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

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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.

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

VIDEO: Recent State Pro-Life Laws – James Bopp, Jr. J.D. at NRLC Convention 2019

VIDEO from “Recent State Pro-Life Laws-Idealist or Pragmatic: Pursuing an Effective Legal Strategy to Protect the Unborn and Overturn Roe v. Wade”- Taken from a workshop given at the National Right to Life Convention in Charleston, South Carolina on July 6th, 2019.

Big Tech Bias — Blocking Pro-Life Groups From Advertising

Pro-life groups/ads have been blocked by Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, et al. As reported by IrishCentral and Lifesite: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook deliberately banned pro-life ads from the US during the Irish abortion referendum after the Irish government told them they had no laws either way to cover such foreign advertising.

The depth of their bias is being revealed. As reported by Mat Staver (Liberty Counsel): a senior software engineer at Google stepped out of the shadows to confirm that Google is “very politically biased.” Greg Coppola has a Ph.D. in computer science. This executive, who was with Google for five years, went on camera with Project Veritas to issue these explosive charges: “I’m very concerned to see Big Tech and the Big Media merge, basically, with a political party, with the Democrat Party…. We…are seeing tech use its power to manipulate people…. We have tech that really, first of all, is taking sides in a political contest.” Coppola, who works on artificial intelligence and Google Assistant—or at least he did, until the tech giant put him on “administrative leave” insists, “We’re just at a really important point in human history.” Coppola declares, “It’s time to decide. Are we going to just let the biggest tech companies decide who wins every election from now on?”

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CBS, NBC May Join Netflix and Disney in Boycotting Georgia After It Banned Abortions

From LifeNews.com: “In recent years, Georgia has become something of a second home for Hollywood as the state has opened itself up to filmmakers. But ever since the state took a stand to defend the lives of the unborn, the liberal elites on the other side of the country have demanded Georgia bend to their will or face a boycott. The CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News not only hyped the boycott Thursday, but they also touted that their parent companies might join in.” Click to read more!

CBS, NBC May Join Netflix and Disney in Boycotting Georgia After It Banned Abortions