NRLC hosting strategy conference based on pro-life gains, Carhart’s expansion plans
The National Right to Life Committee announced plans 2 days ago to host a State Legislative Strategy Conference December 7 in the DC area “to plan how best to capitalize on dramatic pro-life gains in state legislative and gubernatorial elections last week.”
Invited will be state pro-life leaders and key state legislators. Am checking to see exactly who is welcome to attend. Will update.
A primary focus will be Nebraska’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
Coincidentally, NE late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart announced plans that same day to open late-term abortion mills in Iowa and the DC area and take over an Indianapolis mill to kill older preborn babies.
Carhart blamed NE’s new fetal pain law for the expansion into other states, rendering NRLC’s conference even more relevant.
NE’s fetal pain law took effect October 22 15. Pro-life eyes have been on pro-aborts since the law passed in April to see if they would sue to enjoin the law, as they typically do. I was surprised they didn’t, but it turns out they’re afraid to, which is great news. According to the Associated Press on November 10:
Carhart said he believes NE’s fetal pain law is unconstitutional, and this move to open new clinics is designed partly to help him withstand a prolonged court battle.
“Whatever it is, it’s probably going to be a drawn-out thing, so I need to have a place where I can practice,” he said.
Officials at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented Carhart in past legal battles over abortion, would only say that NE’s fetal pain law will be challenged when the circumstances are appropriate. Carhart has twice appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court in past challenges of abortion laws….
Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation trade group, said she expected abortion opponents would try to copy the NE law, which she believes in unconstitutional….
What’s going on is pro-aborts have counted US Supreme Court noses and are afraid at present they’d lose a battle against NE’s fetal pain law.
The NE fetal pain law changes the rules of the game. Up to now the Supremes have considered viability as the line in the sand by which to impose legislation against abortion. Pro-aborts at this point don’t want to ask the court a legal question they don’t know the answer to.
Other measures to be discussed at the NRLC conference are ultrasound legislation and anti-euthanasia legislation.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Awesome. We need this law in many states. And could this be the law that the Supremes use to overturn Roe?
What they’re afraid of is the public discussion this will produce. They lost a lot of ground during the PBA fight. They’ll lose even more now if they fight this one.
What bewilders me is why they’re backing specifically CARHART. Can’t they find a less quacky guy? All we have to do is show up with pictures of his facility and say, “Is this a medical facility or a muffler shop?” to get people grossed out and ready to stone him.
I don’t know how some people sleep at night. Not only does abortion murder the fetus, but it hurts the little person. And what do abortionists say to that? ‘Gee, we didn’t realize, maybe this is a tad bit cruel?’ No, they deem it unconstitutional and move to expand their murderous business. Nice.
This conference will galvanize the moment where preparation meets opportunity. Toehold, foothold, stronghold. More and more people are becoming actively pro-life, showing positively that the pro-life movement is mainstream and ready to save a new generation!
What they’re afraid of is the public discussion this will produce. They lost a lot of ground during the PBA fight. They’ll lose even more now if they fight this one.
You’re exactly right. It’s a public relations move.
What a wonderful idea. This conference falls on the day before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Holy Day of Obligation (to attend Mass) for Catholics. I realize that all pro-lifers are not Catholic, but wouldn’t it be a perfect chance (for those so-inclined) to unite in prayer to end legally-sanctioned abortion?
Jill, you’re right. They do not want to specifically challenge Nebraska’s law because they know we laid down the best, tighest record possible in committee hearing and floor debate. Mary Spaulding Balch of NRLC and Speaker Mike Flood were adamant that the record be pristine and that no amendments would be added to weaken LB 1103 and change the essence of the bill which is to make pain a new standard. LB 1103 also does not provide for a mental health exception which has to be driving the pro-aborts nuts (no pun intended.) Lastly, Carhart can no longer fudge on Nebraska’s abortion reporting forms to our DHHS because 1103 places in statute stringent reporting requirements as to each baby’s weight, length and gestational age. If other States adhere to the NRLC model fetal pain ban and it gets enacted all over the country, with no chinks in the armor, late term abortionists will be forced to a handful of States to ply their trade. Then we can work on those States!
Christina said: “ All we have to do is show up with pictures of his facility and say, “Is this a medical facility or a muffler shop?” to get people grossed out and ready to stone him.”
I think Carhart is working to “keep abortion safe, legal and rare…”
Might make a great ad – ” a back-alley abortion might be safer…”
Janet, good observation. The Immaculate Conception celebrates the blessed mother’s own conception. Mary is the only woman since Eve born without sin. Jesus’ arrival is called the Annunciation, and his birth of course is the Nativity. Both of these very special events prove the teaching of the Church that life begins at conception, immaculate or otherwise.
Meditating on the Joyful Mysteries while praying the Rosary is a wonderful form of prayer that is quite pro-life. There are 5 Joyful Mysteries: 1) there is the Annunciation, then 2) the Visitation, where Mary goes to visit her kinswoman Elizabeth, who was several months pregnant with John the Baptist, 3) the Nativity, which everyone knows about, 4) the presentation at the Temple, where Jesus is formally introduced (his first trip to the Temple), and finally 5) the finding in the Temple, where Jesus is found, at age 12, conversing with the priests and demonstrating his knowledge of scripture.
The Visitation especially relates to the pro-life movement. Mary was young, betrothed but not yet married, pregnant, and yet she goes to visit Elizabeth and Tradition has it, she helped her with chores, carrying water and things like that. When we help CPC’s, we are doing what Mary did. We are helping other pregnant women who need assistance. Women in need do NOT need what butchers like Carhart have to offer.
Is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking?
“Is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking?”
Depends on what you’re thinking.
I’d like to see someone do a political cartoon that would show Carhart’s murder factory! That would certainly gain the media’s attention! :D
Carhart’s actions are very deplorable. Late term abortions are very, very dangerous and then what of the state of the mother’s mind then?.. He knows exactly what he’s doing is very wrong and someone needs to do something about it!!