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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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Wisconsin Planned Parenthood

April 24, 2012 in In the News, Take Action, Updates

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Halts Medication Abortions While Bans March Through States

Madison, WI – Planned Parenthood announced last week that it would stop dispensing abortion pills at all of its Wisconsin locations after Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law banning the dangerous drugs without the presence of a license physician. This law virtually bans the practice of telemed, or webcam abortions.

Medication abortions account for about 25% of all abortions in Wisconsin.

“This new law will certainly save lives and we thank the Wisconsin Legislature and Gov. Walker for acting to protect women from predatory webcam abortion practices that attempt to increase abortion profits by cutting corners on women’s health and safety,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.

“This has been a textbook example of how activism encourages legislation. Once we discovered the webcam abortions in Iowa, we worked with other organizations to create legislation. That legislation has been picked up by other groups and guided through the legislative process. The result is positive change and increased protections for women that will result in fewer abortions.”

Operation Rescue first uncovered the experimental abortion pill distribution scheme that was being conducted by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in Iowa, and reported on it in March, 2010, then exposed plans by Planned Parenthood Federation of America to expand the scheme into every one of their clinics nationwide.

Since then several states have worked to prevent the expansion of the dangerous abortion process. Wisconsin joins Arizona, Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota in banning webcam abortions. North Dakota and Oklahoma have also passed webcam bans that are currently in the process of litigation.

Elsewhere, a ban on webcam abortions passed its final hurdle in the Minnesota Legislature last Wednesday, and now heads to the desk of Gov. Mark Dayton, a pro-abortion Democrat. It is unknown whether he intends to sign the bill or exercise his veto.

The following day, another webcam abortion ban overwhelmingly passed the Missouri House with a vote of 109-24. It now moves on to the Senate.

Webcam bans have also been introduced during the current legislative session in Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion organization that tracks abortion trends. In addition, Rep. Steve King of Iowa is seeking federal legislation to stop webcam abortions.

During the webcam abortion process, the abortionist conducts a brief interview with a potential abortion patient in another location over an Internet video conferencing connection. The abortionist then pushes a button on his or her computer screen that releases a “cash drawer” containing the abortion drugs. The woman self-administers some of the drugs immediately and is then released to take the rest of the drugs at home. The patient is never examined by a licensed physician, and in the case of an emergency, there is no accessibility to the prescribing abortionist. The process violates FDA safety protocols on numerous points.

The abortion pill, known as RU486, Mifepristone, or Mifeprex, is responsible for at least 16 patient deaths and thousands of abortion complications. When the pills fail, a surgical abortion can be necessary to save the woman’s life from infection caused by retained fetal tissue.

“There can be no doubt that halting the misuse of abortion drugs will save the lives of women and their babies. Because of this we are working to halt the practice of telemed abortions nationwide,” said Newman.

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Vandals Caught in the Act! URGENT!!!

April 24, 2012 in Take Action, Updates

Early this morning, campus police at Western Kentucky University (WKU) refused to stop vandals from draping condoms on the top of small crosses in the campus stadium – these crosses, all 3,700 of them, symbolize how many unborn children die through abortion each day in the US and were installed by the Hilltoppers for Life group on campus. The vandals were art students who claimed the condoms were part of an art project.

The Hilltoppers for Life group members, who had been keeping an eye on their display through the night in reaction to similar acts of vandalism to pro-life displays at other campuses including nearby Northern Kentucky University, asked the art students to stop and then called campus police. The students refused and the campus police just stood by and watched. The police claimed that they, “couldn’t do anything because the condoms aren’t actually vandalization,” even though the crosses are the property of Hilltoppers for Life and they have the administration’s permission for their display.

Claiming vandalism as art is disingenuous and disturbing at best. The desecration of the crosses at WKU is sacrilegious, offensive, and borders on a hate crime. While we have seen vandalism before at other campuses across the nation, it is not uncommon for students to face opposition of this nature but usually the campus police do help out and stop the vandalism rather than hide behind some ‘artistic expression’ excuse. You can read John’s, the president of Hilltoppers for Life, first hand account here.

Please take a moment today to:

1) Call or Email WKU Dean, Dr. Dennis George at 270-745-8723 or dennis.george@wku.edu to express your outrage and demand the university apologize to WKU Hilltoppers for Life and better train the campus police force so that they learn that putting condoms on some one else’s crosses is not art or freedom of expression, it is desecration and vandalization.

2) Log into our action website with your Facebook or Twitter account and Sign our petition to the WKU Administration and show them that America is watching.

3) And post this social media graphic to your Facebook or Twitter account:

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Regulations.gov Document – CMS-2012-0031-0001

April 24, 2012 in In the News, Take Action, Updates

Please click on the link below to send messages to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Congress telling them to stand up for religious liberty and conscience rights.
On February 10, the Administration adopted as a final rule “without change” a mandate requiring almost all private health plans under the new health care law to include sterilization, all FDA-approved birth control (such as the IUD, Depo-Provera, ‘morning-after’ pills, and the abortion-inducing drug Ella), and “education and counseling” to promote these to all “women of reproductive capacity.” The rule allows only a very narrow exemption for a “religious employer.” Religious organizations providing education, health care and charitable services to all in need cannot qualify for the exemption. They will have an extra year to comply.
Message to HHS: On March 21, HHS published an “advance notice of proposed rulemaking” (ANPRM) that suggests various ways the new mandate can be applied to religious organizations (Federal Register, 3/21/12, 16501-08). The ANPRM does not address the fundamental legal and moral concerns about government intrusion into religious ministries. Whatever funding and administrative mechanisms are ultimately chosen, many deeply religious institutions that serve the common good will be forbidden to provide their own employees or students with health coverage consistent with their values. The deadline for comments is June 19.
Message to Congress: While the response to the ANPRM is the primary focus of this alert, it is also important to continue to urge Members of Congress to support the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (H.R. 1179, S. 1467). With the Administration’s insistence on its contraceptive mandate, this legislation is needed to ensure that those who participate in the health care system “retain the right to provide, purchase, or enroll in health coverage that is consistent with their religious beliefs and moral convictions.” On March 1, the Senate voted, 51-yes, 48-no, to table this bill when it was presented as Senate Amendment 1520 to the Transportation Authorization Bill. As Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the amendment’s sponsor, stated: “This fight is not over.”
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