Family Research Council released a report this week that gave valuable insight to those who want to understand the women in our culture who are most vulnerable to abortion industry pressures and what risk factors affect them. This valuable research about the demographics of women who have had abortions reinforces what common sense would suggest – the more sexual partners a woman has, and the earlier she becomes sexually active, the more likely she is to have one or more abortions in her lifetime. Most importantly, the research shows how important strong families are in decreasing the likelihood of a woman having an abortion. Read more at LifeNews.com.
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Advances Abortion Funding Ban | NRL News Today
WASHINGTON (January 16, 2014) – Yesterday, the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved NRLC-backed legislation to permanently prohibit subsidies for abortion in federally funded health programs. [Read more…]
Abortion’s Forgotten Victim: The Aborted Baby’s Father | LifeNews.com
The articles and blog posts leading up to the 40th commemoration of the single greatest American tragedy all tell a similar story. The thread that runs common through all the stories is the unimaginable numbers. And the numbers drive the narrative of a nation painfully realizing that there are now fifty-five million children, who have been poisoned, dismembered, shredded and suffocated by abortionists who were given the right to do so by judicial fiat. [Read more at LifeNews.com.]
Birth Control Mandate In Health Care Law Blocked Hours Before Implementation | Family Policy of WV
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Barack Obama’s new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control.
Read the full article: Birth Control Mandate In Health Care Law Blocked Hours Before Implementation | Family Policy of WV.
Former Billy Graham writer to lead Family Policy Council of West Virginia | Family Policy of WV
The Board of Directors of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia has formally named Allen Whitt as the new President of the state’s leading faith-based public policy organization. Whitt is a former media writer and consultant for Dr. Billy Graham. He also served as Assistant to the President for Dr. James Dobson while at the international radio ministry Focus on the Family. Whitt is returning home to Appalachia after winning several pro-life and pro-family legislative victories in his roll as the Director of Policy for the Montana Family Policy Council. He is the successor to Jeremy Dys who pioneered the post for six years. Dys, now Senior Counsel for the Liberty Institute based in Dallas, TX, continues the fight for freedom by litigating cases to restore religious liberty according to the vision of the founding fathers. Chairman of the Council’s Board of Directors Jim Larrita, said, “Opposition groups on the left have recently… [Read more at the Family Policy of WV website.
Supreme Court will look at the links between breast cancer, abortion, and birth control
The World Health Organization classified birth control pills with estrogen and progestin as a “Group One” carcinogen.
“That’s the highest level that a cancer-causing drug can be listed as,” says Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer.
And Plan B, known as the morning-after pill, is nothing short of an extremely high dose of contraceptive.
“It’s highly carcinogenic,” Malec advises. “It’s listed on the same page with mustard gas and benzene, cadmium, etc. Asbestos and tobacco are also listed.”
Malec has filed a brief with the Supreme Court informing the justices of these stats.
“They already have 300,000 cases of breast cancer expected this year so this is only going to further increase it,” she says.
– See more at: http://onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2013/12/31/justices-will-view-stats-that-link-birth-control-to-cancer
Life Chain
Relayed to us:
“Could you please forward the following message to all the pro-lifers on your email list? Please join us if you can, and bring your pro life signs, in case we have more than 50 people (we have 50 signs). I already talked to Bonita and Jill. Thank you!!! -Cheryl
“Life Chain is a prayerful public witness to the plight of unborn children who are being aborted at the rate of 3600 every day. We will line up on the sidewalk holding pro life signs and pray silently for one hour for an end to abortion. You are invited to be a part of the Lewis County Life Chain on Sunday Oct. 6 from 2PM to 3PM beginning at Wendy’s in Weston and proceeding toward town. Life Chains are being held in WV in the following locations:
BERKELEY SPRINGS
CHARLES TOWN
CROSS LANES
HUNTINGTON
HURRICANE / PUTNAM COUNTY
KANAWHA VALLEY
KENOVA / WAYNE COUNTY
MARTINSBURG
PARKERSBURG / WOOD COUNTY
WEIRTON
WESTON / LEWIS COUNTY
Two Simple Ways to Save Babies this Summer!
#1: Write to Attorney General Morrisey
Attorney General Morrisey needs to hear from pro-life supporters, who want to have regulations and inspections of abortion facilities in the state. (He has provided for public comment on this issue.) Email your letters to regulatoryreview@wvago.gov or send letters by 5:00 p.m. on August 16 to:
Office of Attorney General
State Capitol Complex
Bldg. 1, Room E-26
Charleston, WV 25305
#2: Call Governor Tomblin
Governor Tomblin must act quickly to implement insurance regulations in the health care exchange to prevent abortion funding. Call the Governor at 1-888-438-2731 to tell him that you want the new ObamaCare health care exchange in West Virginia to prohibit state funding for abortions through the insurance policies. Many states have opted-out of funding abortion in the insurance exchange.
Did you know?
- West Virginia leaders should see that abortion facilities in the state are regulated and inspected to protect consumers’ health and life.
- West Virginia leaders should stop the funding of the abortion industry in the state with tax-payer dollars.
- The Grand Jury in the Gosnell case “found that Gosnell’s crimes could have been prevented if various state and city regulatory agencies had properly enforced the law.” Pennsylvania state officials began inspections and were forced to close additional abortion centers. Other states, who had inspections of their abortion centers, have also closed clinics around the country.
- Attorney General Morrisey pointed out that West Virginia’s abortion facilities are “neither licensed nor regulated by the State.”
- West Virginia State Department of Health and Human Services has reported “there is no state agency that specifically inspects clinics or facilities that perform abortion.” (Charleston Daily Mail, 6/10/13)
- West Virginia state tax dollars pay for these unregulated abortions through the State Medicaid program.
- The Federal ObamaCare Law allows states to opt-out of funding abortion in the insurance exchange. West Virginia should include regulations that will prevent state funding of abortion in the new health care exchange. Approximately half of the states have taken advantage of this provision and now opt-out of state funding.
Watch full video of WVFL life-changing event “40 Years of Roe”
Did you miss the “40 Years of Roe” event in Bridgeport sponsored by West Virginians for Life? Click below to watch the event in its entirety, streaming from the WVFL YouTube channel.
FREE Web Sites for WVFL State Chapters
Wanda Franz, President, West Virginians for Life
Pastor Doug Joseph, Harrison County West Virginians for Life
Harrison County WVFL is pleased to announce WVFL Chapters, a website network intended to house sites for each local chapter of West Virginians for Life. The network is the brainchild of Pastor Doug Joseph, of Clarksburg, working in conjunction with Linda Oldack (Harrison County chapter president), also of Clarksburg, and Wanda Franz (WVFL statewide president), of Morgantown. Joseph recently joined the Harrison County chapter’s planning committee, and there it was mentioned that their local chapter was then without any web presence. Joseph, who has extensive experience in web development (as well as in graphic arts), had recently built such a site network for his statewide church organization (the WV District of the United Pentecostal Church International), while he was head of their district missions department (he is now presbyter, serving the section covering north-central WV and the northern panhandle). That network made it possible for the department to offer web services to their member churches. Knowing the same technology could work here, Joseph offered the idea to Oldack at the monthly planning meeting. Soon afterward, Oldack discussed the idea with Franz. Tentative plans are for Joseph to present the full details of the concept to Franz and others in Morgantown, demonstrated by showing a working model of the Harrison County site, which could then be duplicated and edited as needed to create other chapter sites.