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Fans rage at Hallmark after ‘Unplanned’ actress claims

film was cut from awards show

FILE PHOTO: Actress Ashley Bratcher and "Unplanned" co-stars accept a film award onstage during the 7th Annual K-LOVE Fan Awards at The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. ©  AFP / Getty Images North America / Terry Wyatt

Fans of the Abby Johnson biopic ‘Unplanned’ were aggravated when star Ashley Bratcher, who plays the main character in the movie, alleged that the Hallmark Drama Channel cut all references to the film out of the broadcast.

‘Unplanned’ is a Pure Flix feature that tells the true story of former Planned Parenthood staffer Abby Johnson, who became a pro-life advocate after she witnessed an abortion via sonogram, where she says she witnessed the baby struggle against the procedure.

“Outraged,” Bratcher wrote on Twitter. “Movieguide awards recently aired on @hallmarkdrama & @UnplannedMovie & I were nominated. We were the ONLY nominees who were not recognized. Hallmark has ERASED us from the show and refused to acknowledge us as nominees. This is completely UNACCEPTABLE.”

Ashley Bratcher
@_AshleyBratcher
Outraged. Movieguide awards recently aired on @hallmarkdrama & @UnplannedMovie & I were nominated. We were the ONLY nominees who were not recognized. Hallmark has ERASED us from the show and refused to acknowledge us as nominees. This is completely UNACCEPTABLE. @hallmarkchannel

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The film was nominated in three categories at the Movieguide Awards, an annual event that awards movies based on Christian and family-friendly entertainment.

One Twitter user asked the actress if she and the film were “nominated and a part of the awards, but when it was aired, you were cut.”

Bratcher replied, “Yes. That’s exactly what happened. If you watch the televised show it’s like we don’t exist despite our 3 nominations and time on stage.”

As her tweet went viral, fans expressed both their support for the movie and outrage over the alleged omission.

“Hallmark you are losing your viewers day by day,” one wrote. “Not to accept nominations that were done, it's a shame and an outrage to all of us who think that Unplanned is a movie on a very important issue of our time. And the main character deserves to be recognized as any other nominee.”

“It's almost like there's a political agenda involved…” one Twitter follower replied.

JSchmalstieg
@texrdnec
Replying to @_AshleyBratcher and 3 others
it's almost like there's a political agenda involved...


Another agreed, “Done with Hallmark!!! You are still winners to us!!!”


Laurie Hoffman
@LaurieJazzysam
Replying to @_AshleyBratcher and 4 others
Done with Hallmark!!! You are still winners to us!!!👍🏻


One fan posted a link to Hallmark Drama's tweet announcing the Movieguide Awards, encouraging fans to “ask why the blackout?”


Woke Bob Butterbur
@ersatzkulak
Replying to @_AshleyBratcher and 3 others
Everyone should ask why the blackout in the replies to this tweethttps://twitter.com/HallmarkDrama/status/1231987704872787968?s=19 …


Hallmark Drama
@HallmarkDrama
Watch the 28th Annual Movieguide Awards tonight at 11pm/10c with host @jen_lilley and for a night filled with Hollywood charm as we celebrate some of your favorite movies on @HallmarkDrama!


Neither Hallmark or Movieguide has issued a comment on Bratcher's accusations.

Hallmark has positioned itself as a channel that promotes films and television shows focused on family-friendly content, garnering a large conservative following. However, the network came under fire after they agreed to run a Zola bridal registry ad featuring a same-sex kiss. At first, Hallmark agreed to pull the ad, but reinstated it, prompting a boycott. They were criticized again for refusing to air ads regarding ‘Unplanned’ during its theatrical run.

It would appear that Hallmark has been infiltrated and taken over by LGBTQ proponents, so they no longer celebrate family-friendly content, nor do they serve their primary audience. They, like much of the media, are now only interested in furthering LGBTQ interests, abolishing Christianity, and indoctrinating people into their #PCMadness culture.

I think there is probable cause for a lawsuit.

Northern Ireland Morality Lurches Hard Left - Whether It Wants To Or Not

Same-sex marriage, abortion now legal in Northern Ireland

By Clyde Hughes

Pro-life demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court in Central London in 2018. New laws legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage started in Northern Ireland Tuesday. Photo by Will Oliver/EPA-EFE

(UPI) -- A last-ditch effort by the Democratic Unionist Party to block British government reforms on same-sex marriage and abortion failed Monday, allowing both to become legal in Northern Ireland for the first time on Tuesday.

The new laws, which went into effect at midnight, ended the practice of women from Northern Ireland traveling to England to get abortions. Activists said they expect the first same-sex marriage to happen there around Valentine's Day 2020.

"This is a hugely significant moment and the beginning of a new era for Northern Ireland, one in which we're free from oppressive laws that have policed our bodies and healthcare," Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International's Northern Ireland campaign manager, said in a statement.

"No longer will those experiencing crisis pregnancy, who need to access abortion, feel they need to conceal what they're going through. Finally, our human rights are being brought into the 21st century. This will end the suffering of so many people," Teggart continued.

Not to mention the lives of thousands of babies!

DUP leadership, though, vowed to keep fighting the laws. Party leader Arlene Foster said she will examine "every possible legal option" to stop the measures.

"Until this moment, until this day in Northern Ireland, the safest place for an unborn child was in the sanctuary of its mother's womb," Jim Allister of the Traditional Unionist Voice, which also supported blocking the measures. "Sadly (now) the most dangerous place for some unborn will be in the mother's womb because the wanton decision can be taken to kill them."

Sinn Fein Party deputy leader Michelle O'Neill, though, called the last-second effort to block the new laws "pointless."

"Sinn Fein welcomes the end of the denial of the right of our LGBT brothers and sisters to marry the person they love," O'Neill said. "Sinn Fein also welcomes the end of the archaic law criminalizing women."

No wonder the secular violence has settled down in Northern Ireland, very few people believe in God anymore, nor do they fear Him. That might seem like a good thing at first glance, but in the final analysis, it will be disastrous. Turning your back on God is always disastrous eventually.

Christians Could Vanish from Middle East Due To 'Murderous Indifference' of World Govts, Pope Warns

Could removing Christians from the Middle East be

God preparing these countries for destruction?

Pope Francis delivers a speech in Bari, Italy, on July 7, 2018. © Tony Gentile / Reuters

There is a “deep danger” that Christians will disappear from the Middle East, Pope Francis has warned, blaming “murderous indifference” to violence that has forced tens of thousands of Christians to flee their homes.

Speaking to leaders of Middle East churches in the Italian city of Bari on Saturday, the pontiff said there is a “danger that the presence of our brothers and sisters in the faith will disappear, disfiguring the very face of the region.” He added that a Middle East without Christians “would not be the Middle East.”

In his opening prayer, Francis described the Middle East as being “covered by dark clouds of war, violence, and destruction, instances of occupation and varieties of fundamentalism, forced migration, and neglect.” All of that, he said, “has taken place amid the complicit silence of many.”

The pontiff went on to address the “indifference” exhibited by regional powers to have sought power and profit at the expense of people in the region. “Indifference kills, and we desire to lift up our voices in opposition to this murderous indifference.”

Indifferent regional powers would refer to governments of countries that are entirely Islamic. Very few Islamic countries have much interest in protecting Christians. Egypt and Turkey make an effort, but a woefully inadequate one. The rest make no effort whatsoever.

Unfortunately, Main Stream Media completely ignores the plight of Christians in the Middle East or North Africa. And, the UN is also mostly disinterested in the fate of Christians because the UNSC consists of mostly Muslim countries and countries governed by liberal (read: anti-Christian) governments. Liberal governments are not just guilty of ignoring Christianity, they are blatantly at war with Christianity. Unfortunately, too many of us Christians act so unbecoming of Christ that we have provoked that war. 

He denounced the weapons trade that fuels wars in the region, and appealed to global powers to end their “thirst for profit that surreptitiously exploits oil and gas fields without regard for our common home, with no scruples about the fact that the energy market now dictates the law of co-existence among peoples.”

At the end of his address, the pontiff expressed hope that through prayer and working together, the “art of encounter will prevail over strategies of conflict.”

Francis has long been an outspoken opponent of wars. In November, he called them “useless massacres” that “produce nothing other than cemeteries and death.” 

Of course, that's not true. War produces great wealth for the military industrial complex. Peace stops the flow of inventory. Arms merchants need war to keep the inventory flowing and they don't care in the least how many thousands or millions of people are killed, maimed, raped, exploited, or displaced, as long as the money keeps coming in. This is Deep State! And no-one gets in their way!

The proportion of Christians living in the Middle East has fallen from 20 percent before WWI to four percent today, according to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

As to my sub-title, is it possible that God is removing Christians from the Middle East preparatory to the destruction of Islam? God removed Lot and his wife and 2 daughters from Sodom and Gomorrah just before destroying them. He removed the Israelites from Egypt before destroying the Pharoah and his army.

Both Old Testament and New Testament scriptures prophesy a massive attack on Israel by what are now Islamic countries. In the end, Jesus Christ, not the USA, destroys the invading armies. This will, of course, devastate the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa in so many ways. it will leave them destitute, in chaos, and vulnerable to attack from within and without.

This may or may not coincide exactly with the return of Christ, but in either case, Islam will be finished.

Abortions Banned in Russian City for 1 Day in Memory of Biblical ‘Massacre of Innocents’

© Lesya Polyakova / Sputnik

Abortions have been banned for one day at all public medical institutions in a central Russian city, in symbolic memory of the biblical ‘Massacre of the Innocents’ in Bethlehem by King Herod.

The step was taken at the initiative of the local diocese and regional health authorities.

“On this day all public health institutions of the Yaroslavl Region are prohibited to perform abortions; certain events have been scheduled aimed at combating the murder of babies in the womb and protecting the priceless value of motherhood,” the press service of the Archdiocese of Yaroslavl said on Wednesday. 

The organizers behind the initiative have also urged private clinics to join the abortion ban.

I don't think that's going to happen! It's about money and religion. Abortion clinics are all about money and reject anything to do with religion.

The campaign was launched in symbolic memory of the “Bethlehem babies murdered by King Herod, who wanted to kill the infant Jesus when he was born.” 

Although there is no information about the massacre of the infants on the orders of Roman King Herod in ancient historical sources, it is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew and later Christian texts. The Bethlehem innocents are revered by Christians as saints, as they were the first to suffer for Christ. 

The Yaroslavl diocese also plans to carry out a ‘Candle of Memory’ campaign both for the infants killed by Herod and those who die as a result of abortion.

37% or 70% - It's Russia; official numbers are always wrong

According to Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Olga Golodets, for every 1.9 million newborn babies in Russia, there are 700,000 abortions.

The head of the Women for Life movement, Natalya Moskvitina, has other figures, however – she claims some 70 percent of pregnancies in Russia are consciously aborted.

"Seventy percent of pregnancies end in abortion. Three-quarters of marriages end in divorce during the first four years of life together. Every three seconds a baby is killed in abortion clinics," Moskvitina said, referring to figures obtained in the fall of 2016, as cited by Interfax news agency. 

Rostov Kremlin, Yaroslavl Region, Russia

According to Moskvitina, “abortions are business" in the first place, and those who are involved in it tell people that it is a "principle of freedom."

"It is legalized, and every woman faces this terrible choice. No one tells her […] the norm is to fight for your child," she said.

The Interreligious Council of Russia has expressed concern over mass abortion. Last summer, the council - consisting of leaders and representatives of Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism - pointed out in a statement that Russia has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, stating that "the number of the violently aborted lives in mothers' womb on various estimations totals to a million or even exceeds a million." 

In September last year, Patriarch Kirill signed a petition calling for a ban on abortions covered by Russian medical insurance. It had been launched by the public movement For Life and was backed by over 300,000 people, including Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, Supreme Mufti of Russia Talgat Tadjuddin, and Russian Ombudsman for Children Rights Anna Kuznetsova. 

Kuznetsova, who is herself a mother of six, noted Russia already has an anti-abortion program in the form of special consultation rooms at medical centers, yet in 2015, only some 266 women consulted specialists in this program, a mere 25 percent of them deciding against having an abortion. 

Although the petition only called for abortions to be excluded from the list of medical services covered by universal healthcare, Christian pro-life activists behind it said it was only the first step towards a full ban on abortion, which they will be pushing for in future. 

However, a nationwide public opinion poll conducted soon after the petition was launched showed that an overwhelming majority of Russians are against the initiative. According to the results of the research conducted by state-owned VTSIOM, 72 percent of Russians are currently against a legislative ban on abortions, while 21 percent said that they would support such move. Only 4 percent of respondents said they considered the procedure unacceptable under any circumstances.

Yaroslavl Region, Russia

Pharmaceutical Company All About Profits - CEO

Valeant Pharmaceuticals CEO: 

We’re in Business of Shareholder Profit, not Helping the Sick

— October 9, 2015

J. Michael Pearson - Shrewd or Greedy blood-sucking leech

Ring of Fire
Martin Shkreli might be the present poster boy for Big Pharma’s psychopathic greed; however, he is only the most public face of a problem that is drawing increasing scrutiny from lawmakers whose constituents are sick and tired of an industry that is literally murdering people in the name of profits. Recently, the Progressive media turned its spotlight on yet another blood-sucking corporate vampire: J. Michael Pearson, the smirking, self-satisfied CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

Pearson’s company is not in the business of curing disease and easing suffering. It exists to make big money for its shareholders, something that Pearson readily acknowledges: “[If] products are sort of mispriced and there’s an opportunity, we will act appropriately in terms of doing what I assume our shareholders would like us to do.” In “acting appropriately,” Valeant has raised the prices on several drugs this year – in some cases, as much as 800%.

How are they justifying these price increases? We know it doesn’t have one damn thing to do with the cost of research and development, because this is done primarily at public universities at taxpayers’ expense. Nope – what Valeant and other drug companies are doing is setting their prices “based on a range of factors, including clinical benefits and the value they bring to patients, physicians, payers and society.” There is also stated concern about potential competition from generic versions that may come on to the market in coming months.

The bottom line, however, is that pharmaceutical companies will charge whatever they think they can squeeze out of patients and government programs. It’s a new industry trend, unique to America’s profit-driven health care “system,” which still underlies the Affordable Care Act. Like the vulture Shkreli, Valeant buys up established pharmaceutical companies with older products, then raises the prices to astronomical levels, figuring that insurance companies and programs like Medicare and Medicaid will simply pay whatever they have to.

The insurance companies won’t. If they do, they will raise their co-pays to levels that patients cannot afford. As for those government programs, it is possible that Valeant and the rest of the industry has finally overreached itself. Price gouging by the pharmaceutical industry is finally getting some attention from Congress. Of course, Bernie Sanders has been on this issue for some time. Now, Sanders’ Democratic colleagues are calling for a formal investigation into Valeant’s pricing practices. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is planning to issue a subpoena for information on recent price increases.

The ironic aspect here is that, instead of increasing shareholder returns, government scrutiny over those obscene price increases is having the opposite effect. Valeant’s stock price has dropped by 27% since mid-September, partially because of the impending investigation.

One is reminded of the old German folk tale of The Fisherman’s Wife. Published by the Grimm Brothers in the 19th Century, it tells of a woman for who was never satisfied with her blessings. She demanded more and more – and finally wound up with nothing as a result. Big Pharma has become just like the fisherman’s wife…and its insatiable greed will (hopefully) prove to be its own undoing.

For Democracy and Free Enterprise to work, it requires people of good-will making decisions. It seems there are fewer and fewer such men in America today. Can the system survive their spectacular greed and lack of conscience?