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NRLC LAUNCHES NATIONAL
GRASSROOTS LOBBYING CAMPAIGN
eLobby for Life Week calls for 250,000
emails to Congress
WASHINGTON – As the nation
commemorates the 37th anniversary
of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court
decision legalizing abortion on demand, the
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the
federation of 50 state right-to-life groups
and more than 3,000 local chapters, launched
eLobby for Life Week, a nationwide
grassroots lobbying campaign to voice
opposition to expanding federal funding of
abortion in any health care legislation that
comes before Congress. The campaign begins
today and runs through Friday, January 29.
“As pro-abortion
Democratic leaders in the U.S. House and
Senate again work behind closed doors to
hammer out a health care reform bill, now is
the time for the large majority of
Americans who oppose federal abortion
funding and federal abortion mandates to
make their voices heard,” said NRLC
Executive Director David N. O’Steen, Ph.D.
“All members of Congress need to hear the
message: using federal subsidies to pay for
abortion coverage through health care
‘reform’ is completely unacceptable.”
In an email distributed to
supporters across the country, NRLC is
encouraging pro-life Americans to contact
their member of Congress through the
National
Right to Life Legislative Action Center
and then reach out to pro-life friends,
family, neighbors and churches through
personal contact, email, blogs and social
networking sites like Facebook and Twitter
and urge them to do the same.
“Never have the voices of
pro-life Americans been more important than
they are at this moment in our nation’s
history,” O’Steen added.
The National Right to Life
Committee, the nation=s
largest pro-life group, is a federation of
affiliates in all 50 states and more than
3,000 local chapters nationwide.
National Right to
Life works through legislation and education
to protect those threatened by abortion,
infanticide, euthanasia and assisted
suicide. |
