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Week of June 26, 2008
 

BARACK OBAMA'S FLOWERY WORDS CAN'T COVER UP EXTREME PRO-ABORTION POSITION
Opinion -- Well, it's official. Barack Obama is the presumptive nominee; Al Gore has presented his imprimatur and the media, well, they are fawning all over Obama. But if Barack Obama is elected in November, those who have performed and promoted abortions will have found a new champion. And make no mistake, he will champion their cause. Barack Obama's language on abortion is loose and the delivery is designed to allow the listener to walk away feeling good about how the message was conveyed. This is intentional.
Source: LifeNews.com Note: Laura Echevarria is a LifeNews.com opinion columnist. She is the former Director of Media Relations and a spokesperson for the National Right to Life Committee and has been a radio announcer, freelance writer active in local politics.

TOP PRO-ABORTION ACTIVIST MEETS WITH BARACK OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Washington, DC -- Underscoring the close relationship presidential candidate Barack Obama will have with abortion activists if he's elected, his top campaign manager met with one of the key leaders of the pro-abortion movement. Ellen Malcolm, founder of Emily's List, met with campaign manager David Plouffe. The meeting took place at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago on Tuesday. While there is no transcript and not much in the way of news about the content of the discussions, it appears Obama and the pro-abortion group are on the same page. Malcolm would only tell CNN that the meeting, which took longer than an hour, was "great." Emily's List Executive Director Ellen Moran and Obama's deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand were also present for the powwow.
Source: LifeNews, June 17, 2008

PRESIDENT BUSH: AMERICANS FACE "CLEAR CONTRAST" ON ABORTION IN ELECTION
Washington, DC -- President Bush told a crowd at the President's Dinner on Wednesday night that Americans face a clear choice in November on abortion and judges. He noted that John McCain and Barack Obama couldn't be more far apart on the two key issues for the pro-life community. While McCain takes a strong position opposing abortion and has said he wants Roe v. Wade and its era of unlimited abortions overturned, Obama has repeatedly voted for abortions and making taxpayers fund them with public money. "This November, the American people will have a clear choice when it comes to confirming good judges and building a culture of life," the president said. "Republicans aspire to build a society where every human being is welcomed in life and protected in law," he explained. "We’ve funded crisis pregnancy programs and supported parental notification laws." "We outlawed the cruel practice of partial birth abortion. We defended this good law all the way to Supreme Court -- and we won," Bush added. "This victory shows how important it is to put good judges on the bench." Bush used the issue of judges to underscore his point and noted how McCain voted for his two Supreme Court picks who pro-life advocates think will help overturn Roe. Obama voted against both picks and has promised to only appoint judges who will keep unlimited abortions legal another 35 years.
Source: LifeNews, June 19, 2008

JOHN McCAIN KEEPING OPEN MIND TO EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH ALTERNATIVES
Washington, DC -- In John McCain, pro-life voters have a solid presidential candidate against abortion but they have had concerns about his desire to spend public funds on embryonic stem cell research. However, the Arizona senator continues to keep his mind open to alternatives to the destructive practice. McCain holds to the same pro-embryonic stem cell research position as Barack Obama but, unlike his pro-abortion opponent, McCain is open-minded to funding promising alternatives instead. Responding to a new statement the nation's Catholic bishops produced opposing embryonic stem cell research on religious, scientific, and moral grounds, a McCain representative had some positive things to say.
Source: LifeNews, June 19, 2008

FATHER WOULD HAVE PERSUADED DAUGHTER AGAINST LEGAL ABORTION THAT KILLED HER
Bristol, England-- A British father told a court hearing that he would have tried to persuade his teenager daughter against having the legal abortion that eventually claimed her life. Manon Jones had an abortion in June 2005 using the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 and bled to death two weeks later. As LifeNews.com has reported, Jones, an 18-year-old student from Wales, experienced heavy bleeding after the abortion, which was incomplete and left part of the unborn child's body inside her. Manon's father, Dewi Jones, told an inquest that he was never informed about his daughter's pregnancy or her decision to have an abortion until she checked into Southmead Hospital in Bristol with complications.
Source: LifeNews, June 20, 2008

ABORTION PRACTITIONER'S LICENSE SUSPENDED IN KENTUCKY, SHUTS DOWN CENTER
Lexington, KY -- A Kentucky abortion practitioner engaged in such shoddy practices that state officials have temporarily suspended his medical license. The action comes after Hamid Hussain Sheikh pleaded not guilty in November to charges that he wrongly billed the state for abortions at his business. Sheikh was arrested after Attorney General Greg Stumbo conducted an investigation and found he erroneously reported abortions as ultrasounds in Medicaid billing records. He was indicted on four counts of billing Medicaid for abortions and could face 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts. In the course of the investigation, the Kentucky medical licensure board talked with numerous former patients who said he treated them poorly. The agency also found problems at his abortion center. According to a WHAS-TV report, former patients told Kentucky officials Sheikh didn't perform ultrasounds prior to abortions, did a vaginal exam without sterile equipment, and several reported dirty clothing or saw blood on the equipment.
Source: LifeNews, June 19, 2008

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION BUSINESS FUNDING REMOVED FROM TROOP BILL
Washington, DC -- A provision that would have given financial benefits to the nation's largest abortion business was stripped at the last minute from the War Supplemental Bill. Pro-life groups had complained the measure to help fund the troops should never have contained a section to fund Planned Parenthood. The bill is supposed to provide funding for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Torn over a non-germane provision, the House was set to debate the Senate's version of the bill, which gives breaks to the abortion business and other similar groups. The measure gave Planned Parenthood a discount on contraceptives, the morning-after pill, and possibly the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug that has killed fourteen women worldwide and seven in the U.S. But Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America, tells LifeNews.com the House approved the bill Thursday night without the provision in it.
Source: LifeNews, June 19, 2008

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