Life and Death - Help Defeat the abortion "health" bill (Remember in November!)

From: - Fr. Frank Pavone  Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 Subject: Here's why you are so special and why I thank God for you every day!

Dear Friend,

Congress wants to force you to pay for abortions!
In so doing it has thumbed its nose at you and the majority of your fellow Americans.
Fortunately, this fight is far from over.  But in order for you to protect the youngest members of our human family from those anti-life extremists who seek to destroy them, you need to:

1.   Join me and the people of life in making this New Year's Resolution:

I commit myself never to be silent, never to be passive, never to be forgetful of the unborn.  I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement, and never to stop defending life until all my brothers and sisters are protected, and our nation once again becomes a nation with liberty and justice not just for some, but for all!

Make no mistake.  The so-called "health care reform" bill that Congress is about to pass is a death sentence for our unborn brothers and sisters. 

Don't take my word for it.  Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Chairman of the US Bishops' Committee on Pro-life Activities, said that there is a "fundamental problem" with the Senate's Christmas Eve version of "health care reform": 

"Despite repeated claims to the contrary, it does not comply with longstanding Hyde restrictions on federal funding of elective abortions and health plans that include them." 

The editors of National Review Online went even further and issued this analysis:

"If this bill passes ... abortion rates will increase. ... This bill radically revises the status quo in a pro-abortion direction. ... The Senate bill implicitly authorizes the secretary of health and human services to require that all private health plans cover elective abortions. ... [T]here is no denying that the legislation makes abortion more accessible ... Washington is giving a lavish gift to the abortion lobby after years of declining public support for it." 

Add to this the fact that you and your fellow taxpayers oppose public funding of abortion by a three-to-one margin, and our mission becomes crystal clear:

Beginning immediately, Priests for Life is mobilizing voters to put the right to life first in every election.

And this email is your call to arms!

Congress' extremist anti-life position makes it clear that for 2010 and beyond our task, then, is threefold:

1.   To build on the momentum we've built and bring even more of our fellow Americans into our pro-life movement!

2.   To maintain our vigilant and heroic defense of our unborn brothers and sisters!

3.   To convince all Americans who say they are pro-life to live out their principles in their day-to-day living ... and most especially INSIDE THE VOTING BOOTH!

In order to accomplish  those three objectives, Priests for Life must be at full strength.

Which means we need every single member of our Priests for Life family on board and ready to do whatever it takes to defeat the abortion juggernaut which extremists in Washington have unleashed on our unborn brothers and sisters!

And when I say "every single member of our Priests for Life family" that's exactly what I mean.
Unless the people of life rise up as one and defend the youngest members of our human life, they will continue to be slaughtered ... willfully, brutally and ruthlessly! 
And thanks to radical pro-abortion extremists in Congress ...
                                    ... you will be forced to pay for the abortions that kill them!
You simply cannot sit back and allow that to happen.  God has placed you here at this precise moment in history for a reason.  And that reason is to protect His innocent unborn children ... no matter the personal cost to yourself.
After all, you recognize the sanctity and dignity of the human person from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.  If you are unwilling to fight for the unborn, who will?
So now that God is calling you to give of yourself for the sake of the youngest members of our human family, your response must be that of the prophet Isaiah's when he said to God:

"Here am I!  Send me!"

Thankfully that has been your response all along.  You have willingly made countless sacrifices to defend the unborn.  You have generously given of yourself to support our work here at Priests for Life.  You continue to fight the good fight.  You continue to run the race.

Today your unborn brothers and sisters need you to persevere in this fight and renew your commitment to them!

I am asking every single one of your fellow Priests for Life members to make that same commitment.
And if we all work together and give our all, then I am confident that we will, according to God's divine plan, win VICTORY over abortion.

All indications are that an increasing number of Americans are fed up with the radical policies coming out of Washington. 

And I am confident that Congress' passage of the abortion-laden "health care reform" measure will only serve to intensify their justifiable anger and affirm their pro-life convictions.

More than ever, the people of life are ready to roll up their sleeves and work to help men and women who share their values get elected to public office. 
And Priests for Life is going to do everything in our power to help make that happen. 
Even as you read this letter, we are busy finalizing our plans on how we will promote the Church's teachings on political responsibility in the coming months!
Those plans received a real shot in the arm recently when we received a letter from the IRS which, in a nutshell, gave us a clean bill of health and confirmed what we already knew; namely, that Priests for Life's work in the political arena is in total compliance with IRS guidelines.

Well, we're going to need your wholehearted support in order for our plans to bear fruit in November.

That's the first priority that requires your financial support on an ongoing basis. 
The second priority is our "Freedom Ride" initiative.  This historic project goes hand-in-hand with all of our work dealing with political responsibility because it is designed to ignite the pro-life embers that lie smoldering within our fellow Americans ... and most especially our African-American brothers and sisters.
As I believe you know, the first "Freedom Ride" bus is schedule to hit the road in the Spring.
In order for that to happen, however, there are a lot of details still to be worked out ... and a lot of financial obligations that have to be met. 
Again, it's going to take you and all of our Priests for Life family members to provide the dollars that will keep our "Freedom Ride" project on track and make it the success it needs to be.
But that's far from all Priests for Life will be doing this year.
In addition to those two top priorities, it is more important than ever that we continue to preach the Gospel of Life to our fellow Americans and work to bring more of them into our pro-life movement.  Right now we are reaching literally TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans through ...

• Television: Mother Angelica's EWTN network ... Sky Angel with our "Gospel of Life" show ... guest appearances on cable and satellite news programs.
  
• Radio: We're on numerous Catholic and Christian stations ...  and secular talk radio, too.
  
• Internet: Hundreds of thousands of people visit our website www.priestsforlife.org every month.  They do because our site is jam-packed with the latest pro-life news and information.  It is critically important that grow and expand this part of our ministry.
  
• Email: Instant communication with tens of thousands of pro-life activists alerting them to attacks on the unborn and providing them with actions they can take to fight abortion.
  
• Teleconferences: Key strategy sessions with pro-life leaders and activists.  Thousands of people take part in these teleconferences at a time!
  
• Publications: My bi-weekly pro-life column ... editorials ... blog postings.
  
•  YouTube and Facebook: We are taking the Gospel of Life to those Internet sites that young people visit.  Literally millions of people watched the "Is This What You Mean?" videos we posted on YouTube.
  
• Pro-life conferences: Members of our pastoral team are constantly on the road giving pro-life talks and rallying the people of life to take to the streets
  
• Churches: Liturgical resources ... newsletter to priests ... parish visits ... work with the clergy of Protestant denominations ... and much, much more!

All this work is vital if we are to WIN VICTORY over abortion!
Please continue to PRAY for me and everyone here at Priests for Life.  As I mentioned at the very beginning of my letter, 2010 is going to be an extremely difficult one for us.  Pro-abortion extremists control the powers of government and they are intent on using their power to further cement abortion-on-demand as the law of the land.
Although everyone here at Priests for Life relies on your prayers to sustain us, no one relies on them more than I do.  So please continue to pray for me and Priests for Life.
And know that we pray to God for you, too.  Because you are such a blessing to us and to the unborn, in grateful thanksgiving for the sacrifices you make on their behalf, I and all the priests of Priests for Life - Fr. Wilde, Fr. West, Fr. Quinn, Fr. Daniels, and Fr. Salom?n - remember you at each Mass we offer. 
Thank you again for your dedication, your commitment and your perseverance.  You are an inspiration to me and every member of our hard-working Priests for Life staff.  God bless.
And if I may ask you one more favor. Each year I survey our supporters to learn how we can serve their needs more effectively. After giving your donation, would you take a moment and fill out the short survey I've placed at www.priestsforlife.org/survey. It is very important to me to know what you're thinking about our ministry!
Sincerely yours in Christ, Fr. Frank PavoneNational Director, Priests For Life and Gospel of Life Ministries
PS I know I've mentioned this to you before, but it bears repeating.  Should you ever begin to grow weary in our fight to end abortion, call to mind these words which the late Congressman Henry Hyde said.  They will serve as a powerful motivator for you, as they do for me:
"When the time comes as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness.  You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God and a terror will rip through your soul like nothing you can imagine.  But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone.  I think there will be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement.  They will say to God, 'Spare him because he loved us.'  And God will look at you and say not, 'Did you succeed?', but 'Did you try?'."
Without question you are working hard to end abortion and save the lives of countless numbers of innocent babies.  You are trying and giving your all.  And because of that, when you stand before the throne of Almighty God, a throng of white-clad innocents will cry out on your behalf.  With that comforting thought in mind ...

... LET'S GO OUT AND END ABORTION!!!

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And ...

Renew your commitment to Priests for Life through prayer and contributions! By clicking here you will be able to commit to say a special prayer of reparation for abortion. At the same time, you'll be able to go to our donation page and make either a one-time donation or a monthly pledge.

Your response today is absolutely critical.

That's why it is so critically important that you click here to make a donation today!

Do this RIGHT NOW ... before you delete this message and move on to your next email.

To renew your devotion to the unborn, just click here to give us your prayer commitment. 

And when you do, be sure to send Priests for Life a much-needed contribution.  Your dollars are critically needed in order for Priests for Life to carry out two vital campaigns this year.  The first of these has to do with the upcoming 2010 elections.  But all of it and I mean ALL OF IT! depends on you and the rest of our Priests for Life family.  We can only do as much as your generosity allows us to do. That's why it is so important that you make a financial commitment to Priests for Life when you click here to make your prayer commitment to the unborn.It's going to cost upwards of $8,490,000 to carry out all the work noted above.  But as of my writing to you right now, Priests for Life hasn't nearly that much in our operating funds.  Not even close. But if you will do your part, and your fellow Priests for Life members do as well, then we will raise that $8,490,000, be fully funded, and lead the pro-life movement into battle against those who seek to kill our unborn brothers and sisters.

So what is "your part"?  To be precise ...... I'm counting on you to send Priests for Life a gift for $138.16. I know that's a lot to ask of you, especially in these difficult economic times.But if you are able to do so, and if every other member of our Priests for Life family does likewise, then we will raise our entire budget for next year!

Or here's another option. 

If it's too difficult for you to send all $138.16 today, make a MONTHLY PLEDGE instead and spread your gift out over time. 

But if you do choose to make a pledge, please try to send at least $27 a month ... that's the amount of the average gift sent to support our work.

But no matter how you choose to give, its absolutely vital that you respond TODAY.

So click here to sign your prayer commitment to the unborn.

And while there, go to our Priests for Life donation page and either:

a)   Make a one-time contribution for $138.16 by clicking here.

b)   Or make a Monthly Pledge to help support our pro-life work by clicking here.

To be absolutely honest, I'm really hoping you will make a Monthly Pledge. That's because, since you and other members of our Priests for Life family provide us with the dollars we need to fund all of our work, you are the key to our success.  It is your dollars that allow us to be effective.Well, as faithful as you and our other supporters are, there are times of the year when contributions fall off.  The summer is a perfect example. What keeps Priests for Life going during those "down times" are the monthly pledge contributions. That's why I consider our monthly pledges the lifeblood of Priests for Life.  In fact, believe it or not ... ... a monthly pledge of $27 - which amounts to $324 a year - is more valuable to Priests for Life than a one-time gift of $500. That's because after the one-time gift is spent on a worthy project ... it's gone.  The $27 pledge, on the other hand, comes in month after month ... and that is a great comfort to me and allows us to do a lot of forward planning. So if at all possible, when you click here  to sign your "Pledge to the Unborn" ...... make a MONTHLY PLEDGE of $27 or more to help finance Priests for Life's important work ... not only in 2010 but for as long as it takes to end legalized abortion.

Thank you. 

Oh, I do have one more request. 

NOTE:  If you prefer to send a check, please make it out to Priests for Life and send it to us at PO Box 141172, Staten Island, NY 10314. If you have any questions, call us toll-free at 888-735-3448, ext. 232.

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Life and Death - Remember in '10: Pro-Life News Report 12/31/09 #4789 (LifeNews.com)

Life and Death - Remember in '10:

From: LifeNews.com Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.

Current Headlines

• Senator: Pro-Abortion Democrats Will Dominate Health Care Conference Cmte
• Ben Nelson to Run Television Ad Defending Health Care-Abortion Compromise
• Obama, Abortion, Supreme Court, Health Care Dominate Pro-Life News in 2009
• Planned Parenthood Found 2009 Difficult, Abortion Centers Closing Rapidly
• Pro-Abortion Health Care Could Cost Dems Control of House in 2010 Election
• Scientists: Embryonic Stem Cells Showing Little Progress 28 Years Later
• Hillary Clinton Barely Edges Sarah Palin as Most Admired Woman in Gallup Poll
• NARAL Bashed for 2009 Hall of Fame, Could Honor Late-Term Abortionist
• GOP Attorney Generals Threaten Suit Against Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill
• California Pro-Life Group's Office Suffers Break-In, Opponents Suspected
• Arizona Pro-Life Advocate Named One of Decades Ten Most Influential
• New Zealand Right to Life: Family Planning Doesn't Justify Abortion Drug Use



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Senator: Pro-Abortion Democrats Will Dominate Health Care Conference Committee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Charles Grassley is confirming the expectation that the conference committee that will meet to reconcile the differences in the congressional health care bills will be dominated by abortion advocates. If so, the Senate language funding abortions may emerge in the final legislation.


With the House and Senate approving divergent bills, a conference committee must meet to hammer out the final measure for each chamber to vote on before it can go to President Barack Obama.


The Senate measure current funds abortions and paves the way for forcing insurance companies to pay for abortions while the House measure has the Stupak amendment banning abortion funding.


Grassley said Wednesday during a press conference that Democrats named to the committee will likely "huddle secretly" in order to get the legislation written the way they want.


"I think that this will be one of those instances where, following along on the stimulus bill of last February, I will be a conferee but Democrats will huddle secretly and come to the conclusion of what they want to do and then announce it and, you know, it's a take it or leave it," he said, according to The Hill. "It will pretty much be partisan in conference," he added. Full story at LifeNews.com


Ben Nelson to Run Television Ad Defending Health Care-Abortion Compromise
Lincoln, NE (LifeNews.com) -- One day after a new poll showed him tanking with Nebraska voters because of his decision to compromise his long-held pro-life views and become the 60th vote for the pro-abortion health care bill, Sen. Ben Nelson will run a television commercial during a college football bowl game to defend his decision.


Nelson will make his case for supporting the Senate government-run health care bill that forces taxpayers to fund abortions and would allow the Obama administration to make insurance companies pay for abortions with taxpayers' premiums.


He will air a 30-second television spot during Wednesday night's Holiday Bowl game featuring the University of Nebraska showing him talking directly into the camera.


"With all the distortions about health care reform, I want you to hear directly from me," the Democratic senator says in the ad, according to the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper. Wearing a more casual open-necked shirt and sweater, Nelson will say during the Nebraska-University of Arizona football game: "I listened to you and took a common-sense approach to improve the bill." Full story at LifeNews.com

Obama, Abortion, Supreme Court, Health Care Dominate Pro-Life News in 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama, abortion, the Supreme Court and health care dominated pro-life news in 2009. As LifeNews.com looks back on the year -- the first with a new pro-abortion president -- we find the pro-life movement essentially on the defensive.


Thanks to a pro-abortion president and Congress, pro-life advocates spent most of their time attempting to hold back the opening of the floodgates ushering in an expansion of abortion and taxpayer financing of it.


With the health care debate continuing into the new year, those efforts will be forced to continue -- although the potential for pro-life gains in the 2010 elections provides significant hope for the future.


1. Health Care: The health care debate has become the central focus of the pro-life movement during the latter half of 2009 and for good reason. If the abortion language in the final bill is anything like what is currently in the Senate version of the legislation, the result would be the greatest expansion of taxpayer funding of abortions since the 1970s when the Hyde Amendment was adopted. The Senate bill not only would allow the forcing of taxpayers to pay for abortions but would let the Obama administration force insurance plans to pay for them as well.


The end result? With Hyde getting credit for stopping more than 100,000 abortions annually, the health care bill could result in a 10% or greater increase in abortions -- all financed with government money. This doesn't even touch on the rationing, promotion of assisted suicide, and lack of conscience protection for medical professionals found in the bill.


2. Barack Obama promoting abortion: The influence of the president of the United States on abortion policy can never be underestimated, despite some who still think the president doesn't have any impact.


LifeNews.com has the most comprehensive chronicle of Obama's pro-abortion actions, but the most consequential ones include his overturning of the Mexico City Policy and allowing tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to flow to abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International that not only do abortions by lobby pro-life nations to overturn or water down their laws. Full story at LifeNews.com


Planned Parenthood Found 2009 Difficult With Abortion Centers Closing Rapidly
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion business in the United States, doing 305,310 abortions in its own facilities or just under one-third of all American abortions. But the billion-dollar abortion giant faced a tough year in 2009 as it saw abortion centers close at a higher rate than normal.


Jim Sedlak, the director of STOPP International, a watchdog group, told LifeNews.com today that he's seen Planned Parenthood centers close over the year but never as fast as in 2009.


"STOPP has been fighting for 25 years to close down Planned Parenthood abortion facilities. During that time, we have seen the number of Planned Parenthood non-express clinics fall from a high of 938 in 1995 to 797 today," he explained. "More significantly, 2009 saw the rate of Planned Parenthood closings go from one a month to over two a month," he said.


"Although the organization reported record income ($1.04 billion) and a record number of babies killed in its own facilities, there have been a number of signs that Planned Parenthood is beginning to feel the relentless pressure from those of us who will not stand by and watch it take our money and kill our children," he said. Full story at LifeNews.com

Pro-Abortion Health Care Could Cost Democrats Control of House in 2010 Election
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With less than 48 hours before the 2010 calendar year begins and jut 11 months until the 2010 Congressional elections, prognosticators are already firing off predictions on what will happen.


Most handicappers suggest Republicans will pick up seats in Congress because of the pro-abortion health care bill and Americans' disapproval of the Obama presidency.


But Reuters writer James Pethokoukis suggests it could cost Democrats control of the House entirely.


Pethokoukis points to modern history as a predictor of things to come. "American politics has a regular ebb and flow. In 13 of the past 15 midterm elections going back to 1950, the party in control of the White House has lost an average of 22 seats in the House. In 10 of the past 15 midterms the party running the Senate has lost an average of three seats," he said.


More recent political results show a change coming with pro-life Republicans winning gubernatorial races in the off-year elections in Virginia, replacing a pro-abortion Democrat, and in New Jersey. Full story at LifeNews.com


Scientists: Embryonic Stem Cell Research Showing Little Progress 28 Years Later
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In the 28 years that scientists have been toying with embryonic stem cells in animals and humans, not one human patient has even been treated. Despite President Barack Obama forcing taxpayers to fund the research, that destroys human life, scientists don't expect that to change anytime soon.


In a new interview with NPR, Len Zon, a stem cell researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston, admits that any hope of treating patients with embryonic stem cells is not forthcoming.


"I think that's still a ways off," Zon said. "Although there are some studies that the FDA is considering, I think we still have to figure out how to make these cells in a more efficient and effective way, and I think that's going to take awhile," he said.


Part of the effectiveness problem revolves around the fact that embryonic stem cells, when inserted as treatments in animals, still form tumors and prompt rejection issues from the immune system.


Zon told NPR that he holds out more hope for the new development called direct reprogramming. That's the process discovered by Japanese researcher Shinya that reverts adult stem cells to an embryonic-like state and avoids having to kill unborn children to obtain the cells. But even this process has yet to treat patients with the induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) it creates. Full story at LifeNews.com

Hillary Clinton Barely Edges Sarah Palin as Most Admired Woman in Gallup Poll
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-abortion Secretary of State Hillary Clinton barely edged pro-life former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a new Gallup poll asking respondents to name the woman they most admired. Clinton continued her placement atop the list but barely beat Palin 16 to 15 percent.


Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and first lady Michelle Obama finish third and fourth, with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Queen Elizabeth II, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and poet Maya Angelou -- all regulars on the list -- joined by newcomers German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Elin Woods in the top 10.


The poll asked for people to name their first and second choice of women living today that they admired and Winfrey received 8 percent, Obama 7 percent and Rice and Queen Elizabeth 2 percent each.


Hillary Clinton has now been named Most Admired Woman 14 times since 1993, spanning her career as first lady, New York senator, and now secretary of state. The three times she has not finished first during this time, she earned second place (to Laura Bush in 2001 and to Mother Teresa in 1995 and 1996). Full story at LifeNews.com


NARAL Bashed for 2009 Hall of Fame Award, Could Honor Late-Term Abortionist
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The top pro-abortion group NARAL is holding an end-of-the-year award voting process for its members. The award vote gives them a chance to vote on their favorite abortion advocate and the pro-life advocate or legislation they despise the most.


The Hall of Fame 2009 candidates include MSNBC talk show host Rachel Maddow, whose abortion advocacy knows no limits.


The Baltimore City Council, which recently passed a measure targeting pregnancy centers, can also receive an award as can a group of pro-abortion lawmakers who worked to force taxpayers to fund abortions in the nation's capital.


But one pro-life group tells LifeNews.com that the nomination of late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart for the NARAL Hall of Fame takes the cake.


Carhart is the Omaha, Nebraska-based abortion practitioner who has attempted to step into the shoes of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller of Kansas, who was shot and killed earlier this year. Full story at LifeNews.com

GOP Attorney Generals Threaten Lawsuit Against Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Thirteen Republican attorney generals are threatening a lawsuit against the pro-abortion health care bill. Although the suit would not challenge its abortion funding component, it could help pro-life advocates by overturning the bill if it becomes law. 


The officials provided a letter to the Associated Press threatening the lawsuit over the Medicare funding provisions in the deal Sen. Ben Nelson secured with Senate leader Harry Reid to become the 60th vote for the bill. The deal also included abortion funding. "We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter sent to Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As chief legal officers of our states we are contemplating a legal challenge to this provision and we ask you to take action to render this challenge unnecessary by striking that provision," they ask. 


The letter was signed by top prosecutors in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. A conference committee begins meeting next year to work out a compromise between House and Senate versions of the bill and they will decide whether to keep this provision and abortion funding in the final bill.


California Pro-Life Group's Office Suffers Break-In, Opponents Suspected
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- While the pro-life advocates at the Capitol Resource Institute pro-family group in California spent this past Christmas weekend with family and friends, their opponents appear to have broken into their office. 


Tim LeFever, the head of the group, shares the update with LifeNews.com. 


"Despite extensive security precautions, Capitol Resource Institute's Sacramento office was broken into over the holiday weekend. While staff was away with family, some took the opportunity to vandalize and take things of value. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this was a random entry in search of electronics and cash. Those responsible for this act apparently spent time poring through files and other things with little street value," he explained. "CRI is not too worried that our opponents may have gained a glimpse of our strategy; we are pretty up front about what we do and why we do it. But we take this as another sad reminder of the dynamics of the battle we are in. 


Opponents of our family friendly agenda have not limited their opposition to conventional education or activism. Our web site has been hacked, our signs and literature destroyed, and our staff has received threats of violence. It is a tribute to the determination of the staff and supporters of CRI, and the importance of this work, that CRI has not backed down. Each attack has been met with a renewed commitment to push on."


Arizona Pro-Life Advocate Named One of Decades Ten Most Influential Residents
Phoenix, AZ (LifeNews.com) -- The Arizona Capitol Times has named Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod one of the Decade's Ten Most Influential Arizonans. The pro-life advocate is being recognized in a distinguished list that includes Senator John McCain, former Governor Janet Napolitano, and ASU President Michael Crow. 


"As leader of the social conservative Center for Arizona Policy," the article states, "Herrod has successfully shaped state policy on some of the most divisive issues of the last decade. Whether it was her efforts to restrict abortion or the successful ballot measure in 2008 defining marriage between a man and a woman, Herrod has tirelessly led the fight." The Center for Arizona Policy has been leading the fight with other pro-life groups in the state of Arizona for years to stop abortions and protect the rights of pro-life advocates.


New Zealand Right to Life: Family Planning Doesn't Justify Abortion Drug Use
Wellington, New Zealand (LifeNews.com) -- The following update comes from New Zealand Right to Life: "The New Zealand Family Planning Association on 8 December issued a statement in defense of the use of the lethal drug, Mifegyne, RU 486 for the killing of unborn children in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy. 


The Association, an ardent advocate for a culture of death sought to refute recent press releases of Right to Life and other pro-life organizations. Family Planning claims that medical abortions are safe. Medical abortions are unsafe for unborn children who are the weakest and most de fenceless members of the human family. It is always wrong to kill the innocent. Right to Life believes that Family Planning have a complete disregard for the human rights of unborn children and for the protection of their lives. Family Planning claims that medical abortions are safe for women and that there have been worldwide, only 12 reported maternal deaths. 


This figure is questioned. There is believed to be substantial underreporting as doctors are very reluctant to indicate on a death certificate that the death of the mother was the result of having an abortion. Why is Family Planning in complete denial of the physical and psychological damage inflicted on women as a result of having an abortion?"

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