I asked yesterday for nominations for the Stanek blog Pro-lifer of the Year, and you provided great suggestions.

The poll question is now up:

Many pro-lifers contributed greatly to the pro-life cause in 2007. Following is but a sample. From the list, who would you choose as Pro-Lifer of the Year?

Be sure to vote, and then make comments here, not on the Vizu website.

Here are the results of the previous poll, which enjoyed a short run but with interesting results....

And if you voted, enlarge this bright and colorful map to see your little flag:

I�ll also vote for Brian Rohrbaugh. Not only is he willing to challenge the proabortion world at large, he is also willing for risk alienation from less astute members of our own ranks. Brian, thank from the bottom of my heart and keep up the good work.

I vote for Troy Newman for pro-lifer of the year. I live in Wichita and have seen Troy ever since he moved here with the goal of shutting down George Tiller's abortion mill. One abortion mill is closed, the former Central mill, and is now the office of Operation Rescue.

Pray the grand jury formed to hear the charges against Tiller will convict him in 2008 and abortion will end in Wichita.

Brad Bennett

I really appreciate Eric Scheidler for all his work against the Aurora PP center, and for coming to Denver to help.

I wish Troy Newman and Phill Kline the best in fighting Tiller and that AG guy whose name I would despise if I could remember it.

I can't forgive Pres. Bush for saying you can kill some embryos, just not new ones, or for lobbying against a total ban on abortions in South Dakota, or for giving us two Supreme Court justices who didn't have the guts to take a stand against Roe v. Wade when they had a chance (the Thomas/Scalia separate opinion on the PBA ban).

As for who on the list has had the longest-range impact on abortion over the past year? For changing the tempo and direction of the debate away from regulations and toward Personhood, for starting American Right to Life in alliance with American Life League, Operation Save America, Human Life International and a bunch of others, and for calling National Right to Life to account for playing politics and not standing up for the real right to life -- I must say Brian Rohrbough. He's focused on the whole game, and the end game, which is where we need to be. It's a game for all the marbles, and I have new confidence we can win it!

Shameful that some people continue to use Jill's blog to attack pro-life groups, and without citing a shred of evidence for their claims.

Oh, Steve, that hurts! I make a simple reference to my dislike for NRTL and I get attacked by you for being "shameful!" But your reasoning is unsound.

First off, I think Jill and anyone who's been paying attention here is already aware there are an increasing number of pro-lifers who have given up on National Right to Life as a pro-life standard bearer.

Furthermore, if you'd only asked for evidence of NRTL's shameful behavior, I could point you to lots!

Start with: http://artlaction.com/TheLegacyofJudas

And more evidence NRTL supports pro-abortion candidates, so long as they're Republican (which to them is all that matters):
http://www.rnclife.org/faxnotes/2006/oct06/06-10-31.html (about NRTL endorsing a pro-abortion senator in New Jersey and NJ Right to Life's clarification that they would not go along with that endorsement)

There's not that one example either. I understand from Michigan that NRTL has done the same there, and elsewhere, too, I'm sure.

A right which doesn't apply to all people is not a right -- it's a privilege! The right of Personhood is at the very heart of -- IS the very essence of -- the right to life! Yet, from 1984 until this very day, NRTL has consistently opposed and worked against any laws that would grant rights of Personhood (i.e. the right to life) to unborn children. NRTL is actively working against our Personhood ballot measure here in Colorado which would end 100% of abortions! If they so oppose the right to life, then why don't they stop using the name?!

Yes, I'm bitter over the trust and the money I've given them in the past, both of which were betrayed through shenanigans like these.

Now, I'm done hijacking this thread - which I never intended to do. I'm just responding to your attack, and your arrogant misapprehension that our position is groundless.

My name is Mark S. Gietzen, and I am the head of the Kansas Coalition for Life, based in Wichita, Kansas. I would like to nominate and vote for TROY NEWMAN as ProLifer of the year, because he has earned it the hard way.

In my opinion, Troy is the most successful of the many good ProLife leaders in America today. He has been of immense help to the Kansas Coalition for Life, and our daily presence at the Tiller Late-term Abortion facility, he has successfully had his hand in proLife successes across the country, and he recently purchased an abortion clinic in Wichita, and is currently making that building into his national headquarters.

But above all that, Troy's biggest success has been that he has earned the respect of both the mainstream media, and federal & state law-makers - both friend and foe, and is seen as a reliable proLife resource, both locally and nationally. He is fast becomming the national proLife spokesman in America, and you could not ask for a better one.

My name is Mark S. Gietzen, and I am the head of the Kansas Coalition for Life, based in Wichita, Kansas. I would like to nominate and vote for TROY NEWMAN as ProLifer of the year, because he has earned it the hard way.

In my opinion, Troy is the most successful of the many good ProLife leaders in America today. He has been of immense help to the Kansas Coalition for Life, and our daily presence at the Tiller Late-term Abortion facility, he has successfully had his hand in proLife successes across the country, and he recently purchased an abortion clinic in Wichita, and is currently making that building into his national headquarters.

But above all that, Troy's biggest success has been that he has earned the respect of both the mainstream media, and federal & state law-makers - both friend and foe, and is seen as a reliable proLife resource, both locally and nationally. He is fast becoming the national proLife spokesman in America, and you could not ask for a better one.

I nominate John Galt.