UDPATE, 2/18, 4:15p: The official attempt to get sign-ups has been completed, with 171 on board. But now as Jordan/Shuler physically get signatures, which will take a few days, Members can still squeeze in if they want to. The goal is to get 200. The list of prospects is on page 2.
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UPDATE, 2/12, 3:25p: And again, the list keeps shrinking. (Good job on the calls!) I have a new updated list of congressional pro-life nonsigners on page 2.
And hey, what's up with Jim Oberstar, former co-chair for the Pro-life Caucus, and Nathan Deal, ranking member on the Health Subcommittee, not signing?! MN pro-lifers should verbally prod Oberstar (202-225-6211), and GA pro-lifers should poke Deal (202-225-5211).
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UPDATE, 2/12, 8:25a: The list keeps shrinking. See an updated list of congressional pro-life nonsigners on page 2. Keep on calling.
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I wrote yesterday that pro-aborts are focusing less on ideology (passing bills) than on getting money from willing political accomplices. Americans United for Life has issued an email alert with an interesting take: Pro-aborts plan not only to get money by dropping pro-life riders from appropriations bills but to also gain stealth pieces of FOCA at the same time. I hadn't thought of it that way. Good point....
Bottom line: We need to call those straggler pro-life congressmen who haven't yet signed on to the letter urging Speaker Pelosi to back away from pro-life riders. Deadline is Friday. Read the updated list of names of pro-life congressmen who haven't signed on to the letter yet on page 2. The list has gone down quite a bit. Good job!
Also, don't forget to sign AUL's Fight FOCA petition. The ad at the top right provides the link.
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Updated list of pro-life letter nonsigners as of 2/18, 5p:
These consistently pro-life Members of the Appropriations Committee have a policy agaisnt signing Appropriations letters, but other Members of the Appropriations Committee have signed the letter: Bonnor, Carter, Crenshaw, Mollohan
Other consistently pro-life House Members who have not signed: Costello, Diaz-Balart (Mario), LoBiondo, McHugh, Oberstar, Rahall, Wilson (Charlie)
Here are mixed record Members who haven't signed the letter: Berry, Capito, Carney, Dreier, Emerson, Heller, Kanjorski, LaTourette, Lewis (Jerry), McKeon, Murtha, Ross, Salazar, Walden
Updated list of pro-life letter nonsigners as of 2/12, 3:15p:
Bachus, Spencer -- Boccieri, John -- Bonner, Jo -- Boozman, John -- Brown-Waite, Ginny -- Buyer, Steve -- Calvert, Ken -- Cantor, Eric -- Capito, Shelley Moore --Carney, Chris -- Carter, John -- Costello, Jerry -- Crenshaw, Ander -- Deal, Nathan -- Diaz-Balart, Mario -- Donnelly, Joe -- Doyle, Mike -- Dreier, David -- Emerson, Jo Ann -- Gerlach, Jim -- Granger, Kay -- Griffith, Parker -- Hastings, Doc -- Heller, Dean -- Issa, Darrell -- Kanjorski, Paul -- LaTourette, Steve -- Lewis, Jerry -- LoBiondo, Frank -- Luetkemeyer, Blaine -- McHugh, John -- McKeon, Howard -- Melancon, Charlie -- Mica, John -- Miller, Gary -- Mollohan, Alan - Murphy, Tim -- Murtha, John -- Nunes, Devin -- Oberstar, Jim -- Ortiz, Solomon -- Paulsen, Erik -- Poe, Ted -- Rahall, Nick -- Rehberg, Dennis -- Reichert, Dave -- Rohrabacher, Dana -- Royce, Ed -- Skelton, Ike -- Upton, Fred -- Wilson, Charlie -- Young, Don
Updated list of pro-life letter nonsigners as of 2/11, 6p:
Bachus, Spencer -- Bilbray, Brian -- Boccieri, John -- Bonner, Jo -- Boozman, John -- Boren, Dan -- Brown-Waite, Ginny -- Buyer, Steve -- Calvert, Ken -- Camp, Dave -- Campbell, John -- Cantor, Eric -- Capito, Shelley Moore --Carney, Chris -- Carter, John -- Cassidy, Bill -- Costello, Jerry -- Crenshaw, Ander -- Dahlkemper, Kathy -- Deal, Nathan -- Diaz-Balart, Mario -- Donnelly, Joe -- Doyle, Mike -- Dreier, David -- Emerson, Jo Ann -- Gallegly, Elton -- Gerlach, Jim -- Granger, Kay -- Griffith, Parker -- Hastings, Doc -- Heller, Dean -- Issa, Darrell -- Kanjorski, Paul -- LaTourette, Steve -- Lewis, Jerry -- LoBiondo, Frank -- Luetkemeyer, Blaine -- McHugh, John -- McIntyre, Mike -- McKeon, Howard -- Melancon, Charlie -- Mica, John -- Miller, Gary -- Mollohan, Alan - Murphy, Tim --Murtha, John -- Nunes, Devin -- Oberstar, Jim -- Ortiz, Solomon -- Paulsen, Erik -- Poe, Ted -- Rahall, Nick -- Rehberg, Dennis -- Reichert, Dave -- Rogers, Mike (MI) -- Rohrabacher, Dana -- Royce, Ed -- Schock, Aaron -- Skelton, Ike -- Stearns, Cliff -- Taylor, Gene -- Turner, Michael -- Upton, Fred -- Wilson, Charlie --Young, Don
Updated list of pro-life letter nonsigners as of 2/11, 1p:
Bachus, Spencer -- Barton, Joe -- Bilbray, Brian -- Boccieri, John -- Bonner, Jo -- Boozman, John -- Boren, Dan -- Brown-Waite, Ginny -- Buyer, Steve -- Calvert, Ken -- Camp, Dave -- Campbell, John -- Cantor, Eric -- Capito, Shelley Moore --Carney, Chris -- Carter, John -- Cassidy, Bill -- Costello, Jerry -- Crenshaw, Ander -- Culberson, John -- Dahlkemper, Kathy -- Deal, Nathan -- Diaz-Balart, Lincoln -- Diaz-Balart, Mario -- Donnelly, Joe -- Doyle, Mike -- Dreier, David -- Duncan, John -- Emerson, Jo Ann -- Flake, Jeff -- Forbes, Randy -- Gallegly, Elton -- Gerlach, Jim -- Granger, Kay -- Graves, Sam -- Griffith, Parker -- Hastings, Doc -- Heller, Dean -- Issa, Darrell -- Kanjorski, Paul -- LaTourette, Steve -- Lewis, Jerry -- LoBiondo, Frank -- Lucas, Frank -- Luetkemeyer, Blaine -- Lummis, Cynthia -- McCarthy, Kevin -- McHugh, John -- McIntyre, Mike -- McKeon, Howard -- Melancon, Charlie -- Mica, John -- Miller, Gary -- Mollohan, Alan -- Murtha, John -- Nunes, Devin -- Oberstar, Jim -- Ortiz, Solomon -- Paulsen, Erik -- Petri, Thomas -- Poe, Ted -- Posey, Bill -- Price, Tom -- Rahall, Nick -- Rehberg, Dennis -- Reichert, Dave -- Rogers, Mike (MI) -- Rohrabacher, Dana -- Royce, Ed -- Schock, Aaron -- Shadegg, John -- Skelton, Ike -- Stearns, Cliff -- Taylor, Gene -- Thornberry, William -- Turner, Michael -- Upton, Fred -- Wilson, Charlie --Young, Don
Comments:
Anti-choice people have been using the same strategy, I think it's interesting how now it's bad.
Posted by: Kathleen at February 11, 2009 3:57 PMI don't see Jill as implying the strategy is bad, but only that she wants to rally the forces to defeat the strategy.
"Anti-choice people have been using the same strategy, I think it's interesting how now it's bad."
Huh?
Posted by: Bobby Bambino at February 11, 2009 4:07 PMwho are these "anti choice" people, Kathleen? I only see PRO LIFE people, who offer financial support to women in crisis pregnancy, while greedy abortion industry demands more $$$$$....
Posted by: LizFromNebraska at February 11, 2009 4:22 PM“It became a new ballgame when she saw her baby there gasping for breath."
~ Thomas More Society attorney Tom Brejcha, explaining why then-18-year-old Sycloria Williams changed her mind after aborting her baby at a Hialeah, FL, abortion mill in July 2006 and wanted her life saved. Williams filed a civil lawsuit last month against her abortionist and A Gyn Diagnostic clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez, who allegedly killed the baby. To date, no criminal charges have been filed.
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Another gory and glaring example of what 'no child left behind' means to the Dead Babies R Us crowd. (As in hiding the dead body.)
Or is that what PBHO meant he said he did not want his daughters to be 'punished with a baby'?
yor bro ken
Posted by: kbhvac at February 11, 2009 9:41 PM“It became a new ballgame when she saw her baby there gasping for breath."
What a terrible thing! It had to take this for her to realize what? That she was pregnant with a child? That she was murdering someone?
Good heavens!
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/02/taxpayer-shortage.html
12 year old with straight up message
Posted by: xppc at February 12, 2009 7:08 AM12 year old girl whose name I don't know: Run for President in 24 years!
Wonderful speech.
Posted by: LizFromNebraska at February 12, 2009 8:48 AM
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.
