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• Pro-Life Groups Make Tax-Funded Abortion Ban Priority for Congress
• Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi to Seek House Democratic Leader Post
• Pro-Life Issues Yielded Election Victories, John Boehner Gets It
• Republicans Must Stand Their Ground on Life, No Truce on Abortion
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• FreedomWorks, Reason Under Fire for Bashing Pro-Life Conservatives
• Catholic Campaign for Human Development Promotes Pro-Abortion Group
• Washington Pro-Abortion Senator Patty Murray Wins 4th Term
• American Pro-Life Group Takes Abortion Message to Africa
• Minnesota Governor Race Featuring Pro-Life Emmer Heading to Recountll
• New Arizona Laws Help Stop Women Dying From Abortions
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Pro-Life Groups Make Tax-Funded Abortion Ban Priority for Congress
Leading pro-life organizations have quickly put together their wish list for the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
They want the pro-life leaders who are expected to run the Congressional chamber to take up a bill that would prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions across the board with respect to all federal government departments and programs.
The legislation would have the effect of stopping the abortion funding the ObamaCare health care reform bill fails to prohibit.
The bill in question is the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, the chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.
It essentially combines all of the many different provisions pro-life advocates have pressed for in numerous bills covering various federal agencies and programs stopping abortion funding that have to be renewed annually and makes them permanent federal law.
Douglas Johnson, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, talked with LifeNews.com about the need for the measure and political hurdles it faces.
In just two years, President Obama and his allies in Congress have established multiple new pipelines to subsidize abortion and abortion providers. These setbacks underscore the urgent need for enactment of a permanent, government-wide ban on federal funding of abortion a ban that would endure no matter who is in the White House, he said. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi to Seek House Democratic Leader Post
Nancy Pelosi will relinquish her role as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the next Congress after her party was shellacked in Tuesday s midterm elections. But she wants to remain Democratic leader.
Pelosi says she will wage a battle to continue leading the party, which became even more pro-abortion following the defeat of some of its pro-life members who voted for the abortion-funding ObamaCare bill.
I am running for Dem leader, Pelosi said on her Twitter account today.
Some political observers predicted she would step aside and let someone else run the party in the House after her election failure, but she said before her decision today that she s gotten a positive response in calls to fellow Democrats.
Everything is very positive in what they say, complimentary about how I ve kept the caucus together, complimentary about the fact that we won in the first place [in 2006] and increased our numbers [in 2008] and that we have to come right back in that regard, she told the Huffington Post. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Issues Yielded Election Victories, John Boehner Gets It
by Luis Zaffirini
The mainstream media reported heavily on the importance of economic issues in the 2010 elections as if to exclude the perennial importance of the life issues.
Take for example an October 29th article from USA Today which proclaimed: Social issues such as abortion have had their day.
That phrase seems to suggest that valuing human life is a mere political fad, but the evidence suggests this is very much untrue. The issues of abortion and health care rationing played important roles in the midterm elections and pro-lifers turned out to vote into office legislators who will make the right-to-life an important issue in their agendas.
Our Executive Director at National Right to Life, David N. O Steen, said it best. Post-election polling has shown that pro-life issues played a major role in what happened at the polls yesterday and provided a margin sufficient to guarantee victory in many close races.
Polling showed that 22% of respondents voted based on abortion and voted PRO-LIFE. Twenty-seven percent of voters said abortion funding in the health care law affected their vote and they voted for candidates who opposed the health care law as opposed to only 4% who said abortion funding in the health care law affected their vote and they voted for candidates who favored the law. Full story at LifeNews.com
Republicans Must Stand Their Ground on Life, No Truce on Abortion
by Kristan Hawkins
Coming off perhaps one of the most historic election cycles in our nation s history, Americans overwhelmingly voted against the pro-abortion Obama agenda and showed Washington insiders that the country is pro-life.
The results of the election were awe-inspiring and a testament to the will of the American people.
With pro-choice Democrats returning for their last days in Washington, D.C. and Republicans preparing their agenda for the next year, the GOP needs to remember the mandate they have just been given by the American people.
Recently the GOP leadership announced their Pledge to America and rightly placed emphasis on economic issues. Spending has skyrocketed under the Obama Administration, and unemployment continues to rise. For the nation a solid plan must be in place not only to cut spending but also to put money back into the hands of small businesses so that their owners can continue to grow and to hire more American workers. Full story at LifeNews.com
FreedomWorks, Reason Under Fire for Bashing Pro-Life Conservatives
The pro-life Republican candidates who won landslide victories in races for Congress, state offices and the state legislature didn t do so well on Tuesday. That s if you take the arguments from FreedomWorks or Reason magazine.
The libertarian group and publication have gone out of their way this week to make it appear pro-life issues are losing ones for candidates.
Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks read the results of the election as pro-life issues hurting candidates, saying in a Washington Post interview:
The strength of the movement is the focus on fiscal issues, which tend to be a uniting factor among a vast majority of Americans, especially given the current economic climate. Social issues have distracted and proven divisive in close races like Ken Buck in Colorado, he said.
Ramesh Ponnuru, a pro-life writer at National Review, couldn t let the comment go unanswered. Full story at LifeNews.com
Catholic Campaign for Human Development Promotes Pro-Abortion Group
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development faces renewed criticism from pro-life advocates who say it is promoting a prior pro-abortion grantee, and doing so in a document intended to set a new course for the embattled funding organization.
The Reform CCHD Now (RCN) coalition, a collection of various pro-life groups with a Catholic mission, has released a report detailing multiple problems with the Coalition of Imokalee Workers (CIW). CIW is the featured in a document intended to outline the review and renewal of the CCHD program.
CIW has not been awarded another grant yet, but could be, and the coalition is complaining CCHD organizers have not yet released the 2010 grantee list, although they are proceeding with the collection. They are featured in the renewal document as a great example of the work of the CCHD.
Michael Hichborn, lead researcher for RCN member American Life League, told LifeNews.com today that CCHD officials are still not doing due diligence on grantees before assigning them funds from the fundraising campaign.
The very idea that the CCHD would praise CIW in a document that apologizes for funding pro-abortion, pro-homosexual organizations in the past and promises to make a stronger effort to avoid doing so in the future undermines their credibility, he said. If CCHD can t get it right at the beginning of this process, what confidence can we have that it will be able to do so later on." Full story at LifeNews.com
Washington Pro-Abortion Senator Patty Murray Wins 4th Term
The close contest for the Senate in Washington state is now officially over and pro-abortion Sen. Patty Murray is headed back to Congress.
The Seattle Times called the race Thursday night for Murray, who compiled a lead and who would likely stand to benefit from the votes that remain to be counter, many of which comes from her stronghold in the heavily Democratic Seattle area.
Dino Rossi, the pro-life candidate who had sought statewide office for the third time, conceded the race, saying: This evening, I called Senator Murray to offer my congratulations on her re-election to the U.S. Senate.
Murray had a lead of about 14,000 voters on Election Day, but that total increased to more than 50,000 as more votes from liberal King County were counted. Republican leaning Spokane and Clark counties gave Rossi additional votes but not enough to make up for the King County ones. Full story at LifeNews.com
American Pro-Life Group Takes Abortion Message to Africa
Over the next 12 days the people of Africa will be able to see a team from the global outreach project of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life in action.
Executive Director Scott Fischbach will speak at meetings in four East African nations, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar, beginning Sunday.
This is a dream come true to actually meet, speak to and share directly with the pro-life contacts that MCCL GO has been working with via the Internet, phone and fax over the last 18 months, Fischbach told LifeNews.com. To finally be able to work hand-in-hand with those who fight to defend the unborn and their moms in Africa is a true honor. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Minnesota Governor Race Featuring Pro-Life Emmer Heading to Recount
Minnesota is facing the prospects of yet another recount as the gubernatorial race between pro-life Republican Tom Emmer and pro-abortion Democrat Mark Dayton is heading that direction.
Dayton holds a slim lead of just 8,775 votes and that s too small a margin for him to declare victory or Emmer to concede defeat.
That could push the state into the same kind of hand-counted recount Senate candidates Norm Coleman, the pro-lifer, and pro-abortion Sen. Al Frank faced in their 2008 election and it could take weeks, or months, to complete.
Under state law, the sitting governor, Tim Pawlenty, who is pro-life and a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, must continue to hold office to guide the state if the recount heads past January 3, 2011. Pawlenty has already agreed to stay on if needed. Full story at LifeNews.com
In April 1998, Lou Anne Herron, a 33-year-old mother with two young children already at home, entered the A-Z Women s Center in Phoenix seeking a late-term abortion. An initial ultrasound examination showed that Ms. Herron was 26 weeks pregnant, 2 weeks beyond the limit of Arizona s ban on post-viability abortions. Undeterred, clinic staff performed multiple ultrasounds before obtaining one that estimated a gestational age of 23 weeks, knowingly disregarding Arizona law.
Abortionist John Biskind then performed the dangerous and illegal abortion, tearing a two-inch hole in Ms. Herron s uterus. Medical evidence indicates that, within 10 minutes of the abortion being completed, Ms. Herron was in serious trouble. As she lay in what medical assistants described as a pool of blood that soaked the bedding and ran down her legs, Ms. Herron was heard crying for help and asking what was wrong with her.
Where was the abortionist, Biskind? He was eating lunch in the break room, refusing requests to check her condition, and later left her bleeding and unconscious to visit his tailor. Full story at LifeNews.com
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