In a newly updated one-page factsheet, NRLC summarizes how Barack Obama has done more damage to the pro-life cause, in just three years, than any President in history. (See page five.)

Quietly, relentlessly, President Obama has worked to entrench abortion on demand and to expand access to unrestricted and government-subsidized abortion. He has done so by championing enactment of a massive health care restructuring law that contains numerous anti-life provisions; by undermining pro-life efforts in Congress (employing, among other tools, formal veto threats); by issuing anti-life executive orders; by spreading aggressive pro-abortion advocacy overseas through Hillary Clinton’s State Department; and—most ominously of all, in the long run—by appointing two anti-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The latest edition of “The Presidential Record on Life” appears on page five of this issue. This one-page factsheet can also be downloaded from the NRLC website and reproduced as desired.

By Carol Tobias, NRLC President

The pro-life community knows that President Barack Obama has an abysmal record on life. NRLC Federal Legislative Director Douglas Johnson lays out “the damage to date” on this page, and NRLC has compiled an up-to-date “Presidential Record on Life” that appears on page five.

We are fortunate that all of the Republican candidates running for president are pro-life.

As this edition of National Right to Life News is being finalized, we are in the early stages of the Republican presidential nominating process. The Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are over; primaries in South Carolina, Florida, and Nevada are upon us.

By Carol Tobias

In 1776, when our founding fathers were creating this wonderful new country, John Adams wrote, “It has been the will of Heaven that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live ... a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose. How few of the human race have ever had an opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children? How few have ever had anything more of choice in government than in climate?”

Whether you consider this country to be blessed, fortunate, or just lucky, we have a system of government that allows for a regular, peaceful process to take place as we choose our leaders through a democratic system.

Many countries have recently undergone less-than-pleasant changes in leadership. Sometimes the new government is good, other times not so good. Many people around the world have as much influence on their government as they do on the weather.

For more than 200 years, we have been able to watch and listen and participate as candidates campaign—seeking our support and eventually our votes. We evaluate, we compare, we judge, then we elect.

The actions and decisions of the person holding the highest office in the land is critical to so much of what we do. Let’s look at the records of our last two presidents.