Pro-life Activists to Hold a Second Demonstration at Speaker Boehner’s Office on May 7th

Calling for the Ban of All Abortions After 20 Weeks‏

From Operation Rescue 

WASHINGTON, DC — On May 7 activist leaders of 11 local and national pro-life groups will hold a second protest at House Speaker John Boehner’s office, when they will present him with a life-size model of a 20-week-old African-American preborn baby – a physical reminder of the babies whose lives hang in the balance while the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act languishes in Congress.

This protest follows one held at the Speaker’s office on March 25, in which eight pro-life activists were arrested for peacefully kneeling in front of his office.

Now, at the three-month mark following the Republican House Leadership’s cancellation of their promised vote on the 20-week abortion ban, leaders of pro-life activist groups stand united with leaders of national pro-life policy groups to urge a rescheduled vote.

Yesterday those policy groups released a joint statement (sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/pro-life-leaders-call-vote-5-month-abortion-limit) urging passage of this bill, which, as they noted, “protects women and their unborn children after 20 weeks, or 5 months of pregnancy, from painful and dangerous late-term abortions. It is a simple, compassionate proposal supported by a large majority of Americans, including women and young people.”

Our protest will be held on Thursday, May 7, at 12:00 P.M. at the Longworth House Office building.

Activists will hold a news conference outside of Longworth and then move to Speaker Boehner’s office at 1011 Longworth.

The pro-life groups plan to show pictures of abortion victims and fetal models of children aged 20 weeks. The groups include:

• CEC For Life

• Christian Defense Coalition

• Citizens for a Pro-Life Society

• Defend Life

• Issues4Life Foundation

• JillStanek.com

• Operation Rescue

• Maryland Coalition for Life

• Pro-Life Action League

• Pro-Life Action Ministries

• Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust

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Contact: Rev. Patrick Mahoney, 540-538-4741; Jill Stanek, 815-274-2744; Troy Newman, 316-841-1700 for more information 

Pro-Life Leaders Arrested at Speaker Boehner's Office Demanding Vote on Late-Term Abortion Ban

By Cheryl Sullenger
Operation Rescue

Washington, DC - Eight pro-life leaders, including Operation Rescue's Troy Newman, were arrested this morning outside House Speaker John Boehner's office while kneeling in prayer and in protest that a vote on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act has not received a promised vote.

Other leaders placed under arrest included pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, and Katie Mahoney, a long-time pro-life spokesperson.

It issue was the cancellation of a promised vote set for January 22, 2015, on the bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks in all 50 states. Pro-life leaders were promised that the vote would be re-scheduled "immediately," yet two months later, there is no vote in sight.

"We were betrayed, gave them 2 extra months. Get a vote together," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue in a tweet posted by Jill Stanek.

Newman continued, "Though we may lose our freedom temporarily it's nothing compared to what happens to the babies."

The event was meant to draw public attention to the late-term abortion ban and the fact that it is being needlessly delayed.

Background

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