<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">--- On <B>Wed, 4/1/09, RNCLife <I><rnclife@swbell.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: RNCLife <rnclife@swbell.net><BR>Subject: [RNCLife] Republican National Coalition for Life Special Alert!<BR>To: arthurkelly@yahoo.com<BR>Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 3:12 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><IMG id=_x0000_i1025 height=87 src="cid:1.3924365413@web56402.mail.re3.yahoo.com" width=477></SPAN></FONT></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=1><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic">The Republican Party was founded on the principle that no human being should be considered the property of another.</SPAN></FONT></I></B></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">April 1, 2009</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: blue">…..SPECIAL ALERT…..</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue">HHS Comment Deadline is Fast Approaching</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If you haven’t sent your comments to HHS regarding President Obama’s intention to rescind the Leavitt/Bush regulation enforcing protection of the rights of conscience of health care providers and institutions, <U>please do so right away.</U> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=red size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: red">The comment period ends on April 9!</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> </SPAN></FONT>Protection for the rights of health care personnel to refuse to act in violation of their consciences must be retained in HHS regulations. No one should be threatened with job loss or any other type of discrimination because of their ethical, moral or religious beliefs.</DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue"> </SPAN></FONT></B>The Department of Health and Human Services has published the following announcement in the Federal Register: <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“Rescission of the Regulation Entitled “Ensuring That Department of Health and Human Services Funds Do Not Support Coercive or Discriminatory Policies or Practices in Violation of Federal Law.” [</SPAN></B>Click <A title=blocked::http://www.regulations.gov/search/search_results.jsp?css=0&N=0&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchall&Ne=2+8+11+8053+8054+8098+8074+8066+8084+8055&Ntt=hhs&sid=11FF65DB40CD
href="http://www.regulations.gov/search/search_results.jsp?css=0&N=0&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchall&Ne=2+8+11+8053+8054+8098+8074+8066+8084+8055&Ntt=hhs&sid=11FF65DB40CD" target=_blank rel=nofollow>here</A> to view the Federal Register announcement. At the top of the page you will see the reference. At the bottom you will see “View this document.” You can click on either the PDF or HTML version.<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">]</SPAN></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Comments may be submitted in the following ways: Electronically via e-mail to <A title=blocked::mailto:proposedrescission@hhs.gov href="mailto:proposedrescission@hhs.gov" target=_blank rel=nofollow>proposedrescission@hhs.gov</A> via regular, express, or overnight mail sent to:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Office of Public Health and Human Services, Attention: Rescission Proposal Comments, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 716G, Washington, DC 20201, </SPAN></B>or by hand or courier delivery to the same address and dropped in the mail drop slots in the main lobby. [The building is accessible only to persons with federal government identification.]</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <B><I><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Comments sent via facsimile will not be accepted</SPAN></I>.</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT></B>The Leavitt/Bush regulation required any entity, including individuals, receiving federal funds through HHS to certify their compliance with federal laws protecting health care providers and personnel from discrimination because of their refusal to participate in or abet in any way the performance of abortion or any other medical actions they find morally or religiously objectionable.</DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Several federal laws protect the rights of conscience of health care providers. The Church Amendments and the Hyde/Weldon Amendment to the Labor/HHS annual appropriations bill are described in the <A title=blocked::http://www.regulations.gov/search/search_results.jsp?css=0&N=0&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchall&Ne=2+8+11+8053+8054+8098+8074+8066+8084+8055&Ntt=hhs&sid=11FF65DB40CD href="http://www.regulations.gov/search/search_results.jsp?css=0&N=0&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchall&Ne=2+8+11+8053+8054+8098+8074+8066+8084+8055&Ntt=hhs&sid=11FF65DB40CD" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Federal Register.</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <I><FONT color=blue><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic">Please send in your comments. Please circulate this information among your friends and colleagues, with special attention to anyone you know who works in the medical, biomedical, or pharmaceutical field.</SPAN></FONT></I></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic"> </SPAN></FONT></I><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Thank you!</SPAN></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">N</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">ever forget that <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">you</SPAN></I> were once an embryo.</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 6.5pt">Contact: Colleen Parro – P.O. Box 618 – Alton , Illinois 62002 – Phone: 214/559-4460 - Fax: 214/559-6120 – E-Mail: <A href="mailto:rnclife@swbell.net" target=_blank rel=nofollow>rnclife@swbell.net</A></SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></SPAN></FONT></B></DIV></DIV>
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