By Dave Andrusko

Part Two is a wonderful overview of successes using adult stem cells. Part Three examines euthanasia in Australia. Please send comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com.  And be sure to read our new pro-life information source www.nationalrighttolifenews.org.

"The peer pressure to be part of the team can be overwhelming," says Chris Smith, a pro-life GOP congressman from New Jersey. "But sometimes it's absolutely necessary, regardless of the cost, to bend into the wind, unmovable, committed to what your heart, mind and conscience know to be right."

"For so long, [Rep.] Bart [Stupak] did that. Then he was like a runner who stopped a hundred feet before the finish line. It's a sad day for the unborn, a sad day for their mothers, and a serious setback for the culture of life."
    -- From a column by William McGurn, in today's Wall Street Journal.

"For the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Obama's job performance. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, 51 percent of respondents disapprove of Obama's job performance and 46 percent approve of it."
    -- On CNN's website today.

"The vote is over. The fight is just beginning."
     -- From "And now, the battle to define the bill in the public's mind," which appears in Tuesday's USA Today.

"I agree with you 200%. 300%?....400%?...you get the picture."
     -- One of the many email responders, pledging that they will fight ObamaCare unrelentingly.

Pro-Life Champion Rep. Chris Smith

Of all the many uplifting responses I received to yesterday's three-part TN&V about the passage of ObamaCare, none encapsulated the spirit of determined resolution more encouragingly than this: "Thank you for continuing to press on. We will walk with you in this endeavor, being encouraged by you and others who are champions in this great rescue of our people, our children, and our nation."

Amen.

For quite some time to come, there will be a day after the day after the day after. By that I mean, whatever position someone takes on the House's vote in favor of the abortion-ridden Senate health care restructuring measure, most Americans are going to be outraged as the details--and there are billions of them--come out. And those will trickle out in the beginning, and then become a gusher.

That revisiting will most assuredly include the issue of abortion. Quite rightly a lot of attention was and will be paid to the eleventh hour defection of a number of House Democrats who had pro-life credentials. Most pro-life people are angry. I am more saddened.

Pro-Life Champion Chris Smith is co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus. He represented the Republican side. Rep. Bart Stupak represented the Democratic side of the isle.

Chris eloquently explained his colleague's behavior. He told William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal that for so long Rep. Stupak stood against the prevailing pro-abortion winds which blow with gale-like force among Democrats.

In a word, he was "unmovable."

But "Then he was like a runner who stopped a hundred feet before the finish line," Rep. Smith said. "It's a sad day for the unborn, a sad day for their mothers, and a serious setback for the culture of life."

It is also a sad day for many pro-lifers who worked with these erstwhile pro-life Democrats for so long. We needed them; our Movement is non-partisan. But we needed them more when the chips are really on the line, as they were Sunday. It is very difficult to exaggerate how bad the bill is that they allowed to become law.

Some of these Democrats who stopped short of the finish line, such as Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, lashed out. He angrily dismissed those who criticized his "yes" vote on ObamaCare--which includes us--as "political hacks" who "are just living in la-la land, when they don't know what's going on."

The problem, for Rep. Rahall, is that NRLC speaks for ordinary citizens who DO know what's going on. It must be frightening to realize that there is nowhere for him to hide.

And if all those who are outraged by this betrayal keep that foremost in their minds, many/most/nearly all of those Democrats who faltered when the babies needed them most will be replaced by other pro-life members of Congress.

It is not always true, but often so, that there is a price to pay for putting your convictions and principles in cold storage.

Please visit www.nationalrighttolifenews.org.

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