NRTL: Why Is Abortion Still Legal?

Hear Their Cry

This weekend I received a follow-up letter from a call I received earlier from a National Right to Life soliciter. The woman who's name was Evelyn, urged me to send $100 or $200 to fight Senator Barbara Boxer's nasty Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would essentially undo all of the meager incremental victories that the pro-life movement garnered since 1973, which hasn't been a whopping amount by any means.

Partially to get her off the phone and mostly because FOCA needs to be defeated, I told her that I would take her literature and agreed to send her some smaller amount than what she had originally requested. I was wondering how much of the money would go to paying the telemarketer (80-90%?) and how much would go to actually fighting FOCA. Oh well, I guess I'm an easy touch.

Upon further refection, I decided to go ahead and send the "promised" amount. However, I also sent the following letter to voice my concerns regarding the overall work of the National Right to Life Committee.

July 7, 2008



Ms. Wanda Franz, PhD.
President
National Right to Life Committee
512 10th St.NW
Washington, DC 20004

Dear Ms. Franz:

I am sending you a check for $15.00 to fight the FOCA, because I promised to do so to your telephone solicitor and because I want to see FOCA defeated.

I am very disappointed, however, with NRTL and many other pro-life organizations, who seem much to entrenched in playing politics and making little or no progress in stopping abortion.

I learned about the upstart American RTL organization which is oing what NRTL and others should have been doing all along. They are getting things done. In the State of Colorado this fall the people will be voting on a personhood amendment. Why has the NRTL gotten behind this effort?

I am afraid that the NRTL may be too beholden to the Republican Party to be as effective as it should be. John McCain supports embryonic stem cell research and I don’t hear any condemnation of his stand on this deadly issue.

Please do not send me anymore solicitation through the mail or by telephone until you begin to take some real action on stopping bortion. Your incremental approach is not working. There must be real progress made, with or without the GOP’s backing. Seems to me all the GOP cares about is getting power. I voted for President Bush twice and what did he and a GOP controlled congress accomplish regarding abortions? Next to nothing.

Sincerely,

On Abortion, Where Do They Stand?

I have read some things about Fred Thompson that make me not want to vote for him. In 1994 he said that he believed that abortion should be legal in the first trimester of the pregnancy and other statements which seemed totally pro-choice. He now says that Roe v. Wade should be overturned, and he would leave it up to the states to decide the law. But the right to life is guaranteed by the Constitution which should not be superseded by the states. As recently as this year he said that he would not vote for a law that would “criminalize a young woman” for choosing to have an abortion. He has said that he would not use abortion as a “litmus test” when selecting Supreme Court justices. I have not seen anything that would indicate that he has changed his mind about this. He has said recently that he believes that abortion should legal in cases of rape and incest and that he would not be in favor of either an amendment to the Constitution to ban abortion or to ban gay marriage.

If both an abortion doctor and a woman who is to receive an abortion conspire to murder the unborn baby, then they are both guilty. It is unacceptable to only punish one of the guilty parties. Anyone who consents to the abortion is guilty and should be punished just as if he or she did the same thing to any other innocent person. There should be equal protection under the law as the Constitution says. The National Right to Life’s endorsement of Fred Thompson means nothing at all to me.

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=57977

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Fred_Thompson

http://www.principledpolicy.com/?p=114

John McCain voted for federally funding embryonic stem cell research. I read that he believes that abortion should be legal in cases of rape and incest.

Mitt Romney used to be for legal abortion and special rights for homosexuals. He says he has changed his mind about these issues, but he still believes that abortion should be legal in cases of rape and incest. He is a Mormon and their Prophet (the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) recently made a proclamation that it is acceptable for Mormon women to have abortions in cases of rape, incest, and certain birth defects.

Rape is a horrible thing, but only the rapist should punished, not the innocent child. Such a child is no less of a person than any other baby. I have decided that I will never compromise on this when I vote. A candidate must be 100% pro-life.

Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter, and Tom Tancredo are the ones who believe that all abortions should be illegal. Duncan Hunter favors a Constitutional Amendment that would explicitly say that personhood begins at conception. Ron Paul and (I think) Mike Huckabee favor leaving it up to the States. I’m not sure of what Tom Tancredo’s exact position is on this.

http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=1657#Result

http://www.principledpolicy.com/?p=110

http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=17030

http://www.teamtancredo.com/issues.php

http://senate.ontheissues.org/Tom_Tancredo.htm

I saw one debate in which Tancredo and Paul said that they would not necessarily support whoever becomes the Republican nominee. But the rest of the candidates basically said that they would (even if it is Rudy Giulliani!!!???). The way Sam Brownback said this was particularly nauseating—thank God he dropped out.

National Right to Life: The Judas Iscariot of the Preborn

I didn't have time to write anything of my own this week, so here is a link to another article by Dr. Patrick Johnston about abortion.

http://ohiocp.org/judasofthepreborn.php

I added this to this post today (4/27/07):

There were some interesting comments which were left on a post two weeks ago by some people who were angry at me for talking about ectopic pregnancies. They think that I am being judgmental. Should there be a law that says that only women can talk to their doctors about this, and everybody else should always have to keep quiet about it? Can no one except an OB/GYN form a reasonable opinion about this? Who is really being judgmental? There are hundreds of physicians who agree with Dr. Johnston.