From nc-pro-life at pairlist.net Sat Oct 11 07:21:29 2008 From: nc-pro-life at pairlist.net (North Carolina Pro-Life Email List) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:21:29 -0400 Subject: [NC Life Alert] Obama's "brazen scam" on abortion exposed in NRLC official's article Message-ID: <006a01c92b93$87992f80$6601a8c0@YOUR74E0CDBDB2> What follows is a release from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in Washington, D.C., issued on Tuesday, October 7, 2008. For further information, call 202-626-8820 or send e-mail to Legfederal at aol.com. NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson and other NRLC staff persons are available for interviews on the subject of Mr. Johnson's new article on National Review Online, "Unholy Messaging," including radio debates with advocates for Barack Obama. Please forward this e-mail to any appropriate lists. Barack Obama's sweeping agenda for pro-abortion policy changes examined by NRLC's Douglas Johnson in National Review Online WASHINGTON (October 7, 2008) -- The Obama campaign and its allies have adopted an extensive "messaging strategy" that seeks to persuade religiously committed Americans that Obama has a middle-of-the-road position on abortion policy and will promote "abortion reduction." Douglas Johnson, longtime legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and author of an article published today on National Review Online, titled "Unholy Messaging," calls the Obama effort "a brazen scam." "The scam depends on the Obama campaign, with cooperation from the mainstream news media, deflecting attention away from Obama's actual record, and from his extensive commitments to pro-abortion interest groups," Johnson said. "Barack Obama is firmly committed to an agenda of sweeping pro-abortion policy changes that, if implemented, will surely greatly increase the number of abortions performed." Johnson noted that a few short months ago, during his primary contest, Obama and his advocates were boasting about his record of leadership in opposition to legislation to ban partial-birth abortions, to protect infants born alive during abortions, and to require parental notification for minors seeking abortions, among other pro-life bills. "Those boasts were well-founded, and the current effort to re-package Obama as a moderate is a brazen scam," Johnson said. The Obama "messaging" campaign includes a recently launched "Faith, Family & Values Tour" that will visit Colorado, Indiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida, New Mexico, Virginia, and Wisconsin. In addition, various independent groups are disseminating advertising and literature that advances the same strategy. Among the specific Obama positions documented in Johnson's article (which contains extensive hyperlinks to documentation): -- Obama is a cosponsor of the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA, S. 1173), which Johnson calls "the most sweeping piece of pro-abortion legislation ever proposed in Congress." The FOCA is a bill that would make partial-birth abortion legal again, strike down restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion, and nullify virtually every state and federal law or policy that would in any way "interfere with" access to abortion, including parental notification laws. In a letter sent to every member of Congress by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on September 19, Cardinal Justin Rigali wrote, "No one who sponsors or supports legislation like FOCA can credibly claim to be part of a good-faith discussion on how to reduce abortions.??? In a speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, Obama said, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do." -- Obama advocates the nullification of state laws requiring parental notification or consent for a minor daughter's abortion, which would be one of the effects of the FOCA. Moreover, since entering the U.S. Senate, Obama has had two opportunities to vote directly on the question of parental notification for interstate abortions on minors, and he voted "no" on both occasions. -- Obama advocates repeal of the Hyde Amendment, the law that since 1976 has blocked almost all federal funding of abortion, even though both pro-life and pro-abortion analysts agree that this law has prevented many abortions. By even the most conservative estimate, there are more than one million Americans alive today because of the Hyde Amendment. "Because the Hyde Amendment must be renewed annually, a new president hostile to the Hyde Amendment could quickly place it in jeopardy," Johnson observed. The FOCA would also nullify all state laws restricting state funding of elective abortion. -- In a written response to a pro-abortion advocacy group, the Obama campaign said that Obama is opposed to continuing current federal funding for "crisis pregnancy centers," which provide needed assistance to many thousands of pregnant women. -- NRLC has thoroughly documented that in the Illinois state Senate, Obama led the opposition to legislation to protect babies who are born alive during abortions, and persisted in his opposition even after Congress had enacted a virtually identical federal bill without a single dissenting vote. Obama has in numerous ways actively misrepresented the content of this legislation, and his actions on it, but even when such misrepresentations were proved by NRLC and others, the major media simply let Obama abandon them and fall back to a different set of equally misleading claims. In his article, Johnson criticizes recent coverage in the "mainstream news media," which, he writes, "have, with few exceptions, been very compliant with Obama's recent efforts to downplay his hard-line pro-abortion history and policy commitments, for the purpose of winning the general election." Typically, journalists simply describe Obama's position as "supports abortion rights," without giving details regarding his advocacy of federal funding of abortion, invalidation of parental notification laws, and the rest. **** NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson and other NRLC staff persons are available for interviews on the subject of the Obama agenda on abortion, including radio debates with advocates for Barack Obama. Call 202-626-8820. Mr. Johnson's article has been cross-posted on the NRLC website under the title "Efforts to Sell Obama to Pro-Life Americans Collide With His Support for Sweeping Pro-abortion Policy Changes." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please help us by forwarding this email on to your friends and family that may not be on this alert list. 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Exercise your freedom to vote by early voting or voting on November 4 and encourage others to do the same. VOTE PRO-LIFE - SAVE LIVES Remember the lives of millions of unborn babies are depending on what happens on November 4. If Barack Obama is elected President, he has promised to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act which will overturn virtually every pro-life law enacted in the 50 states. He will nominate Justices to the U. S. Supreme Court, like Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Paul Stevens, and he will fill the federal courts with judges who share his pro-abortion views. He will, by executive order, rescind the Mexico City Policy, that prevents federal funds from going to groups which advocate for abortion and/or provide abortions overseas. If you need proof, listen to Barack Obama tell you in his own words. Visit our web site at www.ncrtlpac.com and follow the link to the National Right to Life PAC web site. 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We ask every pro-life person to find one pro-life person who is not registered to vote and get that person to go to a one stop registration/voting place to vote for life. Visit http://www.ncrtlpac.com/ to see who the pro-life candidates are. If every pro-life citizen in North Carolina does this, we can win the pro-life vote in North Carolina. We would love to hear from you when you get your 1st person to go do the one stop registration/voting. Email us at ncrtl73 at aol.com to tell us about your success! Remember that this election is not over. Use the media bias and the polls to motivate you to action. When November 4 comes, we will then be able to say that we have done everything we could do to make a difference in this election to elect pro-life candidates. Of monumental importance is the presidential race because of the Freedom of Choice Act, and the number of justices to the U. S. Supreme Court and judges to the federal courts that the next president will be able to nominate and have confirmed in the next four years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Please help us by forwarding this email on to your friends and family that may not be on this alert list. To Subscribe to our mailing list click: http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/nc-pro-life To Unsubscribe: You may unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by emailing ncrtl73 at aol.com. or write to NCRTL, PO BOX 9282, Greensboro, NC 27429-0282 Visit our website at http://www.ncrtlpac.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nc-pro-life at pairlist.net Fri Oct 31 12:30:34 2008 From: nc-pro-life at pairlist.net (North Carolina Pro-Life Email List) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:30:34 -0400 Subject: [NC Life Alert] NCRTL Applauds Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Peter J. Jugis Message-ID: <56CE7ECD50B7405587E14563C1AFF6E1@LENOVOBD4E26FF> North Carolina Right to Life Applauds Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Peter J. Jugis North Carolina Right to Life applauds Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Peter J. Jugis for their recent letter in which they reiterated that the protection of innocent human life from conception to natural death is "preeminent" and must be foremost in Catholic voters' determination of whom they will cast their vote. The letter was scheduled to be read and published in all N C Catholic churches by Sunday, November 2, 2008. The bishops' strong words affirming the sanctity of human life as the paramount issue in informing a Catholic's vote in this election can be read at http://www.catholicvoicenc.org in both English and Spanish. 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