There is an effort currently underway within the American Medical Association (AMA) to abandon its decades-long position opposing assisted suicide and take a neutral stance which only sends a green light to the states that legalizing is acceptable. However, National Right to Life was recently made aware that the AMA will hold an interim meeting on November 13 and 14 in Orlando where a special breakout session will be held on assisted suicide. Both the national and state medical societies’ opposition to doctor-prescribed suicide have been instrumental in stopping the spread of these dangerous laws. In fact, when the Vermont and California medical societies took neutral positions, it was devastating to the efforts in the …

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by Wanda Franz, Ph.D., President West Virginians for Life Political Action Committee (WVL-PAC) has endorsed Donald Trump for President. Donald Trump has completed a candidate questionnaire with 14 of 14 pro-life answers. He has put out a list of possible Supreme Court candidates that have been widely praised as those who will uphold the Constitution, not legislate from the bench. He is committed to supporting the Republican platform that contains the most pro-life plank ever. He has chosen as his Vice Presidential running mate, Governor Mike Pence from Indiana. While Pence served in Congress, he was designated one of the 20 most Conservative individuals in the Congress and had a 100% pro-life voting record. Hillary …

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For those voting in WV’s 1st Congressional District: Below are the Pro-life GOP delegate recommendations from the PAC of West Virginians for Life. This is the 2-up version. Please print, cut, and distribute. Please take with you to the polls, and vote PRO-LIFE! For those voting in WV 2nd or 3rd Congressional District, a version of the above for your ballot is available (although the At-Large portion of the flyer applies to all three districts). Contact West Virginians For Life for more info. PDF version – 2016 Republican Delegate Endorsements – WV – 1st Congr. District – 2-up JPG version – 2016 Republican Delegate Endorsements – WV – 1st Congr. District – 2-up

Patsy Trecost, a Pro-Life Democrat from Harrison County, WV has announced that he is running for WV Secretary of State. Trecost will be challenging incumbent Natalie Tennant in the Democrat primary. Tennant is Pro-Abortion and is endorsed by the Pro-Abortion “Emily’s List.” Trecost has a Pro-Life voting record in the WV Legislature. Harrison County House of Delegates member Patsy Trecost, will run for Secretary of State. Trecost said he wants to restore the public’s confidence in government and improve elections in the state. Trecost is in the second year of his first term as a delegate. Before that, he served for 22 years on Clarksburg City Council. Source: Harrison County House of Delegates Member Patsy …

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Note: the following update from Carol Tobias, National Right to Life President, was sent out via email, Friday, January 23, 2015: Yesterday, the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, was a day of mixed emotions, a great high and a deep disappointment. Marches, rallies, and memorial services were held across the nation to remember the 57 million unborn children who have been lost to abortion, along with prayers, thoughts, and concern for the mothers of those children. In the nation’s capital alone, the numbers were surely in the hundreds of thousands. Yesterday was a day of joy as we celebrated the gift of LIFE. We rejoice as we see so many young people …

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Currently, each year many thousands of late-term babies, many of whom are viable (can survive outside the womb) are aborted — without anesthesia — and it is now known that they suffer excruciating pain as their little bodies are ripped apart, limb from limb. On Thursday, January 22, 2015 (the anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade/Doe v. Bolton decision by the US Supreme Court in 1973, which overturned existing laws regulating abortion and legalized abortion even up to the time of birth without regulation), Pro-Life legislators in both Washington, DC and in Charleston, WV plan to reintroduce the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would stop abortions on preborn babies after 20 weeks, when those babies are known …

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