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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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• Polls Predict Pro-Life Landside in November as Republicans Top Democrats
• Judge Won't Let Obama Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research During Lawsuit
• Postal Service Thanked for Mother Teresa Stamp, Ceremony Remembers Her
• California Poll Shows Pro-Life Carly Fiorina Picking Up 6% Against Boxer
• Missouri Planned Parenthood Temporarily Stops Columbia Abortions, Just Two Open
• Pro-Life Women's Group: Kelly Ayotte Objected to Planned Parenthood Payment
• Bible Makes it Clear: Women Have a Right to Choose... Life Over Abortion
• Worldwide Suicide Prevention Day Coming Up, But Assisted Suicide Left Out
• Des Moines Newspaper May Have Admitted Telemed Abortions Illegal in Iowa
• Delaware Senate Race Splits Conservatives on Strategy as Polling Data Unveiled
• Washington Board of Pharmacy to Revisit Conscience Rights for Pharmacists
• Marie Stopes International to Host Sexual Health Forum, Ignores Abortion Problems
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Polls Predict Pro-Life Landside in November as Republicans Top Democrats
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- New polls released today show good news for pro-life advocates as the predicted November 2010 election landslide 55 days from now looks more and more likely. The polls show voters favor Republican candidates, who are more pro-life than their Democratic counterparts, so much that a takeover is possible.
The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll usually has sympathetic numbers for the pro-abortion Democrats who currently control Congress and have advanced President Barack Obama's pro-abortion agenda.
But today's survey shows that the people most likely to vote based on their level of interest in the campaign and their history of voting, give Republicans a dramatic 49% to 40% advantage.
And those who expressed the very highest levels of interest in this year s election preferred a Republican Congress by a margin of 53% to 35% -- an 18 percent advantage.
"If that kind of lead holds, Republicans would almost certainly take back control of the House," the two media outlets wrote about their poll.
The Wall Street Journal suggests Democrats could fare better than the numbers suggest if they worked on turning out their voters who want more of the same pro-abortion government-run health care and taxpayer funding of abortions. Full story at LifeNews.com
Judge Won't Let Obama Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research During Lawsuit
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A federal judge has denied a request by the Obama administration to allow it to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research while it defends President Barack Obama's executive order from a lawsuit alleging it violates federal law.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth today rejected the Obama administration's motion that he reconsider his ruling putting a temporary injunction in place against the funding.
The Justice Department argued Lamberth s injunction is causing irreparable damage to the efforts of embryonic stem cell research, even though the science is nowhere close to helping human patients because of a plethora of problems when tested in animals.
"Defendants are incorrect about much of their 'parade of horribles' that will supposedly result from this Court's preliminary injunction," Lamberth wrote.
A stay would flout the will of Congress, as this court understands what Congress has enacted in the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, Lamberth wrote today. "Congress has mandated that the public interest is served by preventing taxpayer funding of research that entails the destruction of human embryos. Congress remains perfectly free to amend or revise the statute. This court is not free to do so.
Lamberth also clarified a question that developed following his initial decision and said it did not apply to the funding authorized under the Bush administration because President George W. Bush did not allow funding of new projects that would involve the further destruction of human life. Full story at LifeNews.com
Postal Service Thanked for Mother Teresa Stamp, Ceremony Remembers Her
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The pro-life Catholic group that organized the petition in favor of the Postal Service issuing a stamp honoring pro-life luminary Mother Teresa is thankful to see the stamp issued. Meanwhile, those gathered for a special service in Washington, D.C., remembered her pro-life outreach.
Brian Burch, the president of Catholic Vote Civic Action organized a petition in favor of the stamp that gathered signatures from 146,000 people who wanted the Post Office to issue the stamp.
We thank the United States Postal Service for honoring the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa s birth with this beautiful stamp. Our petition in support of the stamp struck a chord because Mother Teresa continues to serve as an inspiration for people today, said Burch.
He told LifeNews.com his group "is now calling on Americans to honor the life of this saintly and heroic woman by purchasing Mother Teresa stamps this week."
The stamp was unveiled on Sunday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at a special service and they go on sale today. Full story at LifeNews.com
California Poll Shows Pro-Life Carly Fiorina Picking Up 6% Against Boxer
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A new Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters in California shows a movement of six points away from pro-abortion Sen. Barbara Boxer and in the direction of pro-life challenger Carly Fiorina. When leaners are excluded, the new poll shows Fiorina has gained 5 percent on her opponent.
The latest survey of likely voters in California shows a dead heat of 48-47 percent in Fiorina's favor with two percent preferring a minor party candidate and three percent undecided.
These numbers show a slight shift from results with leaners found two weeks ago, when Rasmussen had Boxer leading Fiorina 49% to 44%. Leaners are those who initially indicate no preference for either of the candidates but answer a follow-up question and say they are leaning towards a particular candidate.
Without leaners included, Fiorina leads the pro-abortion champion 47% to 42% -- an improvement over the virtual tie between the two candidates two weeks ago.
The Rasmussen survey of 750 likely voters follows a new SurveyUSA poll of 569 likely voters that found Fiorina on top by two percent at 48-46.
The poll had other good news for Fiorina as it shows her supporters are more solid in their support for her than Boxer's backers are for her candidacy. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Fiorina voters are already certain of how they will vote this November, as are 69% of those who support Boxer, a member of the Senate since 1993. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Missouri Planned Parenthood Temporarily Stops Columbia Abortions, Just Two Open
Columbia, MO (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood abortion business has temporarily stopped doing abortions at its center in Columbia. That leaves just two functioning abortion businesses in Missouri, with another Planned Parenthood abortion center in St. Louis and the Women s Care Gynecology abortion clinic in Bridgeton, a suburb near the airport.
Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, told the Columbia Missourian newspaper abortions have stopped due to scheduling issues."
That likely means the abortion business is having problems finding an out-of-state abortion practitioner to come there on a regular business to do abortions, but the abortion business operator wouldn't elaborate.
We don't talk about our doctors and providers publicly, for security reasons, he said, because they're subject to harassment and difficulties.
Brownlie told the newspaper the abortions were temporarily halted two weeks ago and, while he doesn't expect the stoppage to be "lengthy," he doesn't know when abortions will resume.
Missouri Right to Life President Pam Fichter applauded the stoppage, even if for a limited time. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Women's Group: Kelly Ayotte Objected to Planned Parenthood Payment
Concord, NH (LifeNews.com) -- The Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life women's group, is coming to the defense of New Hampshire Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte. The former New Hampshire Attorney General faces allegations from some conservatives that she did nothing to prevent Planned Parenthood from obtaining fees in a legal case.
The criticism alleges Ayotte had no objection to a monetary settlement covering court fees for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
The allegations go further and say her campaign misled the public about the facts of the Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England case to the United State Supreme Court.
Kelly Ayotte's fight for parental rights further established the constitutionality of parental involvement laws in other states, said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
"Attempts to paint her as anything less than a heroine of the pro-life movement and champion of parental rights are clearly politically motivated. A study of the facts shows that Kelly Ayotte did everything she could to protect the hard-earned dollars of New Hampshire citizens from going to Planned Parenthood," Dannenfelser says.
The SBA List leader says Ayotte "consistently represented the best interests of New Hampshire residents by fighting for parental notification laws currently enjoyed in 37 states across the country." Full story at LifeNews.com
Bible Makes it Clear: Women Have a Right to Choose... Life Over Abortion
by Alveda King
Does a woman have a right to choose? Yes. Absolutely Yes! A woman does have a right to choose, but choose what. God gave us free will and we can choose whatever we want. But we ought to choose from among good, not evil choices. Because as God said:
Here, then, I have today set before you life and prosperity, death and doom."
If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.
If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods,
I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.
I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live Deuteronomy 30:15-19 Full story at LifeNews.com
Worldwide Suicide Prevention Day Coming Up, But Assisted Suicide Left Out
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- September 10 is Worldwide Suicide Prevention Day but one bioethics watchdog says the day is apparently lost on euthanasia advocates who promote assisted suicide. Attorney and author Wesley J. Smith says the day could have more substance if all suicides were included.
"The well meaning people behind WSPD have missed -- or were afraid of the controversy that would be caused by tackling the proverbial elephant in the living room," Smith notes. "You see, many high profile voices now urge that suicide not only be permitted, but facilitated."
Smith says he worries the event will "not be very effective."
"I don't see how suicide prevention can be effective when there is so much outright suicide promotion going on," he says.
Smith is upset that the organizers of the day are "silent about the threat posed to the cause of suicide reduction by assisted suicide and 'rational suicide' advocacy. Not. A. Peep." Full story at LifeNews.com
Des Moines Newspaper May Have Admitted Telemed Abortions Illegal in Iowa
Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- The Des Moines Register newspaper may have inadvertently admitted in a recent editorial that the controversial telemed abortion process is illegal in Iowa. That's where a woman receives the dangerous abortion drug not from an in-person visit with a physician but after a videoconference. Local pro-life advocates were joined by national leaders in appearing before the Iowa Board of Medicine in August to explain the problems.
The IBM eventually decided to create a committee that would possibly study telemed abortions, though the IBM has come under fire for potential links to the Planned Parenthood abortion business engaging in telemed abortions.
In a September 5 editorial promoting the legalization of the telemed abortion process, it appears the state's capital city newspaper may have admitted the abortions are not currently illegal.
"Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has used telemedicine as it was intended: to expand access to legal health services in rural Iowa. The challenge of that smart approach should prompt state leaders to update laws and policies to give Iowans increased access to health care, including abortion, through the use of technology," the newspaper wrote. Full story at LifeNews.com
Delaware Senate Race Splits Conservatives on Strategy as Polling Data Unveiled
Dover, DE (LifeNews.com) -- New polling data in the Delaware Senate race has conservatives split as to the better strategy. The poll finds pro-abortion Republican Rep. Mike Castle winning a potential matchup against pro-abortion Democratic candidate Chris Coons while pro-life GOP candidate Christine O Donnell potentially loses to Coons.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of likely voters shows Castle falls just short of 50% for the third month in a row, but he continues to hold a double-digit lead over Coons in that potential matchup.
The poll shows Castle earning 48% of the vote, while Coons gets 37% support. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and nine percent (9%) remain undecided.
That's little changed from early last month, when Castle held a 49% to 37% edge over Coons.
Coons leads O Donnell, who is challenging Castle for the GOP Senate nomination in a primary next Tuesday, by a 47% to 36% margin. Given that matchup, eight percent (8%) prefer another candidate, while nine percent (9%) are undecided. Full story at LifeNews.com
Washington Board of Pharmacy to Revisit Conscience Rights for Pharmacists
by Dan Kennedy
In 2006, the Governor, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and Northwest Women's Law Center (now Legal Voice) demanded that the Washington Board of Pharmacy pass regulations forcing pharmacists and pharmacies to violate their conscience and dispense Plan B , the morning after pill.
Their demands were a part of a national agenda by pro-abortion groups to eliminate conscience rights for these health care professionals and to force private businesses to sell early abortifacients such as Plan B and Ella.
Although the Board initially voted to pass a regulation supporting conscience rights, it abruptly reversed its position when the Governor threatened the Board.
In 2007, the Board passed the final regulations that require pharmacists and pharmacies to dispense drugs like Plan B and Ella regardless of a pharmacist's religious objection. They prohibit providers from referring patients to nearby providers when the providers have a conscientious objection, but in practice allow providers to refer patients for business and secular reasons.
In a recent turn of events, the Board has re-opened the rulemaking process. Full story at LifeNews.com
Marie Stopes International to Host Sexual Health Forum, Ignores Abortion Problems
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Marie Stopes International, one of the world's biggest abortion businesses, is hosting on conference on September 29 designed to address sexual health issues. Absent from its press release on the event is any mention of how MSI stokes controversy from free abortions and has killed women in abortions.
Dubbed the Sex in the City Conference, MSI is touting it as a way to promote the latest data and information on preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
"The event comes as the latest STI data show that infection rates continue to rise with almost half a million people diagnosed last year. Of significant concern is that one in 10 young people are being diagnosed a second time within 12 months of their initial infection," MSI complains.
The numbers come as the abortion business is aggressively promoting the morning after pill, which offers no protection against sexually transmitted infections.
Tracey McNeil the Vice-President of UK and Europe at MSI, says the event is designed to promote "strategies that are effective in getting more people using contraception and having safe sex."
But the press release also says it is meant to "show that sexual health services need to be excluded from government funding cuts." It will likely include ways in which MSI can lobby the British government to give more money to the abortion business. Full story at LifeNews.com
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