Vice President Pence: White House ‘Stands Without Apology for the Sanctity of Human Life’

“If you look at the last year and a half, this is the most pro-life administration in American history.”

By Doug Mainwaring
Life Site News

Vice President Mike Pence brought a packed hall to its feet when he declared, 

“I couldn’t be more proud to serve as vice president to a president who stands without apology for the sanctity of human life.”

The Vice President spoke at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, an annual gathering which draws conservative Christians from around the country.

“If you look at the last year and a half, this is the most pro-life administration in American history,” continued Pence.

 “You know, it was my privilege to be the first sitting vice president to ever address the March for Life. And earlier this year, President Trump made history when he became the first president to address the March for Life from the Rose Garden live from the White House.”

“Under this president’s leadership we’ve reinstated and expanded the Mexico City policy so that our tax dollars never go to organizations that promote or perform abortions around the world,” said the Vice President. 

“And it was my great honor as president of the Senate to cast the tie-breaking vote for the bill that President Trump signed to empower states to defend Planned Parenthood.”

“With your strong support, we’ve stood strong for life. But our administration has also taken action to protect and promote our first freedom, the freedom of religion and religious liberty for every American,” said Pence.

 “Last year President Trump chose the National Day of Prayer to announce new policies to protect the religious liberty of every American regardless of their creed.”

“We’ve taken action to protect the conscience rights of doctors and nurses,” said Pence. “And after years of neglect, we’ve restored federal enforcement of our nation’s conscience laws and we ended the last administration’s assault on the Little Sisters of the Poor.”

The Vice President said that freedom of speech shouldn’t end at the threshold of our churches, and so the Trump Administration ended enforcement of the “Johnson Amendment,” which refers to a provision in the United States tax code which prohibits all non-profit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Pence pledged to “fight until we repeal the Johnson Amendment once and for all.”

Watch Vice President Pence's full speech:

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The Beginning of a New and Better Culture That Respects the Sanctity of Human Life at Every Stage

"The March for Life’s pro-life numbers keep coming and keep growing. 

They also keep getting younger."

By Archbishop Charles Chaput

National Right to Life

Editor’s note. This column ran in January 2016 but it is so powerful periodically I repost it.
The January 22, 1973, Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision is important for two reasons: its flawed reasoning and its destructive effect. In practice, Roe legalized abortion on demand. It has poisoned our public life for 43 years. It has enabled the killing of tens of millions of unborn children, an entire American generation. Abortion “procedures” — a sanitized understatement worthy of George Orwell — have emotionally scarred millions of adult women and men.

Abortion supporters talk a good line about reproductive health care. But there’s very little health care in homicide. There’s simply no way around the living, developing unborn daughter or son — visible on any ultrasound machine — who ends up dead at the end of the abortion industry’s doublespeak.

The reality of abortion is the butchery of Kermit Gosnell’s blood-stained Philadelphia “clinic,” and the callousness and profiteering captured by last year’s Planned Parenthood videos — not the fabric softener alibis of pro-choice public relations memos and news media cheerleaders. Abortion supporters press the importance of reproductive rights. But they systematically violate the most basic right of all: the right to life.

“Right to choose” advocates often claim that most Americans support abortion rights. But polling data are easily misused or misunderstood. Key information is often overlooked or omitted because it doesn’t fit the preferred storyline. 

The most recent Marist Poll, commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and released just this week, found that 44 percent of surveyed Americans describe themselves as pro-life, while 51 percent describe themselves as pro-choice. But the really telling data emerge from beneath those broad labels.

More than 80 percent of Americans, including two-thirds of pro-choice supporters, would restrict abortion to – at most – the first trimester of pregnancy. By a 25 point margin, Americans believe abortion does women more harm than good. 

Sixty percent believe abortion is morally wrong. And 77 percent believe that our laws can protect both a mother and her unborn child. Nearly 70 percent oppose public funding for abortion. More than 60 percent support laws that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except to save the life of the mother.

In an immediate sense, these facts change nothing. Forty-three years after Roe, the abortion industry has grown fat on public money and pious in its own deceits. Its leaders really don’t care what Americans think because they’ve been ideologues (“culture warriors” to borrow a phrase) from the start, playing the long game of changing people’s attitudes through aggressive court action and sympathetic media.

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Trump Appoints Pro-Life Governor to Protect Freedom Worldwide

By Fr. Mark Hodges
Life Site News

President Trump has appointed one of the most pro-life and pro-natural marriage advocates to an ambassadorship designed to protect the rights of religious people the world over.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is Trump's pick for a religious persecution watchdog post called "Ambassador for Religious Freedom." Brownback will lead the Office of International Religious Freedom, under the State Department, which monitors how people of religion are treated across the globe.

The post was created in 1998 to promote religious liberty as "a core objective of U.S. foreign policy." Since then, an ever-increasing stream of Christians have fled Muslim countries, such as Iraq, and countries under Communism, such as China, because of widespread persecution.

Brownback has been an outspoken proponent of religious freedom domestically, defending the right of Christians and others of faith to live out their beliefs.

In 2016, Brownback signed the Campus Religious Freedom Bill that allows Christian groups or any religious student group to have membership standards consistent with the group's religious affiliation. He also signed laws protecting clergy who disagree with gender ideology, or choose not to solemnize same-sex "marriages."

As a congressman in 1996, Brownback voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as a union of one man and one woman. The bill was signed into law by then-president Bill Clinton.

Brownback explained his belief that sodomy is immoral and against both Christian teaching and natural law. The homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign graded Senator Brownback's voting record as failing regarding LGBTQ issues.

The Brownback appointment was met with immediate disapproval from homosexuals. Equality Kansas called Brownback "bigoted" and "unsuited to represent American values of freedom, liberty, and justice, whether at home or abroad."

The governor is also a staunch defender of the sanctity of innocent human life. He signed 17 pro-life bills into Kansas law, including a dismemberment ban. In 2012, he signed legislation allowing pharmacists to follow their conscience and opt out of dispensing abortifacient drugs.

Most recently in June, Brownback signed a law requiring disclosure to potential patients of an abortionist's medical degree, local hospital privileges, malpractice insurance, and any disciplinary actions against him or her from the state Healing Arts Board.

It "can never really be true that an abortion is a right," Brownback expressed earlier this year. "Our rights come from God and amongst them is the inherent right to life — not the right to destroy it.”

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