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March for Life 2009!

This year's March for Life in Washinton DC was the largest, and perhaps, the most important pro-life event since the Roe vs Wade 36 years ago (the photo to the left is from the Dallas March that I attended).  It was especially moving to see 100 americans tell their stories of how abortion has affected them and their families as part of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.  

"The Silent No More campaign is an effort to make the public aware of the devastation abortion brings to women, men, and their families. Our hope is that the emotional and physical pain of abortion will no longer be shrouded in secrecy and silence, but rather exposed and healed. Believing that women deserve better than abortion we pray this effort will make abortion unthinkable as every culture develops ways to help women and men embrace their pre-born children."

Certainly, more needs to be said about the the truth about what abortion is and how it affects both men and women.  I'm afraid that the mainstream media typically doees not cover these types of stories...

Try this... type "March for Life" into Google News and see how many times CNN or another major network media outlet appears on the first page of news listings...  

Now type... pro choice...

 

 

 

MLK's Neice: "Protect the Civil Rights of the Unborn"

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, does a great job of explaining pro-life issues in the context of civil rights.  Having gone through two abortions herself, she is an excellent example of how education on the lies of planned parentood and the pro-abortion media can change hearts. 

The Freedom of Choice Act in Plain Language

I've found it difficult to find a simple and comprehensive list outlining the impact of the Freedom of Choice Act promoted by our new congress and President-Elect. Here's a simple list I ran across recently. Among the more than 550 federal and state laws that the Freedom of Choice act would nullify are:

• Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
• Hyde Amendment (restricting taxpayer funding of abortions)
• Restrictions on abortions performed at military hospitals
• Restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion for federal employees
• Informed consent laws
• Waiting periods
• Parental consent and notification laws
• Health and safety regulations for abortion clinics
• Requirements that licensed physicians perform abortions
• “Delayed enforcement” laws (banning abortion when Roe v. Wade is overturned and/or the authority to restrict abortion is returned to the states)
• Bans on partial-birth abortion
• Bans on abortion after viability. FOCA’s apparent attempt to limit post-viability abortions is illusory. Under FOCA, post-viability abortions are expressly permitted to protect the woman’s “health.” Within the context of abortion, “health” has been interpreted so broadly that FOCA would not actually proscribe any abortion before or after viability.
• Limits on public funding for elective abortions now covered by the Mexico City Policy (thus, making American taxpayers fund a procedure that many find morally objectionable)
• Limits on the use of public facilities (such has public hospitals and medical schools at state universities) for abortions
• State and federal legal protections for individual healthcare providers who decline to participate in abortions
• Legal protections for Catholic and other religiously-affiliated hospitals who, while providing care to millions of poor and uninsured Americans, refuse to allow abortions within their facilities

Support Fight FOCA. Sign the petition... or at the very least, make sure you know the details of what you are for or against.