Make your voice heard: Register to vote!

As this fall’s elections rapidly approach, pro-lifers have reason to be optimistic. We have a real chance of making significant pro-life gains in the United States Senate, perhaps even win enough seats to put control of the Senate in pro-life hands.

But we can’t do it without you. We need your vote. We need every pro-life vote we can get—yours, your pro-life family members, friends, and neighbors.

Each day voter registration deadlines come closer. It seems elementary but if you are not registered, you cannot vote! At the end of this article, there is a link to a site that makes registration in your state very quick and easy.

Please take a moment and make sure you and your pro-life friends and neighbors are registered. The outcome of the election may depend on it.

We were reminded just this summer how important each and every vote is. Consider out of a total of over 70,000 votes cast last month in a congressional primary race in Tennessee, the contest was decided by just 38 votes. Never underestimate how important your vote is.

In Minnesota’s 2008 U.S. Senate race, pro-abortion Al Franken defeated pro-life Senator Norm Coleman by a few hundred votes out of 2.8 million cast. That’s about seven thousandths of a percent or one voter in about every thirteen precincts in Minnesota.

Many races this year are expected to be extremely close. The balance of power in the United States Senate hangs in the balance. If every pro-lifer helped one friend or family member register to vote, we would have a tremendous pro-life impact on this election.

You would be surprised how many people you know are not registered to vote. One volunteer and dear friend of NRLC did a voter registration drive in her church a few years ago and signed 15 people up to vote, including the Pastor and his wife!

Be especially aware of people that are new to your area, maybe having just moved to your state, and young people who have just turned 18 or recently moved away to college. They may be excited to register but may not know how or where to do it—or even that they have to register.

The deadline to register to vote in Illinois is October 7th!  Time is running out, you can register to vote online at the IFRL website at http:www.ifrl.org,

By Elizabeth Spillman, National Right to Life Political Assistant, NRLC

Sandra Cano: RIP

Her case and Roe v. Wade handed down the same day in 1973

The following photo appeared on Sandra Cano’s Facebook page. (Left to right) Ms. Cano, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the founders of the original NARAL and later a pro-life convert, and Norma McCorvey (the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade)

My only meeting with Sandra Cano, and it was very brief, was in June 1989 at the National Right to Life Convention in Minneapolis. Those who spent much more time with her–my then-assistant Leslie Bond [Diggins] and NRLC Convention Director Jacki Ragan—told me that a kinder, gentler woman you will never find.

Unlike Norma McCorvey—the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade—Sandra Cano (“Mary Doe”) was not nearly as well known, although her case—Doe v. Bolton—was decided the same day as Norma’s.

Neither woman—whose cases were instrumental in legalizing abortion on demand nationwide—ever had an abortion. Cano never wanted an abortion. Both felt terribly victimized by the pro-abortion attorneys that used them to undermine the abortion laws of all 50 states.

Cano died September 30. She was 66.

Allan Parker, president of the Justice Foundation in Texas, which represented Ms. Cano for 14 years, said her dying wish was for people to “pray for the end of abortion in America and pray for her family.”

I am reprinting the story Leslie wrote for the July 13, 1989 issue of National Right to Life News. She had interviewed Sandra one-on-one.

At that stage of her life (we were to learn), Ms. Cano was deathly afraid of public speaking. She was seated at the head table at one of the convention General Sessions when she suddenly got up, walked down the risers, and told Jacki she had to go home. But her presence at our convention, however brief, sent a powerful message.

But in the years to come Sandra gave more than a few memorable interviews, including with Tim Drake of the National Catholic Register.

Both Sandra and Norma had lived hardscrabble lives, making McCorvey and Cano just the kind of down-on-their-luck women the elitist pro-abortion attorneys could use unmercifully to gut the protective abortion statutes of all 50 states. Both came to be firmly on the side of life.

When pro-lifers speak of putting a “human face” on the abortion controversy, it is not just to remind people that a human life is lost in every abortion. Abortion exploits vulnerable women, then and now. 

Cano’s and McCorvey’s journey that culminated in an embrace of our Movement is deeply symbolic of a wider cultural shift in our direction.

I asked Jacki if she would write a concluding paragraph. As I knew it would be, her words were perfect.

“We did have a video that we recorded of her when Leslie and I were with her. I still have that. 25 years have passed but we still kept in touch, more so after Facebook. She was a kind, trusting, woman who was reunited with the daughter she placed for adoption (the one the pro-aborts used to help legalize abortion) and I believe was happy and content for the last years of her life. Sandra will be missed. Her gentle smile, her softspoken voice, and her love of the Lord.”

By Dave Andrusko, NRL News

Illinois pro-lifers to meet at 90 different locations Sunday for annual Life Chain

In celebration of "Respect Life" month, prolifers will line the streets at 90 different locations statewide Sunday October 5th as the 27th year the national Life Chain will be celebrated in Illinois. 

The locations are listed below: 

* ALBION - IL 130 at Bone Gap Rd, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Shad McKinzie  618-445-2553  

* ALTON AREA - Broadway from Piasa to Henry St / Clark Bridge; 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Mary Ann Morris 618-465-3108  

* ARLINGTON HEIGHTS - Euclid Ave at W Northwest Hwy, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., meet at Christian Liberty Academy, 502 W Euclid; David Bergquist  847-385-2010  

* AURORA - E New York St at Oakhurst Dr, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Chuck Jones   630-896-3826  

* BELVIDERE - State Street Bridge, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Dennis Sullivan  815-986-8630  

* BERWYN - Ogden Ave at Harlem Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;  Mary Ann Pater  708-484-1204

* BLOOMINGTON / NORMAL - College Ave at David Anderson Park at east lot, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Jay Talsma  309-828-9250  

* BLOOMINGTON / NORMAL - College Ave at Grandview Dr, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Thomas Shilgalis  309-830-3935  

* BRAIDWOOD - IL Rt 53 at IL Rt 113, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Dave Wollgast  815-287-2036   

* BROOKFIELD - Ogden Ave at Prairie Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.  

* BUNKER HILL - Washington St (Hwy 159) at Warren St (Rt 14), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jane Baker  618-973-2666   

* CARBONDALE - Main St (IL Rt 13) at Illinois Ave (US 51), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jeffrey Chmiola  618-687-2374  

* CHAMPAIGN - Kirby Ave at Hessel Park, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; John & Myrna Buyno   217-352-1007  

* CHICAGO - Ashland Ave at 19th St, 1:15 to 2:45 p.m.; Liz Gonzalez  773-680-7214  

* CHICAGO / BRIGHTON PARK - Archer Ave at California Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Casey Niedos   773-927-0322  

* CLINTON COUNTY - communities along new Rte 50, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Esther Koch  618-526-8589  

* COLLINSVILLE - Vandalia St (Hwy 159) from Clay St to N Beltline, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Herman Wenos  618-344-4108  or  618-344-8778

* CRYSTAL LAKE - Rte 14 at Teckler Blvd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Nancy Cole  815-455-7265  

* DARIEN / WOODRIDGE / DOWNERS GROVE - 75th St west of Lemont Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Betty Girdwain 630-963-0654  

* DECATUR - Downtown, 2:30 to 3:30p.m.; signs at 407 Eldorado St; Diana Shipley  217-864-5422  or  217-423-8452

* DIXON - S Galena Ave at River St, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Margaret Brechon  815-288-1156  

* EDWARDSVILLE - Buchanan at Vandalia, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.;  Peggy Pace  618-659-9336  

* EFFINGHAM AREA - Keller Dr at Fayette Ave (Rt 40), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Loretta Koester   217-857-3060

* ELBURN - Rt 47 at Pierce St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Carrie Walter  630-365-6030  

* ELIZABETH - Main St (Rt 20) in front of Elizabeth Garage, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.; Marilyn Gollmer  815-541-0354  

* FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS / METRO EAST - Hwy 159 at Hwy 50, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Stephanie Favela  618-550-9778

* FARMER CITY - Main St at Hwy 54, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jerry & Judy Hahn  309-928-2109  

* GALESBURG / KNOX COUNTY - Main St at Broad St, 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. rally at public square at 3:00 p.m.; Mary Norton  309-343-0621 OR  Lisa Lindstrom 309-342-7214

* GLEN ELLYN - Roosevelt Rd at Finley Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Carol Wright   630-469-2165

* GRANITE CITY - 3248 Nameoki Rd in front of store, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Kathy Mangi  618-931-7800  

* GRAYSLAKE / DOWNTOWN - Rt 120 between Lake St and Rt 83, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Ann-Marie Miller  847-212-9297

* GURNEE - Gages Lake Rd at Hunt Club Rd, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Meegan McNulty  847-855-0117

* HANOVER PARK - Barrington Rd at East Ave, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.; Maureen Deitche  630-935-8158  

* HARVARD - US Rt 14 at US Rt 173, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Richard Kirchner  815-403-8005  

* HERRICK - Broadway (RR 1) at Herrick Baptist Church, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.; Pastor Jay Huddleston  618-604-3086   

* HIGHLAND - Route 40  at Route 143, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; park at shopping center; Angela Michael 618-654-5800

* HINSDALE - York Rd south of Ogden Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Maureen Sager  708-352-5834  

* INGLESIDE - Grand Ave (Rt 59) at Wilson Rd, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Janet McEwen  847-546-8461

* JERSEYVILLE - State Street, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;signs at St. Francis Church parking lot at 2:00 p.m.; Marilyn Parsell  618-535-6478   

* JOLIET - Six Corners at Plainfield Rd and Rt 30, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Karen Hatfield  815-744-6339

* LA GRANGE - Ogden Ave at LaGrange Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;  Wayne & Marianne Hamilton  708-579-0118

* LAKE VILLA - Milwaukee Ave (Hwy 83) south of Grand Ave (Hwy 132), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Rosie Smyth     

 LAKEWOOD - Tower Hill-Herrick Rd, Lighthouse Tabernacle Pentecostal Church, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.; Pastor Brown  217-567-3337  

* LANSING - Ridge Rd at Calumet Ave, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Cathy Dziubla  219-838-1138 or Dorothy Springer  219-838-1138  

* LIBERTYVILLE - Rt 176 (Park Ave) at Rt 21 (Milwaukee Ave), 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.; meet at Formation Center at 1:30 p.m.;  Renee Tam  847-680-6652 andCarol Walsh  847-542-3768

* LISLE - Ogden Ave at Main St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Carole Gassett  630-960-2916  

* MACOMB - Hwy 136 / 67 between Lafayette and Randolph at Chandler Park, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Connie Kreps  309-333-9483   

* MANSFIELD - Hwy 150 at McKinley St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Donnette Coley  217-649-9314  

* MARENGO - RT 20 at Rt 23, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.;  Kelly Sergent  630-664-7435  

* MASCOUTAH - Rt 177 at Rt 4, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Sally Mueller  618-277-0449  

* McHENRY - Rt 31 / Richmond Rd at Pearl, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; signs at St Mary Church at 2:00 p.m.;  Karen Verr  815-355-5481    

* MENDOTA - Rt 34 at Hwy 251, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Andy Wujek  815-528-5678 or Tom Schuhler  815-538-1940   

* MILLSTADT - Washington St (Rt 158) between Lafayette St and Kossuth St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.;  Mary Thornton  618-476-3365  

* MORRIS - Rt 47 (Division St) at Jefferson St, signs at 118 E Jefferson St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Marilou Warrick  815-942-5575 or Renee Zettek  815-941-9121

* Mt. CARMEL - Cherry St at Ninth St, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.; Pat Stouse  618-262-7643  

* Mt. VERNON - Broadway at 24th St, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Larry Pearson  618-755-4716  

* MUNDELEIN - US Rt 45 (Lake St) at Courtland St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Margaret (Peggy) Feinendegen  847-566-7658  

* NAPERVILLE - Ogden Ave at Washington, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Debra Scanlon  630-305-8724   

* NASHVILLE - Rt 127 at Rt 15, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jennifer Detering  618-920-9829

 NEW LENOX - Cedar Rd at Rt 30, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Melinda Grundhofer  815-424-0371

* NOKOMIS - State St at Spruce St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Missy Huber  217-827-0723   

* NORMAL - 1006 E College Ave at Epiphany Catholic Church, TBA; Epiphany Catholic Church  309-452-3268     

* OLD MILL CREEK - US 45 at Rt 173, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Sandra Cervenka  847-975-8490   

* ORLAND PARK / TINLEY PSRK - 159h St from Harlem Ave to 80th Ave, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;  William Beckman  708-429-2762

* PANA - Rt 51 two miles south of Pana at Celebration Community Church, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.; Terry Walters 217-827-4347  

* PARKERSBURG - Olney to Albion - IL 130 from Olney past Calhoun, Parkersburg, West Salem and Bone Gap to Albion (29 miles), 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;Kevin Schilt  618-456-8423  

* PEORIA - University at Northmoor, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Daniel Smith  309-691-3611;  See Central Illinois Right to Life.

* QUAD CITIES - Middle Rd at Happy Joe Dr, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Vicki Tyler  563-332-0475  

* QUINCY - 24th St at Maine St, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Jane Haas  217-224-5483 or 217-257-0533

* RICHMOND - US Rt 12 at Hwy 173, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;  Laura Brumm  262-279-3061  

* RIVERSIDE - Ogden Ave at Harlem Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Katie Kruse  708-442-7515  

* ROCKFORD - Alpine Rd at Highcrest Rd, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; signs at Holy Family Church; Joe & Joni Mata  815-505-6006  

* St. CHARLES - Rt 64 (Main St) from Kirk Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Rebecca Hendershott  847-309-5656 

* St. CHARLES - Rt 64 (North Ave) at 5th St, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Larry & Karen Johnson  630-513-0911  

* SALEM - Main St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Tony Wagner  618-322-9655   

* SHELBYVILLE - Rt 16 (E Main St) at the Courthouse. 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.; Diana Litteral 217-774-4874 

* SPRINGFIELD - Sangamon Ave from 19th to Dirksen, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Kathy Cinotto 217-691-4230

    

* STERLING - Locust St at 6th St, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.; Deacon John Kellen  815-626-3965

* SULLIVAN - Rt 121 (Jackson St) at Rt 32 (Hamilton St), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Ruth Ann Lusk 217-232-8881   

* SUMNER - Alternate Rt 250 at Walnut St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Brad Schilt  618-838-9993  

* TOWER HILL - Hwy 16 at Hwy 51 interesction, 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.; Pastor Randy Miller  217-821-1250 

  

* VANDALIA - Gallatin St at Kennedy Blvd, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;  Pastor Peter Kolb  618-704-8148   

* VOLO - NW corner of Rt 120 at Rt 12, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.;  Pietrina Probst  847-550-1325

* WAUCONDA - Rt 176 at Church St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Mary Ann Fijalkiewicz  847-526-7101  

* WAUKEGAN - Washington St at Orchard Ave, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.; Pastor George Jones  847-336-0664 

* WEST DUNDEE / NORTHERN KANE COUNTY - Rte 72 at Rte 31, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Debbie Schmalen 847-426-7326  

* WESTCHESTER - Mannheim Rd at Wright St, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Patricia Meyers  708-865-0374  

* WESTERN SPRINGS - Ogden Ave at Wolf Rd AND Ogden Ave at Grand, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Blanche Heaney 708-246-7437  

* WILLOW SPRINGS - Archer Ave at Willow Springs Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Mary Bartik  708-839-8834  

* WOOD DALE - 203 E Irving Park Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;  Mary Stuhr  630-250-7521  

(For additional information about Life Chains in Illinois, please contact State Director Gail Bordley  847-623-4980 or 847-361-1582).

( * means verified for 2014)

Illinois Review

Abortion in Elections: It’s not about us – it’s about the 3,000 babies who will die by abortion today

I’m going to say something some may find shocking.

It’s not about you.

Nope. And it’s definitely not about me. It’s about the nearly 3,000 unborn children who will die a brutal death by abortion today. And another 3,000 tomorrow. It’s about protecting their lives – and their futures.

Occasionally, I hear from people who are opposed to our endorsements who complain that a Congressman or Senator has “been in too long,” or they’re too old, or that they’re “not conservative enough.”

These concerns entirely miss the point. We are in the business of saving lives. If someone has reached a level of power after serving long enough that they can impact lifesaving legislation, God bless them!

And what on earth does age have to do with whether a member of the House or Senate can vote for life?

How they vote, and whether they will vote to protect life, is what really matters.

Life matters.

Protecting life transcends all political parties, all religions, all races, and people of all economic status.

This year, the United States Senate is only a net gain of six seats shy of achieving pro-life leadership.

Thirty-six U.S. Senate seats are up this year – 21 are held by pro-abortion Democrats or “Independents” who caucus with them, and 15 are held by Republicans.

We, who understand how precious life is, must defend the pro-life seats.

And, we must also work to take those seats held by pro-abortion senators and representatives and replace them with legislators who will vote for life.

Since 1973, more than 56 million defenseless babies have been aborted – more than 3,000 each day, 

365 days a year. When we stay home on election day babies die, allowing atrocities seen in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell to continue across the nation.

Some people wrongly believe what they personally do won’t really make a difference. Yet, this past spring in West Virginia (my home state), four House of Delegates candidates lost or won their primary elections by fewer than twenty votes combined. Had a handful of their friends shown up to vote, the outcome may have been altered.

What is the clear message? You CAN make a difference in your community, and even in our nation. You can make sure your pro-life family and friends go to the polls and vote for pro-life candidates.

Together, if we remain focused and we persevere, if we continue to work and organize, in 2014, we can bring needed change to Washington, D.C. We can begin to reverse the perverse culture of death which is shaming our nation. It is essential that we prioritize protecting our nation’s most precious resource – our children, and those who are most vulnerable.

You are pro-life because you recognize that it’s not about us, or our individual states, or our preferred candidate: It is about coming closer each day to a pro-life Court that will protect the lives of vulnerable human beings – unborn children, and medically dependent and people with disabilities.

The 3,000 babies who die by abortion today are too important to lose sight of that ultimate goal.

By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director, NRLC

Justice Ginsburg circles back to her concern that poor people having too many babies

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Kudos to the ever-readable, always thoughtful Mollie Hemingway for her excellent piece yesterday, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Really Wants Poor People To Stop Having Babies”

We had also written about the excerpt from the interview Justice Ginsburg gave Elle magazine.  But we focused on how she had trashed fellow Justice Anthony Kennedy, Congress, the “Hobby Lobby” Supreme Court decision, and had more subtly tweaked affluent younger women (for insufficient pro-abortion advocacy) and President Obama who had used the prospect of her possible resignation prior to the November elections as red meat to gear up Democratic activists. (Ginsburg made it clear she likes it just fine where she is.)

Hemingway zeroed in on Ginsburg’s…insensitive comments about poor people having babies (I am trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, although that is hard).

Hemingway reminds us of the incredible comments Ginsburg made to pro-abortion scribe Emily Bazelon in a piece that ran five years ago in the Sunday New York Times Magazine.

NRL News Today wrote about that exchange, a 4,327-word-long Q&A about the direction justices like Ginsburg would like abortion jurisprudence to go. (Hint: back to the future.)

Ginsburg momentarily got herself in hot water in response to Bazelon’s inquiry about what Bazelon described as the “lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women.”

JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.”

As I wrote at that time it was hard not to reach a very ugly conclusion. Ginsburg read Roe to be setting the stage for the government to pay for the abortions of poor women. Why? Because part of the backdrop for Roe—and the reason she expected the High Court in to overturn the Hyde Amendment’s limitation on Medicaid-financed abortion in McRae–was fear that the “wrong” kinds of people were experiencing population growth (the kind “that we don’t want to have too many of”).

It is no accident, as they say, that three years later, Bazelon would caught up with Ginsburg after a speech at Yale College to read her the quote and ask her what she really meant. Bazelon then dutifully transcribed Ginsburg’s revisionism in the form of an article for Slate.com.

Hemingway explained to her reader that Ginsburg was back saying the same old ugly things, only more briefly.

Hemingway writes, “Anyway, in an interview with Elle, [Ginsburg] says her kid and grandkid don’t get how awful it would be to not have legal approval for snuffing out one’s growing baby in the womb. And then when she’s trying to say that protections for unborn children hurt poor women more than wealthy women since wealthy women can just pay the baby away, she lets that old eugenics thing slip again.” Ginsburg said

“It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.”

I could paraphrase Hemingway’s brilliant conclusion but I could not possibly do her justice. So here it is:

“I get that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of the most important champions of abortion and that those people who think people should be able to end some lives after they’ve begun just love her to pieces. And I get that the birth control and abortion rights movements have always had deep ties to eugenics, population control, and master race-type stuff. I get all that.

“But it’s all kind of unseemly, no? It would be one thing if she were talking about the importance of promoting birth among all groups of people as a way of affirming the sacredness of life or what not, but her long-standing focus on how some ‘populations’ shouldn’t be encouraged to have babies and should have subsidized abortion is beyond creepy. We get it, RBG, your social circles think life would be so much better if you didn’t have to deal with those awful poor people and their unapproved backgrounds and living conditions. But you’re supposed to be a tad bit better in covering up those motivations, mmmkay.”

NRL News, Dave Andrusko

Abortion clinics in Illinois and Kansas ready to “accommodate some extra volume“

Abortionist Dr. Erin King (right)

Is anyone—anyone—surprised that abortion clinics outside of Missouri are already trolling for pregnant women?

As NRL News Today readers recall, on September 10, the Missouri legislature overrode Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of two very important pro-life bills and one line item veto of a budget increase for Missouri’s Alternatives to Abortion Program.

The best known measure–HB 1307–increases the time of reflection after counseling before an abortion can be performed from 24 hours to 72 hours.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article today, headlined “Out-of-state abortion providers ready to treat more Missouri women.” The abortion clinics—in Illinois and Kansas—tell reporter Samantha Liss they are not sure if women will come looking but if they do, well, they can count on the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, and the Wichita, Kansas-based South Wind Women’s Center.

Dr. Erin King is the associate medical director at Hope Clinic for Women which is only 15 minutes from downtown St. Louis. In Liss’s story we read

“’We are prepared to handle women from Missouri that come over the river from Missouri because of the restrictions,’ King said. ‘We are able to accommodate some extra volume … if it becomes a lot higher than, yes, absolutely we would hire (more) people.’ That would include both clinical staff and counselors, King said.

“King said her group tries to provide as much information about women’s options and the state-imposed wait times on its website.

“’I think a lot of people don’t realize that the restrictions are state-based and not put in place by the facility,’ King said. ‘We do spend a fair amount of time on the website trying to explain (wait times) so they can tell what their options are, and, hopefully, will be able to access care when they want instead of having to wait.’”

Julie Burkhart runs the South Wind Women’s Center abortion clinic

So, just check out their handy-dandy website. Hope Clinic for Women will hire as many abortionists and/or support staff as necessary to accommodate any “extra volume.”

Then, of course, there is Julie Burkhart, the former Political Action Committee director for the late George Tiller, who performed abortions in Kansas up through the ninth month of pregnancy.

Burkhart runs the South Wind Women’s Center (SWWC) abortion clinic and uses an Illinois fly-in abortionist, Cheryl Chastine as well as Allen Palmer, one of Planned Parenthood’s abortionists. In the past few months, she has added two new abortionists, one from Minnesota and one from Missouri.

SWWC is located in the same Wichita, Kansas, building Tiller occupied for decades. Reporters were informed SWWC hopes to expand to Oklahoma City and possibly beyond. It is “almost a three-hour drive from Missouri’s west edge,” Liss reported.

“If Burkhart’s center sees an influx of patients,” Liss wrote, “ she said her organization ‘would definitely consider’ adding staff.” (According to Kansan pro-lifers, Burkhart already had recently hired two more abortionists.)

The temptation to invoke the obvious imagery—of these abortion clinics as sharks circling about their prey—is almost overwhelming.

We know three things. First, that pro-abortionists would not scream to high heaven when such laws are passed if all they did was move women from aborting in one state to aborting in another. Some will, of course, but many won’t, particularly when the state is helping (however modestly) crisis pregnancy centers.

Second, we need to pass more protective laws in more states.

Third, until Roe is reversed and protective legislation passed in all 50 states, the lives of many babies will be lost. But that does not mean we don’t do what can do now.

Every baby saved is a precious life preserved and one less chance for the abortion industry to fill its coffers.

NRL News, Dave Andrusko

Clinton Foundation Supports Abortion Businesses, One Brags of Killing 4,000 Babies in Abortions

Hillary Clinton is the leading potential Democratic presidential candidate for 2016, but she is one candidate pro-life voters can unite in opposing. Clinton, apart from her extensive pro-abortion record her husband, former President Bill Clinton, put together, is an abortion activist in her own right.

Now, the Clinton foundation is supporting two pro-abortion groups, including one abortion business that brags of killing 4,000 babies in abortions.

The Washington Examiner has more:

Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s international foundation, in the spotlight this month for hosting the annual Clinton Global Initiative in New York, back two groups that operate a massive international abortion business, including one that heralded its 4,000 abortions in a 2013 annual report.

Clinton Foundation documents show that it supports two groups that provide abortion services and supplies in Africa, India and Asia — Pathfinder International and Population Services International.

The foundation, which publicly focuses on help for AIDS in Africa, climate change and support for girls, is being scrutinized as Hillary Clinton readies a likely 2016 presidential bid. Its support of abortion providers is one of the areas the former secretary of State’s critics is looking into.

The Foundation’s website heralds Pathfinder for its effort to train “peer counselors to help decrease unplanned pregnancies, and reduce prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and HIV among university students in Kampala, Uganda.”

The group’s most recent annual report said it provided 4,000 abortions and medical services to another 4,300 women for complications for unsafe abortion.

Earlier this month, Clinton said it was shameful that the U.S. had not adopted a treaty that supports abortion.Clinton is also an admirer of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

LifeNews.com, Steven Ertelt