Changing Hearts & Minds in Pocahontas County WV

“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

—Ronald Reagan

State President's Blog

The President of West Virginians for Life is Wanda Franz, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Child Development and Family Studies at West Virginia University. She is also the past president of the National Right to Life Committee, a position she held for 20 years. The "President’s Corner" contains her letters and up-to-date commentary....

County President's Blog

Judy Fuller has been part of the pro-life movement in Pocahontas County for over 20 years with a brief break when she was in Tucker County and revitalized the group. She has been married for 40 years and has three sons and two grandsons. Her oldest son is Down Syndrome and lives at home with mom and dad. Read more....

Calendar of Events

Stay up to date with Pro-Life events, chapter planning meetings, legislative involvements & deadlines, etc. Since our calendar is Google-based, if you have a free Google account you can subscribe to our calendar and get reminders (via email, SMS text message, or direct pop-up in the browser) for upcoming events.

Revival in the WV House of Delegates! | NRL News Today

Posted on by Posted in Legislation, Politics, Statewide WVFL News Leave a comment

CHARLESTON, WV – Unborn babies who are capable of feeling pain won a great victory in the West Virginia House of Delegates today. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.B. 4588) passed out of the House Health and Human Resources Committee without debate on February 17, 2014.

This legislation will protect West Virginia’s unborn babies who can feel pain from a gruesome death by dismemberment or other horrific late abortion techniques. Substantial medical evidence demonstrates the baby’s ability to feel pain is present by 20 weeks of life.

After being double-referenced to two committees in the House, The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.B.4588 – formerly H.B.2364) was essentially dead in committee – just as in years past.

The bill experienced a revival on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, when a Motion to Discharge the committee reference was offered by… [read more via Revival in the WV House of Delegates! | NRL News Today].

Update on Pain Capable Child Protection Act

Posted on by Posted in From the Chapter President, Legislation, Statewide WVFL News Leave a comment

Last week was our annual West Virginians for Life Day at the Legislature in Charleston. The capitol is a very beautiful, but it is sick inside. We had hundreds of people there to encourage our representatives to “Vote to Discharge” a bill from our Health Committee. The bill is the Pain Capable Child Protection Act, written to stop abortion after twenty weeks post-fertilization. It failed to make it out of committee by a vote of 48 to 48. Any bills written by West Virginians for Life are noted into law, if they can get out of committee. That is where they get us every time. (They have been doing this for 29 years.) We got word last night that they are going to allow a “reconsideration” of the bill, tomorrow. Please pray. Pray for the pro-life delegates to be bold and unyielding. Pray that Satan’s plans will be thwarted and that the enemies will be confused. Every year that pro-life bills die in committee, babies are dying from inaction. I thank God for what He is going to do. Thanks.

To see a video explaining scientific support for the fact that preborn babies are capable of feeling pain early in the gestation period, click here.

Video: Medical Experts Confirm Unborn Children Feel Pain During Abortion | LifeNews.com

Posted on by Posted in County-wide WVFL News, General, Legislation, Nationwide ProLife News, Statewide WVFL News, Worldwide ProLife News Leave a comment

Three medical specialists discuss the science of preborn children experiencing pain during an abortion procedure. House Bill 2 and Senate Bill 1, currently considered in the Special Session of the Legislature, establish the state’s interest in protecting the lives of preborn children who feel pain. Dr. Paul Liu, Dr. Ingrid Skop, and Dr. Greg Bonnen all speak to the behavioral and physiological evidence confirming that …. [Read more via Video: Medical Experts Confirm Unborn Children Feel Pain During Abortion | LifeNews.com.]

Viral Video of Baby in Amniotic Sac Questions Abortion, Shows Humanity of Unborn Babies | LifeNews.com

Posted on by Posted in Culture War Leave a comment

A video that has recently gone viral on Facebook with over 195,000 shares that depicts a pre-born baby inside of its amniotic sac. The video has sparked massive discussion on social media about the humanity of the unborn, legality of abortion, and reality of what life in the womb looks like. Some commenters on these social media outlets have speculated that the baby was delivered as the result of an auto accident, although we could not confirm this. Read more at LifeNews.com.

Doc Delivers Baby Still in Amniotic Sac, Would Abortion be OK? | LifeNews.com

Posted on by Posted in Culture War, General, Worldwide ProLife News Leave a comment

Click to enlarge

A Greek doctor posted this incredible picture on his Facebook page of a baby he delivered. And as you can see… it was no ordinary delivery.

The baby was delivered via c-section, but was still inside the amniotic sac after being removed from the mother’s body. In fact, according to Dr. Aris Tsigris, the OB/GYN in charge of this delivery, the baby… [read more via “Doc Delivers Baby Still in Amniotic Sac, Would Abortion be OK?” | LifeNews.com].

16 Teens Rescued From Sex Trafficking in Super Bowl Sting | LifeNews.com

Posted on by Posted in General Leave a comment

sextrafficking_672x373

It’s the ugly side of the Super Bowl – the reality that America’s most popular sporting event is also likely America’s biggest day for sexual slavery. The day that sells the most tickets and the most coveted ad spaces is also the day that results in the most sales of little girls and women, at prices inflated to match the expense of the event. In a cruel outplay  of the economic reality of “supply and demand,” it is not only local pimps who make a big profit – women and girls from all over the country are often brought in to the destination city to ensure that travelers for the big game have enough “side entertainment” available. Read more: 16 Teens Rescued From Sex Trafficking in Super Bowl Sting | LifeNews.com.

Dobson to gov’t: You can’t make us comply with birth-control mandate

Posted on by Posted in Culture War, General, Legal-Courts, Nationwide ProLife News, Politics Leave a comment

Dobson-James-familyTalk

Respected Christian leader and author James Dobson makes it clear his pro-family ministry puts the issue of life first and foremost – even if it means shutting down.

Dr. Dobson didn’t hold back Thursday during an interview regarding his organization, Family Talk, and its challenge of a federal mandate for employers to cover abortifacients.

“We are suing [HHS Secretary] Kathleen Sebelius for forcing or trying to force all of us to give abortifacient medications to our employees,” he summarized on American Family Radio, “and I just absolutely refuse to do it. We’ll close down before I’ll do it.”

Several other employers are challenging the mandate, including the for-profit Hobby Lobby.

“Ours is a Christian non-profit,” he explained. “[The government has] exempted churches from having to do this, but they’ve concluded that other Christian non-profits are not ‘Christian enough.'”

[Read more on the OneNewsNow site.]

Here’s a secret — marriage is America’s most effective anti-poverty program | Fox News

Posted on by Posted in Nationwide ProLife News Leave a comment

If you graduate from high school, work full time, and postpone marriage and childbearing until after the age of 21, your chances of being in poverty are only 2 percent. If you don’t do all of those three things, your chances of poverty rise to 77 percent.

via Here’s a secret — marriage is America’s most effective anti-poverty program | Fox News.

Annual Pro-Life Rally & Day at the Legislature

Posted on by Posted in County-wide WVFL News, General, Politics, Statewide WVFL News Leave a comment

Rally-Event

Come in car pools, vans and busses!  Please join West Virginians for Life in traveling to Charleston on Tuesday, February 11, for the annual Pro-Life Rally and Day at the Legislature.  The day’s events last from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and include special music and a Prayer Walk through the Capitol following the main rally at noon.

This year’s rally is more important than ever given that West Virginians DO NOT want abortion coverage included in the new WV Health Care Exchange.  Abortion is NOT health care.  It takes the life of a defenseless unborn baby.

Let your legislators know you support not only an Abortion Opt-Out in the new health care exchange, but also that you stand in defense of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, which would outlaw abortions in WV after the unborn child feels pain, which has been scientifically proven to be at least 20 weeks.  Free t-shirts until they run out to the first ones to arrive.

Please print out a flyer and for more detailed information, call the State Office at 304-594-9845.

1 Easy Step to Help the Cause of Life

Posted on by Posted in Culture War, General, Politics Leave a comment

D.Joseph-response-to-SOTU-2014-01-28-at-10

Our president just finished his State of the Union address. I watched it live on YouTube. (The live link is gone, but archive links abound.)  Many statements were laudable. Some represented some degree of obfuscation and thus were irritating. Sometimes I agreed, while at other times I disagreed strongly. However, one phrase in particular both “stuck out” and especially irritated me. There was nothing terribly wrong with the statement itself. What was wrong was the conflict between the statement and the extreme pro-abortion attitude of the man who issued the statement. He indicated that the best thing we can do for our children is to invest in early education (referring to pre-K schooling).

Mr. Barrack Obama is the most extremely pro-abortion president in history. (Some time ago he actually attended the annual “Planned Parenthood” conference, officially addressed them, and concluded by telling this tax-supported, baby-murdering organization, “God bless you.” Thus, it galled me to hear him say that what was most beneficial for our children was to invest in early education.

After his speech, his supporters (who organized the follow-through) invited online viewers to go to a White House-operated website and watch while questions from Twitter and the blogosphere were answered by a panel appointed by the administration. The hashtag (to post a question or participate in the conversation) is: #SOTUchat

So, I fired up my Twitter account, put in the hashtag, and tweeted this:

Feel free to copy and paste. If you have a Twitter account, retweet it. If you have a Facebook, a blog, or whatever, use your platform say something for the cause of Life. Regardless, do something, even if it’s just teaching your family in devotions or discussing it with a neighbor or coworker. Do something to participate. Be part of the Pro-Life Generation that will see Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton overturned in our lifetime.

Note: If you are looking for solid stats and amazing information to bolster your argument in favor of life—great information that is usable in everything from family devotions to debates with liberals—click to watch the awesome video below.

During quite a few of these frozen days of being snowed in, I spent many, many hours editing the video of a major Pro-Life event, at the request of Dr. Wanda Franz, Ph.D., who is the former head of the National Right To Life Committee, and current President of West Virginians For Life, and Mary Anne Buchanan, who is the Program Director for West Virginians For Life. Recently I finished the DVD production phase, and this past Monday I mailed out the DVDs to the WV For Life office. The next phase was to distill the video stream for YouTube. Last night I finished that aspect of this project, and started the upload to YouTube. Early this morning (in the wee hours) the upload to YouTube was finally completed. Behold:

Share this link to an awesome Pro-Life video: http://youtu.be/Im5pFzDfpWA