From nc-pro-life at pairlist.net Sun May 10 08:12:09 2009 From: nc-pro-life at pairlist.net (North Carolina Pro-Life Email List) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:12:09 -0400 Subject: [NC Life Alert] Co-Founder of North Carolina Right To Life - Passed Away Message-ID: David G. O' Steen, who helped his wife Emma found North Carolina Right to Life (NCRTL) and is the father of David N. O' Steen the Executive Director of National Right to Life, died May 6, 2009. David served in various capacities for the organization but was best known as the Secretary of the Corporation and its PAC Director until his health required that he turn those responsibilities over to other people. David devoted the majority of his adult life to working to save the lives of those whom he would not meet until in the next life. He is loved and missed by the members of the NCRTL board and its members. His obituary from the Greensboro News and Record follows. Click here to View and Sign Guest Book View/Sign Guest Book _____ David G. O'Steen GREENSBORO - David Garfield O'Steen passed away on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at the home of his son, David N. O'Steen in Gaithersburg, Maryland. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 11, at Christ Community Church. David Garfield O'Steen was born April 27, 1919, in Tuxedo, North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II and served on the U.S.C.G. Antietam in the South Atlantic and on the submarine chaser 688 off Greenland as a sonar operator. Mr. O'Steen had a career in the life insurance business. He was a founder of North Carolina Right to Life and served at times as its president, political director and secretary. He also served as alternate director from North Carolina on the board of the National Right to Life Committee. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Emma N. O'Steen; his sons, David N. O'Steen, Charles E. O'Steen and James A. O'Steen; grandchildren, David N. O'Steen, Jr., Alice L. McDonald, Barbara G. Newton, Thomas G. Nance, Jr., and Ricky Nguyen; and great-grandchildren, Jacob E. O'Steen, Emma Kapoyos O'Steen, Joshua E. Kaplan, Jordan E. Kaplan, David N. O'Steen, Joseph R. Newton, and one child yet to be born. Visitation will be held from 6 until 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 10, at Forbis & Dick Funeral Home, 5926 West Friendly Avenue in Greensboro, N.C. Memorials may be sent to North Carolina Right to Life or the National Right to Life Committee. Forbis & Dick Guilford Chapel is serving the family. Condolences may be offered at www.forbisanddick.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 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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Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 5675 bytes Desc: not available Url : From nc-pro-life at pairlist.net Sun May 10 08:43:10 2009 From: nc-pro-life at pairlist.net (North Carolina Pro-Life Email List) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:43:10 -0400 Subject: [NC Life Alert] National Right to Life Slams Obama White House Message-ID: <5D3DACCCC73548AB89D4D05C05D3A0E8@LENOVOBD4E26FF> What follows is a press release issued by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 7, 2009, at 1:30 PM EDT. For further information, contact the NRLC Federal Legislation Department, 202-626-8820, Legfederal at aol.com, or the NRLC Communications Department, 202-626-8825, mediarelations at nrlc.org, or visit the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/ Please forward to any appropriate lists. National Right to Life Slams Obama White House for Urging Repeal of Ban on Tax-Funded Abortion-on-Demand in Nation's Capital The following statement was released by the nation's largest pro-life organization, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), soon after today's release by the White House of President Obama's first detailed budget recommendations to Congress. The White House document is intended to guide lawmakers as they craft spending bills for the new federal fiscal year that begins on October 1. NRLC is the federation of the right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. "Some wide-eyed journalists and various political shills for the Obama Administration continue to write fairy tales about how President Obama wants to pursue policies that would reduce abortions," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). "That is a political scam. In reality, President Obama is pursuing a step-by-step strategy to expand access to abortion, and today's step is to urge Congress to authorize the funding of abortion on demand in the nation's capital, with funds appropriated by Congress." Today's White House budget submission explicitly urges the House and Senate -- which the President's party currently controls with nearly three-fifths majorities -- to repeal a law (sometimes called the Dornan Amendment) that has prevented tax-funded abortion in the District of Columbia for many years. Article I of the U.S. Constitution says that Congress holds complete legislative authority over the District of Columbia ("exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever"). That is why the entire budget for the District of Columbia (including revenues generated by local sources) must be appropriated by Congress through an annual appropriations bill. For many years, the annual D.C. appropriations bill has contained a provision to prevent the use of any congressionally appropriated funds for abortions (except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest). The White House budget document released today (on Appendix page 1209) asks Congress to repeal the ban on the use of congressionally appropriated funds, and replace it with a meaningless bookkeeping requirement that would apply only to funds specifically contributed for federal program purposes. "If Congress goes along with the Obama proposal, the predictable result will be tax funding of several thousand elective abortions annually, including roughly 1,000 abortions annually that would not otherwise occur," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for NRLC. "Any member of Congress who votes for a bill that contains the White House proposal is, in reality, voting for tax-funded abortion on demand with congressionally appropriated funds." From 1988 until 1993, Congress annually included the ban on the use of any appropriated funds to pay for abortions (with narrow exceptions). The ban was temporarily lost early in the Clinton Administration, but it was restored in 1996 (although the city government illegally continued to pay for abortions for two subsequent years, according to press reports), and has been in continuous effect ever since. During the period prior to enactment of the Dornan Amendment, and during the time it was suspended in the Clinton Administration, the city government paid for elective abortion on demand with congressionally appropriated public funds. During the congressional debates of that era, evidence was cited that indicated that the city's abortion-funding policy was among the most permissive in the nation, and was not even limited to Medicaid-eligible clients. Elizabeth Reveal, D.C. budget director at the time, "confirmed that the District's government has a policy of funding abortion on demand and does not attempt to determine the circumstances of the pregnancy." (Philadelphia Inquirer, August 1, 1985.) In 1994, then-Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly authorized the use of $1,000,000 from the Medical Charities fund, which was originally set up to help indigent AIDS patients, to pay for abortions. Pro-abortion groups periodically publish academic studies that demonstrate that policies that bar tax-funded abortions actually prevent one-third or more of the abortions that would otherwise occur among the covered populations. "The abortion industry's own studies suggest that many thousands of residents of the nation's capital are alive today because of the abortion funding ban that President Obama now proposes to repeal," said NRLC's Johnson. "Today's White House action is one more evidence that President Obama is trying to pull off a massive policy scam -- he generates a smokescreen of soothing rhetoric about seeking 'common ground' and 'abortion reduction,' while step by step advancing concrete policies that will substantially increase the number of abortions -- and pay for abortion on demand with everyone's taxes," Johnson concluded. The next step, Johnson suggested, would be "an attempt to smuggle vast expansions of abortion into law through health care reform legislation." Barack Obama met with Planned Parenthood in 2007 and promised that mandatory abortion coverage would be "at the center, the heart of" his health care reform legislation. In an April 30, 2009, National Public Radio report, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, confirmed that "health care reform is going to provide a platform" for ensuring that "all women . . . regardless of their income, can get access to the full range of health care options . . ." The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is a national federation of nonsectarian right-to-life organizations, governed by a board elected by the state right-to-life organizations and by members at large. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 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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In fact, the wording can be used even for a Public Service Announcement on your local Christian stations. Please help us reach those we cannot reach any other way than with your help. Sample All pro-lifers and their families are invited to attend the "NRLC 2009 - Stop the Abortion Agenda" being held at the Blake Hotel in downtown Charlotte June 18-20, 2009. This is the premier pro-life event of the year where nationally known speakers, Kate Adamson, Wesley J. Smith, Michael Clancy, and Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk (Pah-hol-check) among others will be featured speakers. Topics presented at the 72 workshops and 5 General Sessions will include abortion, rationing of health care, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and stem cell research among others. To register for the adult or teen convention, to find out about workshops, speakers, and childcare, or for other information, visit www.stoptheabortionagenda.com/convention or call NCRTL at 800-392-6275. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 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.ncrtl.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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