Category Archives: Culture War

Rep. Dan Crenshaw rebuts Bernie Sanders’ bogus claim that “abortion is a constitutional right”

Radically pro-abortion Sen. Bernie Sanders, while campaigning for the highest office of the nation, had the indecency to describe the senseless killing of innocent, defenseless human beings as a “constitutional right.” He tweeted that, “Abortion is a constitutional right – not a privilege for those who can afford it.”

Many Americans think “rights” are for all, while “privileges” are for some, yet “right” and “privilege” are actually synonyms. The two words have historically meant exactly the same. Thus, in our Declaration of Independence, the Founders placed a couple of crucial modifiers in front of “rights” — to denote a short list of “certain inalienable rights” so as to describe them as being set apart from normal, mere rights (i.e. privileges), because these certain ones are given by God and are “inalienable.” Thus we point out that God never gave human mothers an inalienable right to destroy their own offspring while their babies are still in the womb, the place where they ought to be most protected, not exposed to being killed. Furthermore, the Founders explicitly included the God-given right to life as the top of that short list of actual inalienable rights. One cannot have their right to life be inalienable, secured and always honored, so long as someone else is legally permitted to kill them. Bernie Sanders, being Jewish, ought to remember well that the biblical Book of Esther describes exactly such an instance, when Jewish citizens’ right to life was not secure because a law decreed that Jews could legally be killed without any consequence of punishment.

Pro-life Rep. Dan Crenshaw (follow him on Facebook / Twitter) powerfully responded to Bernie Sanders’ atrocious, bogus claim, by tweeting back that,

PS: For any who are wondering why there should be two different words, right and privilege, that mean the same, consider that “right” is from Old English, while “privilege” is a borrow word from French — one of many. We have many such dual-word instances: drink (English) and beverage (French); and fight (English) and battle (French) are just two more examples of a very common duality in our language, due to its rich history.

-Pastor Doug Joseph
State Treasurer,
West Virginians For Life

BREAKING: British pro-life activist, mom of 5 denied entry to US after months of online persecution

LONDON, England, November 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― The UK director of an international pro-life organization was refused entry to the United States today.

Caroline Farrow, a British Catholic apologist and mother of five, was not permitted to board her flight for Orlando this afternoon, even though her travel to the USA had initially been approved by the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA). Farrow is a frequent guest on British media and is the UK Director for CitizenGO.

“Your ESTA has been denied,” Farrow told LifeSiteNews an airline representative told her at the desk, but could not tell her why.

“I’ve never been arrested,” Farrow said. “I’ve never even been interviewed [by police]. I don’t have a criminal record.”

“Somebody has obviously gone to the U.S. Embassy. How vindictive is that?”

Read more at LifeSiteNews.

Babies Born Alive After Abortion Can be Left to Die in 16 States

Excerpts:

Family Research Council today released a first-of-its-kind set of maps showing the strength of born-alive abortion survivor protection laws and the legal status of late term abortion in every state. Protections for born-alive abortion survivors became a national conversation when New York and Illinois walked back their protections earlier this year, removing existing protections for infants born alive during failed abortion attempts.

According to research conducted by Family Research Council, only fifteen states provide strong protections for born-alive abortion survivors, and only eight require reporting on infants who survive abortion. The maps also show which states have no laws protecting born-alive abortion survivors, which states allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, and some surprising differences between those lists.

Sixteen states have no laws protecting born-alive abortion survivors: Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia.

Twenty-two states allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, either directly or indirectly: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming.

Quena González, Director of State and Local Affairs at Family Research Council, said this was a direct result of what he called the “wave election” of 2010:

“The 2010 election cycle saw a record number of state-level Republicans elected. Many of them were pro-life, and as their majorities in legislatures and statehouses across the country continued to increase throughout the Obama administration, they enacted pro-life laws at a record pace.

Read more at lifenews.com.

West Virginians For Life is proposing new state legislation for the upcoming session that would outlaw leaving a baby to die after he or she survives an abortion.

SIGN THE WVFL PETITION: Stop Infanticide!

 

Martin Luther King Jr’s Niece: “Women Have Right to Choose What to Do With Their Body, Not the Baby’s Body”

When abortion activists talk about supporting women’s rights, they forget about the women who are not yet born, the niece of civil rights advocate Martin Luther King Jr. told students at Georgia Tech on Oct. 1.

Dr. Alveda King continues to champion the civil rights cause of her famous family by advocating for the most vulnerable people in the world today: unborn babies. Technique, a student newspaper at Georgia Tech, reported about her speech hosted by the college Students for Life club.

“I believe in women’s rights, but you know many of those little babies in the womb are women,” King told the crowd. “So you have to ask this question. A woman has the right to choose what she does with her body, but the baby’s not her body. So you have to ask next, where’s the lawyer for the baby?”

Read more at lifenews.com.

Supreme Court to review Louisiana abortion regulations, could mean the end of Roe

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will take up the case of Louisiana’s admitting privileges law, which could have the potential of upending the high court’s most recent pro-abortion precedent.

The court announced Friday it has decided to review June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, NPR reports. The case concerns Louisiana’s Act 620, which requires abortion centers to make arrangements for admitting women to hospitals within 30 miles in cases of life-threatening complications. The abortion industry’s attorneys argue the law is no different from the Texas law the Supreme Court struck down in 2016’s Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt; pro-lifers argue that not only was Hellerstedt wrongly decided, but that the Louisiana law is different from the Texas one.

Read more at lifesitenews.com.

Petition to end Roe presented at Supreme Court today with quarter of a million signatures

A petition to end Roe v. Wade was delivered to the Supreme Court yesterday with a quarter of a million signatures.

“We urgently plead with… the United States Supreme Court to do the right thing as you did in one of your greatest cases, Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned a 58-year-old precedent of the United States.”

Click here to sign the petition yourself. Click below to read more:

Petition to end Roe presented at Supreme Court today with quarter of a million signatures

VIDEO: CBS interview with National Right To Life’s Karen Cross

CBS News had the following to say about their interview with Karen Cross, who articulated well some key facts about abortion, the US Constitution, and the warped view of the 1973 SCOTUS that invented “out of whole cloth” a so-called “constitutional right” to abortion for any reason, at any time up until birth:

“Anti-abortion advocate on plan to challenge Roe v. Wade“

“CBS News spoke to Karen Cross, the political director of National Right to Life, the oldest anti-abortion rights group in the country. Cross said she doesn’t believe the Constitution includes the right to an abortion, and said her group is trying to pass laws that could overturn Roe v. Wade.”

Click below to watch the video clip:

URGENT! Call Senator Joe Manchin!

Senator Manchin is being flooded with phone calls from Planned Parenthood supporters telling him to oppose defunding Planned Parenthood facilities. Planned Parenthood is THE largest abortion provider in the country. The number of abortions performed in 2017 by PP was 332,757, which is over a third of the yearly total. Their other health care services have been steadily going down, while the number of abortions keeps going up revealing Planned Parenthood’s true profit motive.

According to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund site, Manchin is viewed as “a key senator and potential bridge between political parties.”

Pro-life voices must also be heard by Senator Manchin. The WV Primary Care Association website says, “West Virginia’s 31 Community Health Center (CHC) Organizations…in more than 360+ locations in the state…provide integrated comprehensive care to more than 450,000 patients.” What do West Virginians need a Planned Parenthood for when there are plenty of CHCs and they don’t perform abortions?

ACTION NEEDED!

When you call Senator Manchin at 202-224-3954, say some version of this:

“I’m calling to ask Sen. Manchin to support defunding Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the US. Over 450,000 West Virginians get their health care at Community Health Centers (CHCs) in WV. The CHCs don’t perform abortions. Pro-lifers would prefer to visit the CHCs rather than abortion-minded Planned Parenthood.”

(This post first appeared on the WV For Life statewide website, see link below.)

Call To Action

Euthanasia Grows: Canadian Supreme Court rules that patients have the right to die, including children

The Canadian Supreme Court in Quebec recently made a ruling on euthanasia, effectively making it easy for anyone diagnosed with a medical condition that causes “irremediable suffering” to die by a physicians’ hand. This ruling will extend to patients with mental illnesses like depression and even to children.

Euthanasia Grows: Canadian Supreme Court Rules that Patients have the Right to Die, including Children

WVFL Calls Out Poll Bias

West Virginians for Life today released a response to the WV Free press release which made claims that WVFL finds hard to believe. In the words of WVFL President Dr. Wanda Franz, “Given their history of misrepresenting the issue of abortion, it is difficult to take the results of the WV Free poll seriously without seeing the details of the questions asked plus the size and diversity of those sampled.”

Read the WVFL press release in its entirety here.

Read more of the latest WV For Life email blast here.

Subscribe to the WV For Life email list here.