DENVER, November 16, 2009/Christian Newswire --
A political 527 group, which claims responsibility for derailing Mitt Romney's presidential hopes in 2008 in the early-contest states of IA and SC, is now targeting Sarah Palin. But for what?
ProlifeProfiles.com, created by a nationwide research team working for American Right To Life, is being launched today highlighting Sarah Palin's "surprisingly extensive and unflattering record on abortion."
As Palin's "Going Rogue" is being published, Darrell Birkey, research director for American RTL Action, said that if rogue, "still means misleading and unreliable, then we should add Palin's entire book to her dossier at ProlifeProfiles.com."
In 2007 the nation's oldest "RTL" group, Colorado Right To Life, then a state affiliate of National RTL, issued a press release: "Rift Opens in Christian Right." Two and a half years later, that rift has become a chasm. Thirty-three states have followed Colorado's lead from last year and against the wishes of the old-guard pro-life industry are pursuing "Personhood" amendments and legislation, most working with Denver-based Personhood USA.
"When Romney exited the race," said Lolita Hanks, nurse practitioner and spokeswoman for American RTL, "we announced, 'No longer will National RTL be able to give fraudulent 100% pro-life ratings to Republican pro-choice candidates without being exposed nationally.'"
Opening that rift to the right, a coalition of pro-life organizations including Colorado RTL, Human Life International, Operation Rescue National / OSA, American Life League, and the founders of American RTL, published full-page newspaper ads addressed to Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family requesting help to restore truth and integrity to the pro- life movement. Pro-lifers can find reports on Dr. Dobson, Mitt Romney, Alan Keyes, George W. Bush, and many other leaders at ProlifeProfiles.com.
"Sarah Palin has presidential ambition, but she'll have to get serious about protecting the innocent," said Birkey, "because this time around, there's a personhood movement that will expose the pro- abortion record of pretend pro-life candidates."
The heading "ARTL questions Palin's pro-life credentials" led me to think that Palin had been pro-choice at one time, or that she had done or said something inconsistent with her very public pro-life image. But nothing in the article suggests that. What is there to question about her? If there is something phoney in her position please produce the evidentce. It is damaging to the pro-life movement - and unfair - to dump a suspicion on her and then run without offering any reason for raising the suspicion. Before I read the above post, I believed her credentials were impeccable. I see nothing in the post to change that opinion.
Joanne, you might not have seen evidence spelled out in the press release. That's why you have to go to the site -- prolifeprofiles.com . There you will see, spelled out, the several things that she's said which deny her claims that she's as pro-life as she says.
Example: Asked about whether the Morning After Pill (an abortifacient) should be banned, she said, "I don't think that it should necessarily be illegal." She also hasn't backed any Personhood measures, either at the state level or at the federal level. That's the definition of the Right to Life.