Pro-Life Advocates Urged to Renew Efforts Against Abortion After Election Loss

Life News ^ | 11/5/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Several pro-life leaders are hoping the majority of Americans who take a pro-life position on abortion will re-charge and re-energize following Tuesday night's election defeats. They say the pro-life movement must prepare themselves to take on a pro-abortion president and renew educational efforts.

"We have long known that the work of advancing a culture of life is not a short-term project," Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest told LifeNews.com.

"Recall that William Wilberforce fought against the slave trade for 45 years before he ultimately prevailed in his defense of life," she said.

"In 2008, it is clear that, despite the challenges still remaining, the pro-life message is steadily gaining ground," Yoest contends. "Momentum in the states has enabled us to make significant gains in protecting women and unborn children. Young people today self-report as pro life at a higher rate than their parents' generation."

After the elections, Father Frank Pavone spoke of a "great mistake" but an "abiding hope."

"Americans have made a grave mistake in electing Barack Obama to the presidency," he said. "Yet America herself remains great and is not a mistake, which is why so many of her citizens will continue, with even greater energy and determination, to defend her founding principles."

Pavone urged the pro-life community to rally together to oppose the coming Obama administration's efforts to roll back pro-life laws.

"The pro-life movement has made significant gains in the courts and in the law in these last eight years. For the next four, the movement will work to prevent the erosion of that progress," he said.

Bradley Mattes, the director of Life Issues Institute, encouraged pro-life groups and advocates to focus on education with the reality that legislative goals of ending abortion are now stalled.

“With federal legislation no longer an option for a minimum of two years, pro-life education is absolutely central and critical to our future efforts of ending abortion," he told LifeNews.com.

"The key to countering this devastating political loss is to change the hearts and minds of Americans on abortion and related life issues. That can only be done through effective pro-life education," he added.

Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue said he thinks the pro-life movement will ultimately prevail.

"Yesterday's losses are just a speed bump on the road to victory for the innocent," he told LifeNews.com. "Overall, Americans are more pro-life than ever before. Election cycles tend to be cyclical, and we are confident that we will once again have our day."

"These setbacks will only energize us. The fight is on," Newman explained. "We will continue to work though every available legal means to stop abortion. The person occupying the White House will not diminish that work."

"Now is not the time for discouragement, but a time to roll up our sleeves and continue the fight, having peace knowing that the results in God's hands and, ultimately, victory is assured," he concluded.

[wagglebee]

A pair of threads by me on Planned Parenthood's willingness to cover-up rape to quench their bloodlust.

Second Video Shows Planned Parenthood Not Reporting Girl's Statutory Rape

Bloomington, IN (LifeNews.com) -- A second video this week features a college student going to Planned Parenthood undercover posing as a young girl who is obviously a victim of statutory rape. This new video, of a Planned Parenthood in Indiana, shows that it also failed to report the sexual abuse to authorities.

In the first video, of a Planned Parenthood in Charlotte, North Carolina, a college student tells officials she is 15 and had unprotected sex with her 30-year-old mother's live-in boyfriend. The student tells Planned Parenthood officials the boyfriend suggested she go there to obtain the morning after pill...

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Planned Parenthood Suspends Employee After Statutory Rape Coverup Video

Bloomington, IN (LifeNews.com) -- A Planned Parenthood in Indiana has suspended an employee after a new video shows the staffer covering up a girl's statutory rape. As LifeNews.com reported earlier, a UCLA student posed as a 13-year old girl who had sexual relations with a 31-year-old man...

[wagglebee]

Sickening advice.

Thread by me.

British Advice Columnist Dear Deidre Plays Down Emotional Pain From Abortion

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- British advice columnist Dear Deidre is at it again on the issue of abortion and, this time, she is playing down a teenager's emotional devastation from an abortion. Her column comes days after three separate studies showed women who have abortions suffer significant mental health problems.

An unnamed teenager wrote to Deidre -- confiding in her about the emotional pain she continues to experience following the abortion...

[Kitty Mittens]

Terri, you live within all of us and we will NEVER forget you. Happy Birthday our Sweet Angel.

Amen.

[BykrBayb]

I've been wanting to post a nice tribute to Terri for her birthday, but I just didn't get a chance to put one together. My hands have been busy, but my mind keeps returning to thoughts of Terri and her family.

I pray that Terri's family has more and more happy memories of Terri, and that her life and death lead us back toward God's light and a culture of life.

[tuckrdout]

Ah, I tear up just thinking about her, and her parents....I pray for them today. God Bless them, and their efforts. And I pray again today that the Lord would vindicate Terri’s murder. I have no doubt in my mind that He will. Mike will experience exactly what he has put everyone else through....because we serve a just God...and he will exact justice.

[Sun]

Prayers for Terri and her family!

She’s now happily in Our Lord’s loving hands!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Ciexyz]

Posting this comment in memory of Terry Sciavo. May the angels keep her safe and loved in heaven.

[wagglebee]

They RINOs hate us, but they can't win without us and I believe that if they won't support our agenda then we should leave.

Thread by Josh Painter.

Scapegoating the Social Right

In 2002 and 2004, Republicans ran hard on social issues and the courts — and scored victories at every level of politics. In 2006 and 2008, they left those issues off the table, and got walloped. It follows, naturally, that the social issues are to blame for the Republican defeats.

At least, that’s the conclusion that a chorus of commentators has reached. They are attempting to persuade Republicans to soften or downplay their party’s social conservatism and hide its social conservatives in order to resume winning elections. About this campaign to sideline the social Right, three things can be said with a fairly high degree of confidence: It is predictable; it will fail; and it is wrong.

The impulse to blame social conservatives arises nearly every time Republicans fail. They were blamed for the elder Bush’s 1992 defeat, as though he would have won if only Pat Robertson had not spoken at the Republican convention. They were blamed for losses in the House in 1998. And now they are being blamed for McCain’s rout...

[wagglebee]

More on the death certificates.

Thread by Morgana.

Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates Could Be Used for Deadly Purposes

They call it a "gift," but some would rather opt for a lump of coal.

A number of Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana and Illinois are offering gift certificates for their services this Christmas.

Officials say the vouchers enable people to give their loved ones "the gift of life" — that would help pay for annual checkups and birth control — but also can be used for abortions...

[wagglebee]

Big Murder will probably be in D.C. on January 21st asking for a bailout.

Thread by me.

Planned Parenthood Lays Off Staff Over Economy, South Dakota Director Fired

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Americans across the country are hurting due to the poor economy, but, for pro-life advocates, there is a silver lining. A Planned Parenthood affiliate has announced that the abortion business will lay off 10 employees covering nine and a half positions including its South Dakota director.

Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota said hard economic times forced the layoffs.

That includes South Dakota director Kate Looby, who confirmed to AP that she will be fired form her position...

[wagglebee]

The culture of death is seeking to expand their reach.

Thread by me.

British Parliament Will Consider Assisted Suicide Bill, Pro-Life Group Concerned

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A new piece of legislation, the Coroners and Justice Bill, which British Parliament officials announced at the start of the parliamentary year, will deal with assisted suicide. The measure, would reportedly modernize the law "to increase public understanding."

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[penowa]

Maybe it’s time for the RINOs to merge with the Democrats. In the meantime, I’ve stopped being a Republican since the RINOs who run the party do not represent me.

[wagglebee]

Life begins at the moment of conception and continues until the moment of NATURAL death.

Thread by NYer.

‘When Does Human Life Begin?’ - Even Earlier Than Many Suppose

Almost anyone with a high school education can correctly answer the question “When does human life begin?” by responding “at conception” or at “fertilization” of a human egg by a sperm cell. While we may not understand, or only vaguely recall, the precise process by which an egg and sperm combine to create a new unique human being, this basic truth about human life falls into the category of things we can’t not know.

Yet today, many educated people who do know better assert that human life begins at some later stage of development.

They arbitrarily push forward the starting point to implantation or viability, or even birth and beyond, to accommodate their approval of abortifacient drugs and devices, in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, lethal embryo research (including embryonic stem-cell research), chemical and surgical abortion, and eugenic infanticide...

[floriduh voter]

Ah, but it’s above the one’s “pay grade” to decide when a living being has civil rights... Obama’s having a little honeymoon right now but he’s the biggest abortionist in D.C. He’s an odd kind of Christian, isn’t he? Does black liberation theology go for abort all the way?

[floriduh voter]

I listen to Lifeline on Saturdays at 3:00 pm EST when I can. Terri's siblings Bobby and Suzanne are on the radio every Saturday and have dedicated their lives to helping others.

www.terrisfight.org.

[floriduh voter]

Are you an indy now too? I swear, that’s where lots of GOPers went to. I still get GOP emails, etc even though I left after Gallagher lost the primary here to RINO Crist.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Dante3]

BUMP

[Dante3]

Seems I heard that some are and some aren’t.