By Dave Andrusko

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Although my children refuse to believe it's true, I am taking off Thursday and Friday. So let me use today to address some important end-of-the-year items.

I remain in awe of the dedication, energy, perseverance, and pluck of the millions of people who make up the Right to Life Movement. As editor of NRL News and TN&V, I have been blessed beyond measure. These vehicles provide me a wonderful two-fold opportunity to share ideas and opinions and insights with the finest supporters anyone could possibly ask for.

I am routinely asked why I am so relentlessly upbeat. It's actually quite simple. No matter how unpleasant the events of the day, pro-lifers refuse to curse the darkness. They light a candle… many candles….each and every day….and share the warmth and illumination with one another and with the staff of National Right to Life.

We all knew, as of November 4, 2008, that the newly-elected President presented an unprecedented danger to the cause of unborn children. Barack Obama is joined at the hip to the Abortion Establishment. He does not merely service their agenda, as he would any powerful Democratic Party interest group; Obama also passionately subscribes to their profoundly pessimistic view. Just as we had one of ours living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue--President George W. Bush--PPFA and NARAL now have one of theirs.

Millions and millions of ordinary Americans were blinded by Obama's slickly packaged personae. But that aura of "change" is waning fast. Or, better put, the electorate is rapidly coming to the conclusion that the "changes" this Administration has in mind are way out of the mainstream.

Our job, as is always the case when pro-abortionists occupy the White House, is to hunker down, grow organizationally stronger by the month, and limit the damage in those instances when we can't forestall it altogether. I don't pretend that NRLC is the only pro-life organization. But it is, hands-down, the most effective single-issue pro-life organization in the world. Nobody--nobody--does more with less than National Right to Life.

There is a reason Congressman Chris Smith calls NRLC "the hub, the nerve center, of the pro-life movement" and the late-Congressman Henry Hyde described NRLC as "the flagship of the pro-life movement." NRLC earned those kudos from these two pro-life champions by all that it has accomplished over 31 years.

NRLC does not ask for fiscal help nearly as often as perhaps it should. I would ask you to click here which will provide you with a chance to be of assistance at a crucial hour.

I am not a fundraiser, and don't pretend to be. I am a pro-lifer like you who happens to know first hand how much time, energy, and resources NRLC has poured into the Mother of all Battles, the titanic struggle over Obama's determined effort to transform/co-opt a sixth of the American economy, otherwise known as health care "reform."

2009 did not end the way we would have wished. In its health care bill, the Senate did not adopt the equivalent of the pro-life Stupak-Pitts Amendment added by the House. But the reason the House did the right thing was primarily because of what you did.

We have only completed Phase One which is why I have said on more than one occasion we have only begun to fight!

We need to undertake in 2010 everything and more than what we accomplished in 2009. Your generosity, and your generosity alone, will make that possible. Please click here which will take you to where you can donate.

I'd like to end with a quote from M.D. Babcock, a noted 19th century clergyman and author of the hymn, "This is My Father's World." It should remind us that we are not in this alone; that we have our marching orders; and that we must be gentle but persistent doers of the word, not hearers only.

"Nothing we can say to the Lord, no calling Him by great or dear names, can take the place of the plain doing of His will. We may cry out about the beauty of eating bread with Him in His kingdom, but it is wasted breath and a rootless hope, unless we plow and plant in His kingdom here and now. To remember Him at His table and to forget Him at ours, is to have invested in bad securities. There is no substitute for plain, every-day goodness."