By Carol Tobias, National Right to Life President
Editor’s note. The following is the opening statement from National Right to Life’s press conference this morning at which NRLC endorsed Mitt Romney for President.
National Right to Life is proud and honored to endorse Governor Mitt Romney for President of the United States.
On pro-life issues, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama provide a stark contrast. As the country’s most pro-abortion president, Barack Obama has pursued a radical pro-abortion agenda. It is now time for pro-life Americans to unite behind Mitt Romney. For the sake of unborn children, the disabled, and the elderly, we must win.
Let’s review President Obama’s abysmal record on life.
On his second day in office, January 22, 2009, President Obama issued a statement reaffirming his commitment to defend the Roe v Wade ruling, which gave us abortion on demand. On his third day in office, he overturned the “Mexico City Policy” so that hundreds of millions of our tax dollars would be given to organizations that perform and promote abortion overseas. Our tax dollars are given to organizations that go into heavily pro-life countries in Central and South America, and Africa, and are used to lobby against the current pro-life laws in those countries.
Another of his early acts was to release $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund – an agency that had received no U.S. funds under the Bush Administration because of its involvement in China’s one-child population-control program, which relies heavily upon forced abortion as part of their population control policy. Forced abortions among women who violate the one-child policy in China are commonplace and sometimes carried out up to nine months of pregnancy. They can be so violent that the women die along with their full term babies.
President Obama authorized taxpayer funding of research that requires killing human embryos.
Last spring, the United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill to permanently prohibit any federal program from funding elective abortion. Prior to the vote, the Obama administration attacked the bill and threatened to veto it if passed. He wants our hard-earned tax dollars to pay for the killing of unborn children.
President Obama indicated he would veto the entire federal spending bill — forcing a government shutdown — rather than accept a provision cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
In February 2011, the Obama Administration rescinded a regulation that had been issued by the Bush Administration, which would have protected health-care providers from being penalized for refusing to participate in providing abortions
But even more far-reaching than all of this, is how the president is impacting our health care system. In 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed into law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare. Today, every fifth child dies from abortion; that number will go even higher because of ObamaCare. This program will enshrine abortion and rationing of health care in our society for generations to come if it isn’t stopped.
While some would like to call into question Mitt Romney’s pro-life position, let me state clearly and emphatically, “Mitt Romney IS pro-life.”
Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand in all 50 states. Mitt Romney believes Roe v. Wade should be overturned.
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Pro-Life Women on the Rise by Kathryn Lopez, National Review On line
Pro-Life Women on the Rise
By Kathryn Lopez | September 18th, 2010
Christine O’Donnell was ecstatic on election night. The winner of the Republican primary in Delaware was happy and beaming and passionate — she’s a natural in front of television cameras — as she celebrated her unconventional win. Watching that image, Chris Matthews on “Hardball” announced, “I think she beats out Carly Fiorina in the likeability department.”
I suppose it depends what your meaning of likable is. I like candidates who know who they are and appear completely comfortable in their own political skin. That pretty well describes Fiorina, the Republican nominee for Senate in California.
But Matthews was onto something undeniable. While Fiorina was one of the original “Mamma grizzlies” endorsed by Sarah Palin and the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List, the image doesn’t quite seem to fit for the former CEO. She’s not a perky takedown artist from Delaware. She’s not an exotic (to us lower 48ers) lipsticked pit bull from Alaska. She isn’t easily labeled.
Hers is a “a solid, conservative economic message that find common ground with the independent women voters on economic issues for the general election,” as Mercedes Schlapp, mother of four girls, media consultant and veteran of the George W. Bush administration, sees it. And Fiorina also happens to be a pro-life, pro-marriage conservative, running against, three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer, a foremost advocate of legal abortion. But Fiorina doesn’t make those the most prominent aspects of her campaign. She simply seeks to bring her life experience to the political table in service of the people of California.
“Carly is not running away from her views, but chooses to stay focused on the issues that matter most to voters,” Marty Wilson, her campaign manager, explains. “Because of Carly’s background as a business leader, she is afforded the best of both worlds. Values voters are comforted by her views, and economic conservatives can be assured that she won’t support new taxes and believes the unbridled growth must be halted.”
That dynamic played out in the candidates’ first debate. Sen. Boxer hyperbolically thundered: “If my opponent’s views prevailed (on abortion), women and doctors would be criminals, they would go to jail. Women would die, like they did before Roe v. Wade.” But Fiorina calmly and beautifully explained that her own family life brought her to her position. She added that she recognizes “that not everyone agrees with me on this.” And reminded voters “I recognize as well that the most important issue right now in this election is the creation of jobs and getting our government under control.” She went on, again in response to a question, to defend and explain why she opposes federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research. Fiorina gave a plug for more promising adults-stem-cell research and didn’t miss the opportunity note that: “Senator Boxer voted against a ban on human cloning.” It’s hard to cast anyone else as extreme, as Boxer has, with that record.
Fiorina used the debate as a teachable moment, not just a battle of sound bites. And it wasn’t just pro-life me who was impressed. A Los Angeles Times review gave her high marks for her grace under fire.
And while Boxer, funded by Planned Parenthood and EMILY’s List (a group that supports female pro-choice politicians and candidates) obviously thinks she can demonize Fiorina on these issues, it’s not clear her strategy will have traction, even in California this year.
“In most polls, the race is a statistical tie,” John J. Pitney Jr., a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College, observes, calling it “remarkable.” “Though Republicans have sometimes done well in races for state government offices, California has long favored Democrats for federal office. No Republican candidate for president or U.S. Senate has won here since 1988.”
It’s remarkable because Fiorina is being outspent. It’s remarkable because Fiorina is not running left or away from her staunchly held social positions. “Fiorina is doing well because California’s economic woes are causing many voters to question the policies that Barbara Boxer supports,” Pitney surmises.
Fiorina’s strategy resembles Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s race in Virginia last year. His opposition tried to paint him as a right-wing Neanderthal. But as far as he was concerned, the race was about jobs, education, and transportation — it’s what Virginia needed in a gubernatorial candidate. McDonnell not only won in the purple commonwealth, he won 51 percent of full-time, outside of the home, working women — even as his opposition insisted on emphasizing and demonizing a graduate paper he wrote on traditional gender roles.
Rest of the article can be read here
By Kathryn Lopez | September 18th, 2010
Christine O’Donnell was ecstatic on election night. The winner of the Republican primary in Delaware was happy and beaming and passionate — she’s a natural in front of television cameras — as she celebrated her unconventional win. Watching that image, Chris Matthews on “Hardball” announced, “I think she beats out Carly Fiorina in the likeability department.”
I suppose it depends what your meaning of likable is. I like candidates who know who they are and appear completely comfortable in their own political skin. That pretty well describes Fiorina, the Republican nominee for Senate in California.
But Matthews was onto something undeniable. While Fiorina was one of the original “Mamma grizzlies” endorsed by Sarah Palin and the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List, the image doesn’t quite seem to fit for the former CEO. She’s not a perky takedown artist from Delaware. She’s not an exotic (to us lower 48ers) lipsticked pit bull from Alaska. She isn’t easily labeled.
Hers is a “a solid, conservative economic message that find common ground with the independent women voters on economic issues for the general election,” as Mercedes Schlapp, mother of four girls, media consultant and veteran of the George W. Bush administration, sees it. And Fiorina also happens to be a pro-life, pro-marriage conservative, running against, three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer, a foremost advocate of legal abortion. But Fiorina doesn’t make those the most prominent aspects of her campaign. She simply seeks to bring her life experience to the political table in service of the people of California.
“Carly is not running away from her views, but chooses to stay focused on the issues that matter most to voters,” Marty Wilson, her campaign manager, explains. “Because of Carly’s background as a business leader, she is afforded the best of both worlds. Values voters are comforted by her views, and economic conservatives can be assured that she won’t support new taxes and believes the unbridled growth must be halted.”
That dynamic played out in the candidates’ first debate. Sen. Boxer hyperbolically thundered: “If my opponent’s views prevailed (on abortion), women and doctors would be criminals, they would go to jail. Women would die, like they did before Roe v. Wade.” But Fiorina calmly and beautifully explained that her own family life brought her to her position. She added that she recognizes “that not everyone agrees with me on this.” And reminded voters “I recognize as well that the most important issue right now in this election is the creation of jobs and getting our government under control.” She went on, again in response to a question, to defend and explain why she opposes federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research. Fiorina gave a plug for more promising adults-stem-cell research and didn’t miss the opportunity note that: “Senator Boxer voted against a ban on human cloning.” It’s hard to cast anyone else as extreme, as Boxer has, with that record.
Fiorina used the debate as a teachable moment, not just a battle of sound bites. And it wasn’t just pro-life me who was impressed. A Los Angeles Times review gave her high marks for her grace under fire.
And while Boxer, funded by Planned Parenthood and EMILY’s List (a group that supports female pro-choice politicians and candidates) obviously thinks she can demonize Fiorina on these issues, it’s not clear her strategy will have traction, even in California this year.
“In most polls, the race is a statistical tie,” John J. Pitney Jr., a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College, observes, calling it “remarkable.” “Though Republicans have sometimes done well in races for state government offices, California has long favored Democrats for federal office. No Republican candidate for president or U.S. Senate has won here since 1988.”
It’s remarkable because Fiorina is being outspent. It’s remarkable because Fiorina is not running left or away from her staunchly held social positions. “Fiorina is doing well because California’s economic woes are causing many voters to question the policies that Barbara Boxer supports,” Pitney surmises.
Fiorina’s strategy resembles Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s race in Virginia last year. His opposition tried to paint him as a right-wing Neanderthal. But as far as he was concerned, the race was about jobs, education, and transportation — it’s what Virginia needed in a gubernatorial candidate. McDonnell not only won in the purple commonwealth, he won 51 percent of full-time, outside of the home, working women — even as his opposition insisted on emphasizing and demonizing a graduate paper he wrote on traditional gender roles.
Rest of the article can be read here
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Lila Rose Attacked by Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Escort
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Pro-Life Activist Lila Rose Attacked by Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Escort
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 18, 2009
San Jose, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Lila Rose has made a name for herself exposing the abuses at Planned Parenthood centers, such as staffers misleading women about abortion or hiding cases of sexual abuse. Rose became a victim herself Thursday morning as a Planned Parenthood staff member attacked her.
Late Thursday morning at the Planned Parenthood abortion facility located at 1691 The Alameda in San Jose, California, Rose led a group of pro-life advocates.
Rose tells LifeNews.com she was visiting the abortion center with a group of about 20students and three adults to pray and provide information to women who might be open to abortion alternatives.
According to a police report filed at the scene and numerous witnesses, a uniformed Planned Parenthood escort engaged in a short exchange with Rose and eventually struck her on the hand, knocking her literature to the ground.
"Sir, are you familiar with the abortion procedure?" Rose asked the Planned Parenthood escort while standing on the public sidewalk.
The escort approached Rose from the Planned Parenthood parking lot and said, "You idiot. You've caused so much trouble. You piece of crap."
Rose told LifeNews.com today: "The man appeared to recognize me though I had never met him. He knew who I was and I think that is part of the reason for his surprising anger and the attack."
Rose offered to show the escort a picture of a baby victimized by abortion, saying, "Can I show you a picture of what it really does to a baby?"
At this point, the escort struck Rose's hand knocking her pro-life pamphlets and Bible to the ground and Rose stepped further back on the public sidewalk.
The Planned Parenthood official moved closer to Rose and, visibly shaking, says, "It's a woman's choice!"
"What about the baby's choice?" Rose responds.
The Planned Parenthood escort replied, "It's not a baby!" and then turned around and walked away.
Rose, the president of Live Action, tells LifeNews.com that the police were called and interviewed her and several witnesses on the scene.
She says she was not injured by the attack but will press for charges of assault and battery.
Rose told LifeNews.com she's not concerned about the attack in one sense because unborn children face worse.
"The attack against me cannot even begin to compare with the lethal attacks that take place twice a week at that same clinic against completely defenseless unborn children. I am thankful I live in a nation where my life is protected by law, and the lives of sidewalk counselors, and we will continue to fight for the day when our laws recognize our fellow unborn brothers and sisters as persons with the right to life," she said.
Rose said she received good news this morning.
"A woman who thought she was pregnant and considering abortion, bound for Planned Parenthood , turned around, and one of the parents and their daughter at the clinic drove her and her friend to the criis pregnancy center," she said.
'She was crying and so happy because she said she wanted 'a sign from God' not to get an abortion. And the sidewalk counselors and students praying were her sign," Rose concluded.
Read the rest of the story here
Monday, January 18, 2010
Obama siilenced by Pro-Life Heckler at rally for Coakley.
One would think "The One" would have learned how to handle hecklers by now. George Bush was a master at it and he never lost a beat. But this one Pro-Lifer shut him down. Holding a sign that says "JESUS LOVES ALL BABIES," this brave man entered the lion's den. Some say heckling should not be allowed. I say, he speaks truth and the truth should always have a voice. I would have been there with him if I could. Someone must speak for those innocents who have no voice. I don't care what the venue.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
I'm Holding a Miracle
This video celebrates life from beginning to birth, as it is life FROM the beginning. I am going to be a great-grandmother soon. I am so excited!
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