound before abortion legislation – a common-sense approach that recognizes that “abortion truthfully presented would eliminate itself or vastly reduce its numbers.”
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Signs of Hope Legislation: Abortion Alternatives Sign and Mobile Website
The innovative "Signs of Hope" legislation drafted by Bioethics Defense Fund has been enacted for the first time, and is now in development at the Louisiana Department of Health. The law requires abortion clinics to post 16 x 20 signs that give women information about their rights and alternatives, and features a web address that converts to a mobile format when it is accessed by an iPhone or any mobile device.
Studies show that 64% of American women felt pressured into abortion, and that they often don't know their rights and alternatives. The "Signs of Hope" inform women that they can't be forced to abort, that the father must provide child support even if he's offered to pay for the abortion, that adoptive parents may pay costs of prenatal care and childbirth, and that there are many agencies able to help the women during and after the pregnancy.
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White Papers
BDF is gathering the best, in-depth research and analysis of pressing life and bioethics issues. Here you will find links to authoritative writing on topics such as when life begins, emergency contraception, and stem cell research. In addition, we provide links to the excellent reports of the 2002-2008 President's Council on Bioethics. These are ideal resources for reporters, for those writing research papers, or for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of these important issues.[ more ]
BDF bill addresses "Octomom" abuses
The intense “Octomom” news coverage has highlighted the moral and social problems inherent in the powerful and unregulated IVF industry. Bioethics Defense Fund attorneys have drafted “The Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act” (Ga. S.B. 169 of 2009) that will be heard in a Georgia Senate committee this Thursday, March 5, 2009.
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Protecting Women's Ovarian Health from EGGsploitation
The cloning of human embryos for destructive research requires millions of human eggs. How do embryo cloners and fertility clinics that supply them get their eggs? By advertising on college campuses, offering thousands of dollars to cash-strapped college women to incentivize them to risk their lives and future fertility for unethical and unproven science.
BDF has assisted seven states in banning human cloning for any reason. But the IVF industry is increasingly acting as a supplier of human eggs to biotech for human cloning. Learn the facts, and protect the women you love from being exploited by Big Biotech as egg farms.
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BDF Passion for Life 2012 Benefit: Join Nikolas Nikas and Dorinda Bordlee at ten days after the Presidential race for a discussion of the post-election impact on BDF's cutting-edge legal work and enjoy a cocktail party and inspiring addresses from our 2012 Witnesses for Life in Science and Medicine: Dr. Maricela Moffitt and Dr. Maureen Condic.
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FROM THE MEDIA:
Michigan Pro-Lifers Pursue Ballot Measure to Stop Tax-Funded Abortions
Michigan pro-lifers are pursuing a ballot measure to stop taxpayer funding of abortions in the state. The measure is necessary because Governor Snyder vetoed a bill that would stop taxpayer financing of abortions under Obamacare. Right to Life of Michigan has more on its pursuit: At a meeting this morning, Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers [...]
Late-Term Abortion Staffer Facing Charges Routinely Broke State Laws
Lindsey Creekmore, a registered nurse working for late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart in both his Bellevue, Nebraska, and Germantown, Maryland abortion clinics had had charges filed against her nursing license by Attorney General Jon Bruning who is accusing her of improperly drugging patients. Creekmore, the only registered nurse in Carhart’s employment, is accused of incompetence and [...]
Charges Filed Against Late-Term Abortion Nurse Who Overdosed Patients
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has filed charges against a nurse who works for late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart. The charges follow the conviction of late-term abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell, who killed babies in gruesome abortion-infanticide procedures and killed a woman in a failed abortion. Lindsey Creekmore, the only person who works as a registered [...]
Babies Rescued From Garbage in China are Destined for It in America
An 88 year old woman who collects garbage for a living in China has been saving babies from infanticide since 1972. Only one year after she began saving babies, America bought the lie that legalized abortion would make it safe and lower the maternal mortality rate. Because we bought that lie, many Gosnells and Karpens [...]
Obamacare Preview: UK’s NHS Kills 24 Disabled People Weekly Via Rationed Care
I keep saying that if you want to see what the USA will look like in ten years under Obamacare, just look at the mess that calls itself the National Health Service in the UK. It isn’t that the NHS is socialized medicine per se–although that is part of it. More importantly in my view, [...]
IRS Hid Results of Probe of Targeting Pro-Lifers While Obama Campaigned
The Internal Revenue Service conducted an internal probe over its targeting of pro-life and conservative groups that ended well before the 2012 presidential election, but reports show the results were hidden. The agency hasn’t officially reprimanded a single staffer over it. “An IRS internal investigation concluded that the agency was improperly targeting conservative groups a [...]