o'bamacide 5Nov08-5Oct09 record (A reminder to the Congress reps whose own history should tell them what's right.) : Help LifeNews.com Reach those Who Don't Know Obama's Pro-Abortion

From: Steven Ertelt Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 Subject: Help LifeNews.com Reach those Who Don't Know Obama's Pro-Abortion

The recent Pew Research Forum poll had great news for pro-life advocates -- showing that we are gaining ground in the abortion debate.  Our numbers are up 11 percent over the last poll Pew conducted.

However, the survey also had some terribly disconcerting results.  According to Pew, 42 percent of Americans do not know that President Barack Obama is pro-abortion.

That number includes 25 percent of Republicans who descirbe themselves as conservative [??? -rfh] and 51 percent of Democrats who describe themselves that way as well.

These numbers are no surprise.  The mainstream media rarely focuses on the ways in which Obama has aggressively promoted abortion since taking over the White House.  And when these pro-abortion news outlets bother to cover Obama and abortion, they focus on the times when he presents a watered-down version of his record and position to make him seem more moderate.

The Pew figures also aren't a surprise given the calculated way Obama has tried to make himself appear as if he is finding a common ground on abortion.

Obama's bogus claims to want to make sure abortion funding is not in the health care bills make him appear moderate to the American public.  But you know, thanks to LifeNews.com, that he hasn't lifted a finger to support amendments to ensure the health care bills will not contain massive abortion subsidies and mandates.

The Pew numbers point to the need for LifeNews.com and our timely, accurate pro-life news reporting.

No only do we need your support to educate more strongly pro-life Americans about Obama and his pervasive pro-abortion record, we need your help in reaching nominally pro-life people and alerting them to how Obama started using their tax dollars to pay for abortions from week one of his presidency.

You can help LifeNews.com in two ways:

1) Below this note to you, I have included the LifeNews.com compilation of Obama's pro-abortion record.  This is the most comprehensive collection of his actions promoting abortion and we include links to full news reports with detailed information.  Please pass along this list to every pro-life person you know.  

The link to our report on Obama's pro-abortion record is at: http://www.LifeNews.com/obamaabortionrecord.html

2) You can help LifeNews.com reach more pro-life people with this valuable information by supporting our October $5,000 fundraising campaign. We're just over 38 percent of the way there and we need your help to reach that goal.

President Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record: A Pro-Life Compilation

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The following is a compilation of bill signings, speeches, appointments and other actions that President Barack Obama has engaged in that have promoted abortion before and during his presidency. While Obama has promised to reduce abortions and some of his supporters believe that will happen, this long list proves his only agenda is promoting more abortions.

This list can permanently be found at http://www.LifeNews.com/obamaabortionrecord.html

Post-Election / Pre-Inauguration

• November 5, 2008 - Obama selects pro-abortion Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff. Emanuel has a 0% pro-life voting record according to National Right to Life.

• November 19, 2008 - Obama picks pro-abortion former Sen. Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services Secretary. Daschle has a long pro-abortion voting record according to National Right to Life.

• November 20, 2008 - Obama chooses former NARAL legal director Dawn Johnsen to serve as a member of his Department of Justice Review Team. Later, he finalizes her appointment as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of the Legal Counsel in the Obama administration.

• November 24, 2008 - Obama appoints Ellen Moran, the former director of the pro-abortion group Emily's List as his White House communications director. Emily's List only supported candidates who favored taxpayer funded abortions and opposed a partial-birth abortion ban.

• November 24, 2008 - Obama puts former Emily's List board member Melody Barnes in place as his director of the Domestic Policy Council.

• November 30, 2008 - Obama named pro-abortion Sen. Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State. Clinton has an unblemished pro-abortion voting record and has supported making unlimited abortions an international right.

• December 10, 2008 - Obama selects pro-abortion former Clinton administration official Jeanne Lambrew to become the deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform. Planned Parenthood is "excited" about the selection.

• December 10, 2008 - Obama transition team publishes memo from dozens of pro-abortion groups listing their laundry list of pro-abortions actions they want him to take.

Pro-Abortion Presidential Record - 2009

• January 5, 2009 -  Obama picks pro-abortion Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as the chairman of the Democratic Party.

• January 6, 2009 -  Obama chooses Thomas Perrelli, the lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo's husband Michael in his efforts to kill his disabled wife, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.

• January 22, 2009 - Releases statement restating support for Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions and has resulted in at least 50 million abortions since 1973.

• January 23, 2009 - Forces taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations. Decison to overturn Mexico City Policy sends part of $457 million to pro-abortion organizations.

• January 26, 2009 -  Obama nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, James B. Steinberg, tells members of the Senate that taxpayers should be forced to fund abortions. Nominee erroneously says limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional.

• January 29, 2009 -  President Obama nominates pro-abortion David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General.

• February 12, 2009 - Obama nominates pro-abortion Elena Kagan to serve as Solicitor General.
• February 27, 2009 - Starts the process of overturning pro-life conscience protections President Bush put in place to make sure medical staff and centers are not forced to do abortions.
• February 28, 2009 - Barack Obama nominates pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.

• March 5, 2009 - The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, made the invitation list as did other pro-abortion groups.

• March 9, 2009 -   President Barack Obama signed an executive order forcing taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
• March 10, 2009 - Obama announces the creation of a new foreign policy position to focus on women's issues. He names Melanne Verveer, an abortion advocate, to occupy the post.

• March 10, 2009 - Reverses an executive order to press for more research into ways of obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming human life. The order Obama scrapped would have promoted new forms of stem cell research.

• March 11, 2009 - Obama signed an executive order establishing a new agency within his administration known as the White House Council on Women and Girls. Obama's director of public liaison at the White House, Tina Tchen, an abortion advocate, became director of it.
• March 11, 2009 - Obama administration promotes an unlimited right to abortion at a United Nations meeting.
• March 11, 2009 - Obama administration officials deny negative effects of abortion at United Nation's meeting.
• March 17, 2009 - President Barack Obama makes his first judicial appointment and names pro-abortion federal Judge David Hamilton to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
• March 26 - President Obama announced $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that has been criticized for promoting abortion and working closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.

• April 7 • - The Vatican has rejected three Obama ambassador nominees because of their positions in favor of abortions.
• April 7 - Obama has named pro-abortion law professor Harold Hongju Koh as the top lawyer for the State Department.
• April 7 - Put more abortion advocates on his White House advisory council for faith-based issues.

• April 8 - Obama nominee for assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, Ron Weich, is pro-abortion.

• April 14 - Obama administration releases document • that claims pro-life people may engage in violence or extremism.

• April 17 - Obama administration releases the proposed guidelines that implement his decision to allow taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research that involves the destruction of human life.

• April 23 - Refused to appeal a ruling requiring the FDA to allow 17-year-old girls to purchase the morning after pill without either a doctor visit or parental involvement beforehand.

• April 27 - Obama's women's ambassador Melanne Verveer touted Obama's decision to send $50 million to the United Nation's Population Fund.

• May 5 - Details emerge about a terrorism dictionary the administration of President Barack Obama put together in March. The Domestic Extremism Lexicon calls pro-life advocates violent and claims they employ racist overtones in engaging in criminal actions.

• May 8 - President Obama releases a new budget that allows the Legal Services Corporation to use tax dollars to pay for pro-abortion litigation.

• May 8 - President Obama's new budget calls for taxpayer funded abortions in the nation's capital.

• May 8 - President Obama's budget eliminates all federal funding for abstinence-only education.

• May 15 - Appointed pro-abortion New York City health commissioner Thomas Frieden as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• May 17 - During his commencement speech at Notre Dame, Obama deceived listeners into thinking he wants a conscience clause, promoted embryonic stem cell research and misstated his pro-abortion record.

• May 26 - Appoints appeals court judge Sonia Sonotmayor as a Supreme Court nominee. Sotomayor agrees that the courts should make policy, such as the Roe v. Wade case. Sotomayor is later opposed by pro-life groups and supported by pro-abortion groups and those who know her say she will support abortion on the high court.

• July 2- Calls for an unlimited right to abortion at a United Nation's meeting.

• July 7- The Obama administration admits it ignored the majority of Americans who opposed the proposed guidelines that would implement Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research.

• July 14 - Obama science czar nominee John Holdren is revealed to have written before that he favors forced abortions.

• July 30 - Awards several pro-abortion activists with the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• July 31 - Tells the National Institutes of Health to adopt rules that allow embryonic stem cell research.

• August 4 - Information becomes public that Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama advisor at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, supports rationing health care for disabled Americans that could lead to euthanasia.

• August 6 - Obama criticized for asking for people to "snitch" on groups and people who oppose the pro-abruption health care bills in Congress.

• August 13 - Obama wrongly said a senator backe the pro-euthanasia components of the health care bill.

• August 23 - Said pro-life advocates were making "phony claims" about the health care bills. Also said the claims were false.

• August 24 - Releases veterans guide promoting euthanasia.

• September 13 - Misleads on the federal conscience clause in a health care speech and misleads on abortion funding.

• September 13 - Obama waits two days to comment on shooting of pro-life advocate whereas he commented immediately on shooting of abortion practitioner.

• September 15 - Senate confirms Obama's new regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, who is pro-abortion.

• October 5 - Selected pro-abortion lawyer and Georgetown University law professor Chai Feldblum for the EEOC.

• October 5 - Anounces he will give the keynote speech for pro-abortion group Human Rights Campaign.

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