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The Pro-Life Week in
Review Part One of Five By Dave Andrusko Editor's note. Please send all of your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are now following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. As we do most every Friday, today's opening TN&V will allude to other items in the information queue and harken back to developments discussed earlier in the week both here and at "National Right to Life News Today" (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org).
In Part Two we briefly discuss the Senate confirmation of Elena Kagan as Justice John Paul Stevens' successor on the Supreme Court. In many ways she is a fitting replacement. Clearly Kagan revels at being a political animal, and doubtless one significant reason pro-abortion President Barack Obama chose her is that he hopes Kagan, like Stevens, will work assiduously behind the scenes. In Part Three the discussion turns to the vote in Kenya in favor of a new Constitution, which clearly (a) promotes abortion and (b) has the fingerprints of the Obama Administration all over it. It does not make for inspiring reading. Part Four reflects on the vote on a key component of ObamaCare in Missouri this week. It's no secret the American people are very, very nervous about the breadth, depth, and sweep of this mammoth abortion-promoting, pro-rationing enterprise. The 71% support in favor of "Proposition C" also sends a strong signal to pro-abortion Democratic Senate nominee Robin Carnahan who supported ObamaCare, a law not supported by her pro-life Republican opponent Roy Blunt. And in Part Five, Gunter Franz offers the initial installment in a series that goes behind the numbers to explain what abortions are really saying--as opposed to the pro-abortion spin we typically read. During the week we received feedback on a number of stories. Not enough has been made of the successful charge led by NRLC to fend off the speech-stiflingly "DISCLOSE Act" in the Senate. Pro-abortion Democrats, fearful of a tidal wave of voter disgust, are desperate to staunch the flow of factual information, all gussied up in noble-sounding nonsense about cleaning up "corruption." It is certainly possible that when they come back from their August recess they will try again. In Maryland, a federal court judge heard testimony in a suit brought against legislative harassment--a Baltimore city ordinance that singles out crisis pregnancy center as uniquely unworthy of First Amendment protections. This is part of a nation-wide campaign by NARAL to squelch volunteer-run organizations, run on a shoestring, who help women in crisis. They see CPCs as competitors, which they are. Only one savors life, the other lives for death. We also wrote about a series of breakthroughs using adult stem cells; the brilliant way NRLC has used Twitter; explained in detail ObamaCare's multi-tiered problems; and summarized the decision of another federal judge to allow Virginia's challenge to ObamaCare to go forward. Please remember that we rely on YOU to distribute stories from TN&V and National Right to Life News Today using your social networks. Like everything else, we are only as strong as the enthusiasm of grassroots pro-lifers. |
