Monthly Archives: November 2013

This is a historic moment.

Pro-life Friend, I am so excited to tell you that yesterday I stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as he introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the U.S. Senate. I say this with humble gratitude to YOU. As you know, the entire SBA List community and pro-life movement has been working towards this moment for months, urging Senators to introduce this groundbreaking bill which would save 15,000 children per year from a painful death beginning at 20 weeks. The very first step of the process – getting the bill introduced in the Senate, is done. Remember, it has already passed the House of Representatives. Steps two, three, and four are this: Launch a nationwide grassroots and media campaign rallying the American people behind this legislation Gather as many co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate as possible Force Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to hold a vote on this historic bill so we can put every U.S. Senator on record Pro-life Friend, I can’t do this without you – are you with me? Make a gift right now of $10, $35, $75, or even $100 or more so we can launch a nationwide grassroots and media campaign for this legislation, gather as many co-sponsors as possible, and force a vote in the U.S. Senate.  Let me be clear: The other side is already doing whatever it can to smear and distort this legislation. Just on my cab ride back to the office yesterday, I read emails sent out by Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and EMILY’s List all urging their members to donate to them so that they can bring down this legislation… and quickly. Why?They’re scared of it. They’ve seen the polls – they know how popular this legislation is, especially among women, young people, and independents. They know they need to fund a smear campaign, and they need to do it right now. Donate whatever you can afford right now so that we’re prepared to fight the smears and distortions of the abortion industry as they work to kill this legislation. The pro-abortion lobby understands the power of this bill because they very much remember the passage of the partial-birth abortion ban, which was signed into law 10 years ago this very week. They know that in addition to saving lives, the ban on partial-birth abortion changed hearts. We know – and they know – this bill has the very same potential to put another major dent into Roe v. Wade and bring even more Americans to our side. And so they want to stop it before it gets even more traction. Please, Pro-life Friend, chip in whatever you can to help us stay one step ahead from the pro-abortion lobby as they work to kill this bill which they know will change hearts and save lives if passed. This is a historic moment. I believe that future decades will mark this day as one when America lived up to its greatness and charted a new course – a course for life, for women and children, and for hope. I am so glad that you are a part of it. For Life, Marjorie Dannenfelser President, Susan B. Anthony List PS: I was proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as he introduced the historic Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the U.S. Senate. I need your immediate financial help right now so we can launch a nationwide campaign in support of this legislation, gather co-sponsors, and force a vote – are you with me?

Pro-Life Groups Demand Harry Reid Allow a Vote on 20-Week Abortion Ban

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/7/13 3:10 PM

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The House of Representatives has already passed the bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and the only thing standing in the way of getting the legislation to President Barack Obama is pro-abortion Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.

In June, the House approved the legislation and the vote for the bill broke down on mostly partisan lines with Republicans supporting the ban on late-term abortions and Democrats opposing it.President Barack Obama has issued a veto threat should the Senate approve the bill.

Today, joining pro-life Sen. Lindsey Graham, who introduced the late-term abortion ban in the Senate, pro-life groups demanded Reid allow a vote on the measure. At a press conference this morning, Graham announced he would introduce the landmark legislation that would provide nationwide protection for unborn children who are capable of feeling pain, beginning at 20 weeks fetal age.

The National Right to Life Committee tells LifeNews it is calling on Reid to bring the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to the Senate floor for a vote.

“It is time for the Senate to take action on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and we urge Senator Reid to heed the will of the people and allow the bill to come before the Senate for a vote,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “One-fifth of the states, nearly two-thirds of Americans, including two-thirds of American women, and the U.S. House of Representatives agree. Now it’s time for the U.S. Senate to do its job and act to protect these most vulnerable members of our human family.”

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/07/pro-life-groups-demand-harry-reid-allow-a-vote-on-20-week-abortion-ban/

Breathtaking Video Shows the Miracle of Human Creation and Development

by Jill Stanek | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/6/13 2:50 PM

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What a great video to explain to children where babies come from!

The human body is the most complicated machine in the world. We see with it, hear with it, breathe with it, walk and run with it, and sense pleasure with it. Its bones, muscles, arteries, veins and internal organs are organized with marvelous design, and when we examine this design in detail we find even more amazing facts. Every part of the body, though each may seem to be so different from another, is made up of the same material: cells.

Video and More:  http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/06/breathtaking-video-shows-the-miracle-of-human-creation-and-development/

Massachusetts Rationing Shows What’s Coming to America Under Obamacare

by Burke Balch, J.D. | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/6/13 6:54 PM

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President Obama is holding up the Massachusetts health care law as a good precedent for what Obamacare will bring when fully implemented. It’s a good precedent, all right–for the rationing now under way in the Bay State that the national law will all too soon impose on the entire country.

In an October 30, 2013, speech in Boston’s Faneuil Hall, the President claimed, “[A]ll the parade of horribles, the worst predictions about health care reform in Massachusetts never came true. They’re the same arguments that you’re hearing now. . . . [I]t’s easy to scare folks. And it’s no surprise that some to the same folks trying to scare people now are the same folks who’ve been trying to sink the Affordable Care Act from the beginning.”

At the National Right to Life Committee, we only regret that we weren’t able to scare enough people to prevent enactment of the Massachusetts law and Obamacare – because if we had, those in Massachusetts wouldn’t be facing rationed health care today and the whole nation wouldn’t be on the way to facing worse and worse rationing in coming years.

What happened in Massachusetts? We warned from the beginning that over-promising plus under-funding forces rationing. In 2006, Massachusetts passed a mandate for universal health insurance, with subsidies to enable the low-income uninsured to afford it. To pay for the subsidies, the state law cobbled together a series of funding sources, including federal payments, existing state funds for health care for the uninsured, and other sources of revenue, none of which were based on what people actually pay for health care.

We repeatedly said that without an adequate, sustainable funding mechanism to pay for the entitlement, the state would wind up imposing limits on treatment – rationing. (For a 2009 presentation at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Convention reiterating and explaining this prediction, see here.)

By 2010, facing a mounting gap between the cost of subsidies and the available revenue, Governor Deval Patrick sent a bill to the state legislature with sweeping measures to limit what Massachusetts citizens would be allowed to spend to save the lives of their family members.

Both laws rely on bureaucratic micromanagement that minutely dictates what treatment will and will not be allowed to be available. And both will result in patients losing access to life-saving medical treatment through what amounts to direct and indirect rationing of health care.

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/06/massachusetts-rationing-shows-whats-coming-to-america-under-obamacare/

Hollywood gets half a million dollars to push Obamacare

It’s a bit hard to imagine. Maybe during your favorite medical drama, as the fictional doctors and nurses rush to save a life, one of the doctors will slip in a line like, “Thank goodness this patient is covered under the Affordable Care Act!”

In an effort to pitch Obamacare to the masses, The California Endowment, a private fund, has given a $500,000 grant to ensure that Hollywood writers work the Affordable Care Act into television story lines.

The aim is to produce compelling prime-time narratives that encourage Americans to enroll, especially the young and healthy, Hispanics and other key demographic groups needed to make the overhaul a success.”

The 18-month grant is meant to educate staffs of prime-time television and Spanish television shows. The University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center, which is meant to “bridge the gap” between entertainment and academia, is the grant recipient. The school’s Martin Kaplan had this to say,

We know from research that when people watch entertainment television, even if they know it’s fiction, they tend to believe that the factual stuff is actually factual.” He continued on to say that “people learn from these shows.”

Arthur Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, supports Obamacare, but not the use of media in this manner.

More: http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/hollywood-gets-half-a-million-dollars-to-push-obamacare

Sick and tired of wimpy Churches whining about tax-exempt status?

November 6, 2013

Friends,

Why are some Churches so silent about ending the killing of children by abortion, or electing pro-life public officials, and instead only seem to be able to talk about how much danger there is that they will lose their tax-exempt status?

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of it, and I’ve decided to do something about it.

“Pro Life Straight Talk” is a new online video series I’ve started, and the current episode talks about Politics and the Pulpit. Watch this informative video and pass it along to others! And there will be more where this came from!

In this video you will learn the total number of Churches which have had their tax-exempt status removed thanks to what was said in the pulpit or printed in the bulletin or handed out to the Congregation. It’s a number you’ll want to share with your pastor!

In this video you will also learn how long Churches have been prohibited from intervening in elections (it’s not as long as many think), and you’ll also learn how long Churches have been tax-exempt (it’s much longer than many think).

And there’s a simple fact about the tax-exemption of Churches that many pastors don’t seem to know, and it’s part of the reason that they should stop worrying that the IRS just can’t wait to yank that exemption from them.

Friends, we are living in a climate of unnecessary fear and trembling, caused by self-imposed gag orders that have nothing to do with the laws of the United States!

Like my friend John Ensor has written, “God did not rescue us from sin and death to build a community of nervous chipmunks ever sniffing the air for potential danger. He sealed our lives with his own death-defying Spirit so that we might act in kind.”

It’s time to stop the nonsense. Please watch my video on Politics and the Pulpit and spread the word!

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

Priests for Life
PO Box 141172
Staten Island, NY 10314
Phone: 888-PFL-3448
718-980-4400
Fax: 718-980-6515
Email: mail@priestsforlife.org
www.PriestsForLife.org

What We Learned on Election Night – 2013

ANALYSIS:

In a deeply blue state, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by over 700,000, Chris Christie, the pro-life Republican Governor who defunded Planned Parenthood in 2011, won re-election by what the New York Times calls a “crushing margin.” Who made up that margin? The very people Planned Parenthood claims pro-life leaders are waging a war against: women.

Christie won the women vote by a 15 percent margin.

But he also won the Hispanic vote and, according to the New York Times, “made impressive inroads among younger voters and blacks—groups that Republicans nationally have struggled to attract.” Even his support among Democrats has grown. In 2009, he had 8 percent of the Democratic vote. Yesterday, he received 32 percent of it.

Gov. Christie’s re-election makes one thing clear: Americans gravitate toward common-sense, pro-life leaders.

Though some would like us to believe that a Planned Parenthood endorsement is what secures the women vote, Gov. Christie’s election demonstrates how little Planned Parenthood really matters to a majority of New Jersey women.

In a landslide, women voted for a pro-life Republican who took state funding away from the abortion leader.

Furthermore, if a pro-life Republican can make inroads with Democrats, what’s to stop a Democrat from taking a pro-life stance?  Apparently, standing against Planned Parenthood does not necessarily mean losing ground with Democrats.

Despite everything we are told, being proudly and practically pro-life does not mean losing elections.

 Nevertheless, as Gov. Christie told his fellow Republicans, “We don’t just show up in the places we’re comfortable, we show up in the places we’re uncomfortable.”

 Even in Virginia, where a pro-choice Democrat won the gubernatorial race, national experts agree that Ken Cuccinelli, the pro-life Attorney General of Virginia, would have won if it had not been for the third party Libertarian candidate who garnered 7 percent of the vote.

Once again, practical, pro-life policies are not what lose elections and Republicans, as well as Democrats, have every reason to follow Gov. Christie’s pro-life model. 

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Michael Gonidakis

President

Ohio Right to Life

88 East Broad Street, Suite 620

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614/547-0099 ext. 301

http://www.ohiolife.org/