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Week of June 4, 2008
 

PRO-LIFE VOTERS MUST WORK OVERTIME TO STOP PRO-ABORTION BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Washington, DC -- A spokeswoman for a leading pro-life group says pro-life advocates need to begin work today to stop likely Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Karen Cross, the political director for National Right to Life, says Obama would advocate abortion at every turn if elected president. "Senator Barack Obama has a strong position and voting record in favor of abortion on demand," Cross told LifeNews.com. "He strongly supports the appointment of only U.S. Supreme Court Justices who favor Roe v. Wade." That means Obama would ensure legalized abortion throughout the entirety of pregnancy will remain legal in the U.S. for another 35 years, Cross says. "If Senator Barack Obama becomes president of the United States, hundreds of thousands more unborn children will likely die each year," Cross warns.
Source: LifeNews, June 4, 2008

ABORTION CENTER IN ILLINOIS HIT WITH SECOND BOTCHED ABORTION LAWSUIT IN WEEKS
Granite City, IL -- The Hope Clinic for Women located in the Illinois side of border of St. Louis, is the subject of the second botched abortion lawsuit in six months. In this new case, a young woman says the abortion center failed to do a complete abortion and left part of her unborn child inside of her -- causing her infertility. Antoinette Blanton, who is 20, filed a $50,000 against the abortion center saying the failed March 2006 abortion caused her to be sterile. According to the lawsuit, abortion practitioner Allen S. Palmer, of Bridgeton, failed to remove the entire unborn child during the abortion procedure. The Granite City Press newspaper indicates attorney Christian Montroy of the Rex Carr Law Firm in East St. Louis filed the suit for Blanton in Third Circuit Court and that the case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Andy Matoesian. The paper indicates a deposition was held May 16 but no other court dates for hearings have been set. Local pro-life advocate Angela Michael told LifeNews.com she's not surprised by the lawsuit because legalizing abortion didn't make the abortion procedure any safer for women. "Back-alley abortions were supposed to be a 'thing of the past,'" after abortion became legal and multi-million dollar abortion centers like Hope were opened. "When are the Illinois Board of Health and legislators going to wake up and public outrage going to hold the butchers inside Hope abortion Clinic accountable?" she asked.
Source: LifeNews, June 4, 2008

KANSAS GRAND JURY NOT GETTING ABORTION RECORDS DESPITE HIGH COURT RULING
Wichita, KS -- A Kansas grand jury that is investigating late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller has yet to receive any of the abortion records it needs to determine whether he broke state abortion law. That's despite a Kansas Supreme Court ruling from nearly one month ago that the subpoenas it issued for the records should be honored. Fewer than 20 abortion records have been turned over from Tiller's abortion center to the independent attorney assisting the grand jury, according to an AP report, even though the grand jury wants to look at as many as 2,000 from the past five years.
Source: LifeNews, June 4, 2008

PRO-LIFE CATHOLIC GROUP URGES QUESTIONING CANDIDATES ON REALITY OF ABORTION
Opinion -- With the primaries now behind us, the general election season is underway. As we have done in the past, and as we do all year long, Priests for Life will again be very vocal in the coming months about the responsibilities we all have “to participate in building the culture of life” (US Bishops, Living the Gospel of Life, n.34). The voters will hear from us, the candidates will hear from us, and the message will be clear: “The direct and intentional destruction of innocent human life from the moment of conception until natural death is always wrong and is not just one issue among many. It must always be opposed” (US Bishops, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, n.28).
LifeNews.com Note: The following is a statement from Priests for Life, a leading pro-life Catholic group that works to educate pro-life advocates on issues like abortion. Led by Father Frank Pavone, Priests for Life has been active in urging pro-life voters to make abortion their number one priority.

LOUISIANA SENATE APPROVES BAN ON TAXPAYER FUNDING OF HUMAN CLONING
Baton Rouge, LA -- The Louisiana Senate, on Tuesday, voted unanimously to approve legislation that bans state taxpayer funding of human cloning. The bill prohibits using any state funds on either reproductive or research-based human cloning and the Senate vote follows a 90-9 vote in the House in April. The Senate voted 35-0 for Rep. Cameron Henry's legislation and now the House must sign off on minor changes the Senate made to it. Once that happens, the measure will head to pro-life Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has already indicated he will sign it into law. Dr. W. "Al" Krotoski, the president of the pro-life coalition group Hippocratic Resource, told LifeNews.com he's delighted by the vote. "After four long years of battling pro-cloning forces to a draw in the Louisiana legislature, we will now be protected from having our taxes used to manufacture human life," he said.
Source: LifeNews, June 4, 2008

 

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California ProLife Council (CPLC) (www.californiaprolife.org.) is the largest statewide organization in California solely dedicated to pro-life issues. CPLC is a non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization of pro-life groups and individuals in California dedicated to protecting and fostering the most basic value of our society- respect for LIFE itself.  We seek to educate our community in regard to abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide, to identify and organize the pro-life population of the state into an effective team, and to restore respect for human life to public policy.  California ProLife Council is the California affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (www.nrlc.org)