LifeVoice - Sept. / Oct. 2008

A Vote for McCain\Palin is a Vote for LIFE!

Obama = No Protection Whatsoever for Unborn Children

Anyone who cares about the sanctity of human life should vote McCain\Palin on November 4. As that date looms, polls reveal that too many people believe Obama is pro-life and McCain is not. Nothing could be further from the truth

• McCain has a 25-year right-to-life voting record on abortion and will appoint judges with the mindset to end abortion on demand.

• Obama has a 0% right-to-life voting record and even voted in favor of infanticide as an Illinois state senator. Obama will only appoint judges who will continue abortion on demand.

McCain selected as his running mate the right-to-life Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. With the strong right-to-life records of both McCain and Palin, the ticket offers an opportunity for voters to make a distinct difference for life with their votes on November 4.

Even during his law school days, Obama was a fervent advocate of abortion on demand. Obama supports abortion on demand, taxpayer funding of abortion, no parental notification prior to a minor girl’s abortion and partial-birth abortion. He is the co-sponsor of the radical Freedom of Choice Act which would overturn all state laws restricting abortion in any way. In sum – an unmitigated disaster for the lives of unborn children.

Authorized and paid for by the Wisconsin Right to Life PAC, Richard Fox, Treas. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

Wisconsin Legislature Up for Grabs!

The 2008 elections present a critical opportunity for those who care about the sanctity of human life to make a huge difference with their votes for state candidates. Here’s why.

Earlier this year, Wisconsin Right to Life engineered defeats of a bill that would have overturned Wisconsin’s historic abortion ban and another bill that would have legalized assisted suicide. There couldn’t be two more critical pieces of legislation that impact the right-to-life at both ends of the life spectrum.

The defeat of these two bills was a monumental accomplishment. But, with the change of a few Assembly seats and further erosion of a slim right-to-life majority in the State Senate, the abortion ban could be repealed by both houses of the legislature where Governor Doyle waits with pen in hand.

Other potential disasters could be the return of taxpayer funding of abortions through health care plans like Healthy Wisconsin. This would reverse over 30 years of moral freedom for taxpayers who have paid for few abortions in that time period. Abortions are certain to increase if they are taxpayer-funded as has happened in states like Minnesota.

Pro-abortion forces would work to repeal conscience rights, to erode parental consent prior to an abortion, or to weaken the Woman’s Right to Know law. In other words, all of the lifesaving work over the past 35 years could be weakened or destroyed. That’s why your vote on November 4 will be the most critical you have cast in years.

Voting is your privilege – please use it wisely to vote only for right-to-life candidates. You can and will make a difference.

Authorized and paid for by the Wisconsin Right to Life PAC, Richard Fox, Treas. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

"Well, the first thing I would do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."
Obama’s promise to Planned Parenthood on July 17, 2007. The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would overturn all state laws restricting abortion such as prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion, prohibiting partial-birth abortion, and requiring parental notification before a minor girl’s abortion. For more information on FOCA, see http://www.nrlc.org/FOCA/index.html

When does a child receive human rights? “Answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.” Obama response to the question at the Saddleback Forum held on August 16, 2008. McCain’s response to the same question was: “At the moment of conception.” Video - http://video.aol.com/video-detail/saddleback-forum-part-1/2767660063/?icid=VIDLRVGOV04 Transcript - http://www.rickwarrennews.com/docs/Certified_Final_Transcript.pdf

"I don’t want my daughters punished with a baby."Obama talking about his young daughters possibly getting pregnant. At a forum held in Johnston, Pennsylvania on March 29, 2008. http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/348569.aspx

"I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported - which was to say - that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born - even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level." Quote from Obama in an August 16, 2008 interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) found Illinois state records which indisputably document that as an Illinois State Senator, Obama voted against a bill to provide treatment to living, breathing babies who survive abortion attempts that was virtually identical to the federal law he now claims he would have supported given the chance. Obama has participated in a four-year cover-up of his vote and claims that NRLC is lying about his record, even though FactCheck, a non-partisan watchdog group, has reviewed all of the documents and concluded that Obama is the one who is lying about his record. CBN interview - http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/431047.aspx NRLC White Paper - http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaBornAliveAssertionsFacts.pdf
FactCheck review - http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_and_infanticide.html

On the partial-birth abortion ban: "The fact remains, that with no provision to protect the health of the mother, this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned." Quote from an Obama fundraising letter in February 2004 signed by Michelle Obama. Obama, who was a professor of constitutional law, knows full well that “health” has been defined by the U.S. Supreme Court to mean all factors relevant to a woman’s well-being – in other words, an abortion for any reason.

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VOTE for REAL HOPE and CHANGE

There’s no way for Catholics to finesse their way around the abortion issue. No such thing as a “right” to kill an unborn child exists. This fact in no way releases us from the duty to provide ample and compassionate support for unwed or abandoned mothers, women facing unwanted pregnancies, and women struggling with the aftermath of an abortion. But the inadequacy of that support demands that we work to improve it. It does not justify killing the child.

Obviously, we have other important issues facing us this fall: the economy, the war in Iraq, immigration justice. But we can’t build a healthy society while ignoring the routine and very profitable legalized homicide that goes on every day against America’s unborn children. The right to life is foundational. Every other right depends on it. Efforts to reduce abortions, or to create alternatives to abortion, or to foster an environment where more women will choose to keep their unborn child, can have great merit – but not if they serve to cover over or distract from the brutality and fundamental injustice of abortion itself.

By the Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput; Archbishop of the Diocese of Denver, Colorado. Condensed from the August 19, 2008 First Things: The Journal of Religion, Culture and Public Life

The Abortion Issue as the Voter’s Benchmark

Why should we be aware of a candidate’s position on abortion (and other life issues) before making a voting decision?

If you believe that the mystery and glory of human life begins long before our eyes first see a baby emerge from the birth canal, if we are humble enough to say that God sees things we don’t, and that God’s creation of first life was the climax of his whole creation, then we will understand that virtually all of life’s important values emerge from that point.

All decency and all honor emerge from the miracle of invisible human seed dividing and multiplying to form the amazing fetus. If human beings were disposable, then there would be no compelling reason to deal with all the issues we have to deal with in seeking good, healthy societies.

There has to be a genesis, in other words. And there was. “In the beginning, God created…” And out of that act of creation, all definitions of life emerge. Our beginning sanctifies our life and the passing from life to new life at death. But when human beings interrupt and violate the lives of others, be they the unborn, or the infirm, or the elderly, they undercut every reason we have for even trying to have a proper society.

So when we exercise our right to vote for candidates who say they are willing to govern, we can and must say: yes, we will support your governance if the foundation of it is your conviction that all human life has an inviolable sanctity given by God. If not, then you might as well be herding cattle.

Mel Lawrenz is the senior pastor of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, WI and the author of I Want to Believe www.wordway.org)

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