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February 19, 2008

Video - Peter Shinn at the United States Capitol Building

Peter Shinn, President of Pro-Life Unity, founder of ProLifeNews.tv and also the Monthly Call for Life spoke at the Capitol about the need for people to get more involved in the process of ending abortion. One of the current bills is HR 618, a Right to Life bill sponsored by Congressman Duncan Hunter.

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November 30, 2007

Video - ProLifeNews.tv interview with Georgia Representative Bobby Franklin

ProLifeNews.tv interviewed Georgia Representative Bobby Franklin at the Institute on the Constitution in Maryland. The topic was HB 1, the Right to Life bill that was submitted by Franklin in order to protect the unborn from abortion, and the elderly from euthanasia.

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November 28, 2007

CNN/YouTube Republican Debate: A Few Questions, A Few Answers

I don't have cable but listened to the audio of the debate online. It was actually fascinating focusing in on just the sounds, their voices, rather than how they looked. It also made me tune in better to the size...

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November 18, 2007

I. Huckabee Nails One Point;
II. Isn't Pro-Life, Pro-Life For All, Even The Children of Illegal Immigrants?

I. I watched this interview live today on TV: "It's the logic of the Civil War," Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. "If morality is the point here, and if it's right or wrong, not just a political...

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October 28, 2007

Focus and allies ask Congress to pull Planned Parenthood funding

From my Inbox via CitizenLink: Focus and its Allies Ask Congress to Pull Planned Parenthood Funding Kansas affiliate faces 107 charges over late-term abortions. by Jennifer Mesko, 10/25/07 Focus on the Family and about 60 other pro-life organizations are asking...

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October 24, 2007

Medved Kind Of States The Obvious (Guiliani more pro-life than Dems)...But Worth Reading

Michael Medved on Guiliani being more pro-life than Democrat Presidential candidates:Personally, I disagree with Giuliani on abortion. I am unhesitatingly pro-life, and I yearn for the Supreme Court to overturn the monstrous abomination of Roe v. Wade. Even so, whatever...

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October 4, 2007

Video - You're under arrest...for speaking the truth

Five Pro-Life people were arrested on the A-B Tech Campus grounds in Asheville, North Carolina. Why? Because of what is known as a "Face the Truth" type event, one where signs of aborted babies are shown to the public in order to get them to understand what abortion really is. Many officers were called in to arrest 5 people who were exercising their first amendment rights.

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July 14, 2007

Virginia Abortionist Surrenders License

Mi Yong Kim, an abortionist who used to perform abortions at Eaton Place in Virginia, has voluntarily surrendered her license. She has had extensive healthcare violations which led to this action.

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June 7, 2007

Protecting Freedom of Speech

MONROE, La. -- On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit remanded back to the lower court a case involving the police punishing the use of pro-life signs in the town of Columbia. "Pro-life speech is not...

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May 18, 2007

How to Excel At Histrionics and Propaganda, in One Easy Lesson, by NARAL

From their latest email:One month ago today, the Supreme Court - with two new Bush appointees - upheld the Federal Abortion Ban.[The what? You mean the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003." Sorry, honey, you can't just rip headlines out...

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May 8, 2007

NOW vs. Scheidler: Game over, NOW loses big

Today, after 21 years and an unprecedented three hearings before the U.S. Supreme Court, NOW vs. Scheidler was finally settled in a U.S. District Court in Chicago, and NOW may have lost big. You can read the history of the...

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April 18, 2007

The Connection Between Va. Tech and Georgia Tech's Hate Crimes

This Valentine's Day, you cannot condemn a woman's choice. It is about love and you are about hate.Because she defended the beliefs and principles of her Christian faith, because she spoke out against abortion, and against the lesbian statutory rape...

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April 5, 2007

Manslaughter vs. abortion

The Assocated Press reported yesterday: COLVILLE, Wash. - An 18-year-old pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-girlfriend's nearly full-term fetus and was sentenced to more than six years in prison. Charles D. Young received...

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March 29, 2007

The Right to Choose: Legalize Homebirth Midwives in Illinois

Senate Bill 385 is currently before the Illinois General Assembly. This bill directs the state to create a professional license for midwives to attend homebirths. Our current laws allow a woman to give birth at home, but make it illegal...

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March 22, 2007

A Constitutionally Protected Right to Market Pornography to Children?

A federal district judge has recently ruled that the Children's Online Protection Act is an unconstitutional suppression of free speech. The law requires porn site operators to verify that patrons are 18 years old before giving them access to pornography....

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March 15, 2007

Guest column: "Are you alive because of the laws against abortion?"

Frederick N. Dyer, Ph.D., is author of the 2005 book, The Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion. In his thought-provoking commentary today, published exclusively at www.jillstanek.com, Dr. Frederick writes, "It is almost a certainty if your roots go back to the 19th...

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January 2, 2007

Wisconsin Pro-Lifers Challenge Judicial Speech Restrictions

Wisconsin Right to Life, along with several other plaintiffs, filed suit on Friday seeking to enjoin Wisconsin's judicial canons that forbid state court judicial candidates from responding to candidate questionnaires asking their views on legal issues. The suit was filed...

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The ACLU is Fighting for the Trafficking of Women Worldwide

AIDS is a growing epidemic in the world. There was a time when it was considered a "gay-only disease" but those days are gone. International agencies and world governments are working to solve this problem before a demographic nightmare takes...

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December 24, 2006

Kline's Statement, Tiller Charges & Rebuttal to Foulston

Hat tip - Gail & Kansans for Life In the following, please find a statement issued by my office this afternoon regarding the case filed against Dr. Tiller. Following the statement is a summary of the Kansas late-term abortion law...

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June 8, 2006

Fired Abortion Rights Advocate can't Sue

From Law.com:A former Catholic school teacher who was fired for expressing her support of abortion rights in a newspaper ad that ran on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade may not sue the school under Title VII because such...

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June 4, 2006

The Economics of Life

The pro-life movement is celebrating victories that after over 30 years of Roe v Wade, the scourge of abortion, at least public support for it, has waned and is now the minority position. South Dakota passed an outright abortion ban...

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May 14, 2006

Federal Court Requires Funding of Supporters of Forced Prostitution

USAID requires that grant recipients of its AIDS humanitarian funds must sign a pledge that they oppose commercial sex work. A federal court recently ruled that this is an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. Despite the fact the US holds...

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April 26, 2006

New Stanek column on WND: "Coming to America: forensic vagina inspections?"

My WND column today focuses on a recent article in the New York Times, which attempted to connect the U.S. trend toward criminalizing various aspects of abortion to a Salvadorian ban on all abortions that includes prosecuting aborting mothers....

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March 16, 2006

Where have all the Judges gone?

A year ago the U.S. Senate was in a fit. Some Senators were obstructing the confirmation process for the appointment of federal and appellate judges to the bench. Certain Republican leaders were so outraged that the notion of amending the...

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March 1, 2006

Joe and Pete

"I might say, 'This is Pete; he juggles. Your son will never juggle because he won't have any arms. He'll be cut to pieces.'"~ Pro-Life Action League founder Joe Scheidler, on what he says to mothers approaching abortion mills, while...

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November 28, 2005

Chief Justice Roberts to Hear First Abortion Related Case

Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday this week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Although the case centers around a New Hampshire law that requires parental notification before a minor child...

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October 18, 2005

Overrule judicial supremacy

By Cliff Zarsky For many years Supreme Court justices have been allowed to render final judgment on social and moral issues including the death penalty, abortion, homosexual agendas, religious displays, the Pledge of Allegiance and other matters. Indeed, the "checks...

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October 15, 2005

Mo. Prison Overruled on Inmate Abortion

The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge's order that Missouri prison officials drive a pregnant inmate to a clinic on Saturday for an abortion. Justice Clarence Thomas, acting alone, granted the temporary stay pending a further...

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October 14, 2005

Conscience Protection Act Vetoed

The Wisconsin legislature has been effective in bringing forward pro-life legislation that represents that will of the people. Unfortunately, their Governor, James Doyle, doesn't see it that way. Today he vetoed Assembly Bill 207 (The Conscience Protection Act) authored by...

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October 13, 2005

Judge Rules In Favor of Choose Life Tags

A federal judge in Ohio has thrown out a lawsuit aimed at blocking Ohio's "Choose Life" license plates, one of many specialty plates that the state offers for an extra fee. Money raised by the "Choose Life" tags goes to...

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September 1, 2005

Probation for Teen who Killed his Unborn Son with a Souvenir Baseball Bat

A Macomb County teen who killed his 25 week unborn son with his girlfriend's consent by beating her abdomen with a souvenir-style baseball bat over the span of weeks pleaded no contest to the charges and will serve two years...

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August 25, 2005

ACLU Declares Jihad on Abstinence Education

In a direct attack against common sense, the ACLU has waged a relentless war against teaching kids the simple fact that if you don’t have sex, you don’t get pregnant or get STDs. The ACLU applauded a recent decision by...

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July 6, 2005

Schumer Conversation Promises War

Drudge is reporting that Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer is promising a war over whoever the President’s nominee was: "It's not about an individual judge… It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court." If the report...

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June 29, 2005

Supreme Court to Hear Abortion Protest Case

Before leaving for its Summer recess, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would take up, for the third time, a 19-year marathon court case pro-life activists, including Joseph Scheidler, and the National Organization for Women. The case was first...

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