Pro-life Newsletter & Petitions

Newsletter of the National Pro-Life Alliance - Spring 2008 Now pro-lifers are going on the offense by promoting H.R. 4133 and S. 351, which would eliminate all direct and indirect taxpayer funding of abortionists, thus ending the abortionists’ practice of subsidizing their overhead with indirect taxpayer dollars. Planned Parenthood’s Hand Caught Robbing from Taxpayer Cookie Jar Of course, NPLA members have long argued that giving any tax dollars to abortionists for any reason was wrong and should be terminated. But these arguments have recently received considerably more traction in the light of a string of publicized scandals in three different states. In Kansas, the Planned Parenthood abortionists are under a 107-count criminal indictment for performing illegal late-term abortions. To this end, President Martin Fox, on behalf of National Pro-Life Alliance members, is demanding the suspension of funding for Planned Parenthood and all other abortionists. Victor Gonzales, the Vice President of Finance for Planned Parenthood of California, blew the whistle on the group’s fraud and over-billing of the government. The abortion provider is alleged to have defrauded the state of literally hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet after this information was brought to light, rather than correct their practices, Planned Parenthood fired Mr. Gonzales. Mounting Scandals Help Fuel Drive to Cut Off Tax Dollars for Abortionists With the revelations of race-based targeting of minorities for abortions in Idaho, as well as the ongoing criminal investigation against Planned Parenthood in Kansas, and the outright theft of taxpayer funds in California, there is growing pressure to completely kick abortionists off the government gravy train. He also called upon President Bush to authorize a nationwide investigation into their activities. According to Fox, “Taxpayers should not be subsidizing abortionists in any case. . . . But it is even more egregious when there are serious violations of state laws and medical standards.”

Winter 2009 / Newsletter of the National Pro-Life Alliance Abortion Lobby Hopes to Pass “Freedom of Choice Act,” Overturn Partial-Birth Abortion Ban NPLA Members Will Make Politicians Pay the Price for Any Attempt As the 111th Congress begins, the abortion lobby is hoping to parlay their support from pro-abortion allies Barack Obama and the Congressional leadership into passage of the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA) -- the Holy Grail of the abortion movement. The bill is so pro-abortion that it would even repeal the overwhelmingly popular Partial-Birth Abortion Ban -- passed with the support of NPLA Members and other pro-lifers in 2003 -- which banned the barbaric procedure in which an unborn child’s brain is sucked out to facilitate removal from the mother. Yet if the abortion lobby has its way and the Congressional leadership forces votes on their bill, it is virtually certain that they will not only lose the vote in both houses of Congress, but also lose a host of pro-abortion Congressmen and Senators in the next election.

“Freedom of Choice Act” Is the Most Radical Social Legislation in Decades This deceptively named bill has nothing to do with choice, but rather seeks to strip every last restraint on abortion-on-demand as the only option. For starters, it outlaws states’ requirements for parental involvement before an abortion on a minor girl, waiting periods, and informed consent. It would annul the most basic health and safety regulations on abortion clinics and abortionists. FOCA would even repeal federal and state bans on partial-birth abortion. Should it ever get to the President’s desk, it would nullify every one of the 330 or so federal, state and local abortion laws on the books, most of them supported by a majority of Americans.

And that’s just the start. The law would also compel taxpayers to fund abortions and provide abortions in military hospitals, something that the abortion lobby has repeatedly attempted and failed to achieve. Especially odious to people of faith is that it would force religious hospitals and health-care institutions to perform abortions in violation of their convictions.

Obama Has Ignored Popular Opinion to Support Abortion-on-Demand The incoming president has announced that he is all for this draconian bill. In the Senate, no one held more extreme views on abortion. Abortion providers and pro-abortion lobby groups have given him a 100 percent rating for every year he has held public office. When he began his White House run, back on July 7, 2007, he told a cheering conference of abortion providers, “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.” In addition to President Obama, the bill’s list of supporters include a virtual “who’s who” of the radical abortion movement including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Senator Hillary Clinton. Thus, with such high-profile support from both the White House and leaders of Congress, an all-out grass-roots lobbying effort by pro-lifers will be essential if and when the bill actually comes up for a vote.

Abortion Lobby’s Overreaching Will Backfire on Pro-Abortion Politicians Yet as bad as this bill is, NPLA President Martin Fox points out that it is precisely this overreaching by the abortion lobby that will almost surely result in its defeat should it be brought up for a vote. After all, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban passed by nearly two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress. And opinion polls continue to show that the Ban enjoys popular support from more than 80 percent of the people. “Thus the abortionists are setting themselves up for a stinging defeat,” says Martin Fox. The fact is, most new Members of Congress who were elected on economic issues are either pro-life or tire of the political fallout that comes from being pro-abortion. “So, by forcing a vote on this radical pro-abortion legislation, the politicians will be forced to either vote against the bill or to face angry pro-life voters when they are up for re-election.” Fox encouraged NPLA members saying, “Pro-lifers should be heartened by the fact that we’re now in probably as strong a position as we’ve ever been. . . . If the National Abortion Rights Action League, Planned Parenthood, and EMILY’s List want to force a vote, I only have to say to them ‘bring it on!’ I know that all pro-lifers across the country will rise up to see to it that this monstrous power-grab is defeated.”

Partial-birth abortionist George Tiller, seen here in his police photo shot following his arrest on 19 criminal counts related to his abortion practice, would again exercise his grisly trade nationwide if the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act” were ever to pass.

CITIZENS PETITION TO END TAX DOLLAR FUNDING OF ABORTIONISTS TO PRESIDENT ________________________ Whereas:

Since Roe v. Wade, more than 48 million babies have been slaughtered by abortion-on-demand; and

Whereas:

It is wrong to force taxpayers to fund abortions or abortionists; and

Whereas:

Abortionists are currently receiving more than 300 MILLION DOLLARS per year from taxpayers; and

Whereas:

Even many prohibitions on the use of tax dollars for abortion still permit abortionists to charge taxpayers for their overhead and expenses; and

Whereas:

Abortionists, the most notorious of which is Planned Parenthood, have become increasingly entrenched in scandals ranging from theft of tax dollars to violation of medical ethics standards; and

Whereas:

Countless babies have been brutally slaughtered because young, vulnerable women had a “choice” foisted upon them by selfish boyfriends, abusers, or abortion peddlers.

Therefore:

I urge you to use your executive power to completely cut Planned Parenthood and all providers of abortion from the budget and launch an investigation into the fraud and abuses by Planned Parenthood and other providers in order to end this affront to the consciences, and wallets, of pro-life Americans.

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Signature ___________________________________________ City & State _________________________________________

CITIZEN PETITION TO REVERSE ROE v. WADE to CONGRESSMAN / SENATOR ________________________________ Whereas:

Because of Roe v. Wade, more than 48 million unborn children have died through abortion; and

Whereas:

In Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court declared it could not resolve “the difficult question of when life begins” – and on the basis of this unresolved question, declared a new “right to abortion” based on a “right of privacy”; and

Whereas:

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states: “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law”; and

Whereas:

In Roe, the Supreme Court admitted: “If . . . personhood [for the unborn] is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [Fourteenth] Amendment…” (Roe v. Wade [410 US 113 at 156-7]); and

Whereas:

Science is clear that human life begins at conception when a new human being is formed; and

Whereas:

The American people oppose abortion-on-demand and want innocent human life to be protected, especially when it is most defenseless; and

Whereas:

It belongs to Congress to resolve the question the Supreme Court said IT cannot resolve; and

Whereas:

A Life at Conception Act, by declaring unborn children are persons legally entitled to constitutional protection, will rescue millions of unborn children from dying by abortion-on-demand;

Therefore:

I urge you to cosponsor and cast every vote for a Life at Conception Act, and to do everything necessary to win ultimate passage in the United States Congress.

Signature ___________________________________________ City & State _________________________________________

STOP THE “FREEDOM OF CHOICE” ACT (S. 1173) Petition to the United States Senate Whereas, Partial-Birth Abortions are never medically necessary and Congress, in passing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, found that these procedures amount to “legalized murder” and should accordingly be outlawed; and Whereas, the Supreme Court upheld the Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion; and Whereas, Senator Barbra Boxer (D-CA) has now introduced legislation to nullify the Supreme Court’s decision; and once again legalize the gruesome practice of Partial-Birth Abortion, Therefore I urge you to protect the ban on Partial-Birth Abortion by voting against the “Freedom of Choice” Act (S. 1173).

Signature ___________________________________________ City & State _________________________________________

Dear Friend: For 36 years, nine unelected men and women on the Supreme Court have played God with innocent human life. They have invented laws that condemned to painful deaths without trial more than 48 million unborn babies for the crime of being “inconvenient.” In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling forced abortion-on-demand down our nation’s throat. In the past, many in the pro-life movement have felt limited to protecting a life here and there – passing some limited law to slightly control abortion in the more outrageous cases. But some pro-lifers always seem to tiptoe around the Supreme Court, hoping they won't be offended. Now the time to grovel before the Supreme Court is over. Working from what the Supreme Court ruled in Roe, pro-life lawmakers can pass a Life at Conception Act and end abortion using the Constitution instead of amending it. That is why it’s so urgent you sign and return the enclosed petitions to your Senators and Congressman. A Life at Conception Act declares unborn children “persons” as defined by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, entitled to legal protection. This is the one thing the Supreme Court admitted in Roe v. Wade that would cause the case for legal abortion to “collapse.” When the Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous Roe v. Wade decision, it did so based on a new, previously undefined “right of privacy” which it “discovered” in so-called “emanations” of “penumbrae” of the Constitution. Of course, as constitutional law it was a disaster. But never once did the Supreme Court declare abortion itself to be a constitutional right. Instead the Supreme Court said: “We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins . . . the judiciary at this point in the development of man’s knowledge is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.” Then the High Court made a key admission:

“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case [i.e., “Roe” who sought an abortion], of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” The fact is, the 14th Amendment couldn’t be clearer: “. . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.” Furthermore, the 14th Amendment says: “Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” That’s exactly what a Life at Conception Act would do. But this simple, logical and obviously right legislation will not become law without a fight. By turning up the heat through a massive, national, grass-roots campaign in this session of Congress, one of two things will happen. If we pour on enough pressure, pro-lifers can force politicians from both parties who were elected on pro-life platforms to make good on their promises and ultimately send a Life at Conception Act to the President’s desk. But even if a Life at Conception Act doesn’t pass immediately, the public attention will send another crew of radical abortionists down to defeat in the next election. Either way, the unborn win . . . unless we do nothing. That’s why the National Pro-Life Alliance is contacting hundreds of thousands of Americans just like you to mobilize a grass-roots army to pass a Life at Conception Act. Our goal is to deliver one million petitions to the House and Senate in support of a vote on a Life at Conception Act. When the bill comes up for a vote in Congress, it is crucial to have the full weight of an informed public backing the pro-life position. You can be sure that the abortion lobby will not give up their power without a fight. Your contribution and your petitions will be the first steps toward reversing Roe v. Wade and waking up the politicians about where our barbarous abortion policy is taking us. Sincerely, Steve King United States Congressman Martin Fox President, National Pro-Life Alliance www.prolifealliance.com P.S. The Supreme Court itself admitted – if Congress declares unborn children “persons” under the law, the constitutional case for abortion-on-demand “collapses.” P.P.S. More than $300 million will go to Planned Parenthood this year – how much of that will come from your paycheck? P.P.P.S. Every hour in America, 168 innocent children lose their lives – how many could we save by eliminating federal funding?

NATIONAL PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE SURVEY QUESTIONS (These are the exact questions that will be sent to the rival candidates for United States House and Senate in your state. We encourage you to use your power as a voter. Insist your candidates support the pro-life measures below.) 1. Thousands of underage girls, faced with an unplanned pregnancy, currently fall prey to the propaganda efforts of the abortion industry and lose their baby, often without the benefit of discussion and counseling, or even the prior knowledge of the girls’ parents. Q: Will you support federal legislation giving parents the right to stop any abortion from being performed on their minor daughter, except to prevent the death of the mother?

2. Often, the decision to obtain an abortion is made hastily and under duress. Under current federal law, abortion clinics are not even required to inform a woman about the physical and psychological risks involved in destroying her unborn child. Q: Will you support requiring a 48-hour “cooling off” period, and mandatory counseling on the risks and consequences of abortion for persons who believe they may want to have an abortion? 3. One of the biggest distortions under the veil of the “pro-choice” argument is that one parent, the father, is given no “choice” regarding the life or death of his unborn son or daughter under the law. Q: Will you support federal legislation requiring spousal notification before any abortion is performed? 4. Female victims of abortion outnumber baby boys by as high as a three-to-one margin — a statistic ignored by many self-styled “feminist” pro-abortion advocates. Q: Will you support legislation to outlaw so-called “sex selection” abortions? 5. Every fiscal year, countless efforts are made by pro-abortion groups and their political allies to insert abortion-funding language into nearly every federal department’s budget. Q: Would you vote to prohibit the U.S. government from granting any public funds to groups that recommend or perform abortions in the United States or abroad? 6. The Clinton Administration rushed approval of the RU-486 abortion pill by skipping adequate testing and disregarding standard approval procedures on a drug designed to kill children, which has also been linked with uterine cancer, carcinogenicy, severe hemorrhage, and even death. Q: Should the federal government bar the distribution of “home abortion drugs” like RU-486? 7. The radical pro-abortion lobby realizes that the American people reject the extremist notion of abortion-on-demand and that controlling the courts is the only way they can successfully advance their agenda. To maintain that control, pro-abortion Senators have resorted to unprecedented obstruction of any and all nominees who do not share their radical views. Q: Will you support nominees to the United States Supreme Court and the lower federal courts who will uphold the constitutional right to life of every human person, born and unborn? 8. The Founders never intended for the Supreme Court to create a “constitutional right” to an abortion. For this reason, legislation has been introduced in past congresses to limit the judiciary’s jurisdiction over abortion, thereby allowing the enforcement of federal and state laws to protect the unborn. Q: Will you support legislation which, under Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, would remove from the federal courts jurisdiction over the question of abortion? 9. When it handed down the dreaded Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court admitted that if Congress established when life begins, the so-called “right” to an abortion would “collapse,” as unborn children would then be protected as “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Q: Would you support and cosponsor a Life at Conception Act defining that life begins at the moment of conception thereby resolving for all time, as stated by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, “the difficult question of when life begins”? 10. A Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution would permanently protect all unborn children from dying at the hands of abortionists. Q: Will you support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning abortion except to prevent the death of the mother?

Dear Faithful Citizen, My name is Deal Hudson and I'm the director of Catholic Advocate. Our mission is to be an authentic Catholic voice in the media and public policy arenas. I'm told you are someone with strong pro-life convictions. I hope that’s true and I hope I can count on you to help me expose the truth about “Live-Birth Abortion” – one of Barack Obama’s darkest secrets. I know you'll agree: it is beyond the pale of human decency to allow an abortionist to kill fully-born babies who survive attempted abortions. That’s exactly what “Live-Birth Abortion” is – and it amounts to nothing less than infanticide. Yet this brand of abortion extremism is exactly what Barack Obama supports.

My plan is to mail 500,000 “Expose Obama” pledge cards to key districts around the country. Your support is crucial. Remember, Barack Obama is on the record in favor of overturning the ban on Partial-Birth Abortion. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. When Barack Obama was an Illinois State Senator he not only voted to allow the horrific practice of “Live-Birth Abortion” to continue, he actively worked to protect it; and he even conspired with Planned Parenthood on a strategy to get other senators to do the same. He had the audacity to deny that abortion survivors are persons; he said: “Whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person … it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute.” So in Obama’s warped ideology babies who survive an abortion aren't persons. Yet Obama now says he favored a “Comfort Room” where the delivered babies could be taken to die – rather than being left in a soiled linen closet, as was the practice. Obama is blinded by his abortion extremism. Regardless of how nice the wallpaper and furniture in these “Comfort Rooms” is, it is still a living, breathing – and completely innocent – baby being killed there. Their only crime is being a survivor of a botched abortion. This shows just how sacred Roe v. Wade is to Barack Obama that even the most common sense measure – protecting a live baby outside the womb – must be opposed at any cost! This is not an isolated case of abortion radicalism by Obama. He has a long track record that has made him the darling of the extremist abortion lobby. When addressing a Planned Parenthood meeting, Obama promised: “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.” The “Freedom of Choice” Act would immediately overturn the ban on the barbaric Partial-Birth Abortion procedure. Obama touted his anti-life philosophy at another event when he shockingly called having a baby a “punishment” and compared pregnancy to “contracting a sexually transmitted disease.” I write this knowing full well that the powerful abortion lobby will try to silence me by threatening to strip my organization’s taxexempt status. They will try to claim I'm too politically involved, but let me tell you: my goal in speaking out is not to influence even one Catholic vote. You see, the truth will do that all on its own. I am merely exposing the truth to millions of “values voters” – Catholics and other Christians alike. This is not a political issue – it is a moral one of paramount concern to good, faithful citizens! I believe Barack Obama and his ilk aim to hijack the moral conscience of our nation. And I need your help to educate all Americans and to reach the millions of values voters around the country who are being kept in the dark. The radical abortion lobby has done everything it could to cover up Obama’s shameful record on the matter of abortion – especially “Live-Birth Abortion.” “Live-Birth Abortion” reveals the extremism and the complete disregard for human life that lies at the heart of every pro-abortion politician – like Barack Obama. Partial-Birth Abortion. . . “Live-Birth Abortion”. . . the Freedom of Choice Act – Obama zealously supports them all. But with your help, we can cast a spotlight on the truth and show exactly what is at stake for the unborn. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America. Sincerely, Deal Hudson Director, Catholic Advocate (A Project of the Morely Institute for Church & Culture) www.catholicadvocate.com www.insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=138 P.O. Box 96559 Washington, DC 20090-6559 2100 M St., NW Suite 170-358 Washington, DC 20037

Dear Fellow Pro-Life American, Make no mistake about it – Roe v. Wade definitely should be overruled. That’s because it is impossibly bad constitutional law. Even many pro-abortion law professors admit that nothing in the Constitution justifies that decision. But the pro-life struggle is broader than Roe v. Wade. You see, for several decades, the Supreme Court has repeatedly overturned democratically enacted laws that attempted to preserve American values and morality. Simply put, the Court has been legislating from the bench. The Court must be returned to its proper role in our government. Overturning Roe v. Wade is one very crucial aspect of this necessary reform. You and I must recognize that there's a lot of work that still needs to be done – to rebuild a legal system that’s truly bound to a correct understanding of the divinely granted dignity of every human person. In fact – even if Roe v. Wade is actually overturned – the struggle to protect the unborn will then be thrown back into every state legislature in the nation. Which means that critical human life issues will be argued, legislated, challenged and ruled upon in legislatures and in state and federal courts for years and years to come. Any lasting victories will certainly not come overnight, with just one court ruling . . . But that’s to be expected. After all, falling into the grips of the current anti-life culture didn’t happen overnight either. The truth is – the moral and legal erosion that has occurred in our nation has actually taken place over several generations. It started out slowly. One law at a time. One legislator at a time. One activist judge at a time. But gradually it snowballed with enough force and momentum to deconstruct essential tenets of the Constitution . . . legalize abortion . . . undermine marriage and family life . . . protect the vilest pornography . . . bring us to the brink of same-sex “marriage” . . . and much more. Ave Maria School of Law is fully committed to restoring the legal foundations of our nation. You can also help restore the moral and legal fabric of our national culture. That is why we must turn to you for donations and to other faithful citizens who are dedicated to rejecting the culture of death – and restoring a true Culture of Life in the United States. Thank you, in advance, for your prayers and your generosity. Please know that you and all our kind benefactors are remembered in our Masses and prayers. Sincerely in Christ, Bernard Dobranski Dean and President, Ave Maria School of Law www.avemarialaw.edu www.avemarialaw.edu/index.cfm?event=giving.intro

Dear Fellow Pro-Life American, I've worked hard at moving the pro-life agenda forward. And when I've seen threats arising, I've defended our pro-life gains. Here are several key commitments: * Human Life Amendment: “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution.” * The Unborn Child is a Person: “We endorse legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.” * No Taxpayer Dollars for Abortion: “We oppose using public revenues for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it.” * The Importance of Judges: “We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.” * The Ultimate Bottom Line: “As a country, we must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.” I've also started an organization – Restore America PAC – whose primary goal is defending the sanctity of life by passing pro-life proposals by electing pro-lifers to national office. I launched Restore America PAC because I desperately need more pro-life allies

here in Congress with me. I intend to fight for life, and to fight for a strong and uncompromising pro-life plank in the Republican Party Platform, and to help key pro-family Republican candidates. If I can count on your help, please don’t delay. I thank you for standing with me, and for standing for life. Sincerely, Sam Brownback United States Senator (R-KS) Restore America PAC, Inc. www.restoreamericapac.com E-mail: [email protected]

Dear Fellow Pro-Life American, My name is Peggy Hartshorn. I am the President of Heartbeat International and we have the most expansive network of pro-life pregnancy centers in the nation … 894. That’s more than the number of abortion clinics Planned Parenthood operates. But there's one thing Planned Parenthood has that we don’t. And that is … your dollars. Its take in 2006 was $305.3 million. And here's what Planned Parenthood does with its money: * * * * * *

Kills innocent babies … 4,068,749 of them since 1973. Operates 287 abortion clinics … more than any other abortion group in the world. Targets African American and Hispanic babies [by being in low-income neighborhoods.] Conducts a smear campaign designed to silence all pro-life opposition. Covers up countless numbers of statutory rape crimes. Attacks scientific evidence that shows just how harmful abortion is to women.

Each and every one of those charges is true. I have the facts to prove it. I'm not going to take up your valuable time by listing them all here. You can read them at our website: www.heartbbeatinternational.org. Just click on the “Case Against Planned Parenthood” link that you'll find right in the middle of our home page. Planned Parenthood lies to women and hides the terrible truth about abortion! When a woman finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and goes to a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic for “help”, she's often not thinking clearly. Her first thoughts are of herself … her education, her job, her career, her family. This makes her “abortion vulnerable”. Planned Parenthood workers are trained to exploit these fears. Women have informed us of just what they were told at these socalled “health centers”. Comments like: “This isn't the right time for you.” … or “You aren't ready for this. Maybe in a year or so, but not right now.” … or “An abortion will make everything better.” What's more, Planned Parenthood workers withhold life-saving information from them. Facts like: 1. Abortion takes the life of an innocent unborn child. Those who work at Planned Parenthood clinics never mention the child in the womb ... or that the human heart starts beating 18 days after conception. 2. Abortion leads to guilt, depression … and suicide. A recent study shows that women who have abortions are seven times more likely to commit suicide than women who give birth. 3. Abortion increases a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer ... a scientific fact Planned Parenthood deliberately hides from women. No fewer than eight medical groups — including the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons —recognize an independent link between abortion and breast cancer. But rather than tell women the ugly truth about abortion, Planned Parenthood exploits their fears and concerns and paints abortion as just another “choice.” And they do so for one reason and one reason only: MONEY!!! In 2006 alone Planned Parenthood took in $112.6 million directly from abortions! No wonder Jim Sedlak, the President of STOPP, describes Planned Parenthood this way: “Planned Parenthood is a cold, calculating group intent on spreading the Humanist religion, luring our children into their web of premarital sex and unlimited abortions, reducing the population of minorities in particular and filling its coffers with the profits from sales of birth control devices. ... [It] is anti-child, anti-God and anti-choice.”

Heartbeat International, on the other hand, is everything Planned Parenthood isn’t. Heartbeat is the pro-life alternative to Planned Parenthood. Rather than prey on a woman’s confusion and insecurity, the men and women who staff Heartbeat pregnancy center affiliates offer abortion-vulnerable women safe havens where they … … … … …

are welcomed unconditionally can hear and experience the Good News of salvation and forgiveness find restoration and healing and receive the love and HOPE that will empower them to embrace the new life growing within their wombs.

But here’s the biggest difference between Planned Parenthood and Heartbeat: Planned Parenthood abortionists kill 5,095 babies a week! Heartbeat pregnancy center workers save 2,000 babies every week! You and I and our entire pro-life family need to do whatever is necessary to decrease that first number ... and increase the second one. Right now Heartbeat has three priorities that are in dire need of your financial help: Priority #1: Urban Initiative project As I told you, Planned Parenthood is targeting minorities – the African American and Hispanic communities. The proof of this comes from Planned Parenthood itself. Of its 287 abortion clinics, 76% of them are located in poverty-stricken Black and Hispanic neighborhoods! And it is building more “abortuaries” as fast as it can ... in Aurora, IL ... in Denver, CO ... in Portland, OR ... and a mammoth 6story, 78,000-sq-foot building in Houston which will have an entire floor dedicated to the killing of late-term babies ... infants in their 25th week of development and later! In response, Heartbeat has launched our Urban Initiative where we are working to build pro-life pregnancy centers in urban communities. Our center in Miami’s Hialeah neighborhood is already saving babies. > Cost: $125,000 to build and open one new pro-life pregnancy center. Priority #2: Option Line ... 1-800-395-HELP Rev. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life calls Option Line: “The one telephone number that can save lives!” Option Line® is America’s first and only pro-life hotline call center that is staffed by paid pro-life consultants. Each consultant is specially trained to help those who contact them deal with pregnancy, abortion, and post-abortion issues. Open 24/7 every day of the year, Option Line is one of the primary ways abortion-vulnerable women learn about their pro-life options. Since its founding five years ago, Option Line has seen a dramatic increase in the number of individuals contacting it ... from 35,526 contacts in 2003 to 201,686 contacts last year; a 468% increase! > Cost: $32,478 a month to operate Option Line. Priority #3: Defending America’s Pro-life Pregnancy Centers This is an extremely urgent project. Planned Parenthood wants to silence our pro-life voice. Working with other anti-life extremists, it is using strong-arm tactics to get Congress to shut down our pregnancy centers ... or at the very least hinder our ability to serve the needs of abortion-vulnerable women. To date: •

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) has a bill in the House — HR5052 — that seeks to limit a woman’s access to our life-saving pregnancy resource centers.

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Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a bogus “report” that repeated the lie that “pregnancy resource centers often mislead pregnant teens about the medical risks of abortion.”

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards unleashed a massive effort urging pro-abortion zealots to pressure their lawmakers to pass HR5052. Thankfully, up to this point she’s failed to shut down a single pro-life pregnancy center. And I can tell you one reason why in two words: Heartbeat International. The moment we learned of Planned Parenthood’s sinister plan, we launched a counteroffensive and rallied pro-life Americans to make their voices heard in our nation’s capitol. Armed with the facts, the people of life informed their lawmakers — and President Bush as well — of the invaluable service these centers provide to women who find themselves in an unexpected pregnancy. Without pro-life pregnancy centers, women in need would be abandoned to the self-serving, abortion-minded predators at Planned Parenthood. We must be able to sustain this massive counter-offensive ... especially now that a pro-abortion president is in the White House.

> Cost: In 2007, Heartbeat spent over $200,000 on this counter-offensive and I anticipate we’ll need to spend at least that much again this year. As you can tell, the stakes have never been higher for innocent unborn babies. Planned Parenthood sees these tiny infants as dollar signs for its abortion empire ... and not as the precious gifts from God that they are. That’s why it is so intent on shutting down America’s pro-life pregnancy centers. It wants to leave women with no choice but to kill their babies in its abortion chambers. I am resolved to keep that from happening. I will never abandon abortion-vulnerable women to the predators at Planned Parenthood. But I cannot do this alone. I need your help. More to the point, God’s innocent unborn babies need your help ... as do their mothers. So please, before you do another thing ... become a Heartbeat ministry partner! Right now Heartbeat needs every dollar you can spare. We need you to help fund our ongoing defense of America’s pro-life pregnancy centers; or our Urban Initiative so we can build pregnancy centers in those neighborhoods where Planned Parenthood has targeted poor minority babies for death; or our Option Line call center. We need gifts of every size ... from $25 to $250 to $2,500. If you are looking for a specific amount to send, allow me to suggest $45.11 ... that’s how much it costs Heartbeat to keep our lifesaving Option Line call center in service for one hour! But no matter what size gift you send today, the important thing is that you send something and that you do so right now. Remember, in the time it took you to read my letter … Planned Parenthood killed four babies! This is why it is so critically important that you respond to my letter right now. Don’t delay. As a Heartbeat ministry partner, you will join us in God’s glorious work of rescuing those innocent unborn babies that Planned Parenthood has targeted for abortion. So please be as generous as you can today. Not only with your dollars, but also with your prayers. Ask God to bless our ministry and empower Heartbeat to save more of His precious unborn innocents. Thank you for your help today ... and may God bless you. Together for LIFE, Peggy Hartshorn President, Heartbeat International www.heartbeatinternational.org E-mail: [email protected] (614) 885-8746 (888) 550-7577 FAX (614) 885-8746 P.S. When Mapi — who was 36, alone in this country, and pregnant with her first child — left her doctor’s office, she was frightened and confused. Her doctor was insisting that she have an abortion because her baby might be born with “Down’s Syndrome”. On top of that, her relationship with the baby’s father was insecure. As a result of all this pressure, Mapi was resigned to have an abortion. But thanks to the grace of God, she contacted one of our Heartbeat of Miami workers instead. And because she did, tiny Marella is with us today ... a beautiful, healthy little girl who was born on October 23, 2007. What’s more, because of Heartbeat’s intervention, Mapi and her boyfriend renewed their devotion to God and each other! Marella was the first baby Heartbeat’s new Miami pregnancy center saved. There have been 15 since ... and another 28 are due in April alone. This is the great work I am inviting you to join today. As a ministry partner, you will work hand-in-hand with the rest of our Heartbeat family as we answer God’s call to “Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked” (Psalm 82:4). Thank you again.

Pro-Life Students ARRESTED For Saving Babies On Campus! Dear Defender of Innocent LIFE, Your help is urgently needed to protect and defend the brave young college students who are saving babies’ lives every day on our nation’s college and high school campuses! Believe it or not, they’re being ARRESTED and THROWN IN JAIL for saving babies! I’m talking about a group you may have heard about: The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.

For seven years now, this small but dedicated team of young pro-life activists has been traveling to high school and college campuses all across America—virtually every day of the school year—to prevent abortions among the students. The Survivors set up powerful visual and educational displays to show what abortion really does to unborn babies—and how precious those little babies are from the first moment of life. They hand out tons of literature… engage the students in effective dialogue and lively debate... and constantly change hearts and minds about abortion. They’ve saved countless babies’ lives on the spot—sometimes almost one a day (all through the grace of God)! And that’s not to mention the lives saved after they leave! As I mentioned, the Survivors routinely get harassed and ARRESTED by the police for showing the TRUTH about abortion—even at public colleges, which are public property! They get charged with “trespassing”—which is ridiculous. You see, anybody in America can walk onto a college campus at any time, or at least stand on the sidewalk in front of a public high school. But when the Survivors arrive to SHOW THE TRUTH about abortion, they get arrested!!! That’s because they bring their SIGNS with the horrifying pictures of aborted babies on them. Mind you, the Survivors are careful to never break the law. They set up their signs in the public square where free speech is allowed. For instance, on virtually every college campus, there’s a designated “free speech” area where anyone can come and set up displays or pass out literature. That’s where the Survivors go. Like any American can do, they’re exercising their First Amendment rights… in a public forum… on public property. But that doesn’t seem to matter when the topic is abortion. All too frequently—from coast to coast—school administrators and teachers verbally attack the Survivors, and order them to leave the campus! And when the Survivors refuse to be intimidated or have their First Amendment rights trampled on, often the campus police get involved—and illegally demand that the Survivors leave the school! But when the Survivors still don’t leave... The police arrest them and throw them in jail! You’d be shocked at how often this happens—here in the “land of the free.” In fact, the Survivors have been arrested no less than 100 times! And quite frequently, the campus police treat the Survivors poorly! A case in point: At Chaffey College in Southern California—a taxpayer-financed public junior college—the police officers mistreated three of the Survivors... including a young man named Joey Cox who is physically handicapped and wears braces on his knees! When the Survivors arrived at Chaffey College that day, Joey went to talk to the head of the campus Public Safety Department to find out where their “free speech zone” was. But this sworn officer, Chief David Ramirez, didn’t like the Survivors. He didn’t want them on “his” campus, and he ordered them to leave. When Joey questioned this order, Chief Ramirez twisted Joey’s arm behind his back and cuffed his wrist! Chief Ramirez and his men then shoved Joey up against a wall, threw him to the ground, and then confiscated everything in his pockets—an illegal search and seizure. Remember: Joey Cox is a disabled young man who was born with a genetic disorder that caused his kneecaps to be misaligned. Thus, he wears braces on his legs. And yet, the Chaffey College police decided to rough him up! Chief Ramirez even started scrolling through Joey’s cell phone—an outright invasion of privacy. That’s when he noticed that Joey’s audio recorder was capturing the whole illegal episode—every word of it! The Survivors, you see, have learned from experience that it’s best to videotape and/or audiotape all conversations and interactions with the police—to avoid false accusations later on. To Joey’s amazement... Chief Ramirez Tried To Erase The Recording! He obviously didn’t want any evidence of his illegal treatment of Joey and the Survivors. However, neither Chief Ramirez nor his officers could figure out how to erase the recording—so they had the gall to ask Joey to erase it for them!!! Naturally, he declined. So, after a little more rough stuff, the police handcuffed Joey, called him a “retard”… and marched him into their little police station... where they locked him in a room without windows and turned off all the lights!!! Plus, they KEPT all his belongings—including his audio recorder—and didn’t bother to tell him why he was being arrested! Meanwhile, two other Survivors—James and Jason Conrad—were also arrested by the campus police when they asked the police WHY they were being told to leave campus. One officer—not in uniform—refused to identify himself or show his badge. Instead, he tried to bully the Conrad brothers into submission! As a result of standing up for their rights, James and Jason were handcuffed and taken to the campus police station, where they were charged with “eavesdropping”… of all things!!! As I mentioned earlier, the Survivors always videotape and audiotape their encounters with the police—because experience has taught them that it’s a wise thing to do!

Well, it’s perfectly LEGAL to videotape anyone and anything in a public place. That’s not ‘‘eavesdropping’’!!! But “eavesdropping” is a FELONY charge. So the two Conrad brothers were booked into jail... and held on more than $25,000 bail... EACH! What’s more, the police kept them locked up in the county jail for THREE DAYS!!! Can you believe this insanity?!? I could hardly believe it myself when I first found out about this case. You see, whenever the Survivors get arrested by the police or harassed by anyone, they turn to our organization—the Life Legal Defense Foundation—for legal help. We’re a pro-life/pro-family legal defense network of attorneys who take on cases that have a profound impact on the battle to stop abortion, euthanasia, and other “culture of death” evils—and we work at no charge to our clients. We’ve worked with the Survivors for many years now, every time they’ve needed our help in court—and we never charge them a penny. Why Do We Work For Free? Because we feel it’s vitally important to protect the First Amendment rights of pro-lifers who get persecuted and often prosecuted when they speak out against abortion. We know that if we don’t fight back against the heavy-handed tactics of the pro-abortion forces, they’ll silence the pro-life movement… and one day it will be illegal to speak publicly to save babies. In some cases, it already is! But we’ve won countless court cases, lawsuits, injunctions—you name it—because we have good attorneys who truly care about the pro-life cause. And they make huge sacrifices—taking time out of their regular client work—to fight for what’s right. However, fighting any legal battle is always a costly endeavor. There are court fees to pay... depositions to conduct... expert witnesses to hire... transcripts and assorted legal documents to pay for... the list is endless. Nevertheless, we strive to be there for our clients—such as the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust—whenever they need us. But to make that possible, we need YOU. Since we’re a non-profit organization, we depend entirely on the generosity of prolifers like you to help us do our work. We have no other source of income except the donations that come from caring people like you—one gift at a time. And that’s why I’m hoping and praying you’ll be able to help us as we carry out our legal battles on behalf of pro-life activists like the Survivors. Those brave young people are out there every day—on the front lines of the abortion struggle—trying to reach their fellow students with the truth about abortion... before it’s too late for some young girl and the baby she’s carrying inside her. In the Chaffey College case I’ve been telling you about, we’re still fighting it in the courts to get the charges dropped against the Conrad brothers and Joey Cox. * [Current at the time of the letter; present status not known] But what’s most important is... a little baby was saved from abortion that day! While Joey Cox and the Conrad brothers were being abused by the police, another Survivor named Kortney Blythe was talking to a young girl who had an abortion appointment scheduled for the very next morning. The girl’s name was Britney. She was five months pregnant, and she listened intently as Kortney described the baby in her womb... and what abortion would do to that precious life. Britney had tears streaming down her face as she looked at the photos of aborted babies. She gave Kortney her cell phone number, as well as the name of the abortion mill in Los Angeles where her child was scheduled to die the next day. The Survivors went to that mill early in the morning… but Britney never showed up. Instead, she sent Kortney a text message that said she had decided to keep her baby! Praise God!!! Yes, my dear friend, that is the reason the Survivors need to keep doing their heroic work on high school and college campuses. That is why we cannot allow the police or school administrators or anyone else to silence the Survivors or censor their life-saving message. And that is why we at the Life Legal Defense Foundation have helped the Survivors no less than 200 times in the last several years with their First Amendment legal battles. We must keep helping them save babies! And that’s why I’m hoping you’ll help us ... so we can help them. Your tax-deductible donation to the Life Legal Defense Foundation will enable us to stay in the fight... to help the Survivors and all pro-life activists who are targeted by the wicked forces in the abortion industry. It seems like every day, another case comes to our attention where pro-aborts are attacking pro-lifers and denying their rights to free speech. We quickly go to work and defend the brave pro-life activists—and we’re rapidly teaching the proaborts a valuable lesson... we will defend our rights! After all, pro-life activists can’t save babies if they’re constantly arrested... banned from campuses... shouted down in the public forum… or physically attacked (which often happens). We’re here to fight for their rights—so they can save babies from the diabolical death that awaits them in our nation’s abortion mills. And that’s why I’m hoping you’ll help us. Your gift is fully tax-deductible, because we’re a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. And we’re supported solely by people who care about the sanctity of human life. I thank you, in advance, for caring.

For His little ones, John R. Streett President, Life Legal Defense Foundation www.lldf.org (707) 224-6675 P.S.

Remember: For pro-life activists to effectively save babies from abortion, they must fight for their First Amendment rights! Here at the Life Legal Defense Foundation, that’s what we help them do. We have successfully fought hundreds of legal battles on behalf of pro-life activists around the country in the last 19 years. With your help, we’ll continue to do that.

P.S.S. See www.CharityNavigator.org for an independent review of stewardship and financial management. LLDF has the highest 4star rating.