A couple weeks ago a Republican congressman described to me what he anticipated the final scenario would look like in the Fiscal Year 2011 budget battle. He said GOP House leaders would use Planned Parenthood defunding as a bargaining chip to get their way on other budget items. He said there was no chance a […]

1/12, 12:34a: Pro-life Professor Michael New has a perspective on Guttmacher’s report worth reading at NRO: The reasons for this slight uptick are fairly straightforward. A number of peer-reviewed studies have found that the strength of the economy has an impact on abortion rates…. [V]ery few media outlets are taking a longer-term view and asking […]

On Sunday pro-aborts hotly disputed that the Obama administration had done anything wrong by reinserting payment for end-of-life counseling into Obamacare as a regulation when Congress, under pressure, had earlier axed it from the bill. But less than 2 weeks after the New York Times revealed it was back, it’s gone again, also according to […]

Yesterday the National Right to Life Committee held a state legislative strategy conference in Washington. I asked if I could attend, my blog tagline being, “With her typing fingers on the pro-life pulse,” as you’ll notice, and NRLC graciously consented. The 1st hour of the conference was open to the public. During that time NRLC […]

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 […]

UPDATE, 6:45p: Dont’ forget to keep an eye on NRLC and SBA List sites, linked below. So far, so good. UPDATE, 4:55p: Here are links to Politico’s 3 live blogs, live maps, and election results: House Live Blog: http://www.politico.com/blogs/house-races-2010/ Senate Live Blog: http://www.politico.com/blogs/senate-races-2010/ Governors’ Live Blog: http://www.politico.com/blogs/governors-races-2010/ Results: http://www.politico.com/ Maps: http://www.politico.com/2010/maps/ 2:11p: Election results will […]

Oh, this is rich! I can’t tell you how much this sort of chutzpah warms my soul! I’ve always thought highly of Doug Johnson. Now I’m a groupie. From the Washington Independent, moments ago: With a US District Court slated to rule today on the Susan B. Anthony List’s lawsuit over an Ohio law outlawing […]

There’s a good National Right to Life Committee warned that elective abortions would be covered under a PA insurance program created by the health care reform law….