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DCLM Daily Manna 14 June 2019 – Freedom after Servitude
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Teen Vogue Tells Girls How to Get an Abortion without Parents’ Permission
A writer for Teen Vogue tells teenage girls in a new column, how to obtain an abortion if they don’t want to tell their parents.
The columnist tells girls how to pay for it, too.
“First of all, I’m here to tell you that you have nothing to be ashamed of,” Nona Willis Aronowitz wrote, addressing a 16-year-old girl who is pregnant. “Accidents can happen even to the most careful among us.
“And it’s only logical that if teens are mature enough to become parents, they are mature enough to decide whether or not they want to give birth. Having access to abortion should be your right, regardless of your parents’ beliefs.”
The column was titled, “How to Get an Abortion If You’re a Teen.” But on other pages on the website, it was teased as, “How to Get an Abortion If You Don’t Want to Tell Your Parents.”
Aronowitz writes a regular column about sex, dating and relationships, and answers questions from readers. The 16-year-old teen had asked: “I’m not sure if I’m allowed to get an abortion without my parents’ permission, but I’m really scared to tell them because they are both against abortion. What should I do?”
Aronowitz noted that many states have parental consent and parental notification laws. Sometimes, Aronowitz wrote, it’s best to tell parents about the pregnancy.
“No matter what your parents’ abstract views, they…
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Jon Stewart Delivers Impassioned Speech Propelling Bill to Fund Medical Expenses for 9/11 First Responders Forward
Long-term funding for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund is a step closer to reality after the House Judiciary Committee approved the spending bill on Wednesday – a day after a stinging and sometimes-emotional scolding by comedian Jon Stewart.
“Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity—time! It’s the one thing they’re running out of,” Stewart said during the subcommittee hearing.
“They responded in five seconds. They did their jobs – with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. Eighteen years later – do yours,” he asserted.
“They did their jobs…18 years later, do yours!”In angry and impassioned remarks, Jon Stewart appeals to Congress to make 9/11 victim compensation fund permanent. Watch his full opening statement: https://t.co/pfQHOFGcgD pic.twitter.com/uEvmYs65Vx
— ABC News (@ABC) June 11, 2019
Steward, who has advocated for the fund for years, was incensed when an entire row of committee seats was empty during his testimony. Every seat behind Stewart was filled with first responders.
At one point, the room erupted into applause as Steward suggested the hearing roles should be reversed.
“This hearing should be flipped. These men and women should be up on this stage, Congress should be down here answering their questions as to why this is so d*** hard and takes so d***…
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Pastor to work solely on social media
Stockton Parish Church is advertising a vacancy for a newly created position of a social media pastor.
The job advert describes the position as a “pioneering role aimed at engaging Generation Z and millennials through social media”.
Rev Mark Miller (pictured below) from the church told Premier that he discovered the power of social media after giving up Facebook during Lent.
“I then ironically found myself on YouTube instead. And discovered that YouTube is a real social media presence – I thought it was just for my teenage daughters – but discovered real grown adults do an awful lot of interesting stuff on YouTube.”
He warned that millennials and Generation Z spend their time on social media, and “the world is bombarding them with imagery and influence that is not Jesus centered”.
“We as a church need to have a presence there and reclaim some of that space.
“So the role of the social media pastor is to be an authentic presence in the social media world. And in part that will mean having an active YouTube presence.”
The Church of England designated Stockton Parish as a ‘resource church’ so it received a strategic development fund grant to help it grow and plant new churches.
Rev Miller said he hoped to explore if there was a way to make money from social media to contribute towards the work of the church.
The closing date for applications is 1pm on Sunday 7th…
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Maine Legalizes Medically Assisted Suicide
Maine’s Governor signed a bill into law Wednesday that will make it legal for terminally ill patients to pursue medically assisted suicide. Governor Janet Mills approved the law, named the “Death with Dignity Act,” after it narrowly passed both houses of the Maine legislature.
The bill allows Maine residents who are over 18, mentally competent and afflicted with an illness that would bring death within six months may request life-ending medication. First, they must submit one written request and two verbal requests, which are each followed by a waiting period. Then, they must get two physicians to agree that the medication would be appropriate in the patient’s situation. The doctors must also check for conditions which could impair the patient’s judgment.
Even though the law is medically-assisted suicide, the legislation says that it should not be considered “suicide, assisted suicide, mercy killing, or homicide under the law.”
Governor Mills explained her support for the measure in a release from her office. She said, “It is not up to the government to decide who may die and who may live, when they shall die or how long they shall live.” She continued, “While I do not agree that the right of the individual is so absolute, I do believe it is a right that should be protected in law, along with protections for those who are unable to articulate their informed choices and those…
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Dean of Wakefield offers concession to objectors of women priests
It has been three months since the Church of England’s independent reviewer criticised Wakefield Cathedral, which had stopped publishing the name of the celebrant in advance.
The report, by Sir William Fitall concluded that details of celebrants “should not be regarded as confidential information” and “should be supplied with good grace to anyone who asks for it in advance”.
The report said the Cathedral’s policy didn’t properly reflect the Anglican Church’s commitments to traditionalists when the ordination of woman was approved thirty years ago.
After consultation and reflection, the Dean has decided “to keep the existing policy in place” and so will not restart publication of the list of celebrants.
Rev Cowling maintains the change he is making as “a significant adjustment which I believe to be in line with the spirit of (Sir William’s) conclusions”
In a three stage process, people will have to be regular worshippers at the cathedral, have a face-to-face meeting with the Dean and confirm they want to avoid communion services celebrated by a woman priest based of “reasons of conscience”.
Only then will the Dean decide whether to start sending the individual a list of who will be taking which services. But, with the condition that the list isn’t circulated more widely.
The Dean has revealed he has met with Dennis Belk, with the person who launched the complaint. Mr…
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Christians Flee Burkina Faso after at Least 19 Christians Are Killed in the African Nation
At least 19 Christians were killed earlier this month in Burkina Faso in Africa.
According to French news channel France 24, the Christians were killed on June 9 in the Arbinda village in Burkina Faso.
An official told reporters that several dozen “armed men” attacked the village.
The Barnabas Fund says as many as 29 people could have been killed in the attacks after more deaths were reported.
“There is no Christian anymore in this town (Arbinda),” said a Barnabas Fund source, noting that all Christians in the area had fled the town.
“It’s proven that they were looking for Christians,” the source continued. “Families who hide Christians are killed. Arbinda had now lost a total of no less than 100 people within six months.”
Some 80 pastors and 1,145 Christians in the area have fled the northern part of the country, Barnabas Fund sources said.
This isn’t the first attack in the area. In April, Islamic militants held a pastor, his son and four of church’s members at gunpoint. They demanded that they deny their Christian faith and convert. The group refused and was executed.
In May, gunmen and soldiers allegedly attacked churches in the Burkina Faso Central North Region.
“We’ve told ourselves our turn will come,” a pastor of one of the churches said in May. “Today Christians are potential targets. We’re all…
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