News and Views, We Go Deep Into The Issues of God in NM

News and Views is a joint effort of The HUB of NM and FGGAM to bring you the news through a Biblical lens. On today’s program we look at child abuse in New Mexico. Thank the Lord two missing children from New Mexico were found yesterday. We also share about the University of NM and their part in abortions. And what ever happened to the dress code?

Pastor Dewey Moede Note: Thank the Lord for people like Dr. Guy Clark that stand in the gap for God on the horrific gambling problem in New Mexico! We are thankful for our relationship with Dr. Clark and what he stands for! PS: Not enough of the body of Christ is involved in this effort to end gambling in New Mexico. I do not find in my Bible that this is allowed. Thanks to all of the FGGAM readers that got involved in stopping this ungodly legislation! PTL!! Thank you LORD for those that see your ways. 

SUCCESS IN DEFEATING SB-180

Dear Friends,

Senate Bill 180, the bill that had the potential to replace the paper lottery with video slot machines went down today, February 16, in House Ways and Means Committee in a lopsided 8 to 4 victory for our side.

The bill had been on a fast-track, passing its first Senate Committee on February 8, skipped out of Senate Finance, and passed the full Senate on February12.  It was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee on the same day.

There were probably several reasons for the victory. Our pounding on the nebulous phrase in the bill allowing the lottery authority to contract for “lottery gaming systems,” raised the spectre of slot machines in lottery vendors across the state.  Another reason for the victory was the dozens of phone calls and emails that most of the committee members received calling for the rejection of the bill (GOOD WORK!!). An editorial in the Albuquerque Journal today, February 16, titled, “Don’t let scholarship bill expand video gambling” probably helped us to defeat the bill.

At any rate, many members of the committee were not comfortable with the “lottery gaming systems” phrase, although the sponsors tried hard to explain it away. They denied that it meant video slot machines, but were never successful in explaining what it WAS.

It was a great victory and we are thankful for all of your help.

Dr. Guy C. Clark, chairman
Stop Predatory Gambling New Mexico

FGGAM NEWS just received this news release from Elisa Martinez of New Mexico Alliance For Life. I got physically ill reading this report. Where is the uproar New Mexico? Extracted Eyeballs of Aborted Babies Up to 24 Weeks Gestation? I mourn for the loss of life and we are in the war room praying that this madness ends, fetal tissue!!!!????…..my goodness we should not ever have to talk about this……..this behavior is of Satan. 

PRESS RELEASE February 17, 2016 For Immediate Release Contact: Elisa Martinezinfo@nmallianceforlife.org BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Congressional Investigative Panel Makes Late-Term Clinic, University of New Mexico Documents Subpoena Public Coincides with New Mexico Alliance for Life Attorney’s Open Records Violation Lawsuit Against UNM Health Sciences Center for Withholding Documents on Studies Involving Extracted Eyeballs of Aborted Babies Up to 24 Weeks Gestation NMAFL Also Welcomes U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Congressional Panel’s Investigation of Southwestern Women’s Options, University of New Mexico as UNMHSC Continues Pattern of Evading Accountability and Potentially Violating Federal Law  Albuquerque, NM – Today, New Mexico Alliance for Life (NMAFL) announces its attorney has filed a lawsuit against the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center  (UNMHSC) for violating the state Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA). NMAFL welcomes the investigation by the Congressional Select Investigative Panel on Infants Lives, led by Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R- Tenn.), who also has not received documents originally requested from UNMHSC (click to see full subpoena)  and Albuquerque’s notorious late-term abortion centerSouthwestern Women’s Options (click to see full subpoena), which has spurred congressional subpoenas for the documents: “Select Investigative Panel Issues Subpoenas To Uncooperative Organizations” “UNMHSC’s shroud of secrecy around its aborted fetal research program is why New Mexico Alliance for Life welcomes the congressional investigation in order to obtain documents the public is entitled to examine pursuant to state open records laws and UNMHSC is required to maintain pursuant to federal law,  which UNMHSC has withheld for public inspection to date from our open records request,” said Elisa Martinez, executive director of NMAFL. “UNMHSC is either violating federal law, by not maintaining documents required by federal regulations or also breaking state law by withholding specific documents requested from a 2015 study using extracted eyeballs from babies aborted up to 24 weeks gestation from late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd.” Federal regulation 45 C.F.R. 46.115 states, “that records relating to research which is conducted shall be retained for at least three years after completion of the research.  All records shall be accessible for inspection by authorized representatives of the department or agency.” NMAFL’s IPRA request 7838 cited the 2015 study titled, “VEGF mRNA and Protein Concentrations in the Developing Human Eye” led by UNMHSC researcher Robin Ohls was published April 2015- clearly within the three year timeframe required by law for National Institute of Health Studies (NIH). Additionally, UNMHSC has its own standard operating procedures, (SOP HRP-70andSOP HRP-72) designed by Dr. Richard Larson, vice chancellor of UNMHSC research, for identifying and accessing files from studies such as standardized checklists, protocol files, meetings of Human Research Review Committee approvals, as well policies and procedures for conducting studies that must be maintained pursuant to federal law.  NMAFL presented ten questions regarding documents required to be maintained by federal regulation and UNMHSC’s policy from the 2015 Human Eye Study, UNMHSC’s response to all 10 inquiries,  “UNM Health Science Center has confirmed they did not identify any records specifically responsive to your request as it pertains to the study…However HSC will continue to search and should they locate such documents specific to your request they will provide them as soon as possible.” Dr. Paul Roth, chancellor of the UNMHSC and dean of UNM School of Medicine, serves as the institutional official for the Health Sciences Center’s human research protections program and is responsible for the institution’s compliance with applicable (federal) laws, rules and regulations as they relate to research involving human subjects. However, NMAFL finds UNMHSC, under Dr. Roth, may be violating federal law requiring maintenance of documents regarding NIH studies as well as evading inspection of public records requests in compliance with state law.   Additionally, the Developing Human Eye study was funded by grants from taxpayer funded institutions, the Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico and a National Institute of Health award. Martinez added, “Ultimately, Dr. Paul Roth is entrusted to ensure UNMHSC is following the law when it comes to research involving human subjects.  NMAFL along with New Mexico taxpayers need the confidence that is happening at UNM and are afforded their rights to view public documents – especially when it comes to studies involving body parts, tissues and organs that carry blood-borne pathogens and can expose the public to infectious diseases.” No confidential information has been sought by NMAFL regarding documents involving patients or their personal identifying information from Southwestern Women’s Options.  Some of the specific documents requested by NMAFL cited in the Developing Human Eye Study in IPRA request 7838 to UNMHSC: *  Standardized checklist identified in the Human Eye Study for the collection and storage of fetal tissue obtained from Southwestern Women’s Options up to 24 weeks gestational age. *  Documents referencing how all biological specimens were handled and stored by UNM and UNM’s Associate Clinical Professor and owner of Southwestern Women’s Options Curtis Boyd according to the standardized checklist. *   Bio-hazardous materials documents associated with HSC research as required by the UNMHSC Code of Ethics promulgated by UNMHSC Chancellor Dr. Paul Roth in order to ensures specimens are secured in laboratories and handled properly to prevent accidental exposure. *  Approval documents from the Institutional Biohazard Compliance Committee (IBC) as required before initiating experiments that have disease-causing risk potential. Since UNM says it has no documents to show any compliance with basic biohazard protocols, public health and safety is at risk. *  Human Research Review Committee (HRRC) determination of Human Eye Study as a “non-human” study cited in the Human Eye Study.  ### The New Mexico Alliance for Life is a nonpartisan organization focused on changing state and local laws by empowering women with better and informed choices when facing unplanned or difficult pregnancies and advocating for better protections for women and unborn children from an unsafe abortion industry. For more information visit www.nmallianceforlife.org