Pro-life groups gear up for Obama administration
Pro-life groups are looking forward to a busy four years while Barack Obama is in office.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) is one of the organizations mapping out a new pro-life strategy for the upcoming Obama administration, which is likely to push abortion to the extreme. However, SFLA spokeswoman and executive director Kristan Hawkins is hopeful.
"I think it's going to actually help our movement right now. I think it's going to help unite everybody and bring people back to the fold, get people reinvigorated," she contends. "I feel like the past eight years, everybody thought, '[Since] we have a pro-life president, we don't have to do that much. He's looking out for us; don't worry about it.' I think it's going to get people back into the fold, being vigilant, watching what's happening in Washington."
Hawkins notes that one of the first actions of the Obama administration is expected to be reintroduction of the Freedom of Choice Act. "That basically would constitutionally guarantee the right to abortion, and it would override any laws or state court rulings that place restrictions on abortions," she points out. "It would wipe [out] the partial-birth abortion ban, parental notification acts, women's right-to-know acts, limitations for state funding of Medicaid funding going towards abortion."
In addition, various organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the National Education Association put many millions of dollars into the Obama campaign, and Hawkins believes they are going to expect to get that money back.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
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Publish Date: November 16, 2008
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