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Current Headlines
• Obama Disapproval May Cause Freshman Democrats to Lose House to GOP
• Congressman Wants Probe of Obama's Illegal Abortion Push in Kenya
• Sarah Palin: Abortion an "Essential" Issue in 2010 Elections to Mitigate Obama
• Pro-Life Democrats See Bleak Election Over Pro-Abortion ObamaCare Votes
• Planned Parenthood Challenged, Says No Complications From Telemed Abortions
• Catholic Church Blasts Nobel Prize Committee for Honoring IVF Creator Edwards
• Pro-Life Group Launches Ad to Reach California Hispanics for Carly Fiorina
• Family Research Council Launches Ads Against Pro-Abortion Democrats
• Students for Life of America to Host National Conference Before March for Life
• Pro-Life Women's Group Endorses House Candidates in Florida, Arkansas
• Man Tries to Force Woman at Gunpoint to Have Abortion, Police Arrest Him
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Obama Disapproval May Cause Freshman Democrats to Lose House to GOP
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In the battle for control of the House of Representatives, the attitude Americans have towards pro-abortion President Barack Obama will play a large role in determining whether Republicans have a chance at recapturing the chamber.
Whether Americans decide to keep some of the freshman Democrats elected with Obama in 2008 is an indicator of sorts as to how election night will go down.
A new poll commissioned by The Hill, a prominent Congressional newspaper, and America s Natural Gas Alliance find pro-life Republican candidates lead in 11 of 12 hotly contested races against mostly pro-abortion Democrats -- and the twelfth race is tied.
This is a particularly volatile set of districts, Democratic pollster Mark Penn told the newspaper. Overall, we see a strong Republican trend in these districts, but given where these numbers are, the races haven't broken yet.
Republicans need to win 39 seats in the House to wrest control from pro-abortion Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other pro-abortion leaders who have controlled the chamber's agenda. Full story at LifeNews.com
Congressman Wants Probe of Obama's Illegal Abortion Push in Kenya
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Congressman Chris Smith was not happy about the report the inspector general of USAID issued attempting to "whitewash" the Obama administration's improper, and potentially illegal, use of taxpayer funds promoting a new constitution in Kenya that would allow unlimited abortions.
The proposed constitution contained a clause making it so abortions would be legalized in any case in which medical professionals say it is somehow necessary for women. Kenyans adopted the constitution in early August.
However, the Siljander Amendment Congress has adopted prevents the federal government from spending taxpayer funds promoting abortions in other nations.
The USAID report indicates the Obama administration spent $61.2 million related to the vote on the Kenya constitution, with $12.6 million going to efforts to directly promote the pro-abortion constitution.
Still, Obama officials contend the money went to voter education efforts on the process itself and not promoting a Yes vote and the USAID report did not dispute that.
It claimed the organizations the Obama administration funded "indicated that they do not have a public position on abortion," and "we did not find any evidence that USAID funds had been spent on direct lobbying for or against abortion." Full story at LifeNews.com
Sarah Palin: Abortion an "Essential" Issue in 2010 Elections to Mitigate Obama
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a speech Tuesday night at a pro-life event in Houston, former presidential candidate Sarah Palin said abortion is an "essential" issue for the pro-life movement in the 2010 elections. Palin said it is important to take advantage of the opportunity the elections present to mitigate President Barack Obama's pro-abortion agenda.
Palin said Obama has been responsible for "the biggest advance of the abortion industry in America" thanks to the ObamaCare bill that includes abortion funding, she said, according to CNN.
She added Obama is "the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White House,"
"That's why it's essential that we use the 2010 midterms to elect a Congress that will make undoing the damage of Obamacare its first priority," Palin said.
Palin also spent time bashing the mainstream media for their misleading coverage of the elections, including the recent rally in Washington spearheaded by conservative commentator Glenn Beck that drew hundreds of thousands of conservative and pro-life voters.
"They didn't want you to believe your own eyes," she said. "It was almost Orwellian to consider what we read after the rally, how the media was trying to portray what had gone on there." Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Democrats See Bleak Election Over Pro-Abortion ObamaCare Votes
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The "pro-life" Democrats in Congress who stood with retiring Rep. Bart Stupak in favor of the ObamaCare bill that funds abortions are seeing a bleak election future. Their prospects aren't helped by pro-life groups targeting them for defeat and a Democrats for Life group not coming strongly to their defense.
Politico ran a feature today on its news web site on the pro-life Democrats and some of the campaigns LifeNews.com has reported on spearheaded by groups like Americans United for Life and the Susan B. Anthony List.
SBA recently purchased 32 billboards at a cost of $55,000 in several districts occupied by Democrats who ran as pro-life candidates but, according to the pro-life women's group, violated that pledge by voting for the ObamaCare bill.
Americans United for Life launched yesterday a $600,000 campaign featuring various online and offline advertising targeting those Democrats for defeat.
Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, a Pennsylvania lawmaker, is one of the targets of the campaigns and she says she's upset she is being targeted because she has been pro-life all her life.
It s been extremely frustrating at times, Dahlkemper told Politico. All along, I have donated. I have marched. I have been an unmarried pregnant woman who chose life. I have lived this. Now I'm 52, and in the last six months, all of a sudden, people are questioning who I am.
She could have been a star in the pro-life movement until she voted for the bill that virtually every pro-life group noted would fund abortions. As National Right to Life put it, Dahlkemper and her Stupak coalition allies "voted to require certain federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that cover abortion on demand, and opened the door to future direct federal funding of abortion in multiple federal programs."
Planned Parenthood Challenged, Says No Complications From Telemed Abortions
Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood claims its new telemed abortion process it is using in Iowa has resulted in no complications for women using the dangerous abortion drug. But, one pro-life organization says figures from the CDC and the Australian government make that claim appear impossible.
As LifeNews.com reported, the CDC recently revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine that two more women have died from fatal infections resulting from their use of the RU 486 abortion drug than previously thought.
The women died after taking the mifepristone abortion drug last year and in 2008 and other women have died after they got the abortion pill from Planned Parenthood.
Meanwhile, the agency that monitors drugs for the Australian government issued a new report showing the number of complications from using the abortion drug is causing a concern.
Between December 2009 and July 2010, there were 3,000 uses of the abortion drug resulting in a complete failure in 14 cases, where women were subjected to surgical abortions. Another 110 cases involved women having incomplete abortions where parts of the baby's body were left inside their uterus and, in some cases, it required follow-up surgery. Full story at LifeNews.com
Catholic Church Blasts Nobel Prize Committee for Honoring IVF Creator Edwards
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The leading spokesman on pro-life issues for the Catholic Church says the committee that awards the Nobel Prize was wrong to give one to Robert Edwards, known as the father of the test tube baby and the inventor of in-vitro fertilization. He joins two pro-life groups publicly opposing the award.
Edwards has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his IVF work, but the prize has its critics because IVF has resulted in the deaths of unborn children.
Bishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said the award was "out of order," according to the Christian Post newspaper.
Without Edwards, there would be no market for human eggs; without Edwards there would not be freezers full of embryos waiting to be transferred to a uterus, or, more likely, used for research or left to die, abandoned and forgotten about by all, he said.
The England-based Society for the Protection of Unborn Children also opposed the prize. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Group Launches Ad to Reach California Hispanics for Carly Fiorina
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The Susan B. Anthony List announced the launch of a $200,000 Spanish television ad campaign highlighting the contrast between pro-abortion Sen. Barbara Boxer and her pro-life challenger, Carly Fiorina. The ad says the two differ sharply on sharing Latino family values, in part because of abortion.
The campaign is co-sponsored with the National Organization for Marriage and it coincides with a $100,000 SBA List voter education effort including a Google ad campaign focusing on California Latino voters and a Vota Tus Valores bus tour sponsored by SBA List and other groups.
The bus tour is making 43 stops in Latino neighborhoods throughout the state.
SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser told LifeNews.com today that "pro-life California Latinos are a force to be reckoned with." The majority of Latinos are pro-life and comprise an increasing percentage of the California voting bloc," she said. Full story at LifeNews.com
Family Research Council Launches Ads Against Pro-Abortion Democrats
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- On the heels of campaigns from Americans United for Life and the Susan B. Anthony List, the Family Research Council is the latest to launch a new advertising campaign taking on pro-abortion Democrats seeking re-election to the House of Representatives.
FRC Action PAC, the political action committee connected with the legislative portion of the Family Research Council, started a television ad campaign today against five members of Congress.
The pro-life group says their voting record has been detrimental to families.
The $125,000 cable news ad buy is connected with the "20 in 10" campaign targeting those members of Congress who voted for harmful legislation, including the new health care law that allows for taxpayer funding of abortions.
The campaign targets Reps. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, Betsy Markey in Colorado, Carol Shea-Porter in New Hampshire, John Boccieri in Ohio, and Tom Perriello in Virginia. Full story at LifeNews.com
Students for Life of America to Host National Conference Before March for Life
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Thousands of college and university students will gather once again in the nation's capital to learn the latest information on abortion and the newest methods of sharing the pro-life perspective with the students who are America's future leaders in business, politics and the community.
Students for Life of America's national conference has been sold out for the past two years and has grown so large that the 2011 event will be held at a larger facility.
With the help of the conference s co-sponsor, the Alliance Defense Fund, the pro-life conference will now be able to accommodate a larger crowd.
Kristan Hawkins, SFLA s Executive Director told LifeNews.com today the conference is a great way for students to hear inspiring pro-life speakers and receive further training and support before the March for Life, which takes place the day after.
The goal of the SFLA National Conference is to rejuvenate, equip, and empower pro-life students and adults to return to their campuses and communities and effectively fight for the rights of pre-born children and their mothers," she said. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Women's Group Endorses House Candidates in Florida, Arkansas
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life women's group, has announced its endorsement of pro-life candidates in two states. The organization is backing Florida State Representative Sandy Adams, who is seeking the House seat in Florida's 24th district, and two candidates in Arkansas.
Florida families deserve the pro-life feminine leadership Sandy Adams has already demonstrated in so many roles, SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser said. Her outspoken commitment to rescinding taxpayer funding of abortion in health care is urgently needed in the next Congress."
Meanwhile, in Arkansas, SBA announced its endorsement of Beth Anne Rankin, candidate for the U.S. House in the fourth district who is taking on pro-abortion Rep. Mike Ross. SBA also backed Tim Griffin, candidate for U.S. House in Arkansas' Second District, against pro-abortion State Senator Joyce Elliott. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Man Tries to Force Woman at Gunpoint to Have Abortion, Police Arrest Him
Columbus, OH (LifeNews.com) -- An Ohio man was arrested this morning after police say he allegedly tried to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to have an abortion. Dominic L. Holt-Reid is a 27-year-old man from Columbus, Ohio and he represents what research shows is the all-too-frequent phenomenon of coerced and pressured abortions.
Police say Holt-Reid was arrested and charged with kidnapping and carrying a concealed weapon after he tried to make his partner keep a scheduled appoint for an abortion she decided to go back on today.
Police found him in the parking lot behind the Founder's Women's Health Center abortion facility in downtown Columbus. Full story at LifeNews.com
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