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Obama's Abortion Agenda Perhaps it might seem odd, but even though this represents my 27th first-of-the-year issue as NRL News editor, a chill of excitement still runs up and down my spine as I wait to see how our 365,000+ readers respond. Never was this more true than as our Movement gears up to do battle with the latest pro-abortion media darling, the very formidable President-elect Barack Obama. This particular edition was an especial labor of love. A lot of very good people put in a great deal of time to help you help us together to stop Obama's Abortion Agenda. The result of those labors begins on page one, with what I consider to be an absolutely brilliant overview of what we face. Given the unholy alliance of pro-abortion Democratic majorities in both Houses and a hardcore pro-abortion President, "Some damage is inevitable," explained NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson, "but the extent to which the Obama abortion agenda will be achieved will depend on the perception of elected policymakers as to how the public is responding to the proposed changes." As the sidebar on page 17 explains, the Abortion Establishment has given the incoming Obama Administration a long, long (55-page) list of policies it wants action on. Unfortunately, it doesn't have to convince Obama. He's one of them. It is a foreshadowing/forewarning, perhaps, that Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, is sometimes mistakenly identified as pro-life. He is strongly pro-abortion, but works largely behind the scenes. As Johnson points out, with Reid up for re-election in 2010, "most likely he will try to conceal from his constituents the extent to which he is advancing the pro-abortion agenda." But Obama is even wilier. At the same time he is relentlessly advancing the abortion agenda of PPFA and NARAL and their ilk, Obama will be reassuring the public that he is "reaching out" to pro-lifers. We've tried to include something for everyone in this edition, tools that can be used whether you are young or old, a technophobe or technophile, have lots of time to be involved or only a very few hours. There are time-honored techniques that are unchanged (petitions), or have been adapted to changing technologies ("e-mail trees"). But there are also lots of new ways to inexpensively and almost instantaneously get the message out that women and unborn babies deserve better. At the risk of stating the stupendously obvious, pro-lifers are very unhappy that Obama will move into the White House just two days before the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. He will replace President George W. Bush, a man as committed to life as Obama is to the death of unborn children. But how we have chosen to deal with that enormous disappointment is already beginning to make a difference. Let me explain. From the night our nation's 44th President was chosen, none of us has wasted a moment on indifference or on a sense of resignation. Instead, as Jacki Ragan, NRLC's director of state development, told me, "From the instant it became obvious Obama would be elected, our people chose resistance." This January 22 Commemorative Edition is just what you and your friends and family need: a roadmap for how you can help organize, grow, and mobilize the grassroots. And it does so keeping in mind that our people are already very, very busy. This special issue is a checklist of activities in which your special gifts and talents are harmonized with what the Movement needs to advance the cause of Life. But it is not just a compilation. "Stop Obama's Abortion Agenda" explains how to accomplish each task. "We will never have but a fraction of the resources that pro-abortionists have available to them, but we don't need that much," Ragan said. What we do need, she explained, is a commitment from pro-lifers to help NRLC reach its goal of doubling our membership and expanding our chapter base. "It can be done," she said, "and it will not require an exorbitant amount of time." But it does require an exorbitant amount of something else: love for unborn children. Unfortunately for Obama, your love for them is indescribable, indefatigable, and inexhaustible. And as a consequence the battle to save the Littlest Americans has just begun. |