Read The Personhood split, Part I: Structure for background.
Aside from their structural variations, Personhood USA and National Personhood Alliance at first seemed to have similar goals – until the November 4 election.
At that time both the Colorado “Definition of Person and Child” Initiative and North Dakota “Life Begins at Conception” Amendment failed, by 65% and 64%, respectively.
On June 14, 2014, came the news:
Georgia Right to Life President Daniel Becker today announced the formation of a new national pro-life organization, the National Personhood Alliance, a confederation of faith-based, pro-life organizations and leaders who believe pursuing Personhood is essential to protecting all innocent human beings in the 21st century.
Reading that I became confused, because last I knew Becker was working for Personhood USA, a group that sounded an awful lot like this new group.
On March 29 the National Right to Life Committee announced it was disaffiliating Georgia Right to Life.
In the same statement NRLC announced it was credentialing a new state pro-life organization, Georgia Life Alliance.
Read NRLC’s press release here, but its rationale for severing ties with GRTL boiled down to insubordination: GRTL had publicly attempted to thwart two pieces of NRLC’s “top-priority federation legislation,” the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act last year, and the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act this year.
In its statement, NRLC subtly responded to GRTL’s reason for defying its parent organization, which was that GRTL opposed the rape/incest exceptions in the aforementioned bills:
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As Catholics have gone the way of contraception, so too have they followed the status quo on abortion. This might be shocking to some, but when we realize how little has been said about contraception and abortion from the pulpit in the past 50 years, we come to understand why Catholics are no different in their views on sexual morality than the average population of this nation.
It’s safe to say that Wendy Dickey doesn’t shy away from controversy, or the spotlight. The mother of a three-year old named Paisley, who made shock waves across the Internet this week for donning a Pretty Woman-inspired prostitute outfit during a promo for Toddlers & Tiaras, says she will donate the scandalous get-up in question… […]
UPDATE, 5/28, 9:15a: Ryan has just posted the new campaign’s accompanying video, which is excellent… 5/27, 11:16a: Just received word from Ryan Bomberger of Georgia Right to Life are cosponsoring a second wave of pro-life billboards directed toward an African-American audience, “an racialization. Here ’tis (click to enlarge)…
I have a post up today at toomanyaborted.com,” gave a clue why. The 2 groups sponsoring the campaign, Radiance Foundation, intended the signage to be provocative. Black genocide demands attention…. MSM, led by the BigJournalism.com.
On April 5 the National Right to Life Committee’s board of directors passed this resolution in response to GA Right to Life’s decision to go neutral: BE IT RESOLVED that it is the policy and a goal and purpose of National Right to Life that no state affiliate, member or alternate of the National Right […]
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