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UNC System mandates Ins Covg w/ Elective Abortion Incld’d

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

I share this from a friend Jordan Greene, a student at UNCC:

Just under a month ago in late July, the Students for Life of America discovered that the University of North Carolina system was requiring all students enrolled in any of its seventeen institutions to have some sort of healthcare insurance in order to attend school during that upcoming semester. In doing such, the UNC system provided an alternative, or rather mandated, that students who do not have their own health insurance or cannot afford to have their own plan must purchase the plan offered by the UNC system through Pearce & Pearce Inc, at comparably a lower rate than most any other private insurance company I have found.

However, the issue that the Students for Life of America discovered is that the coverage provided under the Pearce & Pearce Inc. plan, which students who cannot afford their own coverage must purchase, just so happens to cover up to $500 toward elective abortions and has an 80% PPO coverage rate for the same. Simply put, the UNC system first saw fit to mandate health coverage, and then they saw fit to take it a step further and force those who have to purchase the UNC system’s plan to fund the wicked and immoral act of killing the unborn child without regard to the student’s religious or political beliefs and conscience. After the Students for Life brought the issue to the front burner, the UNC Board of Governors took one-step in the right direction, and issued a statement that students will now be given the option to opt out of the abortion coverage and I applaud them for their decision. However, note that I said one-step in the right direction as it is far from solved in my opinion.

I, being a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, among those who cannot afford to obtain their own health insurance coverage am required to purchase the school’s plan through Pearce & Pearce Inc. For this reason, since this mandate was in effect in at least the past academic school year as well, I was required to pay for funding of abortions by the UNC Board of Governors to attend school, for my education, of which I was greatly disappointed in the UNC system for. At this point, the Board of Governors I imagine would say that by allowing students to opt out of the abortion coverage that that student no longer funds abortions, however I beg to differ.

As explained by the Students for Life of America on their new website www.noabortioninhealthcare.com:

“Federal grant money is directed to accredited colleges and universities from U.S. taxpayers through the Federal Student Aid Program. Student eligibility for federal grants is determined by the difference in the student’s ability to pay and the total ‘cost of attendance’ for the school. This amount equals the student’s eligibility for federal funds. As stated by the UNC System, the cost of their abortion health care plan, if the student chooses to keep abortion in their plan, is added to the student’s ‘cost of attendance’ calculation. This in turn, increases the student’s need for federal funds. Because of this increase in need, additional federal funds could be directed to the student to help cover this increase in cost.”

Beyond the possibility that the UNC system’s health insurance may violate federal law is the fact that all-in-all by not completely removing elective abortion coverage from their mandated health coverage, the Board of Governors have still failed. By allowing students to keep the abortion coverage, the UNC system is still forcing the taxpayers, both in North Carolina and across the nation, to fund the murderous act of abortion. How are they still forcing students who opt out to fund abortions? They do such by appropriating federal and state grants and loans from taxpayer dollars to student financial aid that is given to pay for tuition and the UNC system’s mandated health coverage for those who potentially still have abortion coverage on their plan.

Now let me take this one-step further. It is the fact that the UNC system included abortion on their mandated plan that got the Students for Life involved and that has caused me to oppose it with all I can, however I honestly believe that to solve the issue, one must return the issue to its basic root. That root of the problem being that the UNC system should have never required its students to obtain health insurance in the first place to attend their public educational institutes. If a student can afford their own insurance then let them have insurance, but the State should never require students to have health insurance in order to obtain a college education, to have the opportunity to move forward in life with that education.

I would be perfectly content if the UNC system offered its students the ability to voluntarily enroll in its health insurance plan, providing that abortion be in no way covered, and did not require students to have health insurance at all if they chose not to. I believe that, and at this rate, only that would be in line with the ideals of liberty and freedom by giving the choice to have insurance to the student’s free will, instead of mandating such. This would also allow the UNC system to fall in line with the NC State Constitution in Article I Section 13 on Religious Liberty by not violating the conscience of the student or taxpayer by forcing them to pay for an act that they view as abhorrent or sinful.

I am glad that the UNC Board of Governors took one-step in the right direction on this ever-important issue; however, it is just one-step along the walk across the room to the goal, which I hold to be liberty. The Board of Governors needs to complete their walk across the room by ending their mandated health coverage to attend a UNC school and give the students life back to the student and protecting the life of the unborn.

Copyright © 2010 Jordon M. Greene. Jordon M. Greene is the President and Founder of the North Carolinians for Free and Proper Elections PAC, a member of the Constitution Party of North Carolina State Executive and Ballot Access Committees, a political science student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and served as campaign manager for the Bryan Greene 2008 Congressional Campaign Committee

Tags: abortion coverage, board of governors, health insurance, hyde amendment, life, mandated health coverage, right to life, unborn, unc
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Obama’s Pals Hate War Policies

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Candidate Obama made brash promises to end the war in Iraq, finish the war in Afghanistan, and close GITMO immediately. BUT, President Obama has found each of these more difficult to accomplish.  If you read previous articles here, you see the mixed feelings on Iraq I now have.  Was it necessary to dismantle al-Qaeda?  Probably not. The world should be glad Saddam is dead and his sons as well.  But if a Shiite dominated Iraqi govt tilts toward Iran, that is not good.  GITMO should be closed, but only after every ounce of intel is drained from its prisoners and then all are executed by firing squad or public hanging.  The war in Afghanistan was the Dems’ and the president’s “acceptable” war–  the home of the Taliban Radical Muslims who allowed al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden refuge and training facilities. 

But, if the primary mission was to topple the Taliban regime,  destroy al-Qaeda as a viable terrorist organization,  and kill bin Laden and his lieutenants responsible for the September 11 attacks,  then let’s get the bulk of the troops out- declare victory- and use special ops and air power to finish off bin Laden.  al-Qaeda has been disrupted been it has not been eradicated, they will continue to recruit and plan ops around the world.  bin Laden has been in the crosshairs several times dating back to the Clinton years, but he continues to exists.

Why doesn’t Obama, the Far Leftist ideologue, end these wars?  His Leftist friends who helped him win the White House loathe the Military and our nationalist patriotism to a country they see as meddling, selfish, racist,  and evangelically patronizing.  The answer I am beginning to see is difficult to comprehend.  It is like an enormous puzzle that we watch as pieces are dropped into place.  It is impossible to know everything that goes on in countless governmt agencies and private organizations, but there seems to be two powerful groups working toward the single goal of ruling the US outside the boundaries set by the Constitution.   Although they work from opposite poles, their ideologies often overlap. 

The thesis is this, and time will tell:  The Far Left Marxists-Socialists ideologues control vast areas of the Democrat Party; in Academia; and the Mainstream Media.  Through our schools, universities, local urban governments, state legislatures, and Congress, the Leftist domestic agenda proceeds incrementally.  It began in theory with the Wilson administration and gained influence w/ FDR’s New Deal w/ the onslaught of the Great Depression.  LBJ’s Great Society furthered the process and no one has had the guts to derail it since (though Reagan tried harder than all the others).  But when the candidate of the Left gains the White House (since the Cold War), they too run head-on into the neo-Fascist Military Industrial Complex.  Regardless of the party in power in the White House, the MIC reigns supreme in US foreign policy decisions.

The US defeated Mexico in 1 1/2 yrs; Spain in 90 days; finished off the Kaiser in 1 1/2 yrs; and defeated the Nazis and Japan in less than five yrs.  Since then (after Eisenhower warned of this entity’s sinister influence), we fought North Korea to a draw; could not “save” South Vietnam or Cambodia;  and left Saddam in power after he invaded Kuwait, gassed innocent people, and threatened to kill the President.  The MIC needs an enemy, a boogie man to scare Americans into accepting their “defense” spending levels and neo-imperialist operations: the Russian Bear and Communism, “Humanitarian” efforts (Reagan and Lebanon; Clinton and Somalia; Clinton and Yugoslavia), now “Terrorism” (Bush II and Obama), and soon Iran for Obama.

Radical Islam is a dreadful threat to world peace and our personal well-being. A nuclear Iran  is not acceptable with the present apocalyptic-minded type of government in control there.  Communism by its very internationalist ideology was a threat to be faced.  I am not attempting to make light of these adversaries.  As the Left’s domestic agenda is anathema to America’s traditional constitutional foundations, so also is the fear-mongering of the Internationalist Financier- backed Military Industrial Complex.  Obama and his crowd of Marxists, closet Muslims, and Black Liberation Theologians, cannot wrench free of the wars, increased military spending, and domestic spying, because they like the dirty money and feel of power they get from the MIC.  They are like the Pharisees in Jesus’ day. The Jewish Pharisees turned over the Messiah to the Roman authorities, murdering their potential King and damning their souls, to hold on to the miniscule amount of authority they held within the Roman empire system.

If you love Liberty, understand what America faces from Right and Left, from the Establishment which controls both major parties, and stand ready to defend our Biblical and constitutional values with the soap box, the ballot box, and if need be, the ammo box. Lord, have mercy on America.

Tags: Afghanistan, al-qaeda, Gitmo, great society, internationalist financier, Iran, Iraq, Marxist, military industrial complex, new deal, Obama, radical islam, socialist
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Disturbing Trends

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

From Family Policy Council of NC magazine comes some polling numbers that forecast really disturbing trends.  Push God and His Word out of public schools and universities- the result is chaos, the result is immorality run rampant, the result is the crumbling of our character foundations:

TEEN SEXUAL ATTITUDES

Percent of never-married teens who are “sexually experienced”

Girls 42%        Boys 43%

Percent of teens who “agree” or  “strongly agree” that “it’s okay for an unmarried female to have a child”

Girls 71%         Boys 64%

From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , June 2010

Tags: center for disease control, sexually active teens, teen pregnancy
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Why Build A Mosque Near Sept 11 Site?

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

After reading an article regarding plans for the new mosque in Manhattan near the World Trade Ctr site,  I researched the history behind previous mosques built and discovered some fascinating details.

After Muhammad captured Mecca, his Muslim army claimed the Ka’aba as their own shrine.  It had long been a place of worship for polytheistic Arab tribes.  It was full of idols particularly to the moon god (hence the crescent symbol in Islam).

When the Muslim Arabs captured Jerusalem, they built the Dome Mosque on the Jewish Temple Mount the site of Solomon’s Temple.

When the Muslim Arabs captured Damascus Syria, they tore down the basilica dedicated to John the Baptist and built the Grand Mosque.  Supposedly the head of John is still enshrined there, as well as the grave of Saladin.

NOW, the Muslim community wants to build a 13 story mosque in Manhattan near the Sept 11 World Trade Center site.  Do you see any type of a pattern here??  Look it all up for yourself…..    very interesting

Tags: Church of John the Baptist, Damascus mosque, Dome of the Rock, Ka'aba, Mecca, NY mosque, September 11, Temple Mount
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