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!

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.

LB521 was introduced by Senator Tony Fulton in the Nebraska Legislature to make it illegal for Planned Parenthood or any abortionist to perform Webcam or Telemed abortions. In Iowa Planned Parenthood is already doing telemed abortions.

Please contact the Judiciary Committee members and ask them to please vote LB521 out of committee so it can be voted in the NE state legislature to ban Webcam Abortions.

Please click on the following for The committee members and their e-mails.

http://news.legislature.ne.gov/jud/

Committee Members

Sen. Brad Ashford, Chairperson
Sen. Colby Coash
Sen. Brenda Council
Sen. Burke Harr
Sen. Tyson Larson
Sen. Steve Lathrop
Sen. Scott Lautenbaugh
Sen. Amanda McGill

A telemed abortion is abortion via a teleconferencing service similar to “Skype.” Patients are put in a room where an off-site abortionist appears on a computer monitor and explains the medical abortion procedure to them over an Internet hook-up. After the brief teleconference, the dangerous abortion drug RU486, also known as Mifepristone and Mifeprex, and its counterpart, Misoprostol, are prescribed. The drugs are then administered to the patient by a nurse or “clinician” who may or may not be licensed. The patient presses a button an on computer screen that opens a box containing the abortion drugs. The patient is never physically examined by the medical doctor prescribing the drugs – or any other, for that matter – and never sees the abortionist again.

Increased Risks To Women

This development should trouble those who are concerned about the health and safety of women and their pre-born babies.
Mifepristone (Mifeprex or RU 486), the main component of medical abortions, has been responsible for at least eight abortion deaths and over 1,100 serious complications in the United States alone. It is recommended only for early abortions under nine weeks gestation. In addition, medical abortions carry a 7-20 percent failure rate, depending on how the pills are administered. Women who suffer failed or incomplete abortions would require them to be completed surgically or face life-threatening complications. With no doctor in sight, that presents a new danger to women.
Described by one Planned Parenthood receptionist as a “self-induced miscarriage,” the medical abortion process takes days, can be very painful, and involves heavy bleeding and cramping until the pre-born baby is expelled. Yet, the only follow-up offered by Planned Parenthood is a recommended appointment in “two or three weeks” after the abortion where a second ultrasound is offered to make sure the “pregnancy no longer exists.”

This follow-up care is completely inadequate. If tissue from the pregnancy is retained, that presents a risk of infection to the woman that could kill her, especially if care is delayed 2-3 weeks.

In a recently published study conducted on 120 women who underwent medical abortions at 9 weeks, 34 of the women (28%) retained tissue. Fetal heartbeats were detected in fourteen of those pregnancies (11.6%), but abdominal ultrasound only detected the heartbeats in ten of those cases for a 29% failure rate. The study concluded that abdominal ultrasound examination alone is not entirely reliable after medical abortion and also concluded that the higher the woman’s body mass index, the higher the risk of not detecting retained tissue or even a complete pregnancy.

“I cannot imagine a woman going through the process of miscarriage, either natural or forced, and not having access to a physician, especially for follow-up care,” said Newman. “Any number of things could go wrong, and to never actually be seen by a licensed doctor during the entire process seems risky at best, grossly negligent, and perhaps criminal.”

Following is wording of LB 521 Ban on Webcam Abortions:

http://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Intro/LB521.pdf

Thank you.

You can copy and paste the letter below and email it to them or send it by mail!

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Dear Senator NAME OF SENATOR HERE,

I am writing to ask you to please vote for LB521 out of the judiciary committee, which was introduced by Senator Tony Fulton to Ban Webcam Abortions in Nebraska.

Telemed abortions are being done in Iowa, by the Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, where medical abortions are offered in 16 clinics throughout Iowa, but only four of the clinics actually have doctors. At the other twelve, smaller clinics, telemed abortions have become routine.

After the brief teleconference, the dangerous abortion drug RU486, also known as Mifepristone and Mifeprex, and its counterpart, Misoprostol, are prescribed. The drugs are then administered to the patient by a nurse or “clinician” who may or may not be licensed. The patient presses a button on a computer screen that opens a box containing the abortion drugs. The patient is never physically examined by the medical doctor prescribing the drugs – or any other, for that matter – and never sees the abortionist again.

This development should trouble those who are concerned about the health and safety of women and their pre-born babies.
Mifepristone (Mifeprex or RU 486), the main component of medical abortions, has been responsible for at least eight abortion deaths and over 1,100 serious complications in the United States alone. It is recommended only for early abortions under nine weeks gestation. In addition, medical abortions carry a 7-20 percent failure rate, depending on how the pills are administered. Women who suffer failed or incomplete abortions would require them to be completed surgically or face life-threatening complications. With no doctor in sight, that presents a new danger to women.

Described by one Planned Parenthood receptionist as a “self-induced miscarriage,” the medical abortion process takes days, can be very painful, and involves heavy bleeding and cramping until the pre-born baby is expelled. Yet, the only follow-up offered by Planned Parenthood is a recommended appointment in “two or three weeks” after the abortion where a second ultrasound is offered to make sure the “pregnancy no longer exists.”

This follow-up care is completely inadequate. If tissue from the pregnancy is retained, that presents a risk of infection to the woman that could kill her, especially if care is delayed 2-3 weeks.

In a recently published study conducted on 120 women who underwent medical abortions at 9 weeks, 34 of the women (28%) retained tissue. Fetal heartbeats were detected in fourteen of those pregnancies (11.6%), but abdominal ultrasound only detected the heartbeats in ten of those cases for a 29% failure rate. The study concluded that abdominal ultrasound examination alone is not entirely reliable after medical abortion and also concluded that the higher the woman’s body mass index, the higher the risk of not detecting retained tissue or even a complete pregnancy.

I cannot imagine a woman going through the process of miscarriage, either natural or forced, and not having access to a physician, especially for follow-up care. Any number of things could go wrong, and to never actually be seen by a licensed doctor during the entire process seems risky at best, grossly negligent, and perhaps criminal.

I do not want these dangerous Webcam abortions to be done in Nebraska which will harm women and kill their unborn children. Again, I ask you to please vote for LB 521 out of the judiciary committee and allow the state legislature to vote to ban Telemed Abortions.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Your Signature HERE!

We need pro-life Nebraskans to show up at the Capitol on March 9th to act as citizen lobbyists for the pro-life bills which will be heard in committee.

NRL priority bills to be heard:
LB 521 (Fulton) Stop Web Cam Abortions
LB 461 (Pirsch) Freedom of Conscience Act

AGENDA

Room 1507 (first floor, center corridor)
8:30 to 9:00 a.m. Sign in, receive packet of legislative materials

9:00 to 10:15 a.m. Remarks by lobbyist & pro-life state senators

10:15 to 10:45 a.m. Instruction on how to call your senators off the floor for lobbying, dividing into legislative districts and handing out senators’ packets

10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Call your senators off the legislative floor to talk/observe legislative debate from upper galleries

11:45 a.m. Lunch on your own, Capitol Cafeteria or nearby downtown eateries

12:45 p.m. Get seating in Judiciary Committee Hearing Room 1113 for hearings on pro-life bills starting at 1:30 p.m. If hearing room is full, Sergeant at Arms will direct you to overflow room to watch on TV.

Our thanks to Senator Pete Pirsch (Dist. 4), for procuring our meeting room for the morning.

LB 192 would mandate sex ed in all public schools in Nebraska. Four of us went to Lincoln to voice our concerns.
The other issues preceding our hearing were about animal breeding and education for blind students.
We noticed a blind woman who stayed to hear the pros and cons of sex ed as she took notes on her Braille machine. First presenters were those wanting to force sex ed on the whole NE school systems, starting with middle grades. When it was time for the opponents – those of us who know this is another way to push birth control methods philosophy – we were joined by NE Catholic Conference, Omaha Public Schools Bd. of Ed. and other school districts who oppose it for a variety of reasons.
Interestingly, the panel asked questions of those who are in favor of sex ed – so they had MUCH more time allotted. We each got our 3 minutes –the panel did not ask us questions.

LB 521 Web Cam Abortion Ban
Public Hearing March 9, Judiciary Committee Sen. Tony Fulton. Requires a physician to be physically present in the same room as the woman when administering the chemical abortion drug RU 486. Hearing March 9 at 1:30.
LB 22 Ban on Abortion Coverage in State Healthcare Exchanges and Private Plans Sen Beau McCoy
Prohibits abortion coverage in health insurance plans offered through state health insurance exchanges – even with an abortion rider
LB 132 Ban on Abortion Coverage in State Healthcare Exchanges Only. Sen Annette Dubas. Allows for abortions when life of the mother is endangered.
LB 690 Parental Consent for Minors’ Abortions. Sen Lydia Brasch. Replaces NE parental notification law with the requirement a minor (under 18) obtain
notarized parental consent before an abortion.
LB 461 Freedom of Conscience re: Abortion and Embryo-destructive Research Sen Pirsch Hearing March 9 at 1:30. info — call office 399-0299
LB 232 Pregnant Woman’s Protection Act Sen. Mark Christensen

OPPOSE THESE BILLS
LB 540 Medicaid Expansion for Coverage of “Family Planning
LB 192 Mandates Public Schools to teach “Comprehensive” Sex Education
PP is Very Very Scared.
Lila Rose and Live Action has released another undercover video from inside a PP clinic in NYC. AGAIN PP was caught red-handed aiding and abetting in alleged human trafficking and prostitution of young girls. Six videos in three different states have been released the problem in PP.
PP is vulnerable – but they have deep pockets – and powerful friends. MoveOn.org has launched a massive grassroots campaign trying to discredit Lila and Live Action. They want our tax dollars to continue flowing to PP.

CALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TODAY. Ask him to support the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act.
We are blessed to have three pro-life congressional representatives in Nebraska, but they need to know how concerned we are.
Rep. Lee Terry (202) 225-4155 OR (402)397-9944
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (202) 225-4806
Rep. Adrian Smith (202) 225-6435 or (308) 633-6333 in Scottsbluff or (308) 384-3900 in Grand Island

Other Info about PP:
• Why didn’t PP call the police when the “pimp” was in the clinic instead of waiting a week – when they found out they were “stung.”
• They had to “re-train” their staff after another sting in Dec of 2008 – didn’t sink in.
• PP claims their staff acted “professionally” – does that mean they told them how to use the system and not get caught?
• It is a federal crime to aid and abet in the trafficking of underage persons. PP was willing to give secret abortions, birth control and the services that a pimp would need to keep his sex slaves on the street.

LeRoy Carhart, late-term abortionist, wants to do abortions in Council
Bluffs. On Monday, January 24th the City Council will be considering a
resolution, which if passed, will express support for the Fetal-Pain Bill (HF-5) and speak volumes to our State Representatives.
The number of people attending will be
very important to this cause. Please come
early because the vote may be one of the first items on the agenda.

Pre Rally Events:
Inter-denominational prayer service preceding the
City Council meeting at 5:30 P.M. at
First Baptist Church
540 1st Ave.

Mass will be held at 5:30 P.M. at
Queen of Apostles Church
3304 4th Avenue
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” Jer. 1:5

Recently, a 10 year study was completed in Spain to study the effect of increased use of contraception by women ages 15-49. The result was that abortions doubled during that time period.

http://www.jillstanek.com/2011/01/study-spain-contraception-use-up-abortions-double-researchers-cant-figure-out-why/

Please call or e-mail your state senator and let them know you are against sex education in the schools which will increase sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and abortions for Nebraska teens.

http://nebraskalegislature.gov/senators/senator_list.php

Following is the wording of LB 192 mandating sex education in the schools.

http://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Intro/LB192.pdf

Thank you.

Jenifer Bowen
Executive Director
Iowa Right to Life
515.244.1012 Office
515.419.7246 Cell
www.iowaRTL.org

Iowa Right to Life believes that all human life is a gift from God. We support the protection of all human life from fertilization to natural death, and will conduct all matters as an organization according to that principle and belief.

PS —Save the date for the Council Bluffs City Council Meeting on Monday January 24th at 7 pm- we need everyone there–more info to come as we propose a Resolution to the Council supporting the Iowa Bill
Dennis

The key to unraveling this tragedy is a simple one and it has been known since before Roe v. Wade.

It is Personhood.

During oral argument of Roe, Chief Justice Warren Burger explained to pro-abortion attorney Sarah Weddington that by declaring “by statute that a fetus is a person for all constitutional purposes” a state could outlaw abortion.

By stripping personhood from the unborn, their right to life was revoked. By returning personhood to the weak and the powerless, we can restore their dignity and right to life as human beings. It really is that simple.

African slaves were denied their personhood and were therefore treated as property, bought, sold, and bred as animals. Jews were not considered full persons, so their property could be confiscated and their people eliminated. When Spanish conquistadors colonized America, many wealthy landowners fought to convince the Spanish crown that non-Christian “indians” were not legal persons and could therefore be enslaved.

Personhood is the key to all human rights.
That is why at the heart of the Roe v. Wade opinion is the following heartless pronouncement, written by Justice Blackmun, “the word ‘person’ … does not include the unborn.”

Not once, since 1973, has the Supreme Court been challenged to reconsider Blackmun’s terrible words.

With federal and judicial tyranny at its apex, we the undersigned request that our Nebraska legislators stand up for life in a bold and principled way.

We, the undersigned urge you to support a personhood measure that recognizes that the preborn child is a person with the unalienable right to life.

We, the undersigned expect you to stand up for the values of the people of Nebraska by no longer cowering to a federal and judicial tyranny that mandates the destruction of our morals, our families, and our posterity.

We, the undersigned will hold you accountable for your action or inaction in bringing about and supporting a personhood measure, and we will vote accordingly.

Go to the link below to sign the Nebraska Petition:
http://www.personhoodusa.com/group/nebraska