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An ultrasound image is a picture worth more than a thousand words when it comes to understanding key differences between the values that separate the United States and the People’s Republic of China. In the United States, ultrasound image technology has been instrumental in establishing the unborn child as a living, breathing, sensing person. Several states are in the process of enacting laws requiring abortion practitioners to offer pregnant women the chance to see an ultrasound image of their baby before performing an abortion. Congress is considering the Informed Choice Act, which allows pregnancy help clinics to receive federal grants...

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Ex-GOP Candidate Bauer to Pay FEC Fine Tue Feb 15, 3:22 PM ET Elections - AP WASHINGTON - Former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer (news - web sites)'s campaign has agreed to pay a $31,000 fine to settle a campaign finance case. Among problems cited in a Federal Election Commission (news - web sites) audit of Bauer's 2000 presidential campaign fund, auditors found that the campaign and a political action committee founded by Bauer, the Campaign for Working Families, had swapped mailing lists of unequal value, resulting in an illegal contribution to Bauer's campaign by the PAC. The Campaign for...

Former Presidential Candidate Gary Bauer announced today a new television ad campaign in Michigan and Pennsylvania which charges that John Kerry has worked against efforts to preserve traditional marriage. Bauer directed the $500,000 buy as president of Americans United to Preserve Marriage (AUPM is a registered independent 527 with the IRS). "Marriage in the United States must be preserved as the union of one man and one woman," said Bauer. "We believe it is important for the American people to know which candidates will defend traditional marriage." The ad can be viewed on the Americans United to Preserve Marriage website...

Last Wednesday, I traveled to New York at the invitation of a group called Republicans for Choice to the hearing where the Republican Platform on social issues was being debated. I was eager to talk to them about their platform, which calls for amending the constitution to eliminate the right to choose. At the very least, I thought, I could help our pro-choice Republican friends -- and their allies from the Log Cabin Republicans group that supports gay civil rights -- call for public debate on the Human Life Amendment, a position deeply unpopular with the American people. I wore...

To: Friends and Supporters From: Gary L. Bauer, Chairman Campaign for Working Families Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Edwards Is Their Man The selection of Senator John Edwards as Kerry’s running mate has certainly “fired up” some people. Within hours of his selection the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute issued a statement bragging that “John Kerry and John Edwards make up the most gay-supportive national ticket in American history!” Those are strong words and you can bet they will result in more money pouring into the Democratic National Committee from the homosexual rights crowd. In a week...

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 QUEERLY BELOVEDGOP to force vote on marriageDemocrats must choose sides just before convention Posted: June 16, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Senate Republicans plan to force Democrats to choose sides on same-sex marriage by scheduling a vote on a constitutional amendment in mid-July. The vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which bans same-sex marriage, would take place just as the Democratic Party prepares to begin its presidential nominating convention in Boston, reports Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., the Republican Conference chairman, told the paper GOP leaders are not ready to announced a...

SACRAMENTO -- With the nation's first legal gay nuptials nearly a week old, former presidential candidate Alan Keyes urged hundreds of gay marriage opponents at the state Capitol on Saturday to fight to limit the institution to straight couples only. The purpose of marriage is to produce children, something homosexuals are physically incapable of, said Keyes, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. "To say it's between a man and a woman doesn't discriminate against same-sex couples anymore than it would be discrimination for the government to say I can't offer to fly people to the moon...

A pro-family activist is concerned about some troubling demographic statistics out of France that suggest Islam is taking a firm foothold in that nation. Demographers in France are estimating that 20 to 30 percent of the French population under the age of 25 is now Muslim. Statistics also indicate that native-born French people are not having many babies, but France's large Muslim immigrant community is. Gary Bauer, president of the Campaign for Working Families, is troubled by the reported demographic trends out of France. He contends that the Muslim population explosion in France is contributing to a social climate that...

Goodbye, Barry Goldwater Posted: January 19, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. "Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage" ran the headline in the New York Times. The story told of how Bush aides were "planning an extensive election-year initiative to promote marriage" and debating whether to float the idea in the State of the Union. "For months," the Times reported, "administration officials have worked with conservative groups on the proposal, which would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain 'healthy marriages.'" Then came this kicker: "'This...

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America suddenly finds itself in the middle of a national debate over the definition of marriage. Many Americans are perplexed by this debate, and understandably so. Marriage in the United States and throughout Western civilization has always meant the union of one man and one woman. Now that truth is under radical attack. But while it is not surprising to see some on the political left embrace a radical new meaning of marriage, what has been surprising and disappointing is the confusion among some on the right who claim that a proposal to preserve marriage through a constitutional amendment violates...

To: Friends From: Gary L. Bauer President American Values Date: Thursday, September 11, 2003 Two Years Later It seems like a lifetime ago when Republican and Democrat members of Congress walked out on the steps of the Capitol, joined hands and sang God Bless America. But it wasn't a lifetime ago - it was only two years ago. Congressional leaders had just returned to Washington after being whisked away to secret locations until we could be sure the Capitol wasn't targeted. Other congressmen fled their offices as rumors swirled that a hijacked plan was on its way. The brutality of...

A former presidential candidate says President Bush and the Republicans in the Senate should have done more to overcome the filibuster of federal appeals court nominee Miguel Estrada. When Estrada asked the president to withdraw his nomination, Bush and the Senate Republicans expressed outrage. But many conservatives say that is not good enough. According to Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, several things could have been done. "The president could make what's called recess appointments of these judges when Congress is out of session. He could address the American people and explain to them why these court...

To: Friends From: Gary L. Bauer President American Values Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Jerusalem and Baghdad Carnage We should all force ourselves to read the first-person accounts in the morning newspapers of the carnage in Jerusalem and Baghdad. As horrifying as the descriptions are of broken bones, ripped flesh and spilled blood, the reality they represent could help shatter the myths that still drive the world's response, including that of the United States, to Islamic jihad. The Jerusalem bombing took place on a bus selected specifically because it was packed with children. Jerusalem hospitals, several of which I have...

Scarcely a day goes by without a fresh media story in appreciation of our new friends, the Evangelical Christians. Only a few years ago many of us would have been appalled at the prospect of developing warm ties with those we then considered at best eccentrics and more likely anti-Semites obsessed with a fanatical urge to convert us. Indeed, until very recently Binyamin Netanyahu and other politicians who maintained relations with them were subject to ridicule and abuse. Now it has suddenly dawned on us that there are probably 60 million Evangelical Christians in the United States and that they...

US President George W. Bush is mistaken to believe the Christian Right - which strongly supports Israel - is in his pocket for the 2004 election, Gary Bauer, a leading voice for this constituency, said Thursday. Bauer, on a four-day visit to Israel, admitted that this constituency - which he said makes up the bulk of the Republican Party - is not going to leave the Bush camp and vote instead for one of the Democratic contenders. However, if it appears that the Bush Administration is "browbeating" Israel into making concessions to terrorists, Bauer said a large number of these...

<p>Conservatives say the Monday affirmative-action rulings by the Supreme Court make them all the more convinced that President Bush must be careful in picking a Supreme Court nominee.</p> <p>"We're living with judges appointed not by Democrats but by Republicans, so that just really makes us nervous about President Bush now," said Richard Viguerie, one of those credited with building the New Right movement.</p>

To: Friends and Supporters of the Campaign for Working Families From: Gary L. Bauer, Chairman Date: Monday, May 12, 2003 Bush And The USS Abraham Lincoln Before this flap is over, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) will probably rue the day he ever tried to turn President Bush's aircraft carrier visit into a partisan issue. Reporters have rushed to the history books and are finding that U.S. presidents all the way back to President Tyler in 1844 have visited U.S. warships. Teddy Roosevelt visited at least six ships as president and F.D.R. spent copious amounts of time on 12 different vessels....