Category Archives: Worldwide ProLife News

Historic Night in WV as Amendment 1 Passes and Successful Endorsements Allow for Biggest Pro-Life Gains Yet

Amendment 1 historically passed statewide with 5,878 voters making the difference. Legislative Coordinator for the WV Alliance for Ethical Health Care, Mary H. Tillman, JD, said, “The WV Alliance for Ethical Health Care, West Virginians for Life, and organizations that advocate for the rights of persons living with disabilities celebrate the successful passage of Amendment 1. Following the strong example of our legislators who voted by overwhelming majorities, the voters of WV have now also shown their belief that all lives in our beautiful state, regardless of age or ability, will be respected and protected from the dangers of medically-assisted suicide. West Virginia becomes the first state in the United States of America to proactively protect all its citizens and health care institutions from the dangerous trend of assisted suicide by a state constitutional amendment.”

Of the 113 races in which the West Virginians for Life PAC (WVL-PAC) endorsed candidates, a 95% success rate has been realized. West Virginia, not surprisingly, gave all four of its electoral votes to Donald Trump on November 5. WVFL President Wanda Franz, Ph.D., said, “West Virginia is a national leader in its support for the conservative pro-life values of former President Donald J. Trump, who represents the values of WV families.”

With 69% of the vote, Jim Justice won the US Senate seat left open by Joe Manchin’s departure. First District Congressional incumbent Carol Miller retained her seat for a third term. In the Second Congressional District, Riley Moore defeated his opponent by a margin of 71%-29%. This completed a pro-life sweep of the entire slate of federal candidates.

The WVL-PAC enjoyed wins in all six statewide races. Patrick Morrisey won the governorship with 69% of the vote. JB McCuskey will be the new Attorney General ensuring that pro-life legislation will be defended if challenged. Kris Warner easily won the Secretary of State seat. Mark Hunt will be the State Auditor. Kent Leonhardt will remain Agriculture Commissioner.

Of the 16 Senate races in which endorsements were made, 15 were winners. Thirty-three of 34 senators will be supporting pro-life policies.

WVL-PAC can report only five losses in the endorsed State House races. With a net gain of +6 pro-life seats, 87 of the 100 members of the State House will be pro-life as the next legislative session begins in February 2025.

In conclusion, Wanda Franz, Ph.D., WVL-PAC president, said: “West Virginians for Life is proud of its overwhelming success in supporting pro-life legislators and we look forward to working with them in the upcoming session.”

West Virginians for Life, the state affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, is the state’s largest pro-life group with more than 30 local pro-life chapters. West Virginians for Life works through education, legislation, and political action to protect those threatened by abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and assisted suicide.

Fox Opts for Drag Queen Super Bowl Ad Over Abortion Survivors

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1YciyJG3WQ

March For Life (2019)

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

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.

March For Life (2015)

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.

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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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.

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

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

South African Doctor Faces Charges for Advising Abortion “Kills a Human Being”

A doctor in South Africa is facing charges of being “guilty of dissuading his patient from terminating her pregnancy, of disrespecting the dignity of the patient and using emotive language to convey his beliefs to the patient.”

He simply advised a pregnant woman that abortion “kills a human being.”

Click to read more at nationalrighttolifenews.org.

https://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/2019/09/south-african-doctor-faces-charges-for-advising-abortion-kills-a-human-being/

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.