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I Can Feel Pain, but I Can't Vote The Luminary Lighting the Way to a Pro-Life Louisiana I CAN FEEL PAIN, BUT I CAN'T VOTE. BE MY VOTE. November 2014 © 1982 Dr. Rainer Jonas Louisiana Right To Life 1.866.463.5433 | www.ProLifeLouisiana.org Executive Insights One More Important Race to Go It is hard to believe, but we are down to just a handful of days left in the 2014 U.S. Senate race. Our team, along with so many pro-life people across Louisiana, has worked very hard to ensure that voters are educated on where the candidates stand on Benjamin Clapper, life. Executive Director Now, it is all about turnout. Many people may be complacent right now after the results on November 4. But we cannot fall into that trap. Louisiana’s runoff election does still matter nationwide for the pro-life cause. We hope you will do everything you can up until 8 p.m. on December 6 to make sure pro-life voters go to the polls! The victories for life on November 4 were a great advancement for the pro-life After the election ends we must refocus our cause. With a pro-life majority in the U.S. Senate, we have at the very least the ability efforts in Louisiana to educate our citizens about to halt the abortion agenda coming from the White House. If there is a Supreme Court the horror of abortion and reach women and vacancy in the next two years, we stand a chance in opposing a strident pro-abortion encourage them to choose life. We will win the battle nominee. for life in our nation when we succeed not only from the “top-down” through legislation and elections, but The pro-life majority in Congress also gives hope to progress on critical pro-life also from the “bottom-up” by educating our nation. legislation, such as the legislation protecting the unborn child at 20 weeks (similar to the beautiful child on the cover). We also hope to stop tax dollars from going to abortion Let’s continue to advocate for the innocent in our society until abortion and all injustices businesses such as Planned Parenthood. against human life are put in the history books of our nation! Pro-Life Gumbo Pro-Life Town Halls LARTL Connecting With 40 Days for Life Louisiana Citizens Louisiana Right to Life launched a series of town 38 lives saved during halls around Louisiana in 2013, hoping to re- engage the essential grassroots efforts of protecting Louisiana campaign A large crowd gathered for the first Chers Bébés on Oct. 21. the life of the unborn child. 40 Days for Life vigils were held outside Through these events LARTL has worked with existing abortion facilities in Metairie, Baton Rouge Right to Life chapters around the state and also and Shreveport from Sept. 24 through helped begin new chapters in West Carroll, Vernon, Nov. 2, and at least 38 women chose Beauregard, Rapides and Pointe Coupee parishes. life for their babies during this life-saving ministry. Town halls have taken place in 25 of the state's parish seats. Participants, numbering 100 and more Baton Rouge Campaign Director Charlotte a Success! in some areas, have discussed working together to Bergeron reported a record 21 saves in More than 200 people attended the first "Chers Bébés: Acadiana's help end abortion and protect the elderly, disabled front of Delta Clinic, Shreveport/Bossier Soiree for Life" on Oct. 21 in Lafayette. Those attending honored and terminally ill from euthanasia, assisted suicide City Campaign Director Chris Davis the pro-life legacy of two of Acadiana's first pro-life pioneers, Drs. and healthcare rationing. The town halls are a great reported 12 saves in front of Hope Medical Zerben Bienvenu and William Smith. Proceeds from this event opportunity for LARTL staff to meet citizens from Group for Women, and 40 Days for Life benefited the Drs. Zerben Bienvenu and William Smith Education around the state and open up more educational New Orleans Director Mary Nadeau Reed Fund, which was started in order to cultivate more pro-life opportunities. said 5 saves were documented in front of education efforts throughout the Acadiana area. Metairie's Causeway Medical Clinic. If you would like to host a Pro-Life Town Hall in your The evening went on without a glitch! Moon Griffon, the master of parish, please contact Ryan Verret at Worldwide, the campaign recorded 638 ceremony, kept the evening flowing smoothly. Among those taking [email protected] or at 337.524.0044. lives saved. part in the program was Sen. David Vitter, who donated a flag that flew over Congress to be raffled and spoke on the importance and Ryan Verret speaks to a group at a recent power of pro-life education. Town Hall meeting. Louisiana and Acadiana Right to Life look forward to hosting this event again next year. Bishop Robert Muench joined 40 Days for Life Baton Rouge participants in prayer on Oct. 23. Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Election 2014 Comparing the Suicide Never Educating Review Candidates Good Healthcare Louisiana's Youth Pg 2 | The Luminary: A Publication of Louisiana Right to Life A Life Briefing from the Courtroom: Update on Legal Battle to Defend HB 388 and Protect Louisiana Women The court battle over Louisiana’s latest effort to protect women’s plaintiff abortion clinics have argued that all but one clinic in health will continue into the new year. While preliminary filings Louisiana may be forced to close. The state has argued that and discovery are under way, the full trial date of the matter has it values the health and safety of women above the business been set for March 30, 2015. The stakes could not be higher. interests of the abortion industry, and that the new law is important to ensure that women who experience complications The litigation is over the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act (HB from abortion, such as hemorrhage, uterine perforation, or 388/Act 620), which easily passed in the Louisiana Legislature infection from an incomplete abortion, are given the highest and was signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal on June 12, standard of care possible at a local hospital without any delays. 2014. The law is a common sense measure that merely requires physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges Our statute in Louisiana was modeled after a similar law in at a hospital within 30 miles of their abortion facility. Texas, which was also challenged in court but upheld by a three-judge (all female) panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for The law was scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 1, but was the Fifth Circuit earlier this year. That case was appealed to challenged in federal court a few days earlier by the Center the U.S. Supreme Court. On October 15, the Supreme Court for Reproductive Rights on behalf of three of the state's five issued a temporary hold on some parts of the Texas law until the abortion facilities and two abortion physicians. Judge John W. appeals are exhausted, and it remanded some issues back to a deGravelles of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of new panel at the Fifth Circuit. All sides expect that the remaining Louisiana issued a temporary restraining order on August 31, issues will ultimately be returned to the Supreme Court on the barring the state health department from penalizing doctors who merits by early next year. In the meantime, the majority of have applied for admitting privileges but have not received a Texas abortion clinics have been forced to close due to their decision on their applications. inability to obtain hospital admitting privileges for their abortion providers. In late September, the state's other two abortion facilities in New Orleans and Baton Rouge and their two physicians joined Texas and Louisiana are not alone in these latest efforts to the lawsuit, and the court expanded its TRO to apply to all protect women’s health. Among the other states that have plaintiffs. In advance of the trial, the state’s abortion providers passed admitting privileges statutes and received a resulting will be allowed to continue their practices even if their requests legal challenge by the abortion industry are Mississippi, for admitting privileges are denied by local hospitals. Alabama and Oklahoma. Ultimately, the Supreme Court will be asked to decide the fate of all these laws. Over the next two months, attorneys for both sides will be completing their discovery in the case. At some point, common sense must prevail, said Benjamin Clapper, executive director for Louisiana Right to Life. “We are scheduled to depose all of the existing abortion providers in Louisiana and the administrator of each of the "Since abortion was legalized in the United States, the abortion five clinics in the state,” said Mike Johnson, co-counsel for the industry has virtually opposed every common-sense effort to Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, one of two raise medical standards at abortion facilities and give women defendants in the case along the Louisiana Board of Medical more information about abortion and their options. They have Examiners. “I expect we will gather some very interesting done it again in fighting the implementation of Act 620 (HB information about the practices of these facilities.” 388). These abortion facilities want less oversight so they can sell more abortions,” he said. Johnson, legal counsel for Louisiana Right to Life, noted that Louisiana’s abortion industry has had an infamous and well- "Admitting privileges are patient-centered protections that documented history of dangerous conditions that jeopardize promote the continuity of care between abortion facilities public health and safety.
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