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The Pro-Life Week in
Review Part One of Four By Dave Andrusko Good evening, and thanks for reading Today's News & Views. Part Two is a very, very helpful tool--an overview of those states that have early voting and when/how you can take advantage. Part Three brings you the words of an abortionist explaining why she performed abortions. Part Four offers a friendly reminder about how to combine your summer vacation next year with NRLC's annual convention. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), you will read that, as usual, the pro-abortionists were proven wrong: you don't need more abortions to bring down the maternal mortality rate in the developing world. There is also a very clever dismissal of embryonic stem cell research. And we end on a very positive note--Autos for Life. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today todaveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. What a week! Let me begin, as always, with a shout-out to all of you who read TN&V and National Right to Life News Today, and especially for using your social networks to pass the word along in a massively effective way. (For a few clues how to do just that, go to www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv091510part2.html). The next time you "share the wealth," could you please drop me a line? The address is daveandrusko@gmail.com. The favorite story of week, judging by your emails, was "Out of the Mouths of Babes" (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv091410.html). This young boy--Zachary--speaks his mind about abortion, and his eloquence takes your breath away. In second place was "Me Help! Me Help!" (www.nrlc.org/NewsToday/MeHelp.html.) When you read them, have some Kleenex at hand. I'll talk about the politics of the last five days in a minute. Let's begin with PPFA. For internal reasons, the largest abortion "provider" has held off delivering its annual report. Instead it published a three-page "fact sheet," which is shorn of financial numbers. Message? More abortions--6% more dead babies--and 50% fewer adoption referrals. Kind of tells you where their hearts are, doesn't it? (See http://www.nrlc.org/NewsToday/PPFA091410.html and http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv091310part3.html.) There is also a kind of cycle to the appearance of stories about abortionists who in the process of tearing unborn babies apart mangle their mothers. In the last few weeks more stories have been published in places such as the Philadelphia Inquirer. I don't claim to understand how abortionists can have their licenses be taken away in state after state; literally kill women; and have the IRS on their heels and STILL somehow be able to continue taking the lives of the unborn. (See http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv091510part3.html and http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv090910part3.html)
The Democratic Party, which gave us ObamaCare and is led by pro-abortionists in both Houses of Congress and the White House, is close to disarray. Columnist Roger Simon, who writes for POLITICO and carries the Democrats' water, quoted a "Big-Time Dem" this week that "2010 is gone for Democrats." This is preposterously premature, but signals the low morale of a party that does not have a single pro-life Senate candidate this year. Pollsters whose heart still throbs for Obama tell us that his personal popularity is still solid. Maybe. But as Simon wrote, "[T]his election is largely about Obama and his successes and failures in his first two years in office." Final thought--I do want you read all the other posts today. On Tuesday Kelly Ayotte prevailed in New Hampshire and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, adding to the roster of pro-life female Republicans running well in 2010. (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv091610part2.html.) We are being told that while Ayotte's chances are solid, O'Donnell is toast. This after all that has happened in the last year, including a Republican winning Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, something that was unthinkable two months before the election. I'm saving on my hard drive all those dismissive boasts that Republicans "threw away" Delaware so I can recall them the night of November 2. |
Whether it's a welter of
polling data or the important victories of two more pro-life
females in Republican senatorial primaries, this week has been a
huge success for the cause of unborn babies. We've published the
result of poll after poll after poll and they almost universally
shout the same message.