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Friday, November 12, 2010
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• Nancy Pelosi Facing More Opposition in Bid to Lead Democrats
• Pope Benedict Calls for Worldwide Prayer Against Abortion
• Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz President Makes About $400,000
• Sarah Palin Calls Obama The Most Pro-Abortion President
More Pro-Life News
• Palin, Romney and Pawlenty Lead 2012 GOP Battle in Six States
• I Had an Abortion Campaign Ignores Women s Regret
• UN Human Rights Panel Lectures US on Pro-Abortion CEDAW Treaty
• Did Pelosi Craft Pro-Abortion ObamaCare to Defeat Pro-Life Democrats?
• Pro-Life Movement Made Big Gains in State Legislatures
• North Dakota Medical Board Secretly Reinstates Abortion Practitioner s License
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Nancy Pelosi Facing More Opposition in Bid to Lead Democrats
Nancy Pelosi is facing more opposition in her bid to keep her position as the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
The soon-to-be former Speaker of the House is hoping to keep her number one spot despite the pounding her fellow abortion advocates took in last week s election. But some Democrats expressed opposition to her initial announcement that she will seek the Minority Leader post and that opposition is growing.
At least 15 Democrats have said publicly they may not or will not vote for her.
Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, one of several Democrats who wants to see someone else lead the party, told the Associated Press, The reality is that she is politically toxic.
Rep. Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania added there is starting to be a sense that this may not be as much of a done deal as people might have thought. If enough people come out and voice a little discomfort with the idea of her continuing on, maybe she would reconsider.
Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah says some Democrats have expressed reservations but others have gone further and suggested they would not support Pelosi in either a public or a private vote. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pope Benedict Calls for Worldwide Prayer Against Abortion
Pope Benedict XVI has issued what Catholic pro-life advocates are calling an unprecedented request for prayers worldwide from all pro-life people against abortion.
The head of the Catholic Church will begin Advent by celebrating a solemn Vigil for all nascent human life at St. Peter s Basilica on Saturday, November 27.
The call is not limited to Catholics as the Pope is asking that all Diocesan Bishops (and their equivalent) of every particular church preside in analogous celebrations involving the faithful in their respective parishes, religious communities, associations and movements.
Mary McClusky, the Special Projects Coordinator at the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, says the call is especially important at a time when attacks on the dignity and worth of human life seem to be at an all-time high.
At this moment in history, when societies are now endorsing the killing of humans as a perceived solution to social, economic, and environmental problems, the Holy Father is reminding us of the necessity and power of prayer to protect human life, she said. Despite the challenge of these events being held on Thanksgiving weekend in the United States, Catholics should not miss this opportunity to pray for unborn life. Full story at LifeNews.com
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz President Makes About $400,000
New documents uncovered about the Planned Parenthood Federation of America reveal the president of the national abortion business makes almost $400,000 annually in combined salary and benefits.
Cecile Richards, the daughter of former Texas Governor Ann Richards, received a salary of $385,163 plus $11,876 in benefits and deferred compensation.
That s according to the Internal Revenue Service Form 990 Planned Parenthood filed in 2008 the last year in which the abortion business released a public annual report showing additional financial information.
Planned Parenthood released a factsheet in September showing its local and regional affiliates did 324,008 abortions in 2008.
But CNS News looked into the IRS records and discovered the financial compensation Richards receives.
The IRS records from 2009 show Richards received less in direct salary but much more in benefits and compensations. CNS indicates the documents show received a salary of $346,285 but $38,476 in total compensation, according to the June 30, 2009 Form 990 the abortion business submitted. Full story at LifeNews.com
Sarah Palin Calls Obama The Most Pro-Abortion President
In a speech in Texas last night, former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion president in the history of the nation.
In an appearance with pro-life Texas Gov. Rick Perry at a fundraiser for a pro-life group, she described Obama as the most pro-abortion president to occupy the White House.
A CNS News report indicates Palin also described the ObamaCare health care reform law as the mother of all unfunded mandates that will allow taxpayer funding of abortions.
She also applauded Perry and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn ObamaCare Good for them, because we have to fight back against this federal power grab, Palin said.
Palin, the former governor of Alaska, has become a national conservative phenomenon supporting pro-life candidates across the country in the 2010 elections and continuing to keep her name in the limelight talking about political issues, writing a popular book, and keeping herself and her family in the media eye. Full story at LifeNews.com
Palin, Romney and Pawlenty Lead 2012 GOP Battle in Six States
The latest polling of the potential 2012 Republican presidential race finds the PPP polling firm surveying voters in six states and Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Tim Pawlenty hold leads in at least one.
The polls were conducted just before the 2010 midterm Congressional elections and they find Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran in 2008 for the Republican nod, ahead in the critical early state of Florida. Pawlenty leads in his home state of Minnesota while Palin holds leads in Texas, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Maine.
Florida is the most important state of the bunch, since its primary election follows the big three states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Romney s ahead with 28% to 22% for Palin, the pro-life former vice-presidential running mate, and 15% for pro-life former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and pro-life former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.Full story at LifeNews.com
I Had an Abortion Campaign Ignores Women s Regret
by Janet Morana
Kathryn B. drove 600 miles and overcame an almost debilitating attack of nerves to be at the National Memorial for the Unborn in Chattanooga, Tenn., last month to tell the story of the choice she had made 19 years earlier to abort her baby.
I actually believed the choice was somehow humane, said the Cleveland resident. Like a lamb to the slaughter, I signed the form.
What followed was self-recrimination and regret, inconsolable grief and unbearable guilt and a wound that would never heal.
But when she read Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, co-authored by Rachel s Vineyard founder Theresa Karminski Burke, Kathryn found a way to forgive herself. Now she is one of more than 9,000 women and men who are part of the seven-year-old Silent No More Awareness Campaign and willing to say they regret their abortions. She also is one of hundreds who share their stories in public settings across the country, often with news cameras rolling, as they were in Tennessee. Full story at LifeNews.com
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UN Human Rights Panel Lectures US on Pro-Abortion CEDAW Treaty
A UN panel last week lambasted US human rights policy, as an enormous American delegation traveled here to endure the dressing down.
The 35 US delegates bore the fury of a periodic review in which UN member states scrutinize a country s human rights record.
The process resulted in no fewer than 228 recommendations for US policy, with many urging the country to ratify a host of controversial treaties and declarations. Others asked the United States to withdraw reservations to treaties the US has ratified.
The US delegation pledged that it remained strongly committed to ratifying the CEDAW women s treaty and a disabilities treaty. Full story at LifeNews.com
Did Pelosi Craft Pro-Abortion ObamaCare to Defeat Pro-Life Democrats?
One narrative of the 2010 election campaign goes something like this: Democrats who earlier campaigned as pro-life advocates and typically voted that way caved in and supported the abortion-funding ObamaCare bill.
As a result, pro-life groups targeted them for defeat ant many of them lost their seats to pro-life Republicans who would have voted against the legislation.
But one pro-life activist wonders if pro-abortion stalwarts Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi didn t plan it that way.
Jonathan Imbody, the vice president of government relations for the Christian Medical Associated writes in an opinion piece today he thinks there s a possibility Obama and Pelosi purposely put these Democrats in the position they faced in order to weed out those who don t toe the pro-abortion party line. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Pro-Life Movement Made Big Gains in State Legislatures
by Luis Zaffirini
Of course it was huge news last week that the GOP made tremendous gains in Congress, but those election results seem to have drown out an even more impressive wave in state legislatures.
Republicans picked up 680 seats which is the largest ever for them. The only other turnover that comes close was the 1974 elections following the Watergate scandal in which Democrats picked up 628 seats in state legislatures.
This is of vital importance to pro-lifers because chances of passing pro-life legislation are dead in the water in legislatures controlled by pro-abortion Democrats. There are a total of 99 state-level chambers [houses and senates]. After the mid-term elections, the GOP has majorities in 58. For some states, this is the first time the GOP has had control of both chambers. Full story at LifeNews.com
A pro-life group following the cases of two abortion practitioners in North Dakota who allowed their medical licenses to lapse is accusing the state medial board of its own malpractice.Operation Rescue officials say they have obtained an email showing the North Dakota State Board of Medical Examiners (NDBME) notified the Red River Women s Clinic, the only abortion business in North Dakota, that the license of abortion practitioner Lori Lynn Holst Thorndike has been restored.
The email reportedly says the license is currently in Active-Unconditioned status in spite of her apparently doing abortions illegally without a medical license since June 30, 2010.
This news particularly shocked pro-life activists at Operation Rescue and local pro-life advocates because the medical board has indicated in press statements that a decision about Thorndike s license would not be made until a meeting of the board on November 19. The NDBME has attempted to downplay Thorndike s lack of active licensure by indicating that it was an administrative oversight in comments to North Dakota media outlets. Full story at LifeNews.com.
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