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Governor Signs 2nd Chances at Life Act

Please take a moment to call Senator Manchin and thank him for taking such a strong stand on keeping the filibuster. Call 202.224.3954.

Please visit WVSpeaks.com to find other urgent bills pertinent to the pro-life movement for which Senator Manchin’s vote may be the determining factor.

This was volunteer James Gomez in 2020 explaining to WV Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt how the Land on the Green challenge works. “If your tee shot lands on the green, you win a hat or shirt of your choice.” Leonhardt will be participating again in 2021.

West Virginians for Life Looks Forward to Seeing Golfers at PCC on July 10 for the 9th Golf FORE Life Tournament

    The beautiful course at Preston Country Club will be host to the most fun WVFL event of the year in just 10 short weeks.

    The First place foursome wins four $100 Visa gift cards. Second and Third place teams win vouchers for golf merchandise. The Putting Contest winner receives a $100 Lowe’s gift card. Many other prizes await the winners of the longest drive, longest putt, and closest to the pin challenges among others. A brand new car is yours with a hole-in-one on #18.

    If you’ve never eaten the mouthwatering offerings from Mountain State BBQ, you are in for a treat!

    The price has been lowered to $70 per golfer/$280 per foursome. What are you waiting for?

Register now to attend the 50th National Right to Life Convention!

    Join pro-lifers from around the country this year in Herndon, VA, June 25-26, for the 50th National Right to Life Convention! Check out the website for info on the speakers. Schedules are coming soon.

    Register today and book your hotel through the website for exclusive rates.

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice Has Signed “Second Chances at Life Act”

By Mary Anne Buchanan, WVFL Communications

    West Virginians for Life (WVFL) is pleased that Gov. Jim Justice signed the Second Chances at Life Act of 2021 on Wednesday, April 28. The bill will require that a woman be informed that the effects of the chemical abortion pill can be reversed to save her baby if she changes her mind after taking the first pill, but not the second.

    There was no formal ceremony due to Covid.

National Right to Life Political Director Karen Cross with Disability Rights Activist Melissa Ortiz

Ortiz to Keynote 23rd Annual Rose Dinner

    Melissa Ortiz is a disability rights activist whose personal story is well worth hearing on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at the Holiday Inn, Morgantown.

    Having served in a position under President Trump, Ortiz has several more accomplishments in addition.

Calendar of Events

  • May 1, 2021 (Saturday) – Ohio County Chapter of WVFL’s Walk-for-Life; Call 304-639-0410 for details
  • June 12, 2021 (Saturday) – Board Meeting, Clarksburg
  • June 26, 2021 (Saturday) – Upshur County Chapter of WVFL’s Walk-for-Life; Call 304-472-3434 for details
  • June 25-26, 2021 (Friday-Saturday) – National Right to Life Convention, Herndon, VA
  • July 10, 2021 (Saturday) – 9th Annual Golf FORE Life Tournament at Preston Country Club, Kingwood
  • October 9, 2021 (Saturday) – State Pro-life Convention, Trinity Assembly of God, Fairmont
  • November 11, 2021 (Thursday) – 23rd Annual Rose Dinner, Holiday Inn, Morgantown

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Amy Coney Barrett: Roe v. Wade is Not a “Super-Precedent” That Can’t be Overturned

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she doesn’t consider the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortion on demand a “super-precedent” that can’t be overturned.

Judge Barrett said Roe is not in same category as the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional because there is still a massive debate about whether Roe is legitimate.

Barrett says no one talks about overturning the Brown decision but explained that significant disagreement over it “indicates Roe doesn’t fall in that category.” She says it’s “not a case that’s universally accepted.”

“Well people use super precedent differently. The way that it’s used in the scholarship and the way that I was using it in the article the that you’re reading from was to define cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling and I’m answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesn’t fall in that category,” Barrett said.

Read more at lifenews.com.

Senate Democrats Trash Amy Coney Barrett: The Right to Kill Babies in Abortions “is at Stake”

Democrat senators backed by the pro-abortion movement blasted U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as a threat to Roe v. Wade on Monday during her Senate confirmation hearing.

Planned Parenthood favorites Sens. Kamala Harris, of California, and Cory Booker, of New Jersey, especially tried to drum up fear by claiming women’s rights are at stake. And by women’s rights, they mean abortion on demand. Barrett believes in “the value of human life from conception to natural death.”

“People are scared right now … because they know what a future without the protections of Roe v. Wade looks like,” Booker said at the hearing. “Without Roe v. Wade, our country looks like people being denied the ability to make decisions about their own bodies, not just while they are pregnant but being stripped of the right to plan for their future.”

Barrett is President Donald Trump’s choice to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an idol of abortion activists who died in September. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Barrett would solidify a strong 6-3 conservative majority on the high court.

Pro-life advocates hope and abortion activists fear that Barrett could lead to the undoing of Roe v. Wade and help restore protections for unborn babies.

Read more at lifenews.com!

Judge Amy Coney Barrett: “I Believe in the Power of Prayer.” Thank You for “Praying for Me”

Judge Amy Coney Barrett delivered her opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning and she made two major points.

First, she talked about the proper role of the courts, saying they are not supposed to make law and legislate from the bench. She also refused to back down to attacks from Senate Democrats on her faith, saying she strongly believes in prayer and thanked the many Americans who are prayer for her amid those attacks on her Christian faith.

“I believe in the power of prayer and it’s been uplifting that so many people have been praying for me,” Judge Barrett told members of the judicial panel.

“Nothing is more important to me, and I am so proud to have them behind me,” she added.

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Before that, Judge Barrett discussed the proper role of the Supreme Court.

“Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our life,” she explained. “The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the People. The public should not expect courts to do so, and courts should not try.”

“When I write an opinion resolving a case, I read every word from the perspective of the losing party. I ask myself how would I view the decision if one of my children was the party I was ruling against,” she went on to say. “Even though I would not like the result, would I understand that the decision was fairly reasoned and grounded in the law? That is the standard I set for myself in every case, and it is the standard I will follow as long as I am a judge on any court.”

The federal appeals court justice also praised Justice Antonin Sclaia, for whom she clerked, as a mentor and great influence on her judicial perspective and philosophy.

“Justice Scalia taught me more than just law. He was devoted to his family. Resolute in his beliefs. And fearless of criticism. And as I embarked my own legal career, I resolved to maintain that same perspective,” Judge Barrett said.

Read more at lifenews.com!

VIDEO: WV Gov. Jim Justice signs ‘The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act’ (HB 4007) on 3/2/2020

West Virginians For Life introduced and backed this legislation. We’re thrilled it’s now law, and that WV is yet again making nationwide news with pro-life leadership. Join us: wvforlife.org/membership — Better yet, step up to Rose Society Membership while you’re there! — Already a member? Give here: wvforlife.org/donate

Note: It’s newsworthy that our WV legislators succeeded in bipartisan passage of the very thing federal lawmakers can’t even bring to the floor: actionable protection for babies who survive abortionists’ best efforts to kill them. The Mountain State’s leadership continues to be noticed, and we’re genuinely influencing other states with pro-life values. We’ve got to keep a pro-life President in office and a pro-life majority in the Senate, to keep getting better judges & justices on the bench at all levels. Your pro-life support and vote are needed now more than ever.

WV makes nationwide news again with pro-life leadership

The Christian Post’s national headline reads: “W.Va. governor signs law requiring doctors to help babies born alive after abortion.” It’s newsworthy that our WV legislators succeeded in bipartisan passage of the very thing federal lawmakers can’t even bring to the floor: actionable protection for babies who survive abortionists’ best efforts to kill them. The Mountain State’s leadership continues to be noticed, and we’re genuinely influencing other states with pro-life values.

One of my WV friends responded with, “This is good, but how about we outlaw abortion…period!” That’s definitely the goal. Legal challenges are certain, however, and they would wind up at the U.S. Supreme Court’s door. So long as we lack a majority of justices willing to overturn Roe, each opportunity that SCOTUS turns away from tends to actually make it worse (for example, consider the new “undue burden” standard crafted by the 1992 Casey ruling). Even just last summer the high court overturned dismemberment abortion ban laws such as ours—a WVFL victory, passed in 2016, now wrongfully deemed unconstitutional and unenforceable.

Overturning the bad precedents of Roe is doable, but it will require a willing court. Sadly, indications are it’s not there yet, but we’re making headway. We’ve got to keep a pro-life President in office and a pro-life majority in the Senate, to keep getting better judges & justices on the bench at all levels. Your pro-life support and vote are needed now more than ever.

Click here to read the C.P. article.

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Joe Biden Wins Super Tuesday, Will Force Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood

Pro-Abortion Joe Biden Wins Big in Super Tuesday States, Finishes Ahead of Bernie Sanders

“Joe Biden, the former pro-abortion Vice President, is winning big … on Super Tuesday, as he is pulling in more delegates than fellow abortion activist Bernie Sanders. Biden won the Virginia and North Carolina Democratic primaries along with contests in Alabama and Tennessee.

“Biden is finishing in many states ahead of Sanders and holds leads in Massachusetts and Oklahoma as well as Arkansas and Minnesota, while Sanders won his home state of Vermont as well as Colorado.

“Sanders hopes to be able to collect a large number of delegates from California and Texas and, with 37% in, Sanders holds a lead in Texas at this time. California has yet to report any results as of this writing.

“Biden has been boosted by two of the top candidates pulling out and supporting him. First Pete Buttigieg dropped out on Sunday. On Monday, Amy Klobuchar called it quits.

“The pro-abortion Democrat presidential candidates have ended their campaigns to coalesce around pro-abortion former Vice President Joe Biden. They want to prevent abortion activist Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee….”

Read more at lifenews.com

Pete Buttigieg Celebrates Woman Killing Her Baby in an Abortion. Her Story “Lifts Us Up”

Mayor Pete celebrated the death of an unborn baby Sunday with abortion activists in Nevada.

Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democrat presidential candidate, met privately with supporters of the abortion chain Planned Parenthood near Los Vegas, Breitbart reports.

During the event, Buttigieg praised a woman for sharing her abortion story with him. The woman reportedly told him that she had an abortion in college, and, afterward, she struggled with feeling criticized and ridiculed for her abortion choice, according to reporters who attended the event.

Buttigieg thanked the woman for telling her abortion story, calling it “a reminder of how we are all lifted up when we honor individual freedom and support,” the report states. He also promised to force taxpayers to fund abortions if elected president.

Make no mistake, what Buttigieg and Planned Parenthood actually celebrated on Sunday was the death of an unborn child, not a right or a freedom, and a struggling young mother who should …

Read more at lifenews.com