What a great 24 hours it has been as the polls closed and races were called, many of which put pro-life Representatives into office. This also means many pro-choice legislators were voted out of office, many of whom have had a lot of power and influence in pushing ObamaCare forward and advocating against the unborn.
Here are several excellent rundowns from LifeNews.com on the biggest victories – both new pro-life blood coming in and bad anti-life going out.
If this doesn’t get your blood boiling six days before midterm elections, I don’t know what will.
A new Democratic campaign ad has unleashed an anti-Catholic attack and we are calling on St Michael Society members to demand Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine denounce the slur.
See for yourself …
“Democrats in Minnesota want to defeat an evangelical preacher, Dan Hall, who is running for the state senate there. So they sent out a mailer with this stunning image,” according to National Review Online.
Kathryn Lopez, story author, says it’s safe to say this is “unholy politics” and that Democrats can make their point “without the use of abuse of clerics.” Read her full piecehere.
Please contact DNC Chairman Tim Kaine at 202-863-8000 or e-mail at dmca@dnc.org
Ask him to denounce this anti-Catholic slur by the Minnesota Democratic Party.
The Catholic Church is the largest charitable organization on Earth. Defending the dignity of life is foundation of a moral vision for society and the motivating principle for Catholic charitable work including care for the poor.
There is a lot at stake for our culture and country as we head into the 2010 election cycle. We cannot afford to sit idly by as bad health care law leads to rationed care and euthanasia….as taxpayers are forced to pay for human experimentation through embryonic stem cell research….as over 4,000 pre-born babies are aborted daily, some of them paid for by taxpayers….as our public schools and universities teach to a material, Godless world…as our elected officials propose policies that lead to population control….the list goes on and on.
This November, we need to work to get our Catholic family members, friends and fellow parishioners out to vote.
SMS will soon launch a Vote Your Faith Campaign. Each week we will highlight key races, candidates and issues important to Catholics and a culture of life.
We will be working with other Catholic organizations such Catholic Vote and Catholic Answers to serve as an information provider to Catholics through the country. We hope you will join us by becoming a Catholic Activist this election cycle. All you need to do to be a Catholic Activist is agree you will consider voting your faith and see where politicians seeking your vote stand on key Catholic issues.
To get things off the ground, we encourage you to consider reading this letter from Catholic Answers President Karl Keating, outlining CA’s plans to produce and mass distribute Catholic Voter Guides throughout the country. An excerpt from the letter could not make things clearer:
If Catholics—who are about 23% of the population—had consistently voted in line with Church teaching over the last few decades (and had insisted that their elected representatives do likewise), our society would look much different.
We have virtually unrestricted abortion? We wouldn’t, if America’s Catholics had raised a ruckus about it forty years ago—and kept raising a ruckus.
We have embryonic stem-cell research? We wouldn’t, if Catholics had told Congress, “Not with our money, you don’t!”
We have same-sex “marriage” and euthanasia and even human cloning making headway? We wouldn’t, if Catholics had been persistent in voting according to Church teaching on these matters.
But the sad fact is that Catholics haven’t voted like Catholics. They haven’t really made their faith part of their civic lives.
Please join us and help us spread the word. Be an activist for our Catholic Faith.
A battle royal is occurring in the GOP primary in New Hampshire. In a five-person Republican primary, the two frontrunners are purportedly “pro-life.” The other three are “pro-choice.” Let’s look at those two frontrunners: Devout Catholic and pro-life conservative Ovide Lamontagne and former NH Attorney General Kelly Ayotte. Pro-lifers have lined up on both sides in this political contest between the two frontrunners. Recent polls showed Lamontagne having momentum and coming within striking distance of Ayotte, who has been in first place the entire race, having been anointed by the Washington Establishment and the GOP money machine. As Lamontagne and Ayotte vie for the pro-life vote, it is important for New Hampshire Catholics and pro-life voters to know what they may be getting before they cast their vote.
Ovide Lamontagne is a lifelong devout Catholic and for his entire career has supported the right to life “from conception until natural death” — period. In the final candidates’ debate last night, he quoted the Declaration of Independence to reinforce that our nation was founded on the premise that all human beings are endowed “by our Creator” with the unalienable right to life at the moment we are created — at conception.
Ovide has not just “talked the talk” — he has “walked the walk” as a pro-lifer. He is the father of two adoptive daughters and is the legal guardian of a special needs foster son. He supports a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution.
Kelly Ayotte has no public record of being a prolifer and has made no public statements on the right to life of the unborn; her campaign refers to how she has fought for “parents‘ rights” in her actions, as Attorney General for a pro-choice Democrat governor, in defending New Hampshire’s parental notification statute in the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, it as correct for her to defend that statute on legal grounds, and she did. But when asked about her own position on abortion, press reports indicate that she is “prolife with exceptions”: she would allow abortions in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother, and — depending on which press report you read — “health of the mother,” “danger to the mother,” or “medical emergency” — all of which amounts to abortion on demand. At last night’s debate, one of the pro-choice candidates bluntly pointed out: “Ms. Ayotte says she is ‘pro life with exceptions.’ That means she’s pro-choice.”
And during her campaign, Ayotte voiced support for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, now Justice Sonia Sotomayor, saying that if she had been in the Senate at the time, she would have voted for the liberal judicial activist. This is a major blow to the pro-life cause. One day, with consistent prayer and hard work, we will overturn Roe v. Wade and return the Constitution to its true interpretation. But we will not overturn Roe, and defend the unborn, if we support candidates who say they are pro-life, but when the time to lead comes they jump to the other side.
Watch Ayotte talk about her support for Obama liberal judge Sonia Sotomayor:
To many pro-lifers, Ayotte’s support for Justice Sotomayor is enough to disqualify her from our support.
For those who might turn a blind eye to Ayotte’s support for Sotomayor, here is our view of what occurred with Ayotte and the NH parental notification law. Her actions suggest that her characterization of events is suspect at best, and is likely highly deceptive:
1. January 2006: The U.S. Supreme Court in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood rules that states do have authority to enact parental notification statutes, and that the lower courts were too harsh in striking down NH’s law entirely. The case is sent back to lower federal court to address the proper remedy for a supposed constitutional violation in one part of the law.
2. November 2006: While the case is pending in remand in federal court, Democrats take over all levels of NH government — the legislature and the executive.
3. January 2007: The new Democrat leadership introduces legislation to repeal NH’s parental notification statute completely.
4. February 2007: Ayotte refuses to testify on the repeal legislation that would wipe NH’s parental notification off the books. She has spent untold hundreds of thousands of dollars in NH taxpayer money to defend the parental notification statute, taking it to the Supreme Court. That law that has been validated in part is now threatened with being expunged from the books altogether. Yet Ayotte – who was willing to go before the legislature to testify on other issues such as medical marijuana, gambling, and capital punishment, refuses to defend before the legislature the very law that she was defending in the court.
Ayotte could have testified against the repeal and said: “Don’t wipe this statute off the books. We won! This is constitutional! This is good law that will save lives!”
Or she could have said “Don’t do this – we won! Your action is going to waste all of our efforts and taxpayer money that went into defending it!”
Ayotte chose neither approach. From a moral and fiscal standpoint, she utterly abdicated her role as an advocate that she claims to be. I suspect it is due in part to: (a) her true feelings of ambivalence towards the life issue, and/or (b) caving into pressure from Democrats.
5. July 2007: While Ayotte stands by mutely, NH Democrats theirs the first state in our nation’s history to ELIMINATE a parental notification law. Almost immediately thereafter, the federal court rules that because NH no longer has any parental notification law, the court case is technically “moot” and effectively dead.
6. August 2008: The judge rules that Planned Parenthood is the winner in the court case that Ayotte argued and says that as the “prevailing party,” Planned Parenthood is entitled to have its legal fees reimbursed by the state of New Hampshire, the “losing party.” The judge directs Ayotte to go negotiate with Planned Parenthood on what the payment should be.
7. March 2009: Ayotte’s boss, pro-choice Governor John Lynch, nominates Ayotte to another four-year term serving as his Attorney General, through the year 2013. In a four-week period, between the time that the Governor nominates her and the Executive Council approves her, Ayotte reaches a settlement with Planned Parenthood, the terms of which are not disclosed. Ayotte never made any public protest against a judge ordering her — as the real winner of the Supreme Court case, which both she and Sarah Palin now tout that she “won,” — to pay the “loser,” Planned Parenthood. Winners do not pay losers’ legal fees. It makes no sense. Yet Ayotte said nothing, and agreed to the payments, it was subsequently disclosed, of $300,000 in NH taxpayers money right into the coffers of Planned Parenthood. She could have appealed this ruling, if she thought it was wrong. She didn’t. She just requested the Administrative Services Commissioner of NH to make two payments to Planned Parenthood, $300,000 in two equal amounts on April 1 and August 1 of 2009.
8. July 2009: Even before the final payoff is made to Planned Parenthood, and only 3 months after accepting a four-year term as Attorney General, Ayotte resigns as Attorney General to begin her run, as a “pro-life Republican,” for the U.S. Senate.
To learn more about the facts about the Planned Parenthood case go here
For many pro-life voters the Planned Parenthood debate is complicated and confusing. What is not complicated and confusing, however, is video of Ayotte in her own words saying she would have voted YES, as a U.S. Senator, to put an Obama liberal judicial activist like Sonia Sotomayor on the highest court in our land — a certain vote on that Court to endorse and perpetuate the atrocity of the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade that made abortion on demand the law of the land and has led to the death of 50 million innocent pre-born children.
Does a candidate for the United States Senate deserve the support of the pro-life movement and pro-life voters when she says she would have voted for President Obama’s liberal Supreme Court pick?
Exciting news out today from the Gerard Health Foundation …
The foundation again will be awarding $600,000 in prize money to those who have succeeded in saving human lives and awakening the conscience of America at an invitation-only event this January in Washington DC.
That’s some prize money!
Ray Ruddy, founder of the Gerard Health Foundation, shared this at the launch of this year’s program:
Our Foundation has a profoundly simple mission: to save lives. Life Prizes works to honor those who have best accomplished this noble goal and to inspire the next generation to break the mold in their life-saving work. As last year’s winners will tell you, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary goals. We look forward to celebrating six new heroes and thanking them for their ingenuity, dedication, sacrifices and leadership.
You may recognize most if not all of the six inaugural award winners 2009:
Jill Stanek – Nurse who first publicly exposed infanticide of abortion survivors
Lila Rose- Student leader who has launched several successful, undercover investigations exposing statutory rape cover-up and racism at Planned Parenthood
Richard Doerflinger – Associate Director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, bioethics expert, and consummate researcher
Kay Coles James – Founder of The Gloucester Institute and of Black Americans for Life, pro-life advocate in the highest levels of government for decades
Margaret “Peggy” Hartshorn – President, Heartbeat International, a preeminent network of more than 1,000 pregnancy resource centers
As Human Events’ Elisabeth Meinecke notes in her piece , the 2009 ceremony and reception “drew over 1,200 attendees, with Laura Ingraham serving as master of ceremonies” and was held in January of 2009. The popular rock band BarlowGirl headlined the fantastic event and several St Michael Society editors were fortunate enough to attend. It truly was like the Oscars of the pro-life movement.
… with the mainstream media frequently ignoring or twisting the coverage of pro-life advocates and Hollywood awards ceremonies featuring a who’s who of pro-abortion celebrities, the Gerard Health Foundation decided to create its own awards ceremony to honor pro-life heroes working against abortion.
A few months ago we reported on billboards that were placed all around Georgia that revealed that a disproportionate amount of abortions were taking place in the African-American communities than in other communities. The numbers are high – “in the US, nearly 40% of the abortions done are on black women, even though they only make 13% of the population. That is 3x the rate of white women. Since 1973, abortion has killed more African-Americans than anything else.”
The same group who did the first billboard, “Endangered Species,” just started a new campaign along the same lines entitled “Black & Unwanted,” which features a black child with a tear in his eye.
Talk about hard hitting. The billboards are sponsored by Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation. You can go http://www.toomanyaborted.com/ for more info.
The first billboard campaign was wildly successful – it was featured on CNN and was written in up in many media outlets across the country. No wonder. It really struck a cord and shed light on a dirty secret of the abortion industry that has been buried for years and years. A huge number – over 60% – of abortion clinics are placed in African-American neighborhoods. The new Houston mega-abortion Planned Parenthood clinic is smack in the middle of more than one minority neighborhood.
Fantastic news – Mother Teresa will officially be honored with US postal stamp! Thanks for everyone’s work in contacting the postal service to express your support for the stamp and thanks to CatholicVote.org for leading the way with their website www.stampoutbigotry.com.
If you remember, when the stamp was first announced the Freedom from Religion Foundation began spreading lies about Blessed Mother Teresa, accusing this holy nun of having a ‘darker side,’ and calling her a ‘polarizing Roman Catholic figurehead.’ They attacked both the USPS and a (almost) saint!
The ceremony officially dedicating the stamp will be held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on September 5th, 2010 – the 13th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death.
BREAKING — HOW HEALTH REFORM COULD PASS — ABC’s George Stephanopoulos sees new wiggle room in the professed opposition by Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, leader of the pro-life Dems. Stupak told George on “GMA”: “My group is holding firm: We’re still ‘no’ votes. … As you know, I wanta pass health care — I vote voted for it before. … My group of 12 here — we can make the difference on this vote. But at the same time, there’s a principle we’re standing up for. … Protect the sanctity of life and keep current law — no public funding for abortion. Let’s keep that principle intact. Then you could probably get our votes. Probably.” Please continue to call!
Earlier this afternoon, the House Reconcilliation bill wasposted on the House Rules Committee website. This postingstarts the 72 hour review period before the Housewillvote on the Majority’s health care package. Timing remains fluid, butbased on the 72 hour timeline, the House is expected to vote on health care reform on Sunday afternoon, although theschedulecould slip further.
Members of the House have been told that the House will be insession and votingon Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In addition Majority Leader Hoyer indicated thatthe House may have votes on Monday earlier in the day than previously scheduled. (The announcement regarding Monday indicates thatconsideration of the health care bills may spill over into Monday.) Inaddition, President Obama hasagain postponedhis overseas trip(this time until June)to focus on generating votes for the Majority’s health care package.
Thereconciliation textis designed to make changesthe Senate-passed health care bill,H.R. 3590, afterH.R. 3590 is signed into law. As expectedthe text does not contain the Stupak amendment that protects against federal funding for abortion coverage,nordoes it containlanguage to ensure thatnone of theauthorities grantedby the billare not used to mandate abortion coverage, nor does it containthe Hyde-Weldon conscience protectionprovision.
It is important for Catholics and all advocates and defenders of the sanctity of life to keep up their activities to encourage Members tooppose H.R. 3590unlesspro-life concerns are resolved.Catholics and pro-lifers may be particularly interested in focusing our efforts on the followingMembers of Congress. However, please note that it is best if Members are contacted by their own constituents, NOT citizens from other parts of the country.
Undecided — nopublicposition for or against the Senate bill based onabortion language: Altmire (PA), Bocceri (OH), Boyd (FL),Carney (PA),Ellsworth (IN), Hill (IN),Kanjorski (PA), Mollohan (WV),Ortiz (TX), Pomeroy (NC), Rahall (WV)
Publicopposition to the Senatebillbased on abortion language:Berry (AR), Costello (IL), Dahlkemper (PA),Donnelly (IN),Driehaus (OH),Cao (LA),Kaptur (OH), Lipinski (IL),Stupak (MI)
You may also be aware thatRep.Kildee (MI),Wilson (OH) and Perriello (VA) haveendorsed the Senateabortion language, and Rep. Oberstar(MN) has also indicated he supports the Senatebill policies on abortion funding.
On behalf of the sanctity of life and in the defense of our faith, SMS prayerfully requests that you call these targets if you live in their Districts or States and we ask that you pray for defeat of any health care legislation that does not preserve the sanctity of life.
Planned Parenthood will never stop trying to infiltrate the youth of this nation (and around the world) with the message that casual sex is totally cool, that masturbation is a great way to learn about your body, and that there’s no right or wrong way to have sex. Planned Parenthood thrives on distributing contraception and conducting abortions on girls and women of all ages. And they’ve demonstrated time and againthat they don’t even care if a girl is underage and pregnant – as long as someone pays for the abortion, even if it’s the older boyfriend or abusive father.
So is it any surprise that Planned Parenthood haspartnered with the Girl Scouts of America to make sure the little girls know that “there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex”? And don’t forget to “Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to (your sexual partner).” These are the little girls that sell you those famous Tagalong, Samoa, and Thin Mint cookies every year.
Last week Planned Parenthood handed out an explicit brochure entitled “Happy, Healthy and Hot,” to young girls at a panel at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The brochure is targeted to young adults with HIV and gives them explicit details on sexual experimentation.
The panel was co-moderated with the Girl Scouts and the YMCA.
C-FAM reports that this isn’t the first time the UN has hosted such a forum: “The New York Times recently reported that UN Population Fund had co-sponsored a very controversial curriculum with UNESCO, that included teaching children as young as five to be sexually active and training adolescents to advocate for abortion.”
Planned Parenthood, who gets $350 million tax dollars a year, and the UN need to stay out of the lives of these little girls and the Girl Scouts should cut off their partnership with both organizations.
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said it best: “Governments and NGOs should be aware of Planned Parenthood’s insidious plan to work with UN agencies and girls’ organizations in order to profit from encouraging kids to be sexually active.”
There is a lot at stake for our culture and country as we head into the 2010 election cycle. We cannot afford to sit idly by as bad health care law leads to rationed care and euthanasia….as taxpayers are forced to pay for human experimentation through embryonic stem cell research….as over 4,000 pre-born babies are aborted daily, some of them paid for by taxpayers….as our public schools and universities teach to a material, Godless world…as our elected officials propose policies that lead to population control….the list goes on and on.
A battle royal is occurring in the GOP primary in New Hampshire. In a five-person Republican primary, the two frontrunners are purportedly “pro-life.” The other three are “pro-choice.” Let’s look at those two frontrunners: Devout Catholic and pro-life conservative Ovide Lamontagne and former NH Attorney General Kelly Ayotte. Pro-lifers have lined up on both sides in this political contest between the two frontrunners. Recent polls showed Lamontagne having momentum and coming within striking distance of Ayotte, who has been in first place the entire race, having been anointed by the Washington Establishment and the GOP money machine. As Lamontagne and Ayotte vie for the pro-life vote, it is important for New Hampshire Catholics and pro-life voters to know what they may be getting before they cast their vote.
Exciting news out today from the Gerard Health Foundation …
Talk about hard hitting. The billboards are sponsored by Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation. You can go 
Update from today’s Good Morning America: 
