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Claim that Hillary Clinton Presidency is Motive for Huge New Abortion Centers

Life Dynamics says ailing abortion industry relying on ‘universal health care’ to jack up profits

By Meg Jalsevac

DENTON, Texas, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Mark Crutcher, President of Life Dynamics, the abortion industry in America, particularly abortion giant Planned Parenthood (PP), is experiencing both a financial and a service demand crisis. In an entry entitled “On the Trail to Rodham and Gomorrah” on his Life Dynamics blog, Crutcher asserts that abortion providers are looking to the likes of Hillary Clinton to bolster the floundering abortion industry.

Life Dynamics is a pro-life website that offers many resources to assist the pro-life movement throughout America. They are most notably known for their part in exposing those involved in the illegal sale of body parts taken from aborted babies. The motto of the site as stated on their website is: “Pro-life: Without compromise. Without exception. Without apology.”

Crutcher begins his article drawing attention to the new abortion facilities that PP has deceptively constructed while using false names to apply for the necessary building permits. The most notable example is the PP abortion mega-center that was recently constructed in Aurora, Illinois under the company name of Gemini, Inc.

Crutcher claims that the motives behind such secrecy are much more crucial and worthy of note than the actual secrecy itself.

To explain, Crutcher’s article reveals that, despite the few newly opened facilities, the number of abortion facilities has steadily declined since the 1980’s due to their inability to retain staff.

While the abortion industry frequently blames their staff retention issues on fear of violence directed at abortion staff from pro-life forces, Crutcher dispels this as a mere myth by quoting statistics from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that show that “during the period of the greatest violence against abortionists in history, more farmers and twice as many hairdressers were murdered on the job than abortion clinic workers and abortionists combined.”

Instead, Crutcher partially blames the abortion industry’s collapse on the public stigma that is naturally associated with the killing of an unborn child.

“The abortion lobby had always counted on legalization to erase the stigma of abortion, but that never happened. What they refused to accept was that abortion is like pornography and prostitution in that the stigma is related to the act itself and not to its legal status. That means the stigma is never going to go away. Today, the abortion industry finally seems resigned to this and has decided that the stench of abortion is something they will just have to live with.”

Crutcher continues to give an in-depth analysis of the grim financial situation that abortion providers find themselves facing today. Due to statistics that show that when the cost of abortion is raised, the number of abortions plummet, most abortion facilities still charge between $300 – $500 to perform an abortion – almost the exact price that an abortion cost when it was first legalized in the 1970’s.

“They need higher abortion prices to solve their financial problems, but the lowered abortion rate produced by these higher prices would threaten their political survivability… …The problem they now face is that the cost of doing business has risen dramatically during that time. So while a $350 abortion may have been profitable in 1973 dollars, it may not be profitable in today’s dollars.”

Crutcher warns that PP’s key motivation in constructing new facilities despite these figures is the universal health care plans proposed by the leading Democratic contenders in the current presidential campaign. Crutcher posits that, in the advent of universal health care coverage of abortion, abortion prices will skyrocket with the assurance that tax-payer funded coverage will foot the bill.

“That is also why the nation’s death merchants see Hillary Care as their salvation. They are relying on socialized medicine to solve their current financial problems by converting every $350 private-pay abortion into a $3000 government-pay abortion. The icing on the cake is that, since the customers will be offered these abortions for “free,” the abortion rate is guaranteed to skyrocket.”

The universal health plans proposed thus far in the campaign corroborate Crutcher’s assertions. Senator Obama and Elizabeth Edwards, speaking for her husband at a campaign event, pledged to include “reproductive services” in their universal health care plans. Both campaigns confirmed that these services would include abortion.

Senator Clinton’s proposed plan does not explicitly refer to abortion coverage but instead alludes to ‘family planning’ coverage for all women, a phrase frequently used by political pundits to cloak the stigma of abortion. Clinton is well known as a self-proclaimed champion of the Prevention First Act which provided ‘reproductive health’ services to low income women and mandated prescription contraceptive coverage by insurance companies.

See Mark Crutcher’s entire article at:
https://www.markcrutcherblog.com/…

See Previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

THE WAR AGAINST LIFE DYNAMICS HAS BEGUN
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/mar/00032203.html

Largest Ever Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Threatens to Open Near Chicago
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07082209.html ;

Dominicans Stage Massive Pro-Life Demonstration at National Congress

Cardinal of Santo Domingo: “We are prepared to defend life in any place or circumstance”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

SANTO DOMINGO, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands of pro-life protesters took to the streets and descended upon the National Congress of the Dominican Republic yesterday to announce their emphatic opposition to efforts to decriminalize abortion in the island nation.

Local media reported that due to the number of protesters traffic was halted on several streets and thoroughfares. One group, spearheaded by organizer Fr. Luis Rosario, peacefully entered the National Congress, where they delivered a message stating that “the decriminalization of abortion is not a sign of progress, development, or modernity, but rather a retreat for humanity and a prostitution of moral values.” Abortion, he added in his statement to the press, “is a crime in whatever way they want to disguise it”.

Fr. Rosario was received by the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Julio Cesar Valentín, and by Senate vice president Cristina Lizardo. Both of them stated that they were “in favor of life.”

Of the thousands of protesters, several hundred surrounded the Parliament building in a symbolic “hug” to show their rejection of abortion. They held signs with slogans such as “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”, and “Mother, let me be born so I can be a representative”, and sang the song “Let Him Live” by Manuel Tejada. The demonstrators represented a number of religious groups and organizations, including catholics and protestant organizations and schools.

The protest is one of several events scheduled by pro-life groups and spearheaded by the Catholic Church during the month of October (see recent LifeSiteNews coverage at https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07100301.html). On Sunday, the Cardinal Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, will finish the campaign with a “march for life” through the nation’s capital.

Although police were absent during the event, the demonstrations were conducted in a completely peaceful manner, and no acts of violence were reported.

In addition to the demonstrations, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez gave a national address on radio at 5 pm, which was also broadcast on television at 9 pm, denouncing those who were promoting the decriminalization of abortion. “We want to announce to the Dominican people that we are prepared to defend life in any place or circumstance, however we might be commanded by God, who is the author of life and the Church,” he said, and called abortion a crime that should be rejected by all of those who love God.

“Cardinal Nicholas Jesus Rodriguez has truly risen to the occasion,” pro-life activist Gene Antonio Ramirez told LifeSiteNews. “He is just a hero. It’s just overwhelming joy to have a cardinal with his kind of guts, and his no nonsense in-your-face attitude toward these feminists and abortionists…and the head of the evangelical church, the Rev. Franklin Aquino, has also made a brilliant stand on this issue, and is doing his utmost to unite all evangelical and pentecostal churches on this issue, with no exceptions.”

Ramirez told LifeSiteNews that the outpouring of pro-life sentiment in the nation was overwhelming, and that even the more liberal newspapers on the island seemed to be changing their view of abortion.

News publications showed Ramirez’s eight year old child in front page photos, holding a sign saying “Abortion is Herodism” (referring to King Herod, who murdered the children of Bethlehem in an attempt to kill Jesus as an infant), and even published the internet address where the pro-life video “The Hard Truth” could be seen in Spanish. According to Ramirez, The Hard Truth has been shown to many congressmen as well, and has altered their views on abortion.

During the protests, the President of the Senate and other government officials were in Rome, meeting with Pope Benedict, and received his blessing on behalf of the Dominican people.

The Dominican Republic is one of several nations in Latin America that backs up its constitutional protection of human life (which appears in almost every Latin American constitution) with criminal penalties for all abortions, although indirect abortions caused by life-saving medical procedures are not prosecuted. The increasingly intense movement to protect the existing law was provoked by a recent proposal to decriminalize “therapeutic abortions” (a broad term allowing potentially any kind of abortion) in the Dominican Republic, as part of the ongoing overhaul of the nation’s penal code.

Contact Information:

The Embassy of the Dominican Republic in the USA
1715 22nd Street, NW
Washington DC 2008
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 202-332-6280
Extension 2517: Ambassador Flavio Darío Espinal
Extension 2503: First Secretary (Political Section) Mr. Edgar Aponte
Fax: 202-265-8057

The Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Canada
130 Albert Street,
Suite 418
Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4
Canada
Phone: 1-613-569-9893
Fax: 1-613-569-8673
Email: Eduardo J. Tejera, Ambassador: [email protected]

Other embassy locations:
https://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Dominican_Republic/Domin…

Related Lifesitenews.com Links:

Cardinal to Deliver Nationwide Pro-Life Address in Dominican Republic
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07102508.html

Mexican “Priest” Wages Campaign to Legalize Abortion in Dominican Republic
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07101202.html

Catholics in Dominican Republic Plan Offensive Against Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07100301.html

Cardinal Denounces Proposal to Legalize Abortion in the Dominican Republic
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07091002.html

Dominican Republic Protest Against Attempt to Legalize Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07082409.html ;

Kansas Supreme Court Ignores Kansas Law and Blocks Tiller Grand Jury

TOPEKA, DENTON, Texas, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the grand jury called to investigate late-term abortionist George Tiller by over 7,000 citizens of Sedgwick County will be delayed at least until November 16.

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman issues the following statement in response to the ruling:

Today the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled to ignore Kansas law that gives citizens the right to convene a grand jury to investigate criminal wrong-doing. In doing so, they have become contributors to the crisis in Kansas that has been caused by what we believe to be an out of control abortion industry that operates as if the laws do not apply to them. They have also become enablers to Tiller’s illegal abortion ring that continues to take the lives of viable babies in a manner that we believe is contrary to Kansas law.

The allegations that the citizens have asked a grand jury to consider, including illegal late term abortions from 2004-2007, have never been fully investigated. The fact that the Kansas Attorney General has brought 19 similar criminal charges on a small number of 2003 records gives the grand jury investigation both credibility and urgency.

We demand that the KS Supreme Court enforce the laws of Kansas and allow the grand jury investigation into George Tiller’s abortion business to go forward as allowed by statute. It is unconscionable to deprive the citizens of Kansas the ability to seek justice in this way.

Another Major Protest This Saturday at Aurora “Abortion Fortress”

Pro-Life Advocates Exclaim “It’s Not over, We’re Here for LIFE!”

Aurora, IL, October 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday, October 27 from 9:00-11:30 am, another major protest will take place at the nation’s largest Planned Parenthood facility in Aurora, Illinois. The protest, organized by the Pro-Life Action League, is the third significant demonstration over the past two months seeing as many as 1,200 pro-life advocates gathering at one time.

The opening of the facility, scheduled for mid-September, was delayed for two and a half weeks while investigations were conducted into the seemingly deceptive process in which Planned Parenthood received their occupancy and building permits. Amid much controversy, the facility opened on October 2nd. Pro-life community members have vowed to stay the course.

“Steve Trombley of Planned Parenthood stated that our numbers and our zeal would die once they opened. He was wrong!” states Eric Scheidler, Communications Director for the Pro-Life Action League and an Aurora resident. “We will be at this facility until abortions are no longer performed and this deceitful business is out of our city. We will be a peaceful, ever-present reminder of the atrocities that go on inside those walls and a constant thorn in Planned Parenthood’s side.”

Organizers expect over 500 people to attend the rally. It will consist of a “prayer walk” and an “old-school picket” around the New York Street block, as well as pro-life speakers and activities for teens and kids.

The theme of the rally is “life” and the focus will be on showing support for the women and children in the Aurora community. The group will put up white memorial crosses in memory of babies lost to abortion. The rally will also feature a “baby shower” to provide new baby clothes, diapers, strollers and other items for Project Gabriel, the Pregnancy Information Center, and Catholic Charities.

“We are gathering to show our dedication to protecting the lives of the women and children in Aurora,” continued Scheidler. “All human life from the moment of conception is precious in God’s eyes and not a commodity to be brokered by a Planned Parenthood abortion mega-store.”

14 Groups Formally Protest Hijacking of UN “Maternal Health” Conference by Abortion Lobby

Accuse organizing committee of attempting “to manufacture a false consensus”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

LONDON, October 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -“Women Deliver”, an international conference held last weekend in London, was billed by its promoters as a global meeting on “increasing investment in women’s health”, with an emphasis on childbearing. But a group of organizations involved at the international level have formally protested that the real purpose of the meeting was to promote abortion worldwide.

According to an October 20 joint letter co-signed by 14 organizations and delivered to conference organizers, “Delegates were invited to attend a global conference on the causes, prevention and treatment of the complications of pregnancy and childbirth… Regrettably, the conference agenda was so preoccupied with promoting the ideology and practice of abortion that the genuine health care needs of women and children were virtually ignored in the plenary sessions and overwhelmed in the panel discussions.”

Eight of the letter signing organizations have official UN “consultative” status, including Sexual and Reproductive Health of Mexico, United Families International, the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations, and MaterCare International.

In addition to dominating the panel discussions generally, promoting abortion was the explicit purpose of main panels and speeches, including “Investing in Women’s Access to Safe Abortion: What Are We Waiting For?”, “Advances in Ensuring Medically Safe Abortions”, and “Empowering Young People to Become Advocates for Abortion Rights Worldwide”. As reported previously by LifeSiteNews, thirty-five out of 98 sessions were related to abortion.

Susan Yoshihara of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), noted that one of the main purposes of the conference seemed to be “to get African and South Asian officials and health workers to accept the reproductive rights agenda.” She also reported, “Some 1500 of the 1700 conferees, largely from these regions, reportedly attended the very expensive event courtesy of corporate sponsors such as Brazil’s Tibotec, Exxon Mobile, and GlaxoSmithKline.”

One delegate from Spain told C-FAM, “It seems Europeans have been completely ignored since we already have widespread abortion, and this is about English speaking elites trying to convince elites in the developing world to accept abortion in their countries.”

The conference was in part sponsored the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an organization supposedly neutral regarding abortion, which included a sophisticated promotional section on its website. It was also sponsored by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the preeminent advocate for abortion worldwide.

“Members of the organizing committee, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Marie Stopes International, who have financial interests in the provision of abortion, have used the conference to promote a private agenda to spread abortion throughout the developing world,” noted the petitioners, who also accused the organizing committee of attempting “to manufacture a false consensus by ensuring that only the views that reinforced its preconceived ideas were represented during the conference”.

Joint signers of protest letter:

Those with ECOSOC consultative status with the United Nations
* Instituto De Política Familiar (IPF)
* Concerned Women for America (CWA)
* MaterCare International (MCI)
* World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC)
* United Families International (UFI)
* Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC)
* World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations (WUCWO)
* Federación Española de Asociaciones Provida

Other organizations
* Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)
* American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG)
* Instituto Mujer y Vida, Spain
* Comité Nacional Provida de México, A.C.
* Salud Sexual y Reproductiva De México, A.C.
* Asociación Mexicana Cultura de la Vida

Related Links:

Letter to “Women Deliver” Conference Organizers
https://www.c-fam.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=v…

World Bank Hosts “Women Deliver” Special Session on “maternal mortality”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07102309.html

One-Third of Sessions at UN Conference Devoted to Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07101803.html

UNICEF Participates in Conference With 35 Sessions Promoting Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07101201.html

See special UNICEF page promoting Women Deliver
https://www.unicef.org/womendeliver/index.html ;

Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy

31.5% of children born with very low birth weight due to prior induced abortions

By Hilary White

VANCOUVER, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article appearing in this month’s edition of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine concludes that nearly 32 per cent of “very preterm” U.S. births, that is, before 32 weeks gestation, are due to the mother having had a prior abortion. This information, combined with previous research in the relation between low birth weight children and cerebral palsy (CP), results in an estimated 1,096 children suffering from CP because of their mother’s prior abortion.

Dr. Calhoun et al. examined 2002 data (4,021,726 births, 486,629 preterm babies and 72,751 very-preterm babies) provided by Dr. Joyce Martin of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control)..

The study’s authors are Dr. Byron Calhoun an obstetrics and gynecology professor at Western Virginia University, Dr. Elizabeth Shadigian, obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan and Brent Rooney, the research director of RPRC (Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition, Vancouver, Canada) They concluded that prior induced abortion is a significant risk factor in very pre-term births and cerebral palsy.

The research backs up previous findings published in 2006 by Dr. Richard E. Behrman of Stanford University’s Institute of Medicine, that named “prior first trimester induced abortion” as “immutable medical risk factor associated with preterm birth”. (Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention)

Very pre-term babies have much higher than normal risks of suffering medical problems including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, lung impairment and serious infections.

In 2002 there were 58,717 U.S. newborn with a birth weight under 1,500 grams (3 pounds 5 ounces) according to a CDC (Center for Disease Control) article by Dr. Joyce Martin et al.
Most of these under 1,500 gram babies were delivered very prematurely.

Calhoun estimated that since 31.5 per cent of children born with very low birth weight are due to prior induced abortions. Approximately 7.7 per cent of children with very low birth weight develop CP according to a comprehensive study by Dr. G. Escobar et al. in 1991.

At least 1,096 cases of CP are directly associated with the mother’s prior abortion according to the estimates of Dr. Calhoun, Dr. Shadigian, and Brent Rooney.

The article further estimated a direct cost to the health care system of abortion-related pre-term babies at US $1.2 billion in 2002. This estimate did not include long-term costs for ongoing, often life-long medical expenses and lost income such children will suffer.

The article is listed in the Journal index as:
Cost Consequences of Induced Abortion as an Attributable Risk for Preterm Birth and Impact on Informed Consent
B. C. Calhoun, E. Shadigian and B. Rooney
Induced abortion contributes to significantly increased initial neonatal health costs, >$1.2 billion, and 1,096 excess cerebral palsy cases per year in the United States

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

1,100 Excess Brain Damaged Babies are Born Yearly in US Due to Previous Abortions
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/apr/04042209.html

New Study Confirms Abortion Increases Risk of Future Premature Births
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/apr/05042906.html

Virginia and Michigan Join to Defend Against Vermont Civil Unions: May go to US Supreme Court

Case could result in pro-gay state dictating marriage laws of all other states

By Hilary White

RICHMOND, Virginia, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Marriage advocates and the attorneys general of two states are joining forces to prevent an attempt to force one state to comply with the same-sex civil union laws of another. Two conflicting court cases could see the same-sex civil partnership laws of Vermont enforced in Virginia, a state that does not recognize such arrangements.

A mother currently living in Virginia left the lesbian lifestyle and the relationship she was in with another woman in Vermont. Now the other woman in the relationship is attempting to use the courts to force the state of Virginia, a state with constitutional amendment defining traditional, natural marriage, to grant her “parental” visitation rights.

Traditional marriage advocates are calling the case the first of its kind in the US where the laws of one state are directly pitted in a lawsuit against the same-sex partnership laws of another.

Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller were formally registered under that state’s same-sex civil partnership laws in Vermont. While in the relationship, Lisa Miller gave birth to a daughter, identified in court documents as IMJ, conceived by artificial insemination. The court files dissolving the civil union named IMJ as “the biological or adoptive” child of the “civil union.”

Miller has since left the relationship and the lesbian lifestyle after converting to Christianity and has moved with her daughter to Virginia, a state with no recognition whatever of same-sex unions and that has a constitutional amendment upholding the definition of natural marriage.

In June 2004, the Vermont court awarded Jenkins “on a temporary basis, parent-child contact” with IMJ. The following July, after Virginia passed its Marriage Affirmation Act confirming natural marriage as the legal definition, Miller successfully petitioned the Virginia court to award her sole custody of IMJ, who is now five years old, and asked the court to declare Jenkins’ claims to parental rights to be “nugatory, void, illegal and/or unenforceable.”

In response on July 19, 2004, the Vermont court declared that it continued to have jurisdiction over the case, ruling that it is “unaware of any proceeding available in a state that does not recognize a civil union” and insisted that its temporary order for Jenkins’ visitation rights be followed in Miller’s new home in Virginia. The Vermont court later held Miller in contempt for refusing to comply with the visitation ruling. In an appeal by Miller, the Vermont Supreme Court upheld the original decision and awarded Janet Jenkins parental rights over Lisa’s biological child.

Miller’s ongoing case is being pursued in the Virginia Supreme Court, represented by the Liberty Counsel, a public interest advocacy group. The situation in which one state’s court has demanded that another state recognize a homosexual domestic arrangement that has no legal reality in another state, is unique, says Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law.

Staver said, “One state should not be allowed to write the marriage policy of another state and export same-sex unions beyond its state borders. Regarding same-sex civil unions, what happens in Vermont must stay in Vermont.” If the Virginia Supreme Court decision clashes with the Vermont Supreme Court, the case will go directly to the United States Supreme Court.

A standard tactic of the homosexual activist movement has been to urge the use of such cases to bring about changes of laws in other jurisdictions. When Canada passed its legislation creating “gay marriage”, one group recommended gay partners get “married” in Canada and then use the courts in the US to force legal recognition of the arrangement.

The Liberty Counsel is arguing that Virginia has the right to define its own marriage policy, and a Vermont same-sex civil union “becomes invisible” at the border of Virginia. The Virginia attorney general’s amicus brief in the case asks the Virginia Supreme Court to rule that the same-sex civil union laws of Vermont are void in Virginia. The Virginia brief is supported by another from the attorney general of Michigan, a state that also has a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Ontario Family Coalition Party Urged to Give Life Issues Much Higher Emphasis

Campaign Life Coalition regrets party’s “misplaced, intense emphasis” on MMP

By Steve Jalsevac

TORONTO, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its November, 2007 newsletter, Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s national pro-life organization involved in the political realm, takes the Ontario Family Coalition (FCP) party leadership to task for its “intense” emphasis on proportional representation at the expense of promoting the life issues.

The newsletter article notes that the FCP was formed from CLC in 1987 “as a vehicle to raise awareness about abortion, ensure that it was not ignored during the election campaigns, and to re-enfranchise pro-life voters without pro-life candidates in their ridings”. CLC says that success for the FCP is marked not by the votes it gets but rather by “its ability to persistently and effectively raise the abortion and other life issues during elections.”

The pro-life organization goes on, “That’s why we think the party leadership has abandoned its roots and gone wayward in its strident, very high priority emphasis on Mixed Member Proportional representation (MMP). By focusing on getting MMP passed and the long-shot possibility of getting representation in provincial parliament, the FCP has been less effective in its primary role.”

Campaign Life Coalition, noting that the FCP has done very poorly in recent elections, emphasizes, “the only way the party will energize most pro-life Ontario voters is by boldly addressing the abortion issue during and between elections.”

CLC also responds to severe criticism directed at it and other pro-life opponents of MMP by the FCP leadership in the online FCP newsletter and other communications. The CLC newsletter responds, “It is time for the FCP to drop its misplaced, intense emphasis on proportional representation and apologize for its leader’s shockingly harsh condemnation and mean spirited, false accusations towards CLC, REAL Women and others for merely having a sincere, alternative view on this political strategy issue.”

Also at issue is the party’s running of mere paper candidates in many ridings this past election. Again the focus was especially on MMP and culling whatever total votes the party could get as a prelude to benefits it might eventually receive from voter approval of the electoral reform ballot question. The ballot failed. CLC states, “The FCP should also stop running paper candidates and focus on key ridings where they are likely to make a significant impact on the abortion and other life issues.”

The provincial and national pro-life organization does however praise the many FCP candidates who agreed to run in the election. CLC states, “most of the individuals who ran as FCP candidates were indeed solid pro-lifers for whom the life issues were a first priority.” The party leadership, however, is taken to task for not doing enough to assist these candidates with that priority. “Unfortunately,” says CLC, “FCP candidates have not been getting the direction and resources from the party to help them effectively inject that pro-life priority into their local campaigns.”

The Campaign Life Coalition newsletter concludes that “all Ontario pro-life voters should express a huge thank you to all those who put their names forward as FCP candidates in order to raise awareness of the abortion issue and give pro-life Ontario voters an opportunity to cast an ethical vote.”

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Forty years ago Britain passed a law that has facilitated 6.7 million abortions. A government inquiry has seen to it that nothing will change.
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Boy Scout advocate calls on Americans to boycott Philadelphia
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FCC accused of rushing to cater to big media markets
https://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000005773.cfm

6th Circuit strikes down porn age verification law
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School health centers didn’t report underage sex
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Ex-Gay Group Calls Psychiatrist to Retract False Comments
https://www.christianpost.com/article/20071025/29830_Ex-Gay_G…

Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access, e-mail
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