Changing Hearts & Minds in Summers 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

Teresa (Terri) Keatley, of Forest Hill, is married, has two children, four grandchildren, and is a retired elementary school teacher. As President of the WV For Life Summers County Chapter, and a WVFL state board member, she promotes Pro-Life values in policy & law, while educating Summers County citizens. Read more....

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

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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

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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.

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Better yet, step up to Rose Society Membership while you’re there!

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

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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”

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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 …

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Your Help Is Needed NOW!

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To NRLC state affiliates and chapters,

We assume you know and understand the connection between ratification of an Equal Rights Amendment and its likely effect of nullifying all pro-life laws enacted at the state and federal levels. A vote will be held in the U.S. House of Representatives next week (Feb. 12 or 13, we believe) on a resolution that seeks to remove, from the 1972 ERA, the seven-year deadline for states to ratify. According to the current theories of some ERA proponents, the effect of Congress passing this resolution, by simple majority votes and without the President’s signature, would be to immediately make the ERA part of the U.S. Constitution.

We have heard that many, many House members are not yet aware of the anti-Life implications of enacting the 1972 ERA. Please push your people to call their House member now! They are hearing from the pro-abortion/pro-ERA activists. They must hear from us: Vote NO on the ERA resolution, House Joint Resolution 79 (H.J. Res 79). If your U.S. House member is usually a reliable pro-life vote, do not assume they will vote with us on this. They may not have accurate information so need to hear from you.

This link, http://cqrcengage.com/nrlc/app/make-a-call?3&engagementId=506178, will provide you with a phone number to your Representatives office and talking points to use for the conversation.

Please disseminate this information to your grassroots activists ASAP and get those calls going!

For LIFE,
Carol Tobias, NRLC President
Douglas Johnson, NRLC Senior Policy Advisor
Jennifer Popik, JD, NRLC Legislative Director

PS. Late-breaking legislative and legal developments on the ERA are often reported first — and from an ERA-skeptical perspective — on the Twitter handle @ERA_No_Shortcuts

Baby rescued via abortion pill reversal celebrates first birthday

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Read more at NRL News Today.

Fox Opts for Drag Queen Super Bowl Ad Over Abortion Survivors

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While Fox Sports aired advertisements starring drag queens during Super Bowl commercial breaks, the network wouldn’t allow a 30-second commercial highlighting survivors of abortion.

The ad does not use the word “abortion” or any overt political statements. Instead, it features various individuals, all survivors of abortion, asking questions including: “can you look me in the eye and tell me that I shouldn’t be alive?”

Watch the ad now (below), and read more at The National Pulse.

WAPO: At the March for Life, Trump … greeted as a pro-life hero — because he is one

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March For Life (2019)

History is being made on Capitol Hill this week. No, I’m not talking about the presidential impeachment trial; that’s been done before. I’m talking about President Trump’s decision to become the first U.S. president to speak in person at the March for Life.

It’s hard to overstate how important this development is. No president has ever attended the March for Life — not Ronald Reagan, not George H.W. Bush, not my old boss, George W. Bush. They all addressed the marchers remotely, via telephone or satellite link. The arrangement always seemed absurd. The marchers were on the Mall, literally in sight of the White House. Why not go out and join them? But despite the best of efforts of many inside previous administrations, none did.

The message to pro-life conservatives was clear: They were the black sheep of the Republican coalition. Their presence was tolerated because their votes were needed. But while Republican presidential candidates couldn’t win the nomination without declaring themselves pro-life, the GOP establishment not-so-secretly loathed pro-lifers. The prevailing attitude was: There they go again, making people uncomfortable by talking about abortion.

Pro-lifers took the scraps they were thrown from the GOP table because they had nowhere else to go. In today’s Democratic Party, abortion is no longer treated as a necessary evil but as something to be embraced and even celebrated. In 2018, for example, New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, lit up One World Trade Center — the Freedom Tower — to celebrate the passage of a new law that removes most restrictions on abortion, even in the third trimester.

Pro-life Democrats have all but disappeared on Capitol Hill, and the Democratic orthodoxy today is taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand up to the moment of birth. Dissent from that orthodoxy is not tolerated. For more than 40 years, former vice president Joe Biden supported the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortions. He said that as a Catholic, he was personally pro-life and that “those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.” But in 2020, that isn’t good enough. Biden, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, caved in to the pro-abortion radicals last June, abandoned his principles and embraced taxpayer funding.

Given their lack of other options, pro-lifers accepted their second-class-citizen status in the GOP. Then along came Trump, a man who doesn’t care what the Republican establishment thinks. He has embraced the pro-life movement in a way no other president has. In 2018, he became ….

Read more at washingtonpost.com.

Hundreds of thousands protest abortion, hear Trump speak at March for Life — Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to attend the March for Life in person.

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March For Life (2015)

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life activists from countless backgrounds across the United States marched the streets of Washington, D.C. today for the annual March for Life, where President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to attend and speak at the event.

Wednesday was the 47th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which, along with its sister case Doe v. Bolton, imposed abortion on demand across the nation in 1973. At least 60 million preborn children have been slaughtered over the last 47 years. The theme of this year’s march is “Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman.”

Trump’s appearance was announced Wednesday evening.

“See you on Friday…Big Crowd!” he tweeted. Trump previously addressed marchers via recorded or live video message. Vice President Mike Pence spoke from the March for Life stage last year. Today, Pence is occupied meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican.

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President Trump Will Attend March for Life in Person, First President Ever to Join Pro-Lifers

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President Trump will become the first president to ever join the March for Life in person! He is by many indices the most pro-life president that America has ever had since the 1973 Roe and Doe rulings by the Supreme Court.

Click to read more at lifenews.com.