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October 2004Vote Pro-Life Tuesday, November 2
By Carol Tobias Every election year, it seems as if pro-lifers are told that this is the "most important election ever." That's not just hype. Building on previous successes, each election does get to be more important than the last, both to consolidate gains made and to make new inroads. For example, in 1996, the battle over partial-birth abortion was just starting. It was an eight-year battle, but we finally got a president who joyfully signed the bill, replacing one who twice vetoed the measure at the urging of pro-abortionists. In 2000, the issue was again partial-birth abortion but more importantly, the Supreme Court. We got the partial-birth abortion ban (only to have it suspended by judges), but we haven't gotten the justices. PAGE 1 What We Know And Why That Matters By Jacki Ragan
As you read and make use of this edition of National Right to Life News, there will be only a few short weeks before our great nation will go to the polls to elect the next President of the United States. Voting is an enormous privilege, one for which millions of men and women have died to protect, both here and abroad. And as we have written in this newspaper more than once, four years ago, only 51.2% of the voting-age population in America chose to take a few minutes out of their schedules to vote in an election so close that its final outcome was not determined for 35 days afterwards. And in two states, including the pivotal state of Florida, fewer than 1,000 votes separated George W. Bush and Al Gore. PAGE 1
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DIFFERENCE, It's the Supreme Court, Stupid --Headline in New York's Village Voice (8/30/2000) By the end of the next President's term, six of the current members of the Court will be over 70 years of age. The average age of retirement over the past century has been 71--and so we are likely in for an unprecedented wave of retirements. It is entirely possible that whoever is elected next November will have the power to appoint a new majority of the members of the Supreme Court. As president, I will only appoint Supreme Court Justices who will uphold a woman's right to choose. --pro-abortion presidential candidate John Kerry (10/3/03 & 3/8/04) Because a caring society will value its weakest members, we must make a place for the unborn child. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law. --President George W. Bush (9/2/04) The Village Voice headline above was written for the 2000 presidential election, but it is even more applicable today. If pro-life President George W. Bush gets re-elected along with enough new senators who will support his judicial nominees, then the days of judicial arrogance and over-reaching will come to an end. And social policy once again will be set by the elected branches of government. If John Kerry wins, he will fill the vacancies on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary with pro-abortionists, and the out-of-control courts will continue to override popular will and set social policy by judicial dictate--for years, if not decades, to come. The pro-abortion pressure groups are organizing and spending money as never before in this election to make sure that it is John Kerry who will fill federal judicial vacancies. Pro-lifers must understand what's at stake and outwork the pro-abortionists. PAGE 3 Complete NRL News Complete NRL News 2001 Subject Index Complete NRL News 2000 Subject Index Complete NRL News 1999 Subject Index Complete NRL News 1998 Subject Index NRL News Archive19971998JANUARY 1998 1999JANUARY 22, 1999 2000January 2000 2001January 2001February 2001 March 2001 April 2001 May 2001 June 2001 July 2001 August 2001 September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 2002January 2002February 2002 March 2002 April 2002 May 2002 June 2002 July 2002 August 2002 September 2002 October 2002 November 2002 December 2002 2003January 2003February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 2004January
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