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One Nation Under God keeps you updated on the activities of Emily's List and NARAL in their support of pro-abortion candidates to gain unrestricted access to abortion rights.

Since the 1998 election cycle Emily's List's total expenditures have been over $125 millon used exclusively to put pro-abortion candidates in office.

 

 

Speaking on the evil of abortion and that of cooperating in it by supporting pro-abortion legislation, the statement says:

"It is the teaching of the Catholic Church from the very beginning, founded on her understanding of her Lord's own witness to the sacredness of human life, that the killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified . . . To make such intrinsically evil actions legal is itself wrong . . . The legal system as such can be said to cooperate in evil when it fails to protect the lives of those who have no protection except the law."

--United States of Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Catholics in Political Life

 

NARAL Continues Attack on John McCain on Abortion, Birth Control

Leading pro-abortion group NARAL is continuing its attacks on John McCain in the latest fundraising email sent to its donors and the attacks focus on abortion and birth control. NARAL, which has already endorsed pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama, says McCain is unfit to be president because he opposes abortion.

 

Can EMILY's List Get Its Mojo Back?

Of the 31 House and Senate challengers whom the group endorsed in 2006, just 26 percent--eight in all--won office.

Polls showed voters decidedly unhappy with President Bush and the Republicans, and EMILY's List sent a boastful press release to reporters just before the election suggesting that it would be a banner year for women. Voters turned that prediction on its head--at least as far as EMILY's List's endorsees were concerned. Although Democrats seized control of Congress and installed Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the first female House speaker, EMILY's List's candidates lost big.

Of the 31 House and Senate challengers whom the group endorsed in 2006, just 26 percent--eight in all--won office. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, however, had a stellar election, helping to oust 22 Republicans and wrest control of Congress from the GOP. Two female challengers triumphed without EMILY's List endorsements--Reps. Nancy Boyda, D-Kan., and Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H. Both wanted to campaign free of any shackles from an interest group.

As EMILY's List scrambled internally to figure out what went wrong in 2006, the organization jumped into the bruising presidential primary fight, endorsing Clinton in January 2007. It was the first time that EMILY's List had backed a presidential candidate. read more National Jornal

 

NARAL's False Poll Shows Women Switch to Obama Over McCain

A leading pro-abortion group says that women voters, when told John McCain is pro-life, say they prefer voting for Barack Obama this November. The pro-abortion organization NARAL says the results of the poll show it needs to do more to educate voters that McCain is pro-life.

However, the poll appears to give women voters a misleading picture of where Senator McCain stands on abortion.

The poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, included Republican and independent women from 12 presidential battleground states.

According to the poll, Obama gains 13 percentage points among independent women voters who are pro-abortion when they're told McCain is pro-life.

This group of voters supposedly comprises nine percent of the total electorate and, as a result, yields an overall shift of 1.6 percent to Obama.

Elizabeth Shipp, the pro-abortion group's political director, says she's not too worried yet about the polling results -- saying NARAL has time to run attack ads against McCain across the country. read more LifeNews 6.16

 

 

EMILY's List backs Obama

Another of Hillary Clinton's most vocal supporters has fallen in line behind Barack Obama, on the eve of her formal endorsement of the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Adding her voice is Ellen R. Malcolm, president of EMILY's List, a political action committee that funds female candidates who support abortion rights. She was withering in her criticism of NARAL's national PAC when it endorsed Obama last month despite a long history with Clinton.

But in a statement issued today, Malcolm is far more conciliatory in pledging her group's support to Obama.

"At every turn in this long journey, Hillary Clinton has filled me with tremendous pride and honored all women with the courage, grace, and dignity of her historic campaign. Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton competed in every state, unleashing a tidal wave of enthusiasm and support. Now that the primaries have concluded, I wholeheartedly congratulate Sen. Barack Obama. He has inspired millions of Americans and shown that he is more than ready to take on Sen. John McCain," the statement says. read more boston.com 6.6

 

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in its own words: "Planned Parenthood performed 289,650 abortions in 2006"

Planned Parenthood opposes any “legislation that would elevate the legal status of a fetus, at any stage of development, to that of an adult” 2

Planned Parenthood believes pro-lifers are “waging a war on women.” And claim, “this is the real face of Bush's compassionate conservatism — a war on women and children across the globe” 3

Planned Parenthood actively ignores statutory rape reporting laws and campaigns against efforts to enforce or strengthen them. 4, 5, 6, 7

Planned Parenthood would willingly accept donations for racist purposes. 8

Planned Parenthood promotes itself as a “non-partisan” organization, yet promises to turn out millions of votes and dollars to elect pro-abortion candidates to the White House, Congress, and State Governments. 9, 10

Planned Parenthood reports that it is a “not-for-profit” organization and receives over $336 million in government grants and contracts, and yet it had an “excess of revenue over expenses” of almost $56 million in 2005 and $112 million in 2006. 11 read more ThomasMoreSociety 6.3

 

NARAL fuels pro-abort civil war

It is ideologues vs. pragmatics. Those who are feminists first and abortion zealots second support Clinton. The presidency is their grail. Those who are abortion zealots first and industry dependents second support Obama. They believe he will do more to keep abortion legal and lucrative.

On Jan. 24, when the pro-abort divide between Clinton and Obama supporters was escalating into civil war, National Abortion Rights Action League, or NARAL, President Nancy Keenan issued an appeal for all sides to remain calm and focused on the real enemies, preborn children.

Keenan assured factions that all Democrat candidates were equally qualified to advance prenatal killing.

Who knew Super Tuesday would not determine their presidential predator, nor the Potomac Primary, nor Super Tuesday II, nor even Super Tuesday III on May 6?

Meanwhile, NARAL tried to redirect attention to the "staunchly, rigidly, undeniably anti-choice" Republican nominee John McCain in its almost daily e-alerts, which I receive.

But NARAL was unsuccessful. Thanks to sexier issues like Bosnia and Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media didn't bite.

Meanwhile, the infighting continued. The Clinton camp kept pounding Obama as being soft on abortion because he voted "present" seven times as state senator on abortion legislation and because he wasn't a woman. read more WNDaily 5.21

 

WomenCount PAC Denounces NARAL Endorsement of Barack Obama

The newly formed WomenCount PAC strongly denounces the endorsement of Barack Obama by NARAL Pro-Choice America, joining mounting opposition to the move from Emily's List, a long list of woman Members of Congress, and other longtime supporters of NARAL.

"The idea that NARAL would create a divisive and potentially permanent rift in the pro-Choice movement is a shortsighted, irresponsible rush to judgment," says Allida Black, a founding member of WomenCount PAC and editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University. "Using this important issue in such an irresponsible way can only be interpreted as blatant pandering."

WomenCount views the endorsement as disrespectful not only to Sen. Hillary Clinton's lifelong commitment to protecting women's reproductive rights but also to the millions of women around the country who are supporters of both NARAL and Sen. Clinton. read more news.yahoo 5.16

 

Leading Pro-Abortion Groups Feud Over NARAL Obama Endorsement, Clinton

Just hours after NARAL announced it had endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, leading abortion advocates who are backing Hillary Clinton began grumbling. Emily's List officials are upset their pro-abortion counterpart has joined the Obama camp.

NARAL president Nancy Keenan said her group endorsed Obama because it appears likely he will become the nominee.

She said her group's board of directors wanted to immediately focus on a potential Obama matchup with John McCain, the eventual Republican nominee who opposes abortion.

However, the abortion activists over at Emily's List have been on Clinton's side since early in the presidential campaign and have spent heavily trashing Obama.

Ellen Malcolm, the president of the group, considered one of the most heavily bankrolled political action committee's in the country, told The Hill newspaper she's upset with NARAL.

“I think it is tremendously disrespectful to Sen. Clinton -- who held up the nomination of a FDA commissioner in order to force approval of Plan B and who spoke so eloquently during the Supreme Court nomination about the importance of protecting Roe vs. Wade -- to not give her the courtesy to finish the final three weeks of the primary process," Malcolm said. read more LifeNews

 

NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president!

This email issued today to NARAL subscribers:

I'm excited to announce that today, NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president!

We have been so fortunate to have two fully pro-choice candidates running for the Democratic nomination, and we praised both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama for their leadership in standing up for women's reproductive rights. But only one candidate can advance to the general election.
NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC is making our endorsement now because every day that passes, Sen. McCain gets a free ride on the issue of choice. That free ride ends today.

Too many voters think that McCain is a moderate. Can someone who's voted anti-choice 125 times out of 130 opportunities on abortion and other reproductive-rights issues be a moderate?

It's time to put that myth to rest. To win in November, NARAL Pro-Choice America will educate swing voters who can tip this election: Republican and Indepdendent women. And we cannot let one more day go by without comparing Sen. Obama's fully pro-choice record to Sen. McCain's anti-choice record.
On one hand, we have Sen. Obama—who has been a fully pro-choice ally from day one and whom women can trust.

And on the other hand, we have Sen. John McCain—who has gone even further than George W. Bush in his anti-choice rhetoric by directly calling for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
I believe that Sen. Obama is the leader who can unify our country behind commonsense ways to prevent unintended pregnancy.
We need you to be a part of our work to defeat Sen. McCain and elect Sen. Obama.

 

Feminists sharply divided between Clinton, Obama

No constituency is more eager to see a woman win the presidency than America's feminists, yet — despite Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic candidacy — the women's movement finds itself wrenchingly divided over the Democratic race as it heads toward the finish.

Clinton supporter Gloria Feldt, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, accepts that the women's movement is not single-minded, yet worries that the Obama-Clinton rift is eroding whatever clout it might have.

"We're squandering an opportunity to be seen as a voting bloc that turns elections," Feldt said. "Unless we are working together, in a strategically thought-out effort to vote in our own best interests, we are in danger of never having another election where people will say women can determine the outcome." read more news.yahoo

 

Emily's List Girl's could lose endorsement over Obama

Not even the pro-abortion faction within the Democrat establishment is immune from the spillover rancor that is emanating from the divisive Clinton-Obama mêlée. According to the AP, Ellen Malcolm, a top Clinton supporter and the chief of the powerful pro-abortion group EMILY's List, is taking a "wait and see" approach regarding the political futures of Sens. Claire McCaskill and Amy Klobuchar, both Obama supporters. Malcolm, whose group is the top donor to the pro-abortion McCaskill, had this to say when asked what effect McCaskill's support for Obama could have on her political future:

"There's no question that some of our members are very angry," said Ellen R. Malcolm, president and founder of the EMILY's List political action committee, which gives money to female candidates who favor abortion rights. ...

Asked whether Klobuchar and fellow freshman Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, another Obama superdelegate, risk losing their seats over these endorsements, Malcolm said, "We'll just have to wait and see." News-Leader 4.21

 

NARAL Pro-Choice America Launches Website To Highlight McCain's Position On Abortion  

NARAL Pro-Choice America recently launched the website MeetTheRealMcCain.com to highlight presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's (Ariz.) position on abortion rights, Newsweek reports. MedNewsToday

 

NARAL Worried John McCain's Presidential Bid Succeeding

A leading pro-abortion group is beginning to run scared and sent an email to its membership on Friday pleading for donations because it worries John McCain's candidacy is succeeding. NARAL says having McCain and his views against abortion in the White House would be a "disaster" for abortion activists.

"McCain’s candidacy is growing stronger since he’s become the Republican nominee for president," NARAL president Nancy Keenan admits in the email.

"You and I know there’s nothing moderate about John McCain when it comes to a woman’s right to choose," she says.

Keenan said she hopes her members will "take the next step" in their commitment to abortion by signing up other donors. read more LifeNews 4.18

 

EMILY's List founder sees mobilization of women's vote

Twenty-three years after founding a political network for Democratic women who support abortion rights, Ellen Malcolm finally has the chance to support a woman for president.

Malcolm is the founder of EMILY's List, which has helped elect 13 female senators, 67 House members and eight governors and become one of the nation's biggest political action committees in money raised with $46 million in contributions in 2006.

For the first time, the 100,000-member group has endorsed a presidential candidate, throwing its weight behind Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. read more statesman jounal 4.15

 

NARAL's disinformation campaign doesn't seem to have worked in Maryland.

You’d think that Maryland state legislators would have more important issues to deal with — considering the subprime mortgage crisis, and all — instead of listening to legal challenges to the pro-life work of pregnancy centers in the state. But the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws is engaged in an ongoing national effort to disparage the reputation of pregnancy centers and deter women from visiting them for help. Fortunately, the showdown in Annapolis didn’t turn out as NARAL expected.

It all began when NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland released an undercover “investigation” claiming that pregnancy centers misled women about their services and provided false information about abortion risks. The report was based on 11 visits to pregnancy centers by women pretending to be pregnant — hardly scientific research, and yet it was enough for NARAL to accuse 42 Maryland pregnancy centers, serving some 30,000 clients annually, of wrongdoing. NRO read more

 

 

NARAL Warns Supporters John McCain Will Appoint Pro-Life Supreme Court Judges

A leading pro-abortion group is convinced eventual Republican presidential candidate John McCain will appoint pro-life Supreme Court judges. Those judicial picks could tilt the balance of the high court in favor of reversing the Roe v. Wade decision that has allowed 35 years of unlimited abortions.

In a fundraising email sent to supporters on Friday, NARAL political director Elizabeth Shipp says the group needs more money to get that message out.

"The next president of the United States will likely appoint two Supreme Court Justices. Sen. John McCain voted to confirm Justices Thomas, Roberts, and Alito," Shipp writes. read more LifeNews 4.4

 

Abortion Rights Groups Plan Fall Push

Unprecedented Spending Raises Concerns From Conservatives

Abortion-rights groups are planning to spend unprecedented sums on voter outreach and education in this fall's elections, as they broaden their electoral targets in an effort to change the make-up of the House and Senate.

Target: Congress

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is promising to spend $10 million this election cycle — three times more than the organization has spent in any previous election.

NARAL Pro-Choice America has also budgeted $10 million for the 2008 election campaign — the most it has spent in any election year since 2000.

Both groups are expanding their strategies beyond the presidential race and gubernatorial elections, where they have spent the bulk of their money in previous years.

Planned Parenthood is targeting a series of critical Senate races, while NARAL is making plans to spend heavily in nearly three dozen House races nation-wide. read more ABCNews 3.27

 

 

NARAL Pro-Choice America Applauds Senate’s Rejection of Two Anti-Choice (Pro-Life) Amendments to Budget Resolution

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, tonight praised senators for defeating two divisive anti-choice amendments to the budget resolution, but she said the close votes illustrate for Americans the need for even more pro-choice lawmakers to stop attacks on freedom and privacy altogether.

"The Senate's defeat of these amendments is a clear sign that this Congress understands that Americans are tired of such desperate attempts to clog the legislative calendar with anti-choice politics," Keenan said. "Tonight, we blocked two anti-choice measures by razor-thin margins. Pro-choice Americans made tremendous gains in the 2006 elections and restored pro-choice leadership in Congress, but anti-choice members still outnumber pro-choice lawmakers in both chambers. Until the numerical composition of Congress matches America's pro-choice majority, we will continue to see dangerous and divisive assaults on the values of freedom and privacy." CommonDreams

 

 

NARAL Announces New Website Attacking John McCains Pro-Life Voting Record

The following is from MeettheRealMcCain.com

Meet The Real McCain!

The REAL John McCain is not the "moderate maverick" the pundits like to swoon over. The REAL McCain has spent the last 25 years doing everything in his power to roll back the reproductive rights we've fought so hard to protect.

If elected president, he has pledged to be the anti-choice movement's most faithful ally, carrying their water and enacting their dangerous agenda: "If I am fortunate enough to be elected as the next President of the United States, I pledge to you to be a loyal and unswerving friend of the right to life movement." [Statement by Sen. McCain read by Sen. Sam Brownback at the March for Life in Washington, DC, January 22, 2008.] 3.18

 

 

NARAL Won’t Oppose Bill Reducing Abortions on Disabled Babies

A leading pro-abortion group has said it will not oppose a bill that will help reduce the number of abortions on babies who are potentially afflicted with Down Syndrome. The measure has already received approval from a Senate committee and is headed to the full chamber for a debate and vote.

Last month, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the Pre-natally and Post-natally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act on a unanimous vote.

The bill is designed to help reduce the number of abortions of babies with Down syndrome and other conditions.

Sen Sam Brownback, a pro-life Kansas Republican and co-sponsor of the bill, says it would require giving families who receive a diagnosis of Down syndrome or any other condition, pre-natally or up until a year after birth, pertinent helpful information. read more LifeNews 3.11

 

 

Hillary and Emily's List Bring Out the Female Voters

By Jeff Birnbaum
In mid-February, EMILY's List, the nation's largest political action committee, began to send mailings to nearly 150,000 targeted women voters in Ohio, and to appeal to women with radio commercials in Texas.

Their message: vote for Hillary Clinton. EMILY's List supports Democratic women candidates for federal office who are pro-choice, and there's only one person who fits that description running for president.

The effort may have paid off. It's hard to narrow down cause and effect precisely, but on Super Tuesday II last week, women comprised 59 percent of the electorate in Ohio, a seven percentage point increase over 2004, and in Texas, women made up 57 percent of the electorate, a four point rise over four years ago.

Clinton won big among women voters in both states. According to exit polls, she beat Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) among women in Ohio by 16 points and among women in Texas by 11 points.

Maren Hesla of EMILY's List says her group is planning another marketing barrage aimed at women in Pennsylvania, which will hold its pivotal primary on April 22. WashPost The Trail 3.11

 

 

Pro-Abortion Group NARAL Continues Bashing Verizon Wireless Despite Decision

Officials at a leading pro-abortion group continue to bash Verizon Wireless about its prior decision to prevent NARAL from sending mass text messages on its system, even though Verizon reversed it months ago. NARAL is hoping its members will contact the FCC about the matter.

Last September, a regional unit of Verizon initially denied NARAL's request to send out text messages to its membership. But higher-ups at the wireless carrier reversed the decision shortly afterwards.

Now, the organization is bashing Verizon again as it urges its members to tell the FCC it wants to loosen restrictions on setting up text-messaging services.

Nancy Keenan, NARAL's president, sent her supporters an email message on Thursday from Laura Scher, the head of a pro-abortion wireless company, CREDO Mobile.

"The fact that Verizon feels it can reject or block politically motivated messages should leave us all very worried," Scher said in the email. "After all, how would you feel if Verizon decided to drop your phone calls the minute you started discussing a 'controversial' issue like reproductive freedom?" read more LifeNews 3.6

 

 

NARAL behind bill aimed at pregnancy help centers

A Frederick pregnancy center fought back Wednesday against a state bill targeting pro-life centers that do not offer abortions or referrals for abortions.

The bill would require those centers to issue a disclaimer stating they are not required to provide factual information.

State Sen. Richard Madaleno Jr., a Democrat representing Montgomery County, proposed the bill in response to an investigative report issued by the advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland.

Volunteers for NARAL found that in each of the 11 visits during the investigation, centers gave them "factually incorrect information" about abortions. The volunteers also said the centers were not up-front about their pro-life status and, in some cases, lack of medical services .read more Frederick News 3.6

 

 

EMILY's List WOMEN VOTE! Delivers in Ohio and Texas for Hillary

EMILY's List, a political action committee that helps female candidates and is supporting Clinton, just put out an analysis today that suggests that women increased their share of the Democratic electorate in all four states that voted Tuesday.

Last night we saw the fruits of a continuing effort by the EMILY's List WOMEN VOTE! program to turn out women voters for Senator Hillary Clinton. Starting in mid-February (see full releases on OH and TX), EMILY's List began reaching out to nearly 150,000 targeted women voters in Ohio and women across the state of Texas who were likely voters.

The Women’s Electorate in Ohio & Texas:

The EMILY’s List WOMEN VOTE! program targeted several key groups of registered Democratic women voters in Ohio, including non-college educated women, rural women, and older women who have suffered most in this economic down-turn and thus have the most at stake in this election. In Texas, EMILY's List ran a state-wide radio campaign targeting women voters, particularly Latinas. We wanted to maximize support for Senator Clinton and expand the women’s electorate and we succeeded in both goals.

The Results:
Turn out amongst women far exceeded the 2004 level. Women made up 59 percent of the electorate in Ohio, a seven point increase over 2004. In Texas, women made up 57 percent of the electorate, a four percent increase over 2004. Senator Clinton won women in Ohio by 16 points and women in Texas by 11 points. (See MSNBC Exit Polling) emilyslist.org

The EMILY's List campaign materials used women from the states to deliver the message about Clinton.  And when the results came in, women had not only turned out in great numbers, but had voted for Clinton by a significant majority. Emilys List spent $150,000 on a mailing spread over the two states. blogscourant

 

 

MD NARAL Says Church-backed pregnancy centers mislead

Why does NARAL oppose Pregnancy Help Centers who offer alternatives to abortion? Why shouldn't these volunteers offer a pro-life alternative to abortion? An alternative that is not only pro-life but pro-woman!

NARAL of Maryland claims volunteers at the crisis pregnancy centers supported by the Catholic Church provide inaccurate and deceptive information to advance anti-abortion agendas, abortion rights advocates testified Wednesday in Annapolis.

An abortion rights organization released a report detailing visits to 11 Maryland pregnancy centers, where “investigators” said they were told abortion leads to infertility or breast cancer. Volunteers at the faith-based centers attempt to “coerce” pregnant women to give birth, said Melissa Kleder, who authored the report for NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland. read more Examiner 2/21

 

 

 

Washingotn: NARAL Wants Greater Access to Morning After Pill

NARAL is putting together a grass roots campaign, pushing for pharmacists to carry the pill.

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington recently conducted a study on the number of state pharmacies carrying the pill.

Project volunteers contacted abut 80 percent of the pharmacies in the state. According to NARAL's Web site, results show that 7.4 percent of surveyed pharmacies do not stock Plan B, and 3 percent of surveyed pharmacies have a pharmacist on staff that refuses to dispense Plan B.

Last November a U.S. district judge imposed an injunction allowing pharmacists the right to refuse to sell Plan B if they refer the customer to another nearby source. The injunction is part of a lawsuit by two pharmacists and a drug store owner who claim the state's birth control sales rules violate their civil rights.

On Friday the state, Planned Parenthood and several other organizations will appeal that ruling. read more king5 2/14

 

 

NARAL Sends Senate Emails Against Pro-Life Judicial Pick

Abortion advocates have generated tens of thousands of emails against a pro-life nominee for a federal judicial post. NARAL, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and others have lobbied fiercely against Honaker's nomination in advance of a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The pro-abortion complaints center around the confirmation of Wyoming pro-life advocate Richard Honaker to be a federal district court judge.

Honaker, an attorney and former state legislator, received an appointment from President Bush to the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming.
Pro-abortion groups have fiercely opposed Honaker's nomination because of his efforts to prohibit abortions in Wyoming. read more LifeNews 2/8

 

 

Naral Reporting to it's Members that John McCain is Solidly Pro-Life

 

NARAL stated the following on its website: "Sen. John McCain served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1986 and in the U.S. Senate from 1987 to present. During his four years in the House, then-Rep. McCain cast 11 votes on abortion and other reproductive-rights issues. Ten of these votes were anti-choice. In the Senate, through 2006, Sen. McCain cast 117 votes on abortion and other reproductive-rights issues, 113 of which were anti-choice."

"In addition to his solidly anti-choice record, Sen. McCain has never cosponsored or supported legislation that would prevent unintended pregnancy or reduce the need for abortion."

NARAL is correct. Senator McCain has supported every pro-life bill with the exception of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.

In a recent conversation with Catholic leaders, Senator McCain was asked if the new breakthrough in turning adult stem cells into an embryonic-like state would change his mind on the issue. McCain said he's not sure the research is strong enough yet to prompt him to change his position on the issue and said he was concerned about being perceived as a flip-flopper -- something that has caused pro-lifers to question Romney's convictions to the pro-life cause. He stated that the continued progress with adult stem cell research could make this issue academic. ONUG

 

Pro-Abortion Group Castigates Ted Kennedy for Endorsing Barack Obama

Senator Kennedy, the long-time pro-abortion Catholic Massachusetts senator, has backed his Illinois colleague and NOW activists in New York are upset.

“Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal," the NOW chapter said in a statement. "Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard."

Despite his adamant pro-abortion views, NOW-New York said Kennedy has given them the "greatest betrayal." "We are repaid with his abandonment," the group added. "He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can't or won't handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton." LifeNews 1/29 read more

 

NARAL President Tells Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to Stop Abortion Fight

"I'm more pro-abortion then you..."

NARAL president Nancy Keenan has had enough -- not of pro-life Americans educating the public about abortion's risks and dangers but of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fighting each other. Since before Iowa voters went to their caucuses, the two have been going at it.

The debate started with Clinton attacking Obama on votes he case while he was a member of the Illinois legislature.

Clinton claims Obama did pro-abortion activists a disservice by voting "present" on several abortion-related bills, including one that would make sure babies who are born alive after a botched abortion get proper medical care.

Obama responded to the attack by saying he worked in concert with Illinois Planned Parenthood.

He worked with the abortion business to hatch a political strategy that would protect pro-abortion legislators from criticism from pro-life groups during election time when they would point out votes against the common sense bills. LifeNews 1/28 read more

 

Anti Obama groups, AFSCM and Emily's List Stirring Controversy

The leaders of Emily's List, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), have become ensnared -- through their own actions -- in the complexities of federal campaign law.

Emily's List, an organization that backs Democratic women candidates who support abortion rights, and the two labor unions, have each set up independent expenditure (IE) subsidiaries for this election cycle to be able to finance thousands of dollars worth of television ads in support of Clinton. HuffPolitics read more

 

At Daughter's Urging, Senator McCaskill Backs Obama
Senator McCaskill is a Catholic who supports abortion rights and has accepted campaign donations from pro-abortion advocacy groups

Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), an up-and-coming freshman who scored one of the biggest Senate upsets of the 2006 midterm election cycle, in what is now a vital Feb. 5 battleground.

McCaskill has been an enthusiastic supporter of Obama for months, sources close to the senator said, but had been reluctant to step forward earlier out of loyalty to Emily's List, the pro-choice Democratic women's group that invested in her race against former GOP Sen. James Talent. Emily's List is backing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary. McCaskill is the second high-profile female lawmaker to announce for Obama this week, following Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. WashPost 1/13 read more

How Clinton Won Women in NH

A large part of that success came because of EMILY's List, which has been targeting women voters for over twenty years and enthusiastically backs Clinton. In Iowa, the group targeted registered Democratic women who voted in 2006 but had never caucused before, educating them about the caucuses arcane procedures. They got a big turnout, but not as big as Obama. EMILY's List Women Vote Director Maren Hesla credited the Obama campaign with "reshaping the Iowa electorate" and bringing out young women, particularly 17-24-year-olds, along with women who previously identified as Independents. Yahoo 1/11 read more

 

AFSCME, Emily's List Deny Any Role In Anti-Obama 527 Scheme

The Huffington Post had a blockbuster scoop today reporting that top independent expenditure groups backing Hillary are thinking of creating a massive anti-Obama "527 committee" to go after the Illinois Senator.

But two major players in this world are already moving rapidly to disavow any involvement in any such effort TPMElectionCentral 1/9.read more

 

Enlisting Emily's List

"Why Caucus?"

That's the question asked in the eye-pleasing whispy text of new mailers from Iowa Women Vote! (the state's political arm of pro-choice org Emily's List). Emily's List is throwing big money behind Hillary Clinton in the effort to maintain her grip on the female vote in Iowa; polls show HRC losing ground to Barack Obama among women. So the barrage of mail couldn't come at a better time.

Here's a description of the two of the mailers hitting boxes now (full color, 8.5x11) ...

The first one features photos of a mother of two who plugs Clinton's record with kids. She says: "I'm supporting Hillary Clinton because she has always stood up for our childen. The least I can do is stand up for her at the Caucus."

The second profiles a teacher, who echoes the praise for Clinton's focus on children. "I've been going to the caucus for 28 years because it's just too important to skip," reads her quote.

Both mailers direct readers to the pro-Hillary girl-power site www.yougogirl.com to learn more. NationalJournal

 

Year of the Woman?

Emily's List says twice as many Democratic pro-abortion women will be on the ballot in 2008 as in 2006; such candidates have already won two of three special elections this year. Emily's List, backing Clinton for president, has launched an aggressive online campaign in Iowa at www.yougogirl.com.

 

Emily's List steps up efforts for 2008

During the 2006 election cycle, the 100,000-member network that promotes Democratic candidates who back abortion rights raised more than $40 million for female candidates for state and national offices.

EMILY's List is stepping up a nationwide educational effort to persuade more women to run for office or participate in politics. sacbee read more

 

Hillary — "a moral conservative" — Emily's List doesn't think so!

Last week a Time Editor made a statement that Hillary Clinton is a "moral conservative." Emily's List, an abortion advocacy group that only supports strict pro-abortion Democratic women for office, is on record for giving Hillary over $210,000 thus far in the campaign. Apparently they dont believe she's a "moral conservative" either.

 

Emily's List targets women via new channels

EMILY’s List will target women who are interested in the election but more focused on, say, the holidays and their own lives than the Jan. 3 caucus. The group will post ads on yoga, health care and children’s sites, as well as on Google, where searches for “election” and “eggnog” might direct voters to the same caucus ads.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) stands to benefit because EMILY’s List has been with her since she announced her candidacy. Politico

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