Pro-Life Mother of 7 Amy Coney Barrett is a Supreme Court Finalist

By Steven Ertelt
Life News

A pro-life mother of seven is reportedly one of three finalists on President Donald Trump’s condensed list of top Supreme Court nominees. The president has reportedly narrowed down his initial list of 25 conservative judges to three potential candidates to be nominated to replace pro-abortion Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Although conservative and pro-life organizations have praised the judges on President Trump’s list, pro-life groups have been rallying around Judge Amy Coney Barrett over the last few days. They say she represents the best potential pick President Trump can make to put a conservative jurist on the Supreme Court who will respect the rule of law and not make up laws from the bench. 

They also appreciate her strong pro-life views and believe adding a pro-life woman to the Supreme Court will help counterbalance the pro-abortion women who are currently votes to keep Roe v Wade and its allowance for unlimited abortions in place.

Here’s more:

Trump’s top contenders for the vacancy at this time are federal appeals judges Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge, said a person familiar with Trump’s thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Working closely with a White House team and consulting with lawmakers and outside advisers, Trump has spent the week deliberating on the choice. He conducted interviews on Monday and Tuesday. He has not yet publicly indicated that he has narrowed the list and could still consider others in the mix.

With customary fanfare, Trump plans to announce his selection Monday night, kicking off a contentious nomination process as Republicans seek to shift the court to the right and Democrats strive to block the effort.

Vice President Mike Pence has also met with some of the contenders for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, The Associated Press has learned.

The meetings took place in recent days, according to a person familiar with the search process. The person did not specify which candidates Pence met with and spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday to describe the private search process.

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“You Are Your Baby’s First Home …. Your Baby’s First Protector”

By Dave Andrusko
National Right to Life

Imagine how different the fate of millions of unborn babies would be if moms and dads looked upon them not as a kind of disposable property but as someone whose fate is entirely in their hands and whom they should do everything humanly possible to protect.

In other words, to see and then act not as landlords eager to evict but as parents dedicated to protect.

Enter an ad for First Response Pregnancy Test.

It’s only 30 seconds long. The first two statements are the most relevant, although all the sentiments are very beautiful and very touching.

The ad begins with the husband lovingly kissing his wife’s swollen abdomen. Then the words

You are your baby’s first home…. Your baby’s first protector.

I have written about fetolology and the incredible bond between mother and unborn baby a million times. But I’ve never put it in more telling, more tender terms than “You are your baby’s first home.”

That was the warm and fuzzy part (for me).

“Your baby’s first protector.” That was more sobering.

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Michigan Bill Requires Abortion-Derived Vaccines To Be Clearly Identified

by Sean Gallagher
Human Defense Initiative

A new Michigan bill titled SB-1055 would require healthcare officials to obtain informed consent before administering vaccines with “aborted fetal tissues.”

The bill states, “The department shall create and maintain a list of each immunizing agent derived from aborted fetal tissue. If an immunizing agent that is not an immunizing agent derived from aborted fetal tissue is available in an alternative to an immunizing agent derived from aborted fetal tissue, the department shall include the alternative on the list.”

The Bill proposes the department shall maintain and update a list annually which will be available to the public on the department’s website. The list will designate vaccines developed using stem cells from the tissue of aborted babies.

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Actor Nick Loeb Now Shooting New Roe v. Wade Movie: The Story of What Really Happened

...given the pro-abortion political bent in Hollywood, the production team has faced more than its share of hostility, and some people have walked off the set

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

Filming of the new movie “Roe v. Wade” is under way this summer.

The movie, which will tell the true story of the lies and manipulations used to push legalized abortion in America, is a project of actor/producer Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn.

Loeb told the Hollywood Reporter they began shooting June 15 in and around New Orleans, including at Tulane University, as well as in Washington, D.C.

“… no one has really told the whole truth about Roe v. Wade in a film,” Loeb said. “When I delved into this, I discovered conspiracy theories, fake news, made-up statistics and a whole lot of people involved who switched their positions from pro-choice to pro-life, including Norma [McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade].”

The film stars Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, Robert Davi and Stacey Dash, as well as Greer Grammer, the daughter of pro-life actor Kelsey Grammer. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., also is an executive producer and has a cameo in the film.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the pro-abortion political bent in Hollywood, the production team has faced more than its share of hostility, and some people have walked off the set.

According to the report:

As Nick Loeb walked to his car with a production assistant during a day of shooting his upcoming feature film, Roe v. Wade, outside Tulane University last week, a woman wearing a headset approached and asked: “Are you the director?”

“When I told her I was, she told me to go f— myself,” Loeb recalls. “Then she threw her headset on the ground and walked off. I found out later she was our electrician.”

Anecdotes such as this have become fairly common since Loeb and his production partner, Cathy Allyn, began shooting their pro-life feature film June 15 in and around New Orleans.

But the actor told LifeNews things are moving forward.
“The actors and crew have been top notch with tremendous experience. I am so proud of how hard they are all working despite all the obstacles,” Loeb told LifeNews.

Earlier this year, Loeb said Facebook also censored their efforts to spread the word about the film.

“Hollywood only wants you to hear their version of the story – in fact, there are 3 movies currently in development that take a pro-abortion stance,” the film producers said. “But you shouldn’t be surprised. Hollywood has always had an agenda to influence Americans to accept abortion, even if they have to re-write history to do it.”

Loeb told the news outlet that they are negotiating a distribution deal, and they hope to release the film in January.

The film will follow key advocates in the abortion fight in the 1970s, including former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Betty Friedan on the pro-abortion side and Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, on the pro-life side.

“Bernard and Betty, along with the team at Planned Parenthood, search the country to find a pregnant girl they can use to sue the government for her right to have an abortion,” according to a description on the film website.

They find the “perfect pawn” in Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade. McCorvey later became pro-life and fought to overturn the infamous ruling that bears her name. She and others attested to her being mistreated and used by abortion activists to achieve their deadly agenda.

The film will examine the lies and manipulative tactics of abortion activists, people like McCorvey and Nathanson who later had a change of heart, and dedicated pro-life advocates like Jefferson who fought valiantly to defend the right to life for babies in the womb.

The film also will address the racism intertwined in the abortion industry through Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and others, and Jefferson’s fight for unborn babies as well as people of color.

To learn more or to get involved, visit RoevWadeMovie.com.

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After Her Abortion, A “Terrible Sense of Emptiness”

By Sarah Terzo
National Right to Life

“I was performing as a singer in ‘Evita’ in London in 1984 when I discovered that I was pregnant… By coincidence, a colleague with whom I shared a dressing room discovered that she was pregnant at around the same time.

She and her husband were thrilled with their news, but she became distressed at the thought that I was going to have an abortion. In total sincerity, she asked me if I would consider having the baby and letting her adopt it. I was utterly distressed at the thought of possibly giving up a child of mine for adoption. 

I thanked my colleague for her offer and tried to explain to her that just as her maternal instinct prompted her to make such an offer, my maternal instinct could never let me accept it. While I do believe that adopting out a child can be an expression of maternal protectiveness and caring, it was not my choice…

My experience was a struggle because I had not anticipated the terrible sense of emptiness that followed the abortion. 

It is probably difficult for those who are against abortion or who have not had one to understand that one can have an abortion without regret and yet still feel a deep sense of loss.… 

Abortion produces many conflicting emotions that are not necessarily reconcilable or logical… 

It is virtually impossible to know how you are going to react physically and emotionally after the abortion.”

Miriam Claire, The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) pp. 11-12.

Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic Quotes and is reposted with permission.

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Polling Data Shows Americans Oppose Roe v. Wade Decision That Allows Virtually Unlimited Abortions

Americans oppose what Roe v. Wade did in allowing almost unlimited abortions, even if they don’t know what Roe did.

By Steven Ertelt
Life News

Mainstream media outlets are touting new polls claiming to show that Americans support Roe v Wade and want a Supreme Court Justice to replace retiring pro-abortion Justice Anthony Kennedy who also supports abortion.

However most of the polling data supplied simply asks Americans what they think about the Roe v Wade decision. The polling questions do not provide any details about what the infamous Roe decision actually did. As a result, the polling really has little worth or value because Americans for the most part don’t really understand the pervasive nature of Roe v Wade and how it allowed virtually unlimited abortions.

Few Americans have a comprehensive understanding of the Supreme Court jurisprudence on abortion and don’t realize that Roe is combined with a companion case Doe v. Bolton that has a health exception big enough to drive a Mack truck through. 

When combined, the cases essentially prohibit states from putting forward any limits or bans on abortions before viability — and most abortions are done pre-viability. And even after viability, the health exception allows virtually unlimited abortions because almost any reason for an abortion can be justified under the exception.

Thus, in  the new poll, the respondent is not told that the decision (along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton) essentially established abortion throughout all nine months. That includes killing fully mature, perfectly healthy babies if a woman so desires.

Previous polling data makes it clear that Americans don’t fully understand the extensiveness of Roe v Wade and it’s pro-abortion character.

Gallup trends indicate that the increase in public uncertainty about overturning Roe v. Wade is largely the result of a growing percentage of young adults aged 18 to 29 expressing no opinion. 

This suggests that the generation born entirely after Roe became law has had less exposure to information about the decision than those who lived through the original decision, or were at least old enough to witness some of the major abortion debates during the 1980s and ’90s, such as those involving President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987 and reaction to the high court’s Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey decision in 1992.

The same kind of misinformation about Roe and abortion was seen in a recent Pew poll, where two-thirds of young Americans didn’t even know Roe v. Wade had to do with abortion.

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Let’s Roll Back Roe v. Wade

Kennedy Vacancy on the Supreme Court Provides Historic Opportunity

by Jonathan Abbamonte

Population Research Institute

Two score and five years ago, seven Supreme Court justices, in a brazen act of judicial activism, read into the Constitution an invented right to abortion on demand. In Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Court wiped away laws protecting the right to life for the unborn child that were in place in a majority of states. Since then, more than 60 million unborn children have been terminated through abortion in America. And the death toll continues to rise.

With the announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court, we have a unique opportunity to right this tragic decision. We have a unique opportunity to once again ensure that the fundamental and inherent right to life for everyone is protected in our nation’s judicial system...


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Fetal Uprising - A Revolution in ProLife Activism!

Jeff White, Founder of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust
Leader of Fetal Uprising


It is time for a revolution in pro-life activism! Our colleges have been captured by extremists!

Today, being pro-life or a Christian on campus is like being black in the 1960's.

Today, the only place to be safe is in schools for Coloreds Only- we call them Christian Colleges. And even there the oppression and influence of the outside world is felt.

There is another way to be safe on college campuses . . .

. . . be silent!!!

Don't share your beliefs, don't talk about loving life and preborn babies. No, you sit still and listen to everything your liberal professors want to cram down your throat!

Our young people are told to accept that abortion is a moral positive. That it is all about women's rights and social justice and equality. But that is a lie!  And Martin Luther King said: "A lie cannot live."

Abortion is a lie that must not live! Because that lie leads to the death of millions of preborn babies every year.

Can I give you a piece of sad news?

Abortion rates among those who identify as Christian is nearly the same as those who don't. Why is that? Well, for starters our young people are often not taught what abortion is at church, home, or school.

Oh, they may have a general idea that abortion is wrong, maybe even a grave sin, but they don't really comprehend the evil of abortion. Then when they get to college and realize they are today's "coloreds" they are at best - silent.

Their beliefs are not convictions and all too often they fall to the false ideals of today's liberals.

A Revolution Is Coming!

If indeed being pro-life is like being black in the 1960's, then we must find the courage the civil rights leaders had in the 1960's.

My friend Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told me about the day her home was bombed by those opposing civil rights for blacks. She was only a child, but someone hated enough to blow up her home and if possible, her family.

The men and women of the civil rights movement faced tremendous risk of life and limb but they would not be silent!!!

Alveda King, a pro-life hero and activist said, "Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed."

There it is again - the same evil lie! Will we be silent?

Will we, will our young people be silent?  The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust will not be silent!


The Survivors call on young people to stand up, to look to the creative minds and the boundless energy God has given them and to take a stand in their day!!!

It is their turn to make History!

It is time for silence to end.

It is time for cowering before those who promote the killing of children to end.

It is time our young people act like they believe that abortion is the evil of their day.

It is time for them to stand against that evil and to win the day with truth and love!

It is time to affirm the words Martin Luther King said, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

It is time for a revolution in pro-life activism!!!

It is time for . . .

Fetal Uprising!!!

Fetal Uprising is a no holds barred, in your face, unapologetic attack on the lie that abortion is a social or moral good!!!

Abortion is evil - period.

But how do we begin this revolution? In theory, our numbers are great; so many students do indeed hold pro-life beliefs. In reality, those with pro-life convictions are few. And those willing to suffer for those convictions are fewer still.

So how can we wage an effective war against the killing of preborn babies?

Fetal Uprising has a plan!!!

The Fetal Uprising will use strategies and tactics first developed by the civil rights leaders of old and combine them with many of the tactics of today's leftists. We will add to those tactics a ton of today's technology!!!

But the most important ingredients Fetal Uprising will add to the strategies, tactics, and technology are truth and love as defined by God.

Fetal Uprising is going to focus on college campuses and public forums. Someone might say: "But there are already campus pro-life groups on campuses across the country."

Yes, there are a good number of campus pro-life groups and clubs. But Fetal Uprising is not about a college group or club!

Groups and clubs have meetings and treasurers and secretaries and more meetings and pro-life cupcake sales and sock drives and other nice attempts to get the pro-life message out. Always nice and never wanting to offend. I applaud their efforts.


But Fetal Uprising is not about being nice.

Abortion is evil.

Fetal uprising is going to expose the evil of abortion and challenge even those who don't want to think about it to be forced to do just that. You cannot wait for people to want to change, they will not come to you! You must confront them with truth!


So how is Fetal Uprising different? Fetal Uprising only needs one student.

That's right - one student.

One student with the right tactics and tools! Fetal Uprising is not going to play by the rules.

We will take that one student and teach him or her to act with courage and audacity! We will equip that student with modern tools of activism, many snatched from the leftists themselves. With wit and creativity that student will be able to single handedly create a stir on his or her campus!!!

But how? Lauren Handy, a creative dedicated young woman spent the last year working and researching with Cheryl Conrad the tactics of social resistance. They have gathered a comprehensive collection of some of the most effective tools used in years past and some of the cutting edge technology used today.

Survivors are going to take this training online and recruit students to join Fetal Uprising and demand an end to abortion without exception and without apology.

Fetal Uprising is not going to play fair. 

Fetal Uprising is not going to be nice.

Fetal Uprising is going underground .

But how?!?!? Let me give you one example.  Introducing Guerilla Projection!!!

Imagine, it is 5 p.m. on a university campus. The early setting of the winter sun makes the campus a dark quiet place. Students mill around, engaged in conversations or walking to dorms. Suddenly a flash of light on the wall of a building catches their attention. There are words on the wall! Everyone stops to look at it as it dances and flashes its message. It is asking a question . . .

Is abortion evil?

The words are large and bright but the question is even bigger. Students stop and stare. Within just a few minutes it is gone.

What was that, they wonder.  Then the questions hits home and they talk amongst themselves. What do you think? They ask each other. Most dismiss it and go on about their way.

Suddenly another wall lights up.

Is killing a child evil?

Suddenly some start to get angry. The dots are beginning to be placed and they are connecting them. Finally, one last flash upon the wall brings it full circle.


Does abortion kill a child?

The lights are gone but the debate has just begun.

Then around the corner the same light display is reaching a different group of students.

And evening after evening these light displays pop up over and over. Sometimes the pictures of abortion victims randomly appear but for only a moment for it only takes a moment for the mind's eye to see and understand what is going on.

In time the liberals will begin to freak out. They will not like losing control of the debate. They will demand the perpetrators be arrested but there are no laws violated.

That won't stop them from trying to create some arrestable offense. This is why we are only looking for the most courageous to join Fetal Uprising!

Again, I turn to the words of Martin Luther King:

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."

Fetal uprising is looking for that rare one.


That is just one tactic but a tactic we believe will be very effective. The Socratic Method lays bare the truth of a subject by continually asking questions. We know the answers to the questions above. They are Yes, Yes and Yes!

But many students have never asked themselves that question.

Pro-abortion students will scream women's rights, equality and a right to choose.

The next night the guerilla projection might ask:


Is it a woman's right to kill a child?

Questions, questions, questions.


I believe in the Socratic Method because I believe the image of God is written on every heart. And many students will have been taught right from wrong at home and at church.

It is the prayer of Fetal Uprising that students will be confronted with questions of truth and that boldness will be birthed within them.

A boldness to say Yes! Abortion is Evil! Yes! Killing a child is wrong! Yes! Abortion is the killing of a child and No! It is not a woman's right, or at least it should not be, to kill a child.

This is but one tactic Fetal Uprising will be using but it is one of my favorites. The equipment to carry out this tactic can easily be handled by one student.

But I also know this - If I find that one student he or she will attract other likeminded students and even if it is only two or three students together they can bring the discussion of abortion to every student's lips!

This is one of over 200 tactics and methods that have been compiled by Cheryl and Lauren.

I am going. I so believe in this project that I am personally going on the road to train up even an individual student in the tactics of Fetal Uprising!

I have videos and training materials that I will share. Then I will spend a day with that one or more students giving them the encouragement and modeling for them the courage and fun of leading a resistance movement.

Fetal Uprising will have its own YouTube channel and Twitter account.

Fetal uprising will use social media to spread the word not only about  Fetal Uprising but to also spread the message of hope that indeed one person can make a difference and have a huge impact for life!

Here are two examples of Guerilla projection from our Dallas training camp. I loved the blank wall next to Planned Parenthood. It made the perfect set up to expose Planned Parenthood for who they are and what they do! The other was the apartment building of abortionist Curtis Boyd.

Here are some examples of larger guerilla projections by leftist groups. I believe Fetal Uprising projections will have greater impact because abortion is so controversial. But don't you just love it!

And may we never forget the low tech but unbelievably effective sidewalk chalk and spray chalk.

Fetal Uprising strikes again!!!!

Unless I want to take the time to write a book I cannot share the hundreds of tactics and creative ideas in store for the Fetal Uprising resistance! Let me just say we are not going to play fair. We are not going to allow the silence on campus to reign any longer!

The cries of the preborn babies and their defenders will be heard!

Fetal Uprising will be in the face of silent oppression and on the walls and sidewalks and bathrooms and libraries and public forums and private meetings.

Please join me in this new fight!

Help me lead the Survivors in the new resistance. Help me teach even one young person how to have an impact on their campus! Help me introduce and recruit for ...

Fetal Uprising!!!

I will need your help like never before. I will need your help to equip each student with not only training but real equipment!  I am going on the road and I will be holding trainings wherever I am needed. I am asking you to help make this possible by giving generously and joining this resistance by helping me to get the funding necessary. I believe this can spread like wildfire!

But I need your help today to get the resources needed to make this a reality. We will be testing many of these new tactics and strategies at our Survivors Training Camp in San Francisco.

This is going to be one exciting year.

Will you join the resistance? Every successful resistance had backers. Those who make it all possible. The youth have the time and the energy and the boldness, will you join me in supplying the tools they need?

I have been taught that if your plan is bold ask boldly. I have been in pro-life leadership for over 30 years and not since the days of Operation Rescue sit-ins have I felt so enthusiastic about a time such as this.

So bold I will be.

The largest gift Survivors has ever received is $25,000. My friend, if you are still out there - we need you!

That was only one time. We have received some gifts of $10,000 or $5000 or $1000 or $500 on a few occasions. My friend, if that was you - we need you again!

Still, every month we get gifts of $35, $50, $75, $100 and it is these faithful gifts that keep the Survivors on the road and on the frontlines - these gifts sustain us. Please, if you can give today - give the best gift you can.

I am 60 years old now and my energy is not what it was 30 years ago when I led Operation Rescue. But my zeal is still there and my years of experience and even my past of being jailed for the preborn will hopefully impart wisdom, courage and boldness to these young people.

I am willing to go. I am willing to lead.

And if you are willing to equip, we will see a revolution born on campuses all across this country! We will see the resistance born. We will see a . . .

Fetal Uprising!!!

I am asking you with all boldness and with all my heart to join me in this new advance in college activism.  There is so much preparation needed, not only in developing the and getting ready to train but there is technical preparation also as we seek to make every tool imaginable - available!

We are counting on the imagination and energy of these young people. I want to train these students, equip them and then I want to unleash them!!! It will be an exciting year and you have an opportunity today to be a part of this revolution from the beginning. Please give generously today.

It is the resistance - it is Fetal Uprising - it is a revolution!

Join with me today and give the best gift you can today, and we can and will launch the Fetal Uprising.

 

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National Hotline: Call 1-800-712-HELP or Text 'HELPLINE' to 313131.
In Southeast Penna:  Call the Community Women's Center at  215-826-8090

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Happy Independence Day!

Voices for the Unborn/Life wishes all our faithful followers a very happy Independence Day!  

While you are celebrating our nation's birthday, please remember those who fought for our freedoms, and those who have been denied the chance to ever celebrate a birthday. 

  

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” - Albert Einstein

Abortion, the Founding Fathers, and the 4th of July

President Thomas Jefferson

By Maria Gallagher
National Right to Life

It was one of those Facebook Live events that I just had to attend.

A cable news outlet was featuring a live transmission of a Thomas Jefferson re-enactor reading The Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s seminal work.

I love American history, the Fourth of July, and the founding of our nation, so I was enthralled. And I felt especially moved (as I always am) by the line, 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

It’s a line that packed with power and meaning. Dictionary.com defines “unalienable” as “not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied.” In other words, our country’s founding document states quite clearly that the right to life should not be denied.

Moreover, Jefferson stated that the truth that the right to life should not be compromised was “self-evident.” It is true whether or not we chose to recognize it.

It is also telling that Life is the first right enumerated—an indication of its preeminent importance. Life is even more critical than liberty and the pursuit of happiness since without life you cannot experience liberty or pursue happiness.

The principles articulated by Jefferson and the other founding forefathers and foremothers, demonstrated a timeless wisdom. And they formed the basis for a nation that would become a beacon for freedom throughout the world from that day to this.To be proud of our nation is not to ignore our failures, including most notably slavery and segregation. But the better angels of our nature overcame these faults through the abolition of slavery and the recognition of the evil of racism.

Likewise, in our time, we have the opportunity to right the incredible wrong of abortion and euthanasia. As we celebrate our Independence, we re-dedicate ourselves (to paraphrase President Lincoln) “to the proposition that all men, born and unborn, are created equal.” By working for the renewal of a culture of life, we make the dream of our founders and our 16th President come alive.

Tomorrow, I invite you to say a prayer of thanksgiving for the brilliance of that Declaration that gave birth to our beloved country.

And please say a second prayer that that “self-evident truth”– the unalienable right to life of all of us–may once again be protected across our great land.

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