The chairman of the USCCB pro-life committee, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, said this week that the religious exemption in the HHS ruling to require health insurance plans to cover sterilization and contraception free of charge is so narrow that Jesus himself would not qualify for it.

Yet the Obama administration has refused to broaden the exemption. In a move she says “strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services,” Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, gave religious employers an extended deadline, until August 1, 2013, to comply.

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While the majority of Americans who value the sanctity of human life mourned the loss of some 53 million innocent babies and all the generations of the families that those children would have parented, President Obama joined Planned Parenthood in celebrating 39 years of abortion-on-demand in the U.S. on January 22, 2012, as he released a statement in support of the tragic Roe v. Wade decision.

President Obama characterized abortion-on-demand as protection of “a woman’s health and reproductive freedom,” and then said that Roe v. Wade affirms “that government should not intrude on private family matters.” In other words, government must not intrude on the wholesale slaughter of helpless, innocent preborn babies. Because, after all, according to this warped logic, it is nothing more than a private family matter if a woman chooses to pay to have her child killed instead of bringing him or her to term. What the president didn’t mention is that the government has moved far beyond protecting the supposed right to kill little children and is subsidizing it through the $1.3 million it pours into Planned Parenthood each and every day.

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In addition to this year’s annual pro-life march on Washington, D.C. that saw as many as half a million young people marching for life in the cold rain with images of Our Blessed Mother scattered throughout the throng, Catholics across the nation joined in rallies, the celebration of Mass (often presided over by local bishops), carried images of Our Lady in procession to Planned Parenthood, and prayed the Rosary for an end to Planned Parenthood and the culture of death. Many of those young people will be taking Jesus to Planned Parenthood through Mary when they return home.

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American Life League staff distributed 2,500 pro-life signs to participants at the annual pro-life march on Washington, D.C. After carrying them through the streets of the nation’s capital, the young people will take these signs back to their communities for use in fighting Planned Parenthood.

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Pro-life activists in the Permian Basin of Texas have been busy in recent weeks. On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, West Texans for Life (WTL) brought their protest for the civil rights of children in the womb to Planned Parenthood. Jim Sulliman of WTL said in a San Angelo Standard-Times article that the group made its way to three Planned Parenthood facilities in the Permian Basin on MLK Day.

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