Well, that didn’t take long. It was only yesterday that pro-abort groups like EMILY’s List began pushing Barack Obama to dump the Stupak/Pitts Amendment from the socialized healthcare bill. Tonight during

UPDATE, 11:24a: A National Right to Life email alert reminds us that the House switchboard line may be overloaded, as I just learned. You can get direct-dial numbers for any House office by typing in your zip code at the NRLC Legislative Action Center here. UPDATE, 11a: Had a hard time getting through to tell […]

The article below indicates Catholic pro-life Democrats are having a problem defying their bishops on the healthcare bill currently as written. They are not falling for the phony pro-life Ellsworth amendment. It also indicates Catholic pro-life Dem congressman (and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus) Bart Stupak is holding strong with his assertion he has […]

by Douglas Johnson has issued a statement on Congressman Ellsworth’s “compromise” language in health care reform: “Any House member who votes for the Pelosi rule is voting to establish a federal government insurance plan, the public option, that the bill explicitly authorizes to pay for all elective abortions. When a federal agency pays for abortions, […]

Repeating

Ok, game on. From

UPDATE, 2:37p: From Doug Johnson: One minor correction: The Sun ran essentially the same piece twice, but they were not quite identical. The second iteration was a hair softer on Kathleen Parker. I don’t know if this was a deliberate down-toning by PPFA, or, more likely, just some editor making it a little shorter. _______________ […]

A couple of responses to that part of Obama’s speech tonight. First, from the National Right to Life Committee: In his address to a joint session of Congress tonight, President Obama said, “One more misunderstanding I want to clear up – under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.” Douglas Johnson, […]