Right to Life Breakfast and Rally in Raleigh Event on Saturday, January 18th!

Message from the Craven-Pamlico Christian Coalition

Right to Life Breakfast and Rally in Raleigh Event on Saturday, January 18^th!

The Annual Right to Life Breakfast and Rally takes place in Raleigh onSaturday, January 18th!

The Craven-Pamlico Christian Coalition is a Sponsor of the event and has a table. We have room at our table, so if you are interested in attending, please respond to this message, or call Jerry at the number below for more information.

Also, the next meeting of CPCC will be held on Monday, January 20th, at Golden Corral in New Bern. The meeting begins at 7:00pm, but if you would like to eat prior to the meeting, please arrive between 6:00 and 6:30.

For more info, call 252-514-0381.

North Carolina Right to Life Events

15th Annual Prayer Breakfast for Life

PLACE:           Sheraton on Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC 

DATE:             January 18, 2014   

TIME:              Doors Open at 9:00 a.m.  Buffet begins at 9:30 a.m.; Program starts at 10:00 a.m. and ends by Noon.

FEATURED SPEAKER:  Steven W. Mosher is an internationally recognized authority on China and population issues, as well as an acclaimed author, speaker. He has worked tirelessly since 1979 to fight coercive population control programs and has helped hundreds of thousands of women and families worldwide over the years.  To Register:  http://ncrtl.org/prayer-breakfast/

Rally and March for Life

Date: January 18, 2014

Time: 1:00 pm

Place: Nash Square, Downtown Raleigh, NC

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:  Barbara Holt, President, NC Right to Life; The Very Rev. Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop, Diocese of Raleigh; Steven Mosher: President of the population Research Institute; William Moore: 2014 NC Scholarship for Life recipient and Attendee at the NRL Academy

WE NEED YOU THERE!

http://ncrtl.org/rally-and-march-for-life/

  

DC March for Life

 (March for Life is sponsored by March for Life Committee but is not affiliated with National Right to Life nor North Carolina Right to Life.)

The March for Life in Washington, DC takes place each year on or near the anniversary of the U. S. Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, January 22.  Marchers go to Washington to rally and march for life and to visit with their elected officials in the Congress.

If you have a bus going up to the March for Life from North Carolina, please let us know so we can post this information on this page.  You can send us a link to the information about the bus or email us atncrtl73@aol.com the information so we can organize it for a complete listing of all NC buses.

We hope this page will be a source for those organizing buses to find people to fill their bus and to help those who wish to go to DC find a bus near them that is convenient for them to travel to the March for Life.

http://ncrtl.org/march-for-life/

Pro-Life Lobby Day in Raleigh, NC, Tuesday!

April 23, 2013, 11:30 am 

Pro-Life Lobby Day in Raleigh, NC, Tuesday! 

We will gather at the
Auditorium, Legislative Building on Jones Street, Raleigh, NC at 11:30 am to show support of pro-life legislation.

We also have the use of the tables in the 1100 and 1200 courts in the Legislative Building. In addition to our NCRTL booth in the court, other groups like pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and groups that have a pro-life component are being invited to have a table which can be only educational in nature, no lobbying activity whatsoever. The groups will have the use of the space from 9:00 am to 12 Noon.

We will use the auditorium at the top of the red carpeted stairs (located just inside the front doors to the Legislative Building) to assemble at 11:30 am. At 2:00 or 2:30 as the session begins, the group will sit together in the Gallery so our numbers can be seen by the General Assembly.

The pro-abortion groups had 200 at a rally last week and we need that many prolifers, ideally many more than that. So, please begin now advertising and inviting fellow pro-lifers to come to Raleigh on that day.

I will also need to know how many are planning to come in order to prepare enough packets, etc. Those who can come should plan to come in one car, van, or bus since parking is at a premium. This event is as important as going up for the March for Life in January so consider planning a bus trip to Raleigh.

Those that can not come to Raleigh should be encouraged to call their House and Senate member on April 23. The message should be: "I support the pro-life bills that have been introduced and ask you to support the pro-life bills them also." Our web site will have the pro-life bills listed as they are introduced.

More specific information will be given in subsequent emails to you after the deadlines for bills to be introduced have passed.

As more information becomes available, I will get it to you. If you have any questions, suggestions, etc., please email me. Thank you for your help in making this event a success.

Life,
Barbara Holt
President, North Carolina Right to Life, Inc.
POB 9282
Greensboro, NC 27429-0282
800-392-6275 (Office)

Abortion battle rages 40 years after Roe decision. Protests planned in Washington

Forty years ago, a poor, anonymous, pregnant woman called “Jane Roe” stepped forward to attack a Texas state law banning abortion.

She and her attorneys succeeded beyond their wildest imaginations.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalized a woman’s right to abortion, overturned countless state laws and unleashed a cultural and political war so enduring that weeks after abortion supporters triumphantly swept pro-choice President Obama into a second term of office, Catholic prelate Donald W. Wuerl felt compelled to publicly lament, “What is the spiritual climate in our country that allows this culture of death to prevail?”

More than 1 million abortions are performed each year in the United States, and an estimated total of 54 million pregnancies have been terminated since 1973 (THAT IS MORE THAN 54 MILLION CHILDREN MURDERED), according to Guttmacher Institute data. But the moral and political questions surrounding the issue remain as unsettled in 2013 as they were 40 years ago Tuesday, when the Supreme Court issued its 7-2 decision.


Abortion wars are under way in court and state legislatures over the “Obamacare” health care reform, and record numbers of abortion-regulating measures have been enacted at the state level in the past two years.

CONTINUED:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/21/abortion-battle-rages-40-years-after-roe-decision/

FYI: Walter Jones for Congress -- 12 for '12

Note: CCTA is a non partisan organization. We do not endorse any particular candidate or political party. News items are presented for you the reader to help you become informed and reach your own conclusions.


From Congressman Walter B. Jones:

I don't have to tell you that this is a critical time for our nation.

Over the next few days, I'd like to share with you the top 12 reasons why my fight for common sense conservative Eastern North Carolina values is exactly what we need in 2012.

I appreciate your consideration and humbly request your continued support.

May God Bless you and may He continue to bless America!


Sincerely,

Walter

Top 12 Reasons to Vote Walter Jones on May 8, 2012

12. Because Life Matters – Congressman Jones is a pro-life champion, and his voting record shows it. He has a 100% rating from the National Right to Life Committee. He's been there time and again voting to block taxpayer funding of abortions and to block taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

Diane Rufino: ABORTION: Where Conscience Meets the Womb

February 29, 2012

A baby is never a mistake, even if the mother’s conduct was.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about our country’s stand on abortion and what the issues are on both sides. As we all know, abortion is the voluntary, or calculated, intentional termination of an embryo or fetus. I understand that reasonable people can debate when life actually begins and I understand that religion teaches that life begins at conception. Yet I somehow feel there could be some room for common ground in the very early stages of a pregnancy. But once there is a heartbeat, it would be impossible for me to imagine any reason why that living being should be terminated, absent an urgent dire threat to the mother’s life. Yet as it stands now, abortions performed prior to the third trimester are legal in this country, thanks to the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. [The decision essentially states that since a fetus is not a human being and therefore has no rights, including any that are protected under our Constitution, the woman's right to control her fertility and reproduction ability naturally outweigh any possible rights of the developing fetus for the first two trimesters. With respect to the third trimester, the state may have an interest in protecting the life of the unborn and so it can regulate, but NOT when the woman's health - either physical or mental (including stress) - becomes an issue. So Roe also shows great tolerance for the abortion of a baby that is ready to be born].



Pro-life groups believe in the sanctity of all life. They believe, as Ronald Reagan wrote so eloquently in 1983, that to diminish the value of one category of human life — the unborn – diminishes the value of all human life. They believe that God is the giver of life. They believe that the embryo or fetus is “alive” and thus abortion is tantamount to murder. To them the question is not when human life begins, but rather ‘What is the value of human life?’ “The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother’s body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law — the same right we have.” (Ronald Reagan)


Since the decision in Roe v. Wade, which stands for the legal fiction that a fetus is not a human being, more than 20 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions. That is well over ten times the number of Americans lost in all our nation’s wars. In 1982 the nation watched as a court in Indiana allowed the starvation death of “Baby Doe” because the child had Down’s Syndrome. The death of the tiny infant Baby Doe tore at the hearts of Americans because the child was undeniably a human being – alive. He was born mentally retarded and with an incomplete esophagus. He laid helpless before the eyes of the doctors and the eyes of the nation. The parents wanted to deny it a simple medical procedure to fix his esophagus so he could eat and they sued for the right to let him die. This time the issue before the court was not whether Baby Doe was a human being, but rather whether parents had the right to choose to terminate the life of their baby when it was handicapped or whether the state could step in and try to save its life. They sided with the parents. If Baby Doe received such little compassion from the courts, how do those who haven’t had the opportunity to enter the world stand a chance?

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who in 1969 was a co-founder of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), later renamed the National Abortion Rights Action League, helped make abortion legal. He provided statistics to the Supreme Court in Roe to help support that decision. He was also the former director of New York’s City’s Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, the largest abortion clinic in the world at the time. In the late 1970′s he turned against abortion to become a prominent pro-life advocate, wrote Abortion America, and produced the powerfully revealing video, “The Silent Scream.” He later admitted that the statistics he presented to the high court were intentionally misrepresented. As he wrote: “We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted by the media as though they had been written in law.”

Dr. Nathanson also wrote: “I believe with all my heart that there is a divinity of existence which commands us to declare a final and irreversible halt to this infinitely sad and shameful crime against humanity.”


Roe v. Wade and the continued devaluation of the unborn continues to prod the moral conscience of Americans.


Pro-lifers understand that they can’t fully appreciate all abortion decisions nor the wrenchingly difficult dilemmas presented by their particular situations – such as those made by an ill-informed 16-year-old who made an impulsive decision or was coerced, or a college student who has an education ahead of her, or an unwed mother who can’t afford to feed or take care of another child, or a woman who has had non-consensual sex, but they don’t believe the solution lies in a deliberate act of destruction of human life. They don’t believe an otherwise viable and living fetus should be killed because of inconvenience – or for any other reason, for that matter. There are options and resources. There is education and common sense. There is a lifestyle built on decent moral values, discipline, and priorities.

Pro-choice groups, on the other hand, believe that a woman should have access to whatever health care she needs and that she should have control over her own body. Of course, as Ronald Reagan once commented: “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion is already born.” Finally, there is the issue of state intervention and to what degree the state should have a say in a pregnancy.

There are some women (pro-choice) who believe that they have a fundamental civil right to have complete control over her fertility and therefore she should have the freedom to decide whether she wants to continue or terminate her pregnancy. Others simply want the right to an abortion to undue something they aren’t capable or ready to deal with. Some have a change of heart and want to postpone having a baby until a future time. As Frederica Mathewes-Green explained: “No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.” Yet we all know that abortion is often performed with less consideration than that. It is often a woman’s choice of birth control…. birth control after the fact. Sometimes many months after the fact.

Pro-choice for women means no-choice for men.

Career women overwhelmingly side with the pro-choice view. Women who consider themselves pro-life have typically been stereotyped as church-going women and those who are stay-at-home wives and mothers. They are often portrayed as not really needing the option of an abortion. In 2008, my husband and I attended a rally at East Carolina University for John McCain. Sarah Palin was the speaker. Although most of us thought the event would be mobbed by Obama supporters in protest of Ms. Palin’s visit, there were no such mobs. In fact, the only protesters we saw were those who stood across the street carrying plenty of signs calling for the right of women to have an abortion if she chooses. As we were walking on the campus to the event, we saw a woman walking out of one of the University buildings, wearing a nice tailored suit, and asked if we were walking in the right direction. She made a snide comment about Sarah Palin and as we continued on our way, she shouted this to me: “You can’t be a successful woman if you don’t support abortion rights.” Am I to believe that in order to be successful and respected in today’s world, the innocent unborn might need to be sacrificed? Am I to believe that in order to be successful and respected, a woman must knowingly set aside the laws that God asks us to respect? Is that what it means to be successful? I don’t think so.

In fact, I have these few words to say to those career women who so lightly sacrifice the fruits of their womb for a chance to be a player in the business world: Please don’t think there is a comparison between a good job and giving life. Jobs are fleeting and merely ‘positions’ that are temporarily held by one person or another. They either consume you for a business purpose or they consume you for some selfish egotistical gain. A child is a legacy; a permanent bond; a life-long friend…. A reason to live life to the fullest every single day of your life. When I finished graduate school, when I was in my 20s and into my early 30s, I planned for a life of great accomplishment. I was going to be a great scientist. I was going to help understand the molecular basis of cancer and maybe find a cure. There was nothing inside me urging me to get married and start a family. In fact, at that point in my life, I didn’t want children. And I was hoping I would find a man who would want the same. But God knew better. He knew more about my heart than I did. And he blessed me with a child right after I got married. I admit I was scared. I had no maternal instincts whatsoever (but was great with animals) and wasn’t sure I would know what to do. But the minute I saw my daughter’s beautiful face and helpless body, I was hooked. I knew that I was meant to be a mother. I instantly knew there was no greater meaning to life than having a child. I knew I would love this child every minute of my life. When I saw her fragile tiny, red, wrinkled body and the way she was so uncoordinated and didn’t know how to do the simplest of things, I knew I wanted to care for her and keep her safe and comforted for as long as I was able to do so. By the time I left the hospital, I had already circled the dates I would try to conceive my next child. And only in having children of my own was I able to appreciate the depths of the unconditional and eternal love my own parents have for me. And that is the true meaning of life. It is the true circle of life. And like a circle, the love between parents and children are never-ending, just as God’s love is for all of us.

To any woman unsure of her lot in life, I would offer this heartfelt advice: Don’t make the mistake of thinking a career or anything else of such material worth is more valuable than the life-long love you experience and the life lesson you learn from being a parent. My biggest regret in life was not being able to start having children earlier, while I was younger, so that I could have had more of them before it was too late. While all of my friends were dating and getting married, I was still trying to figure out what degrees I wanted and so I got married much later.

PLEASE CONTINUE READING:
http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/abortion-where-conscience-meets-the-womb/

40 Days for Life

YOU can help save lives! Yes, you can!

This spring, from February 22 - April 1, our community will be one of many cities joining together for the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history -- the 40 Days for Life campaign.

40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life effort that consists of:

• 40 days of prayer and fasting
• 40 days of peaceful vigil
• 40 days of community outreach

We are praying that, with God's help, this groundbreaking effort will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in Jacksonville, NC -- and throughout America.

Take a stand for life

While all aspects of 40 Days for Life are crucial in our effort to end abortion, the most visible component is the peaceful prayer vigil outside Crist Clinic for Women, the local abortion facility.

God's love for every soul compels us to fast and pray for clinic workers, clients and the unborn.

You can help make a life-saving impact by joining our local vigil, from 22 FEB - 1 APR, at:  Crist Clinic for Women, 250 Memorial Drive, Jacksonville, NC (Across from the mall on Memorial Drive)

Contact us to learn more, sign up for specific vigil hours, or let us know how you feel called to serve God in this effort, please contact the local 40 Days for Life leadership team:

Elizabeth DeLong 910-265-4894 elizabeth40days4life@gmail.com
Tepora Beckman 910-330-8399  40dys4lifejax@gmail.com

40daysforlife.com/Jacksonville-nc

The Social Reformer’s Definition of Life: Demeaning the ‘Sanctity of Life’ for an Enhanced ‘Quality of Life’ (Roe v. Wade, revisited)

“One day, I walked into an operating room, to just be an observant, which we would do generally, as a medical resident. It was the 1960′s and abortion was still legal. They were performing this hysterectomy, which was a caesarean section. And they lifted out a fetus that weighted approximately 2 pounds, and it was breathing and crying and struggling to breathe. And it was put in a bucket and set in the corner of the room, and everybody in the room just pretended that they didn’t hear it. Soon the crying stopped. And the baby died. And I walked out of that room a different person. That same day in the OB suite, an early delivery occurred and the infant boy was only slightly larger than the one that was just aborted. But in this room everybody did everything conceivable to save this child’s life. My conclusion that day was that we were overstepping the bounds of morality by picking and choosing who should live and who should die. There was no consistent moral basis to the value of life under these circumstances. Some people believe that being pro-choice is being on the side of freedom. I’ve never understood how killing a human being, albeit a small one in a special place, is portrayed as a precious right.” (Ron Paul, Liberty Defined, pg. 1 and the Natural Right Convention 2007)


On Monday, January 23, thousands of pro-life supporters marched on Washington DC in the freezing rain to show their lend their voice to those who have no voice of their own – the unborn. In the struggle for rights and recognition, those most fragile and innocent among us look to those with a conscience and a heart to speak for them. Doctors and lawyers have let them down. Politicians have let them down. And in too many cases, their very mothers have let them down. But in the end, in the tribunal that mattered most (except in the kingdom of heaven, of course), the exalted Justices of the Supreme Court let them down. They minimized them, just as the others have. Next year, January 22, 2013, will mark the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which held that abortion is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution under an implied right to privacy and thus established the notion of abortion-on-demand. The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court announced nationalized abortion law, prohibiting states from deciding on the matter, and leaving the unborn defenseless.

CONTINUED:
http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/the-social-reformers-definition-of-life-demeaning-the-sanctity-of-life-for-an-enhanced-quality-of-life-roe-v-wade-revisited/

MESSAGE FROM SENATOR RAND PAUL

January 17, 2012

Dear Friend,


For 38 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 56 million 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 v. Wade, 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 the petition to your Senators and Congressman that I will link to in a moment.

You see, while the national media has talked a lot about the impact of economic issues on this past election, the untold story is just how well pro-life candidates did.


So it is vital every Member of Congress be put on record.

And your petition will help do just that.

Signing the Life at Conception Act petition will help break through the opposition clinging to abortion-on-demand and get a vote on this life-saving bill to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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.  And that's where your help is critical.

You see, it will be a tough fight, but I believe with your signed petition it is one we can win.

Please click here to sign your petition right away.

http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlac_petition.aspx?pid=pu2&npla=I1ABAC12I

Scientist: Human Life Begins at Conception, Fertilization

When one considers the ethics of manipulation, the question of whether we ought to, or whether we may manipulate an organism or entity depends on the answer to the first and most fundamental question:


What is it?

Ascertaining the identity and status of the object of our intended manipulation is essential.

In the fields of obstetrical medicine and reproductive medicine the ethical debates have raged for four decades. Enlightened discourse between opposing parties must assume good motives by all involved, and then go about asking the essential questions, following where the truth of science and reason lead.

Many claim that life begins at some point distant from fertilization, always beyond the point at which they propose some manipulation (abortion, embryonic stem cell culturing, etc…). There are always a list of biological functions that are given to define when human life begins: Cognitive capacity, etc.

The simple biological truth of the matter is that the Cell Theory states that all cells arise from pre-existing cells. There is no blackout period between sperm and egg uniting, and then the emergence of ‘life’ at some point distant.

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/18/scientist-human-life-begins-at-conception-fertilization/

NEW BERN LIFE CHAIN PRESS RELEASE

September 26, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:          Dr. Bart Spano; 252-633-4768                               
                           Carol Leake; 252-635-8236 

NEW BERN’S 20th ANNUAL LIFE CHAIN SET                   

                                                            

Annual prayerful protest scheduled for Sunday, October 2ndAs part of National Life Chain Sunday, the 20th Annual New Bern Life Chain will be held this Sunday, October 2, 2011 from 2:30 till 3:30pm.

The location for the one hour silent protest against abortion will be Martin Luther King Boulevard in New Bern between the Mall and IHOP on both sides of the highway. The appropriate permits from the City of New Bern have been acquired.The New Bern Life Chain is one of hundreds held across the country on the same day. Once each year the LIFE CHAIN invites the churches in each city and town across North America to stand on a designated local sidewalk and pray for one hour, while holding one of the approved pro-life sign messages. Signs will be provided. More information can be found at the following websites: http://www.nationallifechain.org/  and http://www.lifechain.net/  for a state by state list of Life Chains planned for 2011.

For more information, please call Dr. Bart Spano at 252-633-4768 or Carol Leake at 252- 635-8236

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She'd Be a Hero

Sat, July 9, 2011
Jonathan Ball

I share this because these were my thought often while watching the Casey Anthony trial coverage!
If you're like me, you've probably heard just about all you want to hear about the Casey Anthony murder trial.

As you know, Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her 2 year old child, Caylee.

Of course the nation wanted a conviction to help us feel better about the horrific death of this little girl.

But how is it that our nation can obsess over the horror of Caylee Anthony’s death and not see the parallel to abortion?

When I heard these comments by conservative commentator, Rush Limbaugh, it gave me pause.  If the child had died, what two years earlier in the womb, this woman would be a star. She'd be a hero.

You people in the media, if you really think she is guilty and you want to feel better about this just tell yourselves that she waited a couple of years to get an abortion and then you’ll feel better.

I think that while it may be uncomfortable to hear ... abortion is brutal, but it's never characterized that way ... and the reason is because there is an element of truth in it.

The only difference between Caylee Anthony and an aborted child is the location of their death -- one murdered outside the womb -- the other, inside the womb.

This is why I am so passionately pro-life.  My heart aches for every child whose life ends before he or she even gets a chance to take its first breath.

I am sad for the doctors and nurses who perform abortions because they believe they are "saving women's lives."

So many women who are already frightened by an unwanted pregnancy are misled and misinformed about the true nature of abortion and then pressured into having one.  I am angry about the lies women are told about their unborn child –- "It's a fetus, it's not a person."

It is a person.

Her heart beats 18 days after she is conceived.  All her body systems are present by 8 weeks and she can suck her thumb.

By 12 weeks she is fully formed, fingernails and all.

The truth is, abortion is the most extreme and brutal "solution" to the problem of an unwanted pregnancy.

I pray one day there will be the same outcry for the thousands of unborn children whose tiny limbs are torn apart and casually tossed into cold metal trash cans as there is now for the death of Caylee Anthony.

I also pray that the thousands of mothers entering abortion clinics today will have their hearts and minds changed towards life.

Will you join with me?  And if you can, today, please consider contributing to Americans for Life.
http://americans4life.org/afldonate.aspx?pid=0709


For One Million,
Jonathan Ball
Executive Director, Americans for Life


Americans for Life is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to fighting to end abortion in the United States. Americans for Life’s mailing address is P.O. Box 8411 Fredericksburg, VA 22404. Its web address is www.americans4life.org.