"With these successes comes profound responsibility. The pro-choice movement finds itself on the cusp of a tremendous opportunity: not only to make significant headway into reversing some of George W. Bush's worst policies, but also to start advancing pro-choice initiatives on a national level and in the states."
     From NARAL President Nancy Keegan, part of NARAL's annual, "Who Decides? The Status of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States."

For the year 2008, and for the umpteenth year in a row, NARAL gave the 50 states a collective "D-" grade on women's "reproductive rights." Were it only so.

But as the quotation from "Who Decides?" that begins this edition makes clear, NARAL sees far better days ahead. And that includes at the national level, where the election of a pro-abortion President and enlarged pro-abortion majorities in both houses of Congress makes NARAL downright giddy.

The Abortion Establishment has already received payback. A number of their number has already been given posts in the new administration. Momentarily, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order overturning the Mexico City Policy. (See Part Two.)

You know the old question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Well, if Obama says up is down, right is left, and the "mainstream media" chooses not to point out the obvious contradiction, will the public "hear" the disconnect?

The media silence will be an ongoing problem; we know that. This is why we are here. We are counting on you to highlight that what Obama and his supporters say their initiatives will do bears no resemblance to what actually will come to pass.

For example, as explained in Part Two, pro-abortionists like to portray the Mexico City Policy as making a huge crimp in family planning dollars. It didn't, nor will Obama's executive order increase the amount.

What the policy did say was that if a grantee wants to participate it had to refrain from performing abortions (except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest), or lobbying to legalize abortion, or otherwise promoting abortion as a family-planning method.

So what is the result of today's executive order, if not more money? The character of the recipients. The money will now go into the eager hands of organizations, such as International Planned Parenthood. IPPA is driven by an ideology that compels it to find new frontiers to practice an undying commitment to abortion on demand, including as a form of birth control.

This will be the first instance in which the actions of the new Obama administration will inevitably, inextricably, and inexorably increase the number of aborted babies. But virtually no "mainstream media" outlet will bother to point that out to the public. No, today's executive order, we are told, is all about eliminating a "global gag rule."

In fact, in countries where abortion is legal, the Mexico City Policy explicitly allowed the grantee to respond to questions about where abortions may be obtained. But to acknowledge this gets in the way of the pro-abortion inspired narrative.

Please get the truth out to your pro-life contacts. Together we must launch a truth offensive that will last the next four years.

Please send your thoughts and comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com.

Part Two -- Obama Abortion Agenda Launches Today
Part Three -- FDA Approves Trials Using Embryonic Stem Cells