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NUFL Endorsed Candidates 2012

April 28, 2012 in Legislative updates, Take Action, Updates, Voter Info

Nebraskans United for Life Endorsed Candidates 2012
President Obama — supporter of abortion and the largest provider of abortion – Planned Parenthood

US Senate
Pat Flynn
Don Stenberg

US Congress
Jeff Fortenberry, Dist 1
Dennis Parker, Dist 1
Brett Lindstrom, Dist 2
Lee Terry, Dist 2
Adrian Smith, Dist 3

Nebraska Legislature
Bill Kintner, Dist 2
Christopher Geary, Dist 7
Erica Fish, Dist 9
William T. Goodpasture, Dist 19
Michael Smith, Dist 29
Cash Ostrander, Dist 43
John Murante, Dist 49

State BD of Ed
Tom Schommer Dist 3

NE BD Regents
Larry Bradley Dist 4
Mark Lakers Dist 8

Learning Community
Blaine McCulloh Dist 6
Mike Avery Dist 6

OPS BD of Ed
Randi Scott Dist 12

MCC Board
Steve Brock Dist 4

CCC Bd of Gov
Sandra Borden Dist 3
William Gannon Dist 5

WNCC Bd of Gov
Richard Stickney Dist 3
William Gannon

NPPD Bd Dir
David Dowling Sub D-11

OPPD Metro
Dwite Pedersen
Mike Cavanaugh

CTL Platte NRD
Andrew Murphy Sub D-2

Little Blue NRD
Jim Cunningham Sub D-8

L Elkhorn NRD
Chris Carlson Sub D-2

U Elkhorn NRD
Gerald Heithoff Sub D-7

L Niobrara NRD
Karl Connell Sub D-1
John Janzing Sub D-7

L Platte N NRD
Art Bailey Sub D-4
Robert Meduna Sub D-9

L Platte S NRD
Ron Geary Sub D-8
Larry Hall Sub D-8

Nemaha NRD
Mike McDonald Sub D-2
Mid Republican NRD
Joseph Anderjaska At Large

PAC QUESTIONNAIRE 2012

1. YES___NO___ At the moment of either natural or artificial conception is there a living, unique and unrepeatable “innocent”, human being present, in either the womb or in vitro [Latin in glass] (As in fertility treatments or cloning)?
2. YES___NO___ Since murder is generally accepted to be defined as the direct, premeditated and intentional killing of one innocent human being by another, is abortion (by surgical abortion or chemical abortion, regardless of a human’s stage of development), murder?
3. YES___NO___ Are you publicly, & personally, against all abortions, all euthanasia, all artificial co-creation of human life outside the womb for the purpose of cloning or fertility treatment, all assisted suicide, all mercy killing and any and all foreseeable offenses against human life? (If no, please add explanatory note.)
4. YES___NO___ Do you support and/or acquiesce to the right to kill the unborn if the unborn person has been conceived through an act of rape or incest, do you support the death sentence (abortion) for children so conceived?
5. YES___NO___ Furthermore, understanding these same groups all allow for the unborn to be killed “to save the life of the mother”, which is in fact construed by killers to mean the life as in the health of the mother – which – in reality becomes an assessment of her mental, financial, psychological and other subjective states of well being (translating necessarily into our current debacle of abortion on demand) ~ do you agree with this much touted abortion “exception”?
6. YES___NO___ Do you believe that the direct and intentional killing of an unborn child in the womb can ever save the physical life of the mother?
7. YES___NO___ Knowing the principal of double-effect allows for legitimate therapy to be performed on a woman even if the UNINTENDED consequence of such therapy would mean the death of her unborn child – which is NOT and NEVER is an abortion, do you really think that abortions should be allowed to save the life of the mother?
8. YES___NO___ Do you support Planned Parenthoods teaching: violence against women and the unborn through abortion in our public and private schools, distributing books on masturbation to kindergarteners, and condoms to teenagers under the legal age of consent?
9. YES___NO___ Is it permissible to abort children with disease or who are physically deformed (As in down syndrome, fetal defects, etc)?
10. YES___NO___ Is it permissible to abort or freeze so-called “extra” babies during fertility or experimental cloning treatments (as in “reductions”)?
11. YES___NO___ Is it okay to kill an unborn human for his or her stem-cells, since it has been scientifically proven that adult stem cells can be taken without destroying human life and, research using adult stem cells has been more successful than embryonic stem cells?
12. YES___NO___ Do you specifically support embryonic stem cell research in any form? If so please explain.
13. YES___NO___ Would you sponsor, co-sponsor, support and/or vote for an Amendment to the US Constitution & and or the Nebraska Constitution that would definitively protect all human life from conception to natural and unaided death? (The so called Human Life Amendment)?
14. YES___NO___ Are you now or have you ever received money directly or indirectly, personally or for a political campaign, from any group or PAC that supports abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, mercy killings, unethical gene therapy, reproductive or therapeutic cloning, the sale of baby body parts or any other life-offending group?
15. YES____ NO ____Would you ever accept monies, personally or for a political campaign, from any pro-death organizations?
16. YES____ NO ____Will you defend against the erosion of the First Amendment Right of all Americans, including Pro-Life Americans?
17. YES___NO___ Will you work to force the closure of all abortion facilities, in Nebraska and throughout the United States?
18. YES___NO___ Will you work to end the trafficking and collection of fees for all baby parts obtained from the malfeasances of researchers and abortionists?
19. YES____ NO ____Knowing that RU-486, “Plan B” pills, Ella and “emergency contraception” and “the pill”, are ALL abortifacients that kill unborn children, do you support the use & distribution of them? (If yes, provide an explanatory note.)
20. YES____ NO ____ Will you support, appoint and/or vote for Pro-Life judges?
21. YES____ NO ____ Will you support, appoint and/or vote for Pro-Life Nebraska Senators to the Unicameral, Pro-Life US Representatives and Senator to the US House of Congress.
22. YES____ NO ____Will you pledge to pray and work for the end of all offences against human life without exception or compromise?

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Action Alert–LB 599! UPDATED!

April 3, 2012 in Legislative updates, Take Action, Updates

Urge Legislature to Reinstate Access to Prenatal Care for Unborn Children

BACKGROUND

Two years ago, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notified Nebraska that its decades-long policy of insuring prenatal health care for unborn children in impoverished families under the Medicaid program had to be discontinued. Medicaid does not include the unborn as eligible recipients of prenatal health care in their own right. However, another joint federal-state program, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), does just that. In fact, the CHIP program explicitly includes unborn children “from conception to birth” in its definition of “child.” This enables the state to provide coverage of prenatal health care regardless of the mother’s eligibility status–other than impoverishment–and in doing so recognizes the individual humanity of the unborn child.

Unfortunately, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) has chosen not to apply for the unborn-child option available under CHIP. However, the Nebraska Legislature is about to begin debate on LB 599, a bill that would restore access to prenatal health care for vulnerable unborn children by requiring NDHHS to apply for the unborn-child option under CHIP.

ACTION

Contact your state senator–and any others you know or with whom you have a connection–by e-mail or phone. Urge others to do the same. Even if you acted on the previous alert on this matter, please do a follow-up, as the matter has become even more urgent due to scheduling on the bill.

MESSAGE

“Please support LB 599, to restore access to prenatal health care for vulnerable unborn children by means of the unborn-child option of the Children’s Health Insurance Program. As a Pro Life Nebraskan, I believe it is wrong to ignore and penalize unborn children in impoverished families because of the circumstances and actions of their parents. LB 599 is the right and caring thing to do.

WHEN

ASAP. LB 599 is likely to be called for floor debate sometime tomorrow-Tuesday, April 3rd.

You can find additional Talking Points for LB 599 here.

Click here to: Find your State Senator

You can e-mail senators through the Nebraska Legislative webpage at:
http://nebraskalegislature.gov or by using the legislator’s first initial plus their last name followed by @leg.ne.gov (example: lheidemann@leg.ne.gov)

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House to Vote on Protect Life Act

October 7, 2011 in Legislative updates

DATE: October 7, 2011

House to Vote on Protect Life Act
It is anticipated that during the week of October 11, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358. Congress will observe the Columbus Day holiday on Monday, October 10, but will be in session Tuesday and the remainder of the week.
An NCHLA Action Alert can be found at: nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=286. Representatives should be urged to vote for H.R. 358 and to oppose any hostile weakening amendments.
The Protect Life Act would bring the new health care reform law into line with policies on abortion and conscience rights existing in other federal health programs.
More information on the Protect Life Act can be found in NCHLA’s latest Legislative Report at: nchla.org/legissectiondisplay.asp?ID=814.
Thanks for all you do in support of life! Please have an enjoyable Columbus Day holiday!

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Senator Johanns e-Update

October 7, 2011 in In the News, Legislative updates

Senator Johanns e-Update
October 6, 2011
In a letter today, I called on the Administration to live up to promises made during the health care debate by the President and some in Congress to protect conscience rights. The Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed a rule to implement the new health care law requiring all new health insurance plans to provide preventative services, including contraceptives and the “morning after” pill, at no cost to the patient. It included a “religious exemption” clause, but it is too narrow. Many faith-based businesses, hospitals and other organizations will be faced with the difficult choice of complying with this rule against their deeply-held convictions or dropping health care coverage entirely.

I’m deeply disappointed in the rule, though I can’t say I’m surprised. Throughout the health care debate, I continuously warned that it did not go far enough to protect life and conscience rights, and it is one of the many reasons I voted against it. Pro-life individuals were misled when they were promised the protection of conscience rights during the health care debate. I said all along the health care bill did not go far enough to protect life, and this latest rule is one more example of the law’s broken promises.

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