December 2016 President-Elect Trump putting together strongly pro-life cabinet

Pro-life President-elect Donald Trump and his pro-life campaign manager Kellyanne Conway A National Referendum on By David N. O’Steen, Ph.D., National Right to Life Executive Director

A National Referendum on Abortion - that’s how Ernest Ohlhoff, National Right to Life’s Director of Outreach, described the 2016 election in a recent article published by Maryland Right to Life. He’s right - -and post -election polling shows how the right to life side won. Abortion has never before been such an integral part of a presidential campaign. President - elect Donald Trump, who was nothing if not forthright with the American Members of NRLC’s executive committee and NRLC staff met with Donald Trump this summer. NRLC congratulates President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence and looks forward to See “National,” page 36 working with them in the coming years 2016 Election Overview: NRLC triumphant against radical pro-abortion movement By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director

A fitting end to this 3rd congressional district to Angelle are pro-life.) National Marshall Jones (D), 65%-35%, unexpectedly remarkable replace pro-life Rep. Charles Right to Life-endorsed State in the 4th congressional district election year came last Boustany. (Both Higgins and Rep. Mike Johnson (R) defeated to replace pro-life Rep. John Saturday when three pro-life Fleming. Republicans won the runoffs in This brings to 50 the number Louisiana. National Right to of NRL-supported candidates Life-endorsed State Treasurer who won their elections, in John Kennedy (R) bested spite of dismal warnings from Public Service Commissioner major media and most political Foster Campbell (D), 61%- pundits. 39%, in the open Senate seat. To be fair, prior to the 2016 In addition Capt. Clay general election, prospects to Higgins (R) beat Public Service Commissioner Scott See “Overview,” page 31 Angelle (R), 56%-44%, in the Editorials Counting our pro-life blessings at Christmas

Just my two cents worth, but I strongly suspect there were an awful lot of pro-lifers who do not fully grasp that our Movement--and the unborn babies for whom we fight --just avoided a major catastrophe. So unsure were they of Donald Trump that they took their eye off of a dead-mortal certainty. Which was? That if Hillary Clinton became President, not only would the International Abortion Industry have a patron in the most powerful office in the world, she would do her best to extinguish the Right to Life Movement. I’m exaggerating for effect, right? No, I’m not. Let me explain why before I return to why NRLC’s support for Trump, along with that of other pro-life organizations, was right, proper, and desperately needed. It was no accident--Clinton’s comment about the “deplorables,” that is. She knew her comments were public, but Clinton Consider her comment to the 2015 Women in the World Summit unabashedly (and to loud applause) announced that at least half about how “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and of Trump’s supporters were the worst kind of people you could structural biases have to be changed.” Hillary Clinton and the kinds imagine. of people she associates with are militant pro-abortion radicals, Watch that speech sometime. She meant people exactly like you elitists who can’t wait to re-educate “your standard redneck,” Bill and me, people who do not have hundreds of millions in the bank Clinton’s description of Donald Trump’s base. and access to whatever they want like the Clintons do. Mrs. Clinton and those around here have no respect for you and Please don’t forget that the people around her were anti-Catholic have only contempt for your religious liberties. You and I must be to the core. As Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen wrote re-habilitated. a few months ago, a then—recently released trove of emails — Mr. Trump was not conversant with the abortion issue, something which, according to WikiLeaks, come from the accounts of Clinton that is not uncommon. He stumbled coming out of the block. He staff — showed “the rampant anti-Catholic bigotry that permeates brought on pro-life Kellyanne Conway to run his campaign, met Clinton World,” including creating and/or nurturing front groups with members of the NRLC executive committee, and began to to destabilize the Catholic Church. make his position clear. See “Counting,” page 10 How Trump won There will be a flood of books and a tidal wave of Ph.D. theses In fact, Trump is about to be our 45th President because every explaining--or trying to explain--why a political novice defeated cliché going in proved to be flat-out wrong or at least exaggerated. a veteran politician with endless financial and organizational Let’s start with women. resources, a super-helpful media, and the promise of breaking the True, Clinton beat Trump by 12 points among all women, but ultimate “glass ceiling.” Trump won 53% of white women. If you break it down further, Three weeks before the election, ’s Chris what Clinton would probably call “deplorables”–white women Cillizza co-authored a story titled, “Donald Trump’s chances of who were not college graduates– voted for Trump 62% to 34%. winning are approaching zero.” Zero. Trump carried men (53% to 41% for Clinton) and White men in But win he did. Pro-life President-elect Donald Trump secured particular (63% to 31%). Moreover among White men without a 306 electoral votes and, in the process, made serious inroads into college degree, Trump’s advantage was almost three to one: 72% the “Blue Wall” of Midwestern states Democrats have carried for to 23% many presidential elections. One surprising outcome–based on the narrative going in– Trump While the media mocked him and derided his organizational also carried white college-educated men by 15 points, 54% to 39%. prowess, it was Donald Trump who in the end pulled off one of the What about white Evangelical Christians? ’s Olga biggest upsets in American political history. There is even talk of Khazan wrote, “81 percent of white evangelical Christians voted “realignment.” for Trump, as did the majority of people who attend religious How did Trump prevail? If you believe Democrats and their services once a week or more.” willing cohorts in the Establishment Media it was for all the So, why did 4 out of 5 White Evangelicals vote for Trump? wrong reasons propelled by all the wrong people--the now famous “deplorables.” See “Trump,” page 32 From the President Carol Tobias Unborn children and Infinite Possibilities

finding new planets or stars? Did you unwelcoming to “imperfect” people. But a know that your child could be a teacher, deeper reflection reminds us that there are encouraging and motivating children to no perfect people, perfect jobs, or perfect want to learn? circumstances. We shouldn’t expect to have Did you know that your child could be perfect children. 25 years ago, we heard a new song that a nurse or doctor, helping to treat the sick Whether a disability develops in the would instantly become a Christmas and heal the injured? Did you know that womb or occurs many years after birth, we Classic. “Mary Did You Know?” has been your child could be a comedian, reminding love and care for all members of the human recorded and played and sung by many people of the adage, “laughter is the best family. This gives us all, as a society and as artists in many styles. medicine”? individuals, the opportunity to show love, You’re probably familiar with the tune but Your child could be a photographer, care, and compassion—characteristics that take a minute to read and reflect on the lyrics: capturing some moment in history that will are good and beneficial. Mary, did you know that your baby boy never come around again. Your child could I have met many women who thought will some day walk on water? be a firefighter or policeman, giving of a was the worst thing to ever Mary did you know that your baby boy will save our sons and daughters? Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new? This child that you’ve delivered, will soon deliver you.

Mary, did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man? Mary, did you know that your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand? Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod? And when you kiss your little baby, you’ve kissed the face of God.

Mary, did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation? Mary, did you know that your baby boy would one day rule the nations? himself/herself to protect others. Your child happen to them. This unborn child was an Did you know that your baby boy could become an advocate for children, embarrassment to their parents and/or an is heaven's perfect Lamb? helping to find caring foster homes or unacceptable burden to boyfriends. They This sleeping child you're holding helping them get adopted into loving, wondered if they could get through the is the great I AM. permanent homes. coming difficult times. But they soon came The possibilities are endless--“infinite.” to realize that this baby was truly a blessing When I heard this song recently on But many women considering abortion and they now can’t believe they had ever the radio, it reminded me of Infinite are looking not at their baby’s possibilities considered abortion. Possibilities, a flyer NRLC published a few but at the next year of two of their lives During this Christmas season, as we years ago. Of course only God who became with a newborn baby to take care of. Pro- remember the Child who came to make us man fulfills the lyrics in this song. lifers are as realistic as we are idealistic. new, let us also remember that every child But the question could be asked of any We know that life can sometimes be very has infinite possibilities and re-dedicate mother or father whose child is yet to be born. difficult. Pregnancy resource centers do ourselves to making sure the coming years Did you know that your child could be an amazing job in helping women through make those possibilities possible. a musician whose music can help energize difficult times but we, as a society, can May you know the blessings of God’s the weary or soothe the troubled? Did you always look for ways to do more. love in this special season. Merry Christmas know that your child could be an astronaut, We also know our culture can be very to all! 4 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org National Right to Life Made an Enormous Difference - Now You Can, Too!

National Right to Life's to Life could do very little The link below gives you to the NRL Educational political action committees fundraising for our general the opportunity to give to save Foundation are fully made a major impact on our work, or educational work. unborn babies' lives in two deductible. nation in 2016. And it would be a terrible ways: Donations to the National If you prefer to give by mail Post-election polling we irony for the unborn if we Right to Life Committee or phone instead of online, you conducted shows the strategies won all these elections, set strengthen our grass-roots work may do so by mailing National and hard work of our PACs up a situation where we for life, our three thousand Right to Life at its offices at 512 helped win enough additional now have the ability to pass local Right to Life chapter, and 10th Street NW in Washington votes for pro-life candidates more significant life-saving our work in Congress and in D.C. 20004, or by phoning that it turned the election in our legislation, and do important state legislatures to pass life- 202-626-8813. favor in some tight Senate races- educational campaigns, but saving laws. Because of that Our wonderful supporters -and probably in have already done the presidential so much this year race as well! (See to make these stories, page one.) pro-life victories History will possible. Many now be very lives can and will different for the be saved. It is our rights of the hope that we can unborn because all continue that of National Right support to see this to Life! Imagine through to even where we'd be greater victories without the power for the unborn in of NRL's PACs to the months and get out the pro- years ahead! life vote. didn't have the money to do it. work to pass laws, donations For all you do, and for your But these great victories That's why National Right to the NRL Committee are not deep love and concern for God's came at a great cost. Most to Life is asking you to please tax-deductible. most vulnerable ones, may you of our fundraising efforts in consider making an extra- Or you can give to the and your family and loved ones 2016 understandably had to be special gift for the unborn at the National Right to Life have a very blessed Christmas conducted for those PACs, so close of this year as we prepare Educational Foundation, and New Year. Thank you so they would have the resources for the great opportunities which does pro-life educational much for all you did to make to reach out to millions and ahead in 2017. This is so and outreach work to women, 2016 a year of successes for the millions of Americans and important at this critical time in young people, teachers and unborn! persuade them to vote for Life. the history of our movement for other professionals to build a That means National Right unborn lives! Culture of Life. Donations www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 5 44 Years after Roe: are you committed to making a difference? By Jacki Ragan, Director, NRLC State Organizational Development Department

On January 22, 2017, and anniversary of the legalization But the question is, what are your area, then we will work the weeks preceding and of abortion all across the you going to do afterwards? with you to help you get one following that tragic date, the nation and you are encouraged After you leave the March started! right to life movement will to participate, attend, and or the Rally or the Prayer You can email us at mark the anniversary of Roe v. promote. Coming together Breakfast, what are your plans? [email protected], or call Wade with sadness at the loss to mourn the lost lives, the How are you going to make 202.378.8843. of life but also with a sense of maimed lives is something we a pro-life difference in the The important immediate victory. We know we have the do every year. We will not stop coming year? thing is to do is attend the truth and that we are gaining until the killing is stopped. There are many, many reasons National March for Life or ground and growing closer to If this is your first year to to be encouraged, as you’ve your local commemoration. the day when we will be able March for Life (locally or in our read about in National Right to Once that is accomplished, it is to legally protect innocent nation’s capital), or participate Life News Today. But make no imperative that each one of us human life. in a memorial service, or mistake: 2017 will be a long, continues to make a difference. Over 59,000,000 innocent attend a prayer breakfast, that and in many ways, challenging Be a voice for the unborn. unborn babies have lost their is wonderful. You are making year. We need every voice Get involved and stay lives to abortion. I don’t believe a statement of faithfulness that possible, including yours. involved. We are here to help that we can begin to understand cannot be ignored! So after you attend the pro- you and support you in all how many 59,000,000 really Note that because the 22nd life events of your choosing, ways possible. It is in working is… falls on a Sunday, the annual contact your local chapter or together as a team that we There will be activities March for Life will take place state affiliate and get involved. will continue to make THE to commemorate the 44th Friday, January 27. If there is not a local chapter in difference. Welcome aboard! 6 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org 2017 will “definitely” be a busy state legislative session, NRLC says By Dave Andrusko

It is a most welcome annual Wilson observes, “[A]s been emboldened by the [Trump who] told occurrence. As the next state Republicans have made steady election,” said Elizabeth Nash, CBS’s “60 Minutes” legislative session approaches, gains in legislatures across the a state-level policy analyst at earlier this month that national publications will write country, the anti-abortion rights the Guttmacher Institute.” he would appoint anti- about how (as The Hill put it movement has notched a series You think? abortion rights judges recently) “Abortion foes plot wave of legislation in the states.” Reid Wilson begins this way Opponents of abortion rights are planning to push a raft of new rules and restrictions after their allies scored big wins in state legislative chambers and guber- natorial races.

While we pay most attention to federal elections—to Congress and to the presidency—it is at the state level where in recent years wave after wave of pro-life laws have come rushing in. And as we have posted previously, pro-lifers made huge gains in the November 8 elections. Wilson begins his story where he should: by quoting Ingrid Duran, director of state legislation for the National Right to Life Committee (and a great help to NRL News Today). “It’s definitely going to be a busy session,” Duran told The Hill. “Right now is the time that our affiliates are shaping their of victories. Since 2011, the The significance of the who would then send legislative agendas and what year Republicans took over election of pro-life President the question of whether they’d like to see passed.” scores of state legislative seats Donald Trump has not escaped abortion should be At the top of the list for after the 2010 midterms, 334 pro-abortionists working in legal back to the states. National Right to Life affiliates measures restricting abortion state legislatures. Wilson notes is passage of the Pain-Capable rights have passed in 32 states There are fewer To be clear what Mr. Trump Unborn Child Protection Act across the country. Forty- opportunities for said was he would nominate (already the law in 14 states) and four were enacted in 2016 Democratic-led states pro-life justices in the mold of the Unborn Child Protection alone, according to a tally by to advance abortion the late Antonin Scalia and if from Dismemberment Act (on the Guttmacher Institute.” rights, and most Roe v. Wade was overturned, the books in Kansas, Oklahoma, (Pro-abortion to the core, activists who favor the states would write their own West Virginia, Mississippi, the Guttmacher Institute was those rights say their abortion statutes, exactly what Alabama, and Louisiana). formerly ’s focus is likely to be was the case prior to Roe and its Both are based on NRLC think tank.) dominated by the fight 1973 companion decision, Doe model legislation. “I think conservatives have over President-elect v. Bolton. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 7 Saying “Adoption – Not Abortion” and Really Meaning It By Joleigh Little , Teens for Life Director, Wisconsin Right to Life

Adoption — not abortion. mean life for these children. The older a child is the more terrified, traumatized tiny Those three words are easy to They represent families built loss he or she has suffered. human who just now has been say. So easy, in fact, that I said out of brokenness. There is always a birth mother ripped away from everything them, almost as a matter of rote, However, behind those in the adoption equation, and he or she knows. for decades. But it’s far easier snapshots, those vignettes, sometimes a father as well. It is brutal and raw to witness to say than to do. there are other moments– These are people who, for that level of brokenness. It is I’d like to ask you to think a tougher moments– that need whatever reason, cannot raise more difficult still to sign on the little bit about that with me. to be recognized. We need to their children to adulthood. dotted line of a form, written in We know that abortion takes really see them if we are going Sometimes they agonize to any one of a dozen languages, the life of a living, growing, to keep saying “adoption – not make the perfect and most and agree to absorb into your developing, fully alive human abortion” and own it. loving plan possible, and family, that wounded child. child. It should not be an option Sometimes that courage takes to brutally kill a defenseless the form of facing your fears person because their existence while standing under the stream is inconvenient. So because of of a lukewarm shower 5,000 that reality, any other option miles away from everything you stands out as a better choice. know, and reminding yourself But that doesn’t make the that the child screaming angry other options easy ones. And words at you in a language you that’s where I want to ask your cannot understand is NOT the indulgence. I want to ask you child you will have a year from to spend a few minutes with now. me really, really thinking about Adoption is hard. Sometimes adoption. it means repeating the same I share all of what follows directive hundreds of times, –ask you to consider these day after day, for years on end things –for a very specific and realizing that complying reason. My goal is not to talk may always be out of your you out of adopting if you have child’s reach due to the alcohol considered it but to help you poisoning they suffered in understand that adoption is a lot utero. like anything else you will do Other times it means waking in life that is worth your time– up a dozen times during and that includes commitment, the night to comfort a tiny courage, and sacrifice. person who is living her worst Let’s begin at the beginning. nightmare, surrounded by Yes, there are the happy unfamiliar sights, sounds, ever after stories. The loving smells and people. For many married couple who has waited Adoption means that other times they are forced it means sitting for days and their entire lives to be parents someone has lost something. by circumstances to abandon weeks on end in a hospital room is finally united with the child That is always true. Whether a child and hope for the best. while medical professionals for whom they have longed for the separation happens in an Other times, a child is left work to correct a physical issue years. instant after birth in a hospital without parents through death. that threatens the very life of A beautiful little orphaned where loving adoptive parents Whatever way the separation this child you’ve grown to love. girl is placed in the arms of her are waiting to receive a child or happens, there is loss. Adoption is expensive. It is new parents for the first time. A whether the separation happens Adoption requires courage. utter madness that we live in a little boy, about to age out of a in a more brutal manner – While it is very easy to look world where you can take the broken system, meets his dad the child abandoned in a bus at and grow attached to a life of a child for a tiny fraction for the first time. station, wrapped in a plastic photograph of a child who These beautiful moments do bag, for example – every child lives a world away, it is another happen every day. They are who is available for adoption thing entirely to meet that child, See “Adoption,” page 35 to be celebrated because they has suffered a loss. who may be a grief-stricken, 8 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org The Best Christmas Gift of All By Maria Gallagher, Legislative/PAC Director, Pro-Life Federation

Each year when the coldness lives of his fellow servicemen. doesn’t he?” of winter is just about to settle Instead, Harry would have died George’s daughter Zuzu had And in all its cinematic in, I return to Bedford Falls, at the age of nine, the victim prayed, “Please bring Daddy splendor, the film “It’s a NY, where the town streets are of a tragic accident–drowning back.” Wonderful Life” concludes wrapped in a blanket of snow after falling through a layer And after seeing Bedford with George being reunited and the ivory lights glistening in of ice–because George wasn’t Falls through the eyes of a with the many who love him, the trees signal the celebration around to rescue him. stranger…and viewing the whose lives have been touched of Christmas. So it was not just one brother devastation of a world without and transformed by his. It is my December destination that George had saved–but a his presence, George recognizes Though it was released on because I want to spend some band of brothers. As Clarence the immeasurable value of one Christmas Day 70 years ago, time with George Bailey, the tells him, “Every man on that life–his one life. the movie communicates a town dreamer, who mapped out transport died. Harry wasn’t transcendent truth which so plans of seeing Italy, Greece, there to save them, because you George: many in the U.S. need to hear and the Parthenon, but ended weren’t there to save Harry.” “Clarence! Clarence! today, amidst the tragic push up sacrificing it all to stay in Clarence introduces George Help me, Clarence. for doctor-prescribed suicide his little corner of America and to a surreal world in which his Get me back. Get me and the traumatic ordeal of help his family. first employer ends up in jail… back. I don’t care mothers pressured to give up– I want to journey with his uncle forever emotionally what happens to me. just as their babies are growing George, who is contemplating broken…his wife alone and Only get me back to inside them. suicide, as his guardian angel without children…and his my wife and kids. Help named Clarence shows him hometown a Hell hole…all me, Clarence, please. Clarence: what the world would have because he had never been born. Please! I want to live “You see, George, you’ve been like, had he never been Clarence says, “Strange, isn’t again. I want to live really had a wonderful born. George’s brother Harry it? Each man’s life touches so again. I want to live life. Don’t you see what would not have grown up to many other lives. When he isn’t again…..Please, God, a mistake it would be to be a military hero, saving the around he leaves an awful hole, let me live again.” throw it away?” www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 9 Anna Yocca pleads not guilty to three felony charges in attempted self-induced abortion By Dave Andrusko

Anna Yocca, who used a state custody. Citing her baby. “That’s when officials Town in Nashville where staff coathanger in 2015 to try to confidentiality, he said the amount of blood members saved ‘Baby Yocca.’” self-abort her 24-week-old declined to answer alarmed her, and her boyfriend News Channel 5’s Jesse unborn child, has plead not further questions. took her to the emergency Knutson reported that at the guilty to three felony charges: aggravated assault, an attempt The baby was born two to procure a miscarriage and an weeks after Yocca’s attack in attempted criminal abortion. September 2015. The baby survived Yocca’s Yocca was originally charged attack, although grievously with attempted first-degree injured, and weighed 1 pound, in December 2015, five ounces at birth. a charge later reduced to Daily News Journal reporter aggravated assault. Michelle Willard wrote that the As NRL News Today reported, child is no longer in foster care last month Gerald Melton, and that Yocca’s court-appointed Last week Rob attorney, asked that all charges Johnson, a spokesman be dropped. The three new Anna Yocca with her attorney, Gerald Melton for the Tennessee felony charges replace the Department of original charge. room at St. Thomas Rutherford time Yocca was arrested, Children’s Services, In September 2015, Yocca, hospital,” according to Sam “Police said the coat hanger said by telephone that 32, filled a bathtub with a few Stockard of the Murfreesboro caused significant damage to the child was “safe” inches of water, then used a Post. “From there, she was the child’s eyes, lungs, and but no longer in coat hanger to repeatedly stab transported to St. Thomas Mid- heart.” 10 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Ohio Dept. of Health Revokes License of Dayton Abortion Facility Abortion Facility Fails to Secure Sufficient Emergency Back-up Care

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The violated a woman’s right to are hopeful that it will spare Ohio should be alarmed by this reported refuse an abortion last June. thousands of lives in Dayton.” facility’s consecutive failures that the Ohio Department of We’re grateful to see action Ohio law requires that all to either secure an agreement Health has revoked the license being taken on this facility and ambulatory surgical facilities, with a local hospital, or meet of a Dayton-area abortion including abortion facilities, the department’s rules for facility, Women’s Medical secure a written transfer alternative back-up care. The Center, for failure to meet the agreement with a local traditional medical community department’s health and safety hospital. If unable to obtain has rejected doing business standards. The decision follows an agreement, the facility may with this facility, and the state a recommendation made by seek a variance from the law. of Ohio is doing the same.” a hearing examiner in early In October, the Department Women’s Med Center September. of Health denied the facility a of Dayton is operated by “Ohio Right to Life thanks variance for the fifth year in a abortionist Martin Haskell Director Rick Hodges for row. who is known for popularizing holding this abortion facility “For years, this abortion the now-banned partial-birth accountable to basic health and facility has operated without abortion technique. safety standards,” said Devin sufficient emergency back- Scribner, executive director of up care for the thousands of Editor’s note. Women’s Ohio Right to Life. “This is the pregnant women who come Medical Center of Dayton has same facility that, according to Ohio Department of Health through their doors,” said 15 days to appeal the order, the Ohio Department of Health, Director Rick Hodges Scribner. “The whole state of signed November 30. Counting our pro-life blessings at Christmas From page 2

I understand, as it is with any He pledged to sign into law president, over the last three the ambassador to China, and president, that actions speak the Pain-Capable Unborn Child weeks Trump’s appointments Andy Puzder, who will head the louder than words. (Clinton Protection Act, which would have already included Sen. Jeff Department of Labor. had both words and actions end painful late-term Sessions as Attorney General; As we discuss in the second to prove her unswervable nationwide. And Trump vowed Rep. Tom Price to be Secretary editorial, the abortion issue in commitment to abortion on to defund Planned Parenthood of Health and Human Services; the context of the future of the demand.) But Trump was very, as long as they continue Republican National Chairman Supreme Court, was a huge very specific in his avowals to perform abortions, and Reince Priebus to be chief advantage for President-elect and is off to a great start in his reallocating their funding to of staff; South Carolina Gov. Trump, including (especially?) cabinet appointments. community health centers that Nikki Haley as ambassador to in making the breaches he did Trump said he would provide comprehensive health the United Nations; Dr. Ben in the “Blue Wall,” Midwestern nominate only pro-lifers to the care for women. Carson as Secretary of Housing states Democrats just don’t lose. Supreme Court in the mold After the election, he and Urban Development; Rep. Until November 8. of the late Justice Antonin reaffirmed to60 Minutes’ Leslie Mike Pompeo to be director of From a single-issue pro- Scalia. Trump also promised to Stahl that he is pro-life and the CIA; and Betsy DeVos as life perspective, we know we make “the Hyde Amendment would nominate only pro-life Secretary of Education; Rep. contributed to Mr. Trump’s permanent law to protect justices to the Supreme Court. Cathy McMorris Rodgers as victory. Like President-elect taxpayers from having to pay In addition to having pro-life Interior Secretary; Iowa Gov. Trump, we have much to for abortions.” Gov. Mike Pence as the vice Terry Branstad, who will be celebrate this Christmas season. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 11 New national poll shows overwhelming support for Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act By Dave Andrusko A nationwide telephone (which is equivalent to 22 poll take Election Day by weeks of pregnancy — about The polling company, inc./ the start of the sixth month). WomanTrend for the Susan And no matter how many B. Anthony List found almost deniers there are on the two-thirds support for the Democratic side of the aisle, Pain-Capable Unborn Child there is abundant evidence that Protection Act—well more than by this point in development double those who opposed. (and probably earlier), the Sixty-four percent were in favor unborn child has the capacity to only 28% who were opposed. to experience excruciating Among his commitments pain during typical abortion to pro-lifers, President-elect procedures. Donald Trump has promised to Support for the bill in the sign the Pain-Capable Unborn new poll extended across all Child Protection Act. demographic and geographic The House of Representatives boundaries. For example passed the measure on May 13, • Millennial voters 2015, by a vote of 242-184. 78% support This legislation is based on a model bill originated by NRLC • Women voters in 2010, which has since been 67% support enacted in 14 states. The Pain-Capable Unborn • African Americans Child Protection Act extends 70% support general protection to unborn children who are at least 20 • Hispanics weeks beyond fertilization 57 % support 12 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Latest Rasmussen Report find highest percentage since 2014 who say abortion is morally wrong By Dave Andrusko

Rasmussen Reports rarely, if ever, finds the same remained with the pro-life candidate. Note that in level of pro-life support as, say, Gallup. So it is not exit polls, 56% of those who voted for Trump said it surprising that the results of a new Rasmussen survey, was the most important factor, compared to 41% for released in early December, “finds that 52% of Likely Hillary Clinton–a huge difference and indicative of U.S. Voters consider themselves pro-choice on the how significant the next appointments to the Supreme issue of abortion, while 42% say they are pro-life,” a Court are to the pro-life community. gap of 10 points. Here’s a different way to approach the significance of Gallup’s latest (2015) found self-identified pro- the abortion issue. In May of this year, Gallup asked, choicers ahead by 50% to 44%–a six point difference. “Thinking about how the abortion issue might affect However a nationwide poll taken November 8 by the Polling Company found 47% self-identified as pro-life and 47% self-identified as pro-choice. Three points to keep in mind. First, support for abortion. As we have explained many, many times, when you combined those who say abortion should be “legal only in a few circumstances” (37%) with illegal in all circumstances (19%), you have 56% who say abortion should not be legal at all or (to quote Gallup) “should generally be rare, occurring in only a few circumstances.” your vote for major offices, would you … Second, the morality question. According to 23% of pro-lifers would vote only for a pro-lifer Rasmussen, 50% believe abortion is morally wrong compared to 17% of pro-choicers who would only vote most of the time, up four points from April 2015. for a pro-choice candidate. Note also that only 22% This is the highest finding since mid-2014. Thirty- of pro-lifers do not see abortion “as a major issue” four percent consider abortion morally acceptable in compared to 32% of pro-choicers. most instances, unchanged from the previous survey. The media collectively huffed and puffed that the Seventeen percent are undecided. election of pro-life Trump would be awful. The irony is Third, as a voting issue. In 2016, the advantage this only help solidify pro-life support behind Trump. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 13 Exposing the soft jurisprudential underbelly of Roe v. Wade By Dave Andrusko

In just over five weeks, we Roe. As he put it, “[T]he theory abortion should be legal— interrupts, but the will commemorate the 44th that was expounded to impose at least everybody who is rest of Scalia’s answer anniversary of one of the that decision [Roe] was a theory anybody—so why would is] simply because it bleakest days in American that does not make any sense.” Justice Scalia “instinctively” go thinks it should not be history–January 22, 1973– Ah, yes! the wrong way? There follows there.” when seven justices blissfully Second, Morgan asks Scalia a second keen distinction, one embraced judicial activism Third, Morgan, as is his to eliminate the abortion annoying custom, frontloads statutes of all 50 states, from his question about the impact the most protective to the most of Scalia’s Catholic faith on his permissive. jurisprudence by attempting to One of pro-life President- presuppose/preempt Scalia’s elect Donald Trump’s first answer. tasks will be to nominate a [Morgan]: “But how replacement for the late Justice — how do you, as a Antonin Scalia. Mr. Trump has conservative Catholic, repeatedly vowed to nominate how do you not bring only pro-life jurists to the High your personal sense of Court. what is right and wrong Over at NRL News Today, to that kind of decision? we’ve begun a countdown to Because clearly, as a the 44th anniversary. Our first conservative Catholic, story was one I wrote a few if thinks abortion should be that people like Morgan either you’re going to be years ago about an interview illegal. Justice Scalia responds cannot understand or refuse to fundamentally against Justice Scalia gave CNN. He with the first of several understand. Scalia says abortion. was, as always, brilliant. The important distinctions: “I “My view is “[Scalia]: Just as link to You Tube that shows the don’t have public views on regardless of whether the pro-choice people exchange still works but not the what should be illegal and you think prohibiting say the Constitution link to Lopez’s transcript. what shouldn’t. I have public abortion is good or prohibits the banning views on what the Constitution whether you think of abortion, so, also, There I was, peacefully prohibits and what it doesn’t prohibiting abortion the pro-life people say switching back and forth prohibit.” is bad, regardless of the opposite. They say between three sporting events It would be amusing (if the how you come out on that the Constitution when I happened upon Piers subject weren’t so important) to that, my only point is requires the banning Morgan’s show on CNN. He watch Morgan try to “shame” the Constitution does of abortion, because was interviewing Supreme Scalia into agreeing that not say anything about you’re depriving Court Justice Antonin Scalia. abortion ought to be legal. After it. It leaves it up to someone of life without While I thoroughly enjoyed an incoherent foray into what democratic choice. due process of law. the portion that remained, I the rights of women were when “Some states “I reject that knew Morgan must have asked the Constitution was written, prohibited it, some argument just as I Justice Scalia about Roe v. Morgan takes a second swing: states didn’t. What Roe reject the other one. Wade. “But when women v. Wade said was that The Constitution, in Kudos to Kathleen Jean began to take charge no state can prohibit fact, says nothing at Lopez, editor-at-large of in the last century, of it. That is simply not all about the subject. National Review Online, who their lives and their in the Constitution. It It is left to democratic put the entire Roe/abortion rights and so on, and was one of those many choice. exchange up online. You can began to fight for these, things — most things “Now, regardless read the discussion at your everybody believed in the world — left of what my views as leisure and watch some of the that was the right thing to democratic choice. a Catholic are, the video. to do, didn’t they? I And — and the court Constitution says Let’s talk about just three mean, why would you does — does not do nothing about it.” of many fascinating points. be instinctively against democracy a favor First, in only a few sentences, that?” when it takes an issue As noted above you can watch Justice Scalia exposes the soft out of democratic the discussion about abortion at jurisprudential underbelly of Get it? “Everybody” agrees choice [Morgan cnn.com. 14 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Refusing to learn anything from November 8 By Dave Andrusko

In the space of three days, I I think there is a need Leader, Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) every level over multiple heard two statements so tone- to interpret, analyze, had this exchange with John elections. That seems deaf, so evident of learning provide context. Dickerson, host of CBS’s Face like a real crisis for the absolutely nothing from the the Nation: party?” November 8 elections that I had What is Rehm saying? to share them with you. Reporters will decide what is DICKERSON: “Here’s (Not to mention t the defeat of Margaret Sullivan, a pro- false–the voters/listeners can’t my question, though, can’t-lose Hillary Clinton.) abortionist who scribbles for figure that out for themselves. Democrats since Pelosi’s response? the Washington Post, was on the Sullivan agrees: that who/what/ 2008, the numbers are (1) ”Well, I don’t think people Diane Rehm Show, a popular why/what/how stuff is for the ghastly for Democrats. want a new direction.” NPR talk show. Along with her cohorts, she was lamenting that voters just are too dumb–okay, it wasn’t quite that blunt, but close. When Rehm hinted that readers may not want the kind of “context” reporters gave coverage this last election cycle–whole-heartedly and without fail supportive of pro-abortion Hillary Clinton– Sullivan couldn’t believe her ears. Here’s the exchange: Rehm: We’ve got a number of callers who are all saying what they want is just the facts. And then they’ll decide. They don’t want opinions from journalists. But if journalists are confronted with falsehoods, don’t you have to weigh in, Margaret? Pro-life President-elect Donald Trump Sullivan: I don’t think that the listeners really birds. The Washington Post Democrats are down 10 (2) “You’re forgetting that we would want, let’s say, and will percent, in the House went up so high in 2006 and the Washington Post “interpret, analyze, provide down 19.3 percent and 2008.” to be filled with AP context” for us! in governors 35 percent. Amazing! style journalism that is Then, out-to-lunch but once The Democrats are nothing but the raw facts. again the House Minority getting clobbered at www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 15 Doctors’ Association refuses to back euthanasia in Australia By Michael Cook

After surveying its members are pushing for bills in Victoria urologist who says that he has said they should be and 12% the Australian Medical and Tasmania. helped about 100 patients to die, neither agreed or disagreed. Association [AMA] has Euthanasia campaigners said that the AMA’s position that Most respondents did not reaffirmed its opposition detected a shift in the AMA’s “laws in relation to euthanasia want to provide a euthanasia to euthanasia and assisted stance. Dr. Rodney Syme, a and physician assisted suicide service themselves, although suicide. “Doctors should not be are ultimately a matter for they agreed that giving lethal involved in interventions that society and government” injections was a job for doctors. have as their primary intention verged on neutrality rather than Against the background of the the ending of a person’s life,” opposition. failure of pollsters to capture says the latest version of its But the AMA also demands the views of voters in the recent end-of-life care policy. that both patients and doctors U.S. presidential election, it But doctors do “have an need to be protected if is hard to tell whether this ethical duty to care for dying euthanasia becomes legal – survey reflects the views of patients so that death is allowed patients against abuse and Australian doctors. There are to occur in comfort and with doctors against coercion. 103,000 doctors in Australia; dignity”. AMA President, Michael only 30,000 of them belong The statement comes at a time Gannon, said that 50% of the to the AMA; and only 4,000 when some state legislatures 4,000 doctors who responded to responded to the survey. are debating euthanasia. A bill the survey said doctors should failed earlier this month in AMA President not be involved in euthanasia or Editor’s note. This appeared South Australia but supporters Michael Gannon physician-assisted suicide, 38% at BioEdge. 16 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Abortion, the 2016 elections, and pro-life grit By Dave Andrusko

The Abortion Community as his trials unfolded: ‘That make abortion unsafe but not defeated. The has a soft spot in what passes which I have feared greatly has once again is profane. difference? Effort. for its heart for itinerant come upon me.’” We cannot surmount abortionist Willie Parker. [No reason for Parker to know It’s important to understand failure without trying. He parachutes into locales this but the following verse that for Parker, like all his cohorts Experience is not what where killing unborn babies (Job 3:26) in The Message in the killing trade, it’s not just happens to you—it’s is not popular (Alabama and translation reads, “My repose is that Trump has promised to what you do with Mississippi) where he flashes shattered, my peace destroyed. nominate only pro-life justices what happens to you. the badge of his Christian No rest for me, ever—death has to the Supreme Court. That, of [Emphasis Parker’s.] faith. To the gullible, the latter invaded life.” course, is (in his framework) the is supposed to absolve the [Only it is not pro-life ultimate profanity. Pro-lifers would agree former. President-elect Donald Trump When your objective is killing that “Experience is not what as many unborn babies as fast happens to you—it’s what you as you can, anything that slows do with what happens to you,” the abortion train–waiting although that does not do full periods, parental involvement, justice to the trait that infuses not using your tax dollars and all pro-lifers: grit. mine to pay for abortions–is a On November 8, we were kind of obscenity blessed with the best kind of Like the recently defeated experience we could have hoped Hillary Clinton, Parker believes for. We defeated a woman with in abortion for any reason or no an unquenchable thirst for reason, as late in pregnancy as a expanding abortion at home and woman wants, underwritten by abroad who would have been our tax dollars. the public face of the worldwide There is much to-ing and Sisterhood of Death. fro-ing in Parker’s op-ed, In her place we elected a man bemoaning that the election who beyond making the right results do not really reflect appointments to the High Court the public’s disposition on has vowed to retain the life-saving abortion. In fact, the positions Hyde Amendment, sign into law So what better post-election but Parker who has invaded life of President-elect Trump and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child source for wisdom than a man with death.] Secretary Clinton were crystal- Protection Act, which would who, according to stories in Then, Parker writes, his clear. And the American people end painful late-term abortions places such as Esquire aborts as “cultural bluesy, soulful music- chose life, an inconvenient fact nationwide, defund Planned many as 45 babies a day? loving brain remembered the for the pro-death crowd. Parenthood as long as they Parker recently published his opening line from an Amy Parker ends his op-ed with continue to perform abortions, political insights in something Winehouse song,” which of this call to action: and reallocate their funding to called Broadly.com under the course includes the ultimate I urge you to turn your community health centers that headline, “‘We Must Take obscenity. But that’s better fears into action. Call provide comprehensive health Action’: An Abortion Doctor in than okay to the bluesy, your elected officials, care for women. the South on the Future Under hipster Willie Parker because donate to organizations Beginning with the Trump.” it establishes the definitive that are gearing up for appointments he has already To establish his religious contrast: the fight ahead, and made, President-elect Trump bona fides he begins with Winehouse’s term be a loud voice for the is demonstrating he intends to his “Christian mind” which is impolite, but the health and dignity for keep his commitment to the “remembered the words of Job reversal of laws to women. Be dejected Pro-Life community. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 17 Merging ultrasound and MRI researchers shows unborn babies in 3-D Virtual Reality

By Dave Andrusko

Over the years I have written converted to virtual In other words, as Science especially with advancing many times about the “old reality. Editor Sarah Knapton put it, surgical technology that is now days”–back in the 1980s–and The researchers “The 3D images are brought being used successfully on the primitive black and white have been testing to life using Oculus Rift the fetus in the womb , where ultrasounds whose fuzziness their virtual reality headsets.” But that’s not all. applicable.” was exceeded only by the renderings on Oculus The headsets “also play the Reporting for StatNews, parents’ determination to “see” Rift 2 headsets, sound of the baby’s heartbeat. Rebecca Robbins noted that co- arms and legs amidst a fog of which has been Parents are able to look around author Heron Werner blurriness. “wonderful”—not their unborn child in virtual an OB/GYN Now their successors–3-D specializing in fetal and 4-D color ultrasounds– medicine at Rio’s are about to be themselves Clínica de Diagnóstico replaced. A group of Brazilian Por Imagem, said the researchers at Rio’s Clínica de technology’s greatest Diagnóstico Por Images have potential lies in combined ultrasound and MRI helping guide medical technologies to allow parents decisions for fetuses to see their unborn child in with potential health 3-D virtual reality. It truly is problems. astonishing. (A rendition can be viewed at smithsonianmag. He said the visualiza- com) tions did a remarkable Here’s how it works, job capturing abnor- according to Alexandra Ossola: malities like cleft lips, First, technicians take tumors, and hernias in a scan of the fetus as utero. usual with ultrasound. But if a second, higher- As is always the case with resolution scan is potential breakthroughs, there needed, they might are many questions to be turn to MRI for more resolved. This is expensive and detail, which uses only is the VR image reality by moving their head.” would not normally be used powerful magnets and sharper and crisper But the goal is not only to in thought to be bursts of radio waves than previous imaging help parents bond earlier with progressing smoothly. to distinguish different techniques, it’s cheaper their unborn child or to educate But Prof. Charles Kingsland, types of tissues within than commonly-used them to the intricacies of the of the Hewitt Fertility Centre the body. … 3D renderings because growing unborn child (the in Liverpool, may have put Once they have the it doesn’t have to technology recreates the entire it best when he said, “This scan, the researchers be printed out, says structure of the baby). Prof. clearly is an exciting piece of can use the data to Werner. Parents can Simon Fishel, the president of work with potential benefits make a 3D rendering see renderings of Care Fertility, told Knapton, for diagnosing more accurately, of the fetus, which their baby anytime “Anything that improves the abnormalities in unborn babies takes 22 seconds. after the 12th week of opportunity to observe fetal with the added potential of Then that can then be pregnancy. health accurately is important, correcting them earlier.” 18 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Baby could have been aborted, but fetal surgery corrects rare heart condition By Dave Andrusko

We’ve carried many stories of But not until undergoing a really sure what it was,” Rice might be able to help. Surgeons fetal surgery in which surgeons perilous journey which at one said. there saw how fast the tumor most typically correct spina point might have resulted in an Philly.com’s Tom Avril added was growing and “knew the bifida or remove lung tumors. abortion, according to Philly. that they told Rice and her fetus would not have survived But a report that came out com. partner Mike Roussin, Justin if we hadn’t operated,” Dr. Jack recently in the American It started when Rice, already “probably would not survive. Rychik told CBS News. Journal of Obstetrics and the mother of one, came in for Rice’s own health was at risk, A multidisciplinary team –including experts from cardiology, surgery, imaging and obstetrics – performed the three-hour surgery just a few weeks after the intrapericardial teratoma was first discovered. The operation was a success but everyone anxiously waited to see what would happen over the course of the remainder of the pregnancy. (Rice stayed at a nearby hotel in case there was an emergency.) Tucker Roussin was born on May 9, 2013. “Now 3, he loves monster trucks, sandboxes, riding his bike, and water parks,” Avil wrote. “Look at me now!” he Katie Rice’s son Tucker underwent fetal heart surgery when she was 24 weeks pregnant with him. says in a family video. The right side of his Gynecology documented a a 20 week ultrasound. Happily, and she might have to terminate heart is a bit smaller medical first. Three years ago she learned her child was a boy. the pregnancy.” than average, a residual surgeons at Children’s Hospital Unhappily, “The tech left the The very rare tumor forms effect of the tumor, but of [CHOP] room and the doctor came in in the sac around the heart. the doctors say he is opened up Katie Rice’s , and did a scan and then another The condition is lethal if left perfectly healthy. removed a fast-growing tumor doctor came in and did a scan, untreated. Draining the fluid “He is full of energy,” that was pressing on her 24- and they weren’t really saying and waiting until the child his mother said. “He is week unborn baby’s heart, and much,” Rice told CBS News. is born to remove the tumor a typical boy.” then sewed her up to continue “All together, three doctors “carries serious risks, and the Except that he has a the pregnancy. came in and did scans and then child might not survive.” scar on his chest, which Tucker Roussin is now a they told us they saw a mass They were then told there he will happily show healthy, happy three-year-old. on his heart and they weren’t were experts at CHOP who anyone, on request. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 19 CDC Report on 2013 Abortion data show big declines in National and State Figures: Part One By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research

On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1998, as well as any abortion Abortion rates and ratios Ratios in California and the U.S. Centers for Disease data from Maryland and New confirm that this is not merely the other two states may well Control (CDC) released its Hampshire. some function of population or be higher than the national latest abortion surveillance The nation’s other major data migration. average, but would not push report, with figures from 2013. source, the private Guttmacher The CDC’s definition of the this anywhere near the 364.1 Abortion numbers, rates, and Institute, does have data for abortion rate is the number of recorded in 1984. (Historically ratios all dropped by about 5%, the missing states. Guttmacher abortions per thousand women CDC abortion ratios reached the leading to numbers not seen recorded just over a million of reproductive age (ages 15-44). 300 level in 1976 and remained since Roe v. Wade took away abortions (1,058,490) in 2011, In 2013, it was 12.5 , lower than above 300 until 1997.) legal protections for unborn its most recent study. any other rate recorded since Roe children in 1973. Pro-lifers Guttmacher’s numbers are was decided in 1973, when the Evidence in the states have much for which to be considered more accurate CDC recorded a rate of 14. Recorded abortions were thankful. down in 40 out of 47 states With such significant and (again, the CDC has had broad based declines, the no numbers for California, analysis of trends is (happily) Maryland, and New Hampshire complicated. Abortions were since 1998) and in the District down in nearly every state, of Columbia. Rates and ratios among women in nearly moved largely in the same every category, and have been downward direction (abortion trending this way for some rates down in 39 of 47 states, time. ratios down in 37 of 47), A closer look tells us more with only six states showing about why this is the case. It also increased rates, 8 showing reveals a few areas of concern, increased ratios. making it clear that our efforts In a couple of states where count and that no gain can ever because it surveys abortion Again, this does not include changes in abortion totals were be taken for granted. clinics directly, rather than abortions from California, New very small, the rates and/or merely accept numbers from Hampshire, and Maryland. So ratios stayed the same (e.g., Hard Data and state health departments, but rates adjusted with data from there were six fewer abortions Soft Numbers it often goes years between those states might be somewhat in 2013 in Mississippi than in The number of abortions is surveys. The next one, higher, although no one expects 2012, so abortion rates and considerably down in the U.S. presumably covering 2014, to be anywhere near what they ratios were not significantly That much is abundantly clear. is expected to come out next were in the 1980s and 1990s . affected). Numbers from the CDC are January. The highest abortion rate In the few states where regular, the format is consistent Still, the CDC does receive the CDC ever recorded was abortions did appear to year to year, and nearly every numbers from the vast majority 25/1,000 in 1980. (Abortion increase, this was generally indicator points the same of states and these can be rates first hit 21/1,00 in 1976 not by much. A couple of states direction. compared from year to year to and stayed at 20/1,000 or above increased only by a few dozen, The CDC received reports see the unfolding of national through 1997.) Note that the others by less than a thousand. of 664,435 abortions from trends. Looked at over the past recent figure is half that. Michigan was the state that state health departments (and decade and a half, 2013 was The abortion ratio for the reported the most sudden and the District of Columbia) in clearly not a statistical blip, but CDC measures the number of significant increase, from 2013, nearly 35,000 fewer the continuation of a positive abortions for every 1,000 live 23,230 in 2012 to 26,120 in than it reported just a year ago long term downward trend. births. In 2013 it was 200, also 2013, an increase of 2,890 in (699,202). Not only does the CDC show approaching a record low. The just a year’s time. However However this number comes abortions plunging 22.8% over only year since Roe the CDC nearly all of that increase with a huge caveat. The CDC the previous 15 years, but even recorded a lower abortion occurred in three counties in has been missing abortions more remarkably dropping ratio was in 1973 itself, when from California, the nation’s 15.8% over just the last five it recorded 196.3 abortions for See “CDC Report,” page 20 most populous state, since recorded years. every 1,000 live births. 20 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org CDC Report on 2013 Abortion data show big declines in National and State Figures: Part One From page 19 and around Detroit – Macomb, abortions dropped 4,449 from is complicated. Some of the their local abortion clinic may Oakland, and Wayne. 2012 to 2013. While some of states seeing big drops passed also expose them to positive Michigan’s case can be those clinics may have closed legislation, others did not. life-affirming alternatives to instructive when trying to due to the state’s redirection of Perhaps some have better pro- abortion. determine the reason for family planning funds away from life outreach than others. A The closure of one large statistical outliers. abortion performing centers, the big clinic may have closed or abortion mill can have a huge Sometimes a new megaclinic trend in Texas has been down a high volume abortionist may impact on a multi-state area. opens in an area, spurring for some time, pointing to a have retired. In Guttmacher’s last abortion sudden increases. Planned generally reduced demand. Several states passed laws report, nearly all of the drop Parenthood bought a non- The number of abortions protecting pain-capable unborn of the approximately 150,000 abortion performing clinic in dropped by nearly 14,000 from children from abortion in 2012 abortions that occurred between Oakland County and began 2006 to 2012 , and more than and 2013. Others passed bans 2008 and 2011 was recorded offering chemical abortion at its 24,000 from the all time peak on sex-selection abortion. in clinics that performed a Detroit location. But its plans of 92,681 in 1990. States have attempted to thousand or more abortions for a new megaclinic in the area Some of these were bigger redirect funding from Planned a year. About half of that fell through, making it unlikely states, so their drops, in numbers, Parenthood, the nation’s largest occurred at clinics performing this was a main cause. were bigger to start with. But abortion performer. 5,000 or more abortions a year. But Chris Gast, director of some smaller states that did not Some of the state declines may Whether a clinic closed due communications and education have the huge abortion totals to have been in direct response to scandal (like Gosnell’s), for Right to Life of Michigan, begin with still saw drops that to some of this legislation government funding cuts says the more likely reason were, for them, quite significant. and the debate surrounding or clinic safety regulations, was simply “better reporting These decreases were reflected its passage, some may have decreased demand, or simply after our Prolife Omnibus Act in big drops in their abortion been the cumulative effect of the retirement of an old of 2012 went into effect.” That rates and ratios. pro-life laws such as parental abortionist may not be as bill increased state scrutiny on While had just involvement and right to know relevant as the fact that the abortion clinics, requiring that 781 fewer abortions in 2013 legislation passed years earlier. clinic closed and stopped its they were properly inspected than 2012, because of the Something important to marketing and performance of and licensed. population, this represented a keep in mind that is often abortion. Inspections resulted in the large drop in the abortion rate of overlooked: The impact of Some of these factors likely closure of several clinics in 4.4 abortions per 1,000 women legislation, however, is not played a role in several of those counties around Detroit of reproductive age (from 21.3 necessarily limited to the state these states, but the broad- in 2013. These closures may to 16.9). Delaware’s abortion where the law is debated and based nature of the decline have moved abortions from ratio, measuring the number of passed. In many states, the is an indicator of continued clinics that did not report to abortions per 1,000 live births, nearest clinic is just across the movement in the pro-life those that did. took a dive as well. It decreased border in a neighboring state, direction. The “product” simply In other words, while more by 46 –from 327/1,000 in 2012 and the radio, television, and isn’t selling as well any more. abortions were thus reported, to 281/1,000 in 2013. newspapers may be centered Even with the new packaging of it may not actually be the case Delaware was perhaps the there as well. the abortion pill, many women that 2,890 more abortions were most dramatic drop, but it was Given modern , are rejecting the abortion performed. not the only one. Hawaii’s even a story from a state “solution,” and either taking Dramatic drops were more abortion rate dropped 3.3 and halfway across the country may steps to prevent pregnancy the norm in 2013. There its ratio dropped 45. Nevada’s show up in one’s news feed, (abstinence or ) or were 3,424 fewer abortions abortion rate went from 13 to provoking thought and research choosing to have their babies if in Florida, 2,453 fewer in 10.9, and its abortion ratio from about the skills, motives, and they become pregnant. Illinois, and 6,324 fewer 207 to 173. Connecticut’s rate integrity of the local abortion These latest numbers from abortions in New York. There dropped by 2/1,000 for women “provider” (think of convicted the CDC are confirmation that were 2,428 fewer abortions in of child-bearing age and its murderer Kermit Gosnell, America is moving, perhaps Pennsylvania, 2,257 fewer in abortion ratio dropped by 34. who plied his sick trade in even accelerating, towards Ohio, 2,064 fewer in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and a culture more hospitable to and 1,643 fewer in Tennessee. Why the Falling Numbers? Louisiana). The same internet unborn life. The media has made much of Determining why these drops that gives women information That is encouraging news for clinic closings in Texas, where happened in a particular state about the filthy conditions at which we can all be thankful. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 21 The Demographics behind the CDC’s 5% decline in abortions in 2013 CDC Report on 2013 Part 2 By Randall K. O’Bannon, NRL Director of Education & Research

Editor’s note. On page 19 more abortions (884,273) than approached a third (29.6%) in in many states as being Dr. O’Bannon looked at the in 2013 (664,435). But the 2013. [1] calculated from the woman’s latest decline in the number distribution percentages for last menstrual period (LMP), of abortions, abortion rates, this group of women in 1998 Marital Status though in some states it is based and abortion ratios from the is about the same as in this The vast majority of abortions on the clinician’s estimate. CDC. The overall 5% national more recent report – 31.4% for in the U.S. are performed on An additional 25.6% of the decline showed up in dropping women 20-24, 23.2% for those single women as they always abortions occurred between state figures all across the 25-29. have been. In 2013, 85.2% weeks 9 and 13, meaning about country. In Part Two, we’ll nine in 10 were performed in examine demographic details the first trimester. from the 2013 report and see 8.4% of abortions were what they can tell us about how performed at 14 weeks or more, abortion has changed in the and 1.3% were at 21 weeks or last 15 years. more. However 1.3% means 5,770. When looking at abortion Average gestational ages statistics in the aggregate, it were considerably higher in is easy to miss the trees for 1998, and there were also more the forest. We know from the late abortions. In1998, 54.6% CDC’s reporting that there was of abortions were performed at a 5% drop in the total number 8 weeks, or earlier, with another of abortions, abortion rates, and 31.7% performed at weeks 9-12 abortion ratios from 2012. But (the breakdowns were different, other data released by CDC It is a different story with of aborting women were but comparable). breaks out those numbers, other age groups. When looked unmarried. This figure for In 1998, 21% of the abortions telling us about the age, race, at over the long term, there is unmarried women is only a were performed at 13 weeks or ethnicity, marital status of strong evidence abortion is little higher than it was fifteen later. Abortions performed at aborting women, as well as the shifting from younger women years earlier in the CDC’s week 21 and beyond accounted timing of their abortions and to older age groups. 1998 study, when 78.9% were for 4.1% that year. the method they used. For example, in 1973, Roe’s unmarried, 18.4% married, Leading the trend towards This yields an illuminating first year, the CDC found and 2.7% unknown. That earlier abortions has been the profile. The contrast between teens (those 19 and under) was similar to what the CDC growth of chemical abortions these demographics and the responsible for 32.7% of all found in 1984, when 78% were (or “medical abortions,” as CDC’s abortion demographics abortions. Twenty-five years unmarried. Even as far back as abortionists like to call them). from 15 years ago gives us not later, in 1998, the CDC figure 1975, more than seven in 10 There were not many chemical just a sense of how that profile for teens 15-19 was 18.9%. (72.7%) were unmarried. abortions in 1998; RU-486 did has been changing, but also By 2013, teen abortions These figures show us that not receive U.S. marketing some idea of where pro-lifers (ages 15-19) had fallen to while the abortion demographic approval until September of have had their most effective 11.4%. These drops are even is increasingly older (but 2000. impact and where there is more more significant when one smaller – numbers shrink for So called “medical” abortions work to be done. considers how the overall all groups when there are huge accounted for just 0.7% of number of abortions has overall drops), unmarried all abortions in 1998, with Age: from younger dropped from about 1.5-1.6 women still overwhelmingly almost all of the rest (96%) to older women million a year in the 1980s to have most of the abortions. being “suction curettage” and More than half of the just over a million as recently “.” abortions recorded by the CDC as 2011(Guttmacher). Gestational Age and The latest CDC figures for by age in 2013 were to women At the same time, however, Abortion Method 2013 now show curettage in their 20s. Almost exactly a the share of abortions procured Increasingly, abortions are representing 76.5% of third (32.7%) were performed by women aged 30 and older occurring on babies earlier in abortions. However “medical” on women 20-24, while another has increased. Responsible gestation. According to the abortions now account for quarter (25.9%) went to women for 16.5% of abortions in CDC’s 2013 report, 66% were 25-29. 1975, their percentage had performed at 8 weeks gestation In 1998 the CDC reported increased to 24.6% in 1998 and or earlier. This is specified See “Decline,” page 22 22 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org The Demographics behind the CDC’s 5% decline in abortions in 2013 CDC Report on 2013 Part 2 From page 21

23.4% of the total, with In terms of abortion rates, we aberration can happen when pregnancy may be somewhat about 95% of these chemical see the following: your ethnic group’s population dated. While not married, many abortions performed at 8 weeks increases by nearly 50% in of these women are older and gestation or less. Non-Hispanic whites: just 16 years – Hispanics were already have children. And 7.2/1,000 women of 11.4% of the population in many have aborted before. Race and Ethnicity reproductive age 1998, but were estimated to be Race and ethnicity are tricky 17% as of 2014. Maternal Mortality elements for the CDC. This Hispanics: 13.8/1,000 The take home message is Women in America still die is so, not simply because of that pro-life work has been from legal abortion–something the political implications, Non-Hispanic “others”: generally effective, but there is you are not likely to hear from but because racial and ethnic 15/1,000 (presumably a greater need for it in minority the mainstream media and makeup varies greatly from Asian, Native American, areas, that is, where years of surely not information you’re state to state and not every state Hawaiian islanders, etc.) abortion have devastated the likely to hear advertised at counts these, counts them the black community, and among your local Planned Parenthood same way, or reports them at all Non-Hispanic Blacks: the rapidly growing Hispanic clinic. to the CDC. 27/1,000 community. The abortion Though the CDC’s data on This makes calculating industry has recognized this and abortion mortality (maternal and tracking the trends of Abortion ratios break down aimed its marketing campaigns mortality, strictly speaking, abortion rates and ratios for this way: at these communities, and pro- since the mortality rate for these groups challenging. So lifers need to be prepared to abortion is nearly 100% for the it is not surprising to see race 121 abortions for every provide counter programming. unborn child) is always an extra and ethnicity addressed in thousand live births for year behind, the latest report three different tables in the non-Hispanic whites; Previous Abortions shows four women dying from 2013 study. Each uses slightly 242 per thousand for As has been the case for many legal abortions in 2012. different criteria, each presents non-Hispanic others; years, close to half (45%) of It is interesting to note that data from a different number all women having abortions in while the abortion industry of states, and so each reports 178 per thousand for 2013 reported having at least continually defends the safety slightly different totals, rates, Hispanics; one prior abortion. More than of abortion, case fatality rates and ratios. [2] 20% reported at least two. have actually gone up and the Tables that look at race may 420 per thousand for Nearly one in every 11 (8.8%) number of maternal deaths have not fully synchronize with blacks. reported having three previous now gone over a hundred since those that look at ethnicity. abortions or more. RU486 went on the market in Tables sorted by race may Though their numbers have Tragically, this is hardly a new the U.S. in 2000. include significant numbers of decreased greatly, blacks development. The percentage Given the many reasons an Hispanics mixed in with white, continue to have the highest repeat abortions had already abortion may not show up on black, and “other” populations, abortion rates and ratios and to climbed to around 37.6% in a woman’s death certificate and vice versa with those that account for the most abortions 1984 and hit 45% by 1998. (there may be no place to note look at ethnic heritage but do as a minority group. it, the immediate cause may be not account for race. What Hispanics now account for Previous Births an infection brought on by the we can say is that women in a greater percentage of the Six in 10 (59.7%) women abortion, families may not wish minority communities continue nation’s abortions that they in the CDC’s survey reported such information to be public, to have a disproportionate did 15 years ago, but this having already given birth to etc.), that even this many have number of abortions. is likely a function of their at least one child. Already at been noted is both surprising Table 12 from 2013 helpfully growing population rather than 42.9% by 1984, the percentage and concerning. breaks down figures for both increased rates. Comparing data of aborting women who had If anything, it may be an race and ethnicity, but is missing from 1998 with 2013 is difficult already given birth rose to indication that the “new” data from nearly half the states. because of the shifting number 57.2% by 1998. The figure has methods of abortion are even Using data from just 27 states, of states and different ways of hovered around 60% from 2000 more dangerous than the old New York City, and the District recording race and ethnicity. forward. ones. of Columbia, the CDC reports That said, abortion rates and Given what we know about 37.3% of abortions going to ratios were down more than declining teen abortions, this non-Hispanic whites, 35.6% 30% for Hispanics even while information tells us that the See “Decline,” page 23 to non-Hispanic blacks, 8.1% the overall number of abortions dominant image of the young, to non-Hispanic “other,” and stayed about even. frightened teen turning to finally 19% to Hispanics. This sort of odd statistical abortion to conceal her first www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 23 NY Times bemoans what a pro-life administration can do By Dave Andrusko

The editorial on December President-elect Trump’s initial as ambassador to the United Andy Puzder, who will head 7 in the New York Times appointments have included Nations; Dr. Ben Carson as the Department of Labor. –“What’s at Stake: Protecting a bevy of strong pro-lifers, Secretary of Housing and This is not to ignore the Under overwhelming important of the Donald Trump”– is a very Supreme Court. Mr. Trump has important reminder of what a made it crystal-clear that he presidential administration can will soon name a nominee to do short of making nominations replace the late Justice Antonin to the Supreme Court, to Scalia. That nominee, like all substantial alter the contours of nominees to the High Court, the abortion landscape. will be pro-life, Mr. Trump has The editorial begins by said on numerous occasions. reminding us of the old adage But it is true, as the Times “personnel is policy.” President- points out, that changes on elect Trump’s “appointees the High Court can be a “long and their actions” can roll process.” In the shorter term back many of the pro-abortion such as Sen. Jeff Sessions Urban Development; Rep. we celebrate what the editorial moves the administration of as Attorney General; Rep. Mike Pompeo to be director of bemoans–the changes that take outgoing pro-abortion Barack Tom Price to be Secretary of the CIA; and Betsy DeVos as place, including regulations Obama undertook. Health and Human Services; Secretary of Education; Rep. that can be dropped and ending That’s why it is so important Republican National Chair- Cathy McMorris Rodgers as the unconscionable assaults on that in addition to having pro- man Reince Priebus to Interior Secretary; Iowa Gov. the right of conscience. life Gov. Mike Pence at his be chief of staff; South Terry Branstad, who will be Once again: elections have side, over the last three weeks, Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley the ambassador to China, and consequences.

The Demographics behind the CDC’s 5% decline in abortions in 2013 CDC Report on 2013 Part 2 From page 22

Conclusion: options. Measures that not only up. The 29.6% figure for 2013 set (missing from all three An Emerging Portrait make women aware of but help adds the 16.8% of abortions tables) doesn’t simply reduce the The latest CDC demographic create and provide realistic to women 30-34, the 9.2% to amount of data available, but can data tell us that the woman who alternatives to abortion may women 35-39, and the 3.6% to throw things off simply because aborts today is more likely to be one very effective means of women 40 and older. of their sizes and their unique be an unmarried minority, a saving lives. [2] The absence of a large racial and ethnic compositions. twenty-something who already It is not just individuals, number of states, or large This is without even has at least one child. Chances but whole families and entire states in particular, presents considering the case of are she will have her abortion communities that have been a problem with any data set, California, already problematic at 8 weeks gestation or less and corrupted and destroyed by whether it involves the age of for the CDC because it does she is increasingly likely to turn abortion. We have made a dent aborting women, their marital not report any abortion data to to a chemical method. in the juggernaut by years of status, the method of abortion the agency. Here that matters These are critical factors to standing for life, but there is they use, etc. But with race and enormously as California has keep in mind when developing still a long ways to go. ethnicity, the particular states a Hispanic population itself a legislative, educational, or [1] The 24.6% share of 1998’s included and excluded matter larger than the entire population outreach strategy. Other surveys abortions to women comes greatly, as these populations of 90% of the individual have told us that women often from 13.7% going to women vary greatly from state to state. states, seriously threatening to turn to abortion because they 30-34, 8.2 % to women 35- The absence of Florida or distort calculations of race and simply don’t see any other 39, and 2.7% to those 40 and Illinois or Arizona from a data ethnicity by its absence. 24 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Arkansas lawmaker introduces measure to ban dismemberment abortions By Dave Andrusko

Arkansas, which has been unborn babies who are pain- a Democrat,” reporter John Fayetteville and Little Rock. very aggressive in its pro- capable and would suffer Moritz wrote. “Make no mistake, House life outreach, has filed a bill excruciating deaths as they are Mayberry told Moritiz that Bill 1032 is an ideological in the state House that would killed. HB1032, is based on model attack designed to shame ban the grisly practice of House Bill 1032 was filed legislation provided by and stigmatize safe and legal dismemberment abortions. by state Rep. Andy Mayberry. National Right to Life. abortion,” McQuade said Six states currently forbid an According to Arkansas Online, Pro-abortionists, as always, in a statement. “Planned abortion “technique” that uses Parenthood Great Plains sharp metal clamps and scissors provides high-quality abortion to crush, tear and pulverize care and will fight all attempts living unborn human beings, by politicians to intervene to rip heads and legs off of tiny in private medical decisions torsos until the defenseless where patients believe only child bleeds to death. licensed medical providers “NRLC is delighted that should be advising them.” Arkansas will soon join Rita Sklar, the executive Kansas and Oklahoma, director of the Arkansas West Virginia, Mississippi, chapter of the American Civil Alabama, and Louisiana as Liberties Union, huffed and states that have said no to puffed and said Mayberry’s dismemberment abortions,” proposed ban “would fly in the said Ingrid Duran, NRLC’s face of [U.S.] Supreme Court director of State Legislation. Arkansas State Rep. Andy Mayberry precedent.” “This extremely gruesome and “Declining to threaten a barbaric procedure physically Mayberry “crafted” the bill were in high dudgeon. Laura legal challenge should the dismembers living unborn that became the Pain-Capable McQuade is president of bill pass, Sklar said her group babies and is abhorrent.” Unborn Child Protection Act in Planned Parenthood Great would focus on opposing the Arkansas is also one of 14 2013. Plains, one of PPFA’s largest bill during the next session of states that have passed the “The bill became law after affiliates. Planned Parenthood the General Assembly, which Pain-Capable Unborn Child the General Assembly overrode Great Plains conducts begins in January,” according Protection Act which protects a veto by Gov. Mike Beebe, abortions at clinics in to Moritz. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 25 “Public Editor” pays the price for telling the truth about the New York Times rampant bias By Dave Andrusko

You didn’t need to be a media insider to anticipate that the usual “These are news reporters saying this stuff?” Carlson asked suspects would target the New York Times “Public Editor” for being rhetorically. “Yeah, I think that’s outrageous,” Spayd replied, candid enough to admit that the Times’ 2016 campaign coverage adding, “I think that that should not be.” was awful. Her point was that even many “liberals” were unhappy Spayd continued, “They shouldn’t be tweeted and they that the newspaper told them how to think. shouldn’t…and it does concern me that that would be, that that’d But then Liz Spayd went on Tucker Carlson’s new program be…I mean everybody is going to have their personal political on Fox News and was intellectually honest enough to admit (in views, we all do, but they ought to be personal. And if you sign up response to Carlson’s gentlemanly questioning) that just maybe to be a journalist than that’s what you ought to be.” the newspaper’s liberal bias was even worse than she had written about under the headline, “One Thing Voters Agree On: Better Campaign Coverage Was Needed.” I saw the Tucker/Spayd exchange and, to be honest, I cringed for her.

(It is one thing for journalists to pat themselves on the back– as they do incessantly– when they “speak truth to power.” But it is another when the big wigs are the New York Times and not a pro-life Republican. Suddenly the Public Editor’s candor and intellectually integrity earns her a black eye.) Why did Spayd ratchet up her criticism (at the same time praising the vast majority of Times reporters)? Carlson read a handful of tweets from Times political reporters–not columnists or editors– in which their hostility to pro-life President-elect Donald Trump For breaking the pledge of omerta (admitting the family’s practically dripped off the page. Not even a pretense at objectivity. secrets to a conservative, pro-life outsider like Carlson), Spayd was hammered. John Sexton wrote a piece at Hot Air in which he posted some of the many unhappy responses to her appearance on Fox News. If you are of a certain age, Eugene McCarthy’s quip comes instantly to mind. He compared Washington’s political press to crows on a high wire. “When one lands,” he said, “they all land. And when one takes off, they all take off.” Only this time the consensus is not against a politician but against one of their own, a woman who dares to speak the truth. Talk about a herd of independent minds! You can watch the full interview at youtube.com. 26 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Abortions in Utah remain near historic lows

By Dave Andrusko

The Utah Department of occasional exceptions such as Health is reporting that for 2015 2015, for the last 35 years. the state’s already very low The 2015 numbers include abortion rate continues to be the following breakdown : just over a third of the national • More than two-thirds average, more evidence the state of the abortions is strongly pro-life. The abortion performed involved rate is the number of abortions unmarried women. per 1,000 women of child- • For about 23% of the bearing ages defined as 15-44. women it was their The national average, as second abortion explained in the CDC in its • About half the women most recent report is 12.5/1,000 had at least one child women. Utah’s was only previously 4.6/1,000. • Women 20-29 ac- According to the Utah counted for 57% of all Department of Health Center abortions and had the for Health Data, the total highest abortion rate. number of abortions in Utah The abortion rate for increased slightly from 2014 to teens was just 3/1,000. 2015–from 2,948 to 3,176. • “Six in 10 abortions Just how much things have occurred in Salt changed–for the better–is that Lake County — the the abortion rate for 1980 was most urban and most 11.1/1,000 women. The rate populated county in has steadily decreased with the state.” www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 27 Hollywood Loves Abortion Films, But Rejected This One. Here’s Why By Katie Yoder

The producers of a record- million, Gosnell became the Seen in that light, kill for this type of positive breaking abortion movie are most successful crowdfunded Hollywood’s labeling of audience reaction and press calling out Hollywood for a movie on . Gosnell as “too controversial” but it’s clear there is a different “politically-motivated double- According to the filmmakers, was “laughable,” McElhinney agenda at work.” standard” after distributors “mainstream Hollywood is said. “This is continuing the McElhinney compared dismissed their film as “too continuing the coverup” on media cover-up – they don’t Hollywood’s dismissal of controversial.” Gosnell. In a press release, they want anything that asks difficult Gosnell and its audience to the Billed as a film about “one revealed multiple studios and questions about abortion.” mainstream media overlooking of America’s biggest serial distributors have rejected the And that’s what makes the election of Donald Trump. killers,” Gosnell is a crime film of the abortionist’s trial Gosnell different. What makes “They seem to have learned drama telling what the liberal and conviction because it’s destroying a baby in the womb nothing and don’t seem to media refused to: the story understand who their audience of convicted Philadelphia is,” she said. “Almost 30,0000 abortionist Kermit Gosnell. people have approved of this While Hollywood and the film in advance – they have media have gushed over paid for it to be made and now abortion films in the past, Hollywood is slapping them in they’re shying away from the face and saying they don’t this story that “asks difficult want them as an audience.” questions about abortion.” “Donald Trump was elected But then, the story of Gosnell on a strong anti-abortion has been censored from the platform,” she added. “The very beginning. mainstream media missed the Directed by Nick Searcy and 60 million who supported him produced by Hat Tip Films’ – now mainstream Hollywood husband-and-wife team Phelim also wants to ignore this McAleer and Ann McElhinney massive audience.” along with Magdalena The producers are planning Segieda, Gosnell was filmed in “too controversial.” Because of versus killing a newborn so an independent release now Oklahoma last year and stars non-disclosure agreements, the distinct? When does life begin? to overcome the Hollywood (Lois & Clark). producers didn’t name names. Why do the media shy away agenda. Among other things, Gosnell But that isn’t because from what abortion is? Those McElhinney and McAleer was convicted May 2013 of Hollywood believes abortion as are just a few of the dangerous have followed Gosnell’s case first-degree murder of three a topic is “too controversial.” – but vital – questions that closely from the beginning and babies (while the Grand Now more than ever, Gosnell’s case (and the movie) are also publishing a book of Jury report, The Hollywood Hollywood is churning out prompt Americans to ask. his story. Regnery Publishing Reporter has noted, “alleges movies and documentaries Regardless of Hollywood’s will release the book for sale Gosnell killed hundreds of about abortion. hypocrisy, the American public on January 24th, although it is infants by sticking scissors into “Obvious Child was a is applauding the film. already available for pre-order their necks”). romantic comedy where a “Gosnell has scored off the on Amazon, Barnes & Noble But the trial, in which likeable couple bond over charts at test screenings,” and Books-A-Million. witnesses described baby her aborting their child,” McAleer said. “It has been “This is one of the biggest abortion survivors “swimming” McElhinney pointed out. overwhelmingly popular crime sprees in American in toilets “to get out,” attracted “Grandma – starred veteran with audiences.” McElhinney history,” McAleer urged. “It’s a a mere 12 – 15 reporters. Only actor Lily Tomlin – as a added that, “Test audiences in fascinating story that needs to be after 56 days, multiple letters grandmother on a road trip their feedback have cried and known. The book and movie will from members of the House of trying to gather together enough praised the storytelling but also ensure that the coverup is ended Representatives and a public money for her granddaughter’s praised the movie Gosnell for and the truth will be known.” outcry, did all three broadcast abortion.” its accessibility.” Despite – or in spite of – the networks report on Gosnell. And the liberal media loved Filmmaker John Sullivan, liberal media’s best efforts. The filming of the movie itself, them, lauding Grandma as who co-directed 2016: Obama’s sponsored by a crowd-funding a “funny” abortion film and America and serves as the line Editor’s note. This appeared campaign, faced censorship. praising Obvious Child as an producer on Gosnell, noted at Newsbusters and is reposted But after raising more than $2.2 “abortion romantic comedy.” that, “Studios would typically with permission. 28 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org 86-year-old man gifts hundreds of preemies with hand-knitted hats By Lauren Enriquez Ed Moseley is an 86-year-old and it comes with the of needles but this Babies born prematurely or who resides at Dogwood Forest right size loom and the looked pretty doable with complications often Assisted Living in Acworth, right tools to help you for me. I went through require extensive and invasive Georgia. According to a recent knit one. I just followed two or three before I treatment, leaving parents to report by ABC News, Moseley wonder if their child will grow recently retired from a career in up healthy, or sometimes, if he engineering, but he stays busy at or she will come home at all. his assisted living home with an The knitted hat, though unlikely hobby: knitting hats. small, can be a deeply touching Moseley’s interest in gift for parents. Linda Kelly, knitting was sparked when the clinical manager of the special corporate office overseeing his care nursery, told ABC that the community and seven others gift “makes it all seem less like challenged all of the residents a hospital.” Kelly said the gifts to collectively knit 200 hats can help families to “see their for premature babies cared baby as a baby and not as a for in the Neonatal Intensive patient.” Care Unit (NICU) at Northside Moseley knitted 55 of the hats Hospital in Atlanta. The by himself and rallied staff and hospital’s NICU cares for about his fellow residents to bring the 2,000 premature babies each grand total to more than 300 year. Ed Moseley baby hats. Moseley said he is Moseley told ABC News now knitting larger hats for his that he didn’t know how to the instructions. It was came out with a good own grandchildren. knit before the community easy. Somehow I had finished product. challenge: never knitted, and Editor’s note. This appeared I prevailed on my I always associated Having a child in the NICU in Live Action News and is daughter to get a kit, knitting with a bunch can be incredibly stressful. reposted with permission. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 29 French Senate Passes Pro-Life Website Ban Bill could be used to restrict churches from teaching about abortion By Bill McMorris

Last Wednesday the French of pro-life activists because the penalties for communicating that the European Centre for Senate adopted a bill that will amended language continues to its position that abortion is Law and Justice will take the make it a crime to post pro-life bar “moral and psychological “gravely contrary to the moral case to the European Court of information on the internet. pressure,” a vague term that law.” Human Rights. The Senate voted 173-126 leaves pro-lifers vulnerable to “This law may prohibit the He said that the court should to approve legislation that will accusations from pro-abortion church from publishing its follow in the footsteps of the make it a crime for any website activists. position on abortion. If you United States Supreme Court, to publish material at odds with “Publishing the Christian teach that it is a sin then teaching which unanimously struck the nation’s abortion regime. teaching that abortion is a itself would be sufficient for down a law that prevented pro- The legislation, which passed crime could be seen as putting prosecution,” he said. lifers demonstrating outside the French National Assembly of abortion clinic sidewalks in on Dec. 1, will prosecute pro- 2014. life activists for “exercising, “It’s a real limitation on free by any mean, moral and speech aimed at mainstreaming psychological pressures, threats abortion,” Puppinck said. “We or any act of intimidation expect that this court, like against people seeking the U.S. Supreme Court, will information on a voluntarily support freedom of speech termination of pregnancy.” and recognize that abortion Sen. Francoise Laborde, a is a public issue that has to be member of France’s Radical debated freely.” Party of the Left, said during Dr. Joseph Meaney, director debate that pro-life websites of international coordination constituted “horrors and lies” for the pro-life Human and should be prevented from Life International, has been operating. The bill targets those The French Senate working in France over the who operate pro-life websites course of the debate. He said or provide information about pressure on people,” he The Senate and National that the Assembly and the abortion alternatives. said. “The simple sharing of Assembly will now enter Senate are attempting to limit Violators will face up to two information that might upset a process to reconcile the the information that women years in prison and $30,000 in moral conscience could be original and amended bills. The debating abortion receive. The fines. sufficient to constitute a crime.” National Assembly will have criminal penalties associated The Senate approved an Puppinck said that the the final decision on which bill with espousing pro-life views, amendment that appears to wording of the law could to advance to Socialist President he said, were some of the most soften the ban by removing extend from explicitly pro-life François Hollande—a vote extreme actions taken by the “in a dissuasive aim” from the activist groups and websites that is expected to occur in the abortion lobby. text of the Assembly bill. On and eventually include entire coming weeks. “The main concern expressed paper, that amendment will religions. The Catechism Pro-life activists intend to was that women seeking punish “misinformation,” while of the Catholic Church, the take the matter to France and abortion not be confronted allowing pro-life activists to guiding document for France’s the European Union’s highest with any pro-life information,” attempt to persuade women largest religion, calls abortion a courts if necessary. A coalition he said. “They are willing to against abortion. “moral evil,” adding that “this of 60 lawmakers who voted make it a crime to have a pro- Grégor Puppinck, director of teaching has not changed and against the bill can ask France’s life website that seeks to help the European Centre Of Law remains unchangeable.” Since Constitutional Council to rule women not to abort.” And Justice, said the Senate bill the Catholic clergy in France on the matter before Hollande, “is better writing, but not better cannot change the teaching, whose party championed the Editor’s note. This appeared substance.” It will do little to they would have to remain bill, can sign it. If that effort is at the Washington Free Beacon protect the free speech rights silent on the subject or face not successful, Puppinck says and is reposted with permission. 30 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org A very good day for pro-life President-elect Trump, a very bad day for pro-abortion Democrats By Dave Andrusko

If you’ve been around as You” tour, you would have although it could have. Nancy leader, is having heart long as I have, you don’t make quickly realize two things. Pelosi is House Minority palpitations. mountains out of molehills. But First, it is very difficult to Leader again, but the final tally “I appreciate the you also have to be careful not overstate how Mr. Trump can of 134 for Pelosi and 63 for her president-elect inviting to make what may be mountains galvanize crowds. He is really fellow pro-abortionist Rep. Tim me for a meeting. … into molehills. good on the stump. Ryan is proof positive there are Whatever job I do, I What do I mean? Put Second, the mainstream major fissures. hope to work with the succinctly, regardless of media, which long ago Instead Jackie Calmes, president-elect and all of my colleagues in Congress on both sides of the aisle to best support my state” [said Heitkamp]. To Democrats, that last line can mean two things, neither of them good. If she is in line for an administration job, her Senate seat would turn Republican. If not, she seems to be indicating she is a possible vote for the Trump agenda. And no matter what, her seat is up in 2018 — in a state that went to Mr. Trump with 62 percent of the vote.

Second, pro-abortion Rep. President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence talk with factory workers Keith Ellison (D-Mn.), who at the Carrier factory in Indianapolis is the frontrunner to be the next chair of the Democratic what you will hear from the dedicated itself to defeating Mr. Jonathan Martin, and Jennifer National Committee, has “mainstream media,” pro- Trump, has not skipped a beat: Steinhauer were alluded to two enough baggage to sink an life President-elect Trump is they are even more determined major developments. First ocean liner. While common on a roll, and pro-abortion to write off any success he Senator Heidi knowledge, it is only now Democrats are desperately may have even before he is Heitkamp, Democrat beginning to get attention from attempting to find toeholds. inaugurated in January. of North Dakota, is anti-Trump networks, in this For example, if you Then there is the POLITCO paying a visit to Trump case, CNN. happened to have watch (and story, headlined, “Democratic Tower on Friday, A very good day for President- then read about) President- Ranks Crack. ” It is not referring and Senator Chuck elect Trump, a very bad day for elect Donald Trump’s visit to to the serious fractures in the Schumer of New York, Democrats. Indiana as part of his “Thank House Democratic Caucus, the incoming minority www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 31 2016 Election Overview: NRLC triumphant against radical pro-abortion movement From page 1 maintain pro-life leadership in political action committee flip to pro-abortion Democratic 12 closely contested Senate the U.S. Senate looked grim. would spend nearly $30 million leadership. races, or 83%. To begin with there were many targeting pro-life candidates. It looked impossible. But In the most competitive pro- more pro-life Republicans NARAL Pro-Choice America with your assistance, we proved life/pro-abortion U.S. House up for re-election than pro- spent hundreds of thousands of otherwise. races, National Right to Life abortion Democrats. dollars in digital ads targeting National Right to Life and political entities won 39 of the Moreover, millions upon pro-life senate candidates its political entities, National 47 races, again 83%. Overall, millions of dollars would be in highly competitive races Right to Life Political Action we won 50 of the 60 closest spent by pro-abortion groups to during the last weeks of the Committee and National Right races in the country, once more, defeat our pro-life candidates. campaign. to Life Victory Fund, were 83%. Although you didn’t read this other than places such as NRL News Today, in a post-election poll taken by the polling company/Women Trend on November 8, 49% of all voters said that abortion affected their vote. How did they vote? 31% of those “voted for the candidates who oppose abortion (pro-life),” while only 18% “voted for the candidates who favor abortion (pro-choice).” This was a 13% advantage for the pro-life candidate. EMILY’s List, Planned Parenthood, and NARAL Pro-choice America candidates had a huge financial advantage this EMILY’s List, the extreme Larry Sabato, a prominent actively focused on 60 of the election, but fortunately, pro-abortion PAC that only political analyst, predicted a net most competitive federal races the babies and their pro-life works for Democrat women gain of four Democratic seats overall: the Presidential race, candidates had YOU. who support abortion for any in the U.S. Senate, thus leaving twelve U.S. Senate races, and For more about the impact of reason, claimed to raise more a 50-50 tie. The tie-breaking 47 races for the U.S. House of abortion on the 2016 elections, than $60 million for the 2016 vote would be cast by the vice Representatives. see “A National Referendum election cycle. president, who (we were all Despite the dire predictions on Abortion” by Dr. David Planned Parenthood, the told to expect) would be pro- and huge financial disparity, O’Steen, executive director of nation’s largest abortion abortion Sen. Tim Kaine. Others National Right to Life’s National Right to Life, which provider, announced its predicted the U.S. Senate would political entities won 10 of the appears on page one. 32 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org How Trump won From page 2

According to Khazan. … Abortion. [Her evidence does not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. include the educational and get out the vote work of groups such According to Gregg’s reading of Edison Research exit poll data, as National Right to Life whichwould make her case more solid. “This 1-in-5 voter is the demographic that broke strongly for See page one.] Trump, 49 percent to 29 percent.” In fact they broke considerably She shrewdly observed, “Trump’s embrace by these groups more so in several key swing states. might signal the importance of abortion—an issue on which at least a fifth of Americans say they will not compromise when States “Neithers “ Trump Clinton voting. In 2015, 21 percent of Americans said they would only Wisconsin 22% 60% 23% vote for a candidate who shared their abortion views, up from 13 PA 17% 56% 31% percent in 2008.” Michigan 20% 50% 29% Khazan continued with her examples: “Then, [Trump’s] remarks Florida 14% 61% 24% about abortion during the final presidential debate—he said, ‘you NC 15% 63% 28% can take a baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby’”—and then concluded, “It seems, Then there is Trump’s comparatively better standing among though, that pro-life voters might have been persuaded by some Latino and African-American voters. of Trump’s other comments in the final debate. He said he’d like * 29% of Latino voters cast their ballots for Trump. In 2012, Mitt to see the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade and for abortion Romney carried 27%. rights to be left up to the states. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, said, African-Americans? Eight percent for Trump in 2016, 6% for “I strongly support Roe v. Wade.” Romney. You think? What conclusions might we draw? Then there was the impact of the rationing-enhancing Obamacare. Trump did better among virtually every demographic than we In a post titled, “The 13 most amazing findings in the 2016 exit were assured he would: He soundly beat expectations. He carried poll,” Cillizza listed #9 as “Obamacare,” a “wind beneath Trump’s more White Evangelicals, more women, including more women wings.” The late October announcement that the average premium with a college education, more late-deciders, more Republicans, for people in the federal insurance exchange of the Affordable and more white working class voters than the “experts” confidently Care Act would rise by an average of 25 percent landed like a lead assured us he would. balloon on a not-insignificant portion of the electorate. Almost half One other category: pro-lifers. In the exit poll, 21% said Supreme of the electorate (47 percent) said they thought Obamacare “went Court appointments was the most important issue for them. 56% too far.” of those voted for Trump, compared to 41% for Hillary Clinton. Trump beat Clinton 83 percent to 13 percent among that group. Hot Air’s “Allahpundit” noted, of course, we can’t know how How many times were we told that unless almost all Republicans many of those people would have voted for their respective voted for Trump he couldn’t win? That was true. What wasn’t true candidates anyway. were all the stories that flatly stated thatcould not possibly happen. But you could say that about any issue. So it is important that In fact 90% of self-identified Republicans said they voted for we not dismiss a 15 point differential on the issue of the Supreme Trump, compared to 89% of self-identified Democrats who voted Court. That was huge. for Clinton For all those reasons, including all the work National Right to What about late-deciders, voters whom AOL’s Christina Gregg Life’s political action committees did throughout the campaign called “apathetic”? This was the nearly one in five voters who and in the waning hours in key states, Donald Trump is President- were genuinely conflicted, not having a favorable opinion of either elect. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 33 Silver Screen is Rejecting “Gosnell,” But Here’s a Silver Lining By Jay Hobbs

Editor’s note. National Bennett told Pregnancy Help famously called out during the raise the money, before that site Right to Life News Today News in January. “To be able trial by syndicated columnist censored their project. posted a story about how the to go in there and begin to —Wednesday While McAleer told Breitbart makers of “Gosnell” cannot redeem it, even from our two marked another milestone in News’ Daniel Nussbaum he find a distributor for their row homes, is huge. It’s huge the media’s ongoing blackout is kept by non-disclosure forthcoming movie about the to be able to be a light in an of the story. agreements from telling which abortionist area where there was so much As Mollie Hemingway distributors refused to move who was convicted of three darkness.” pointed out this summer at forward with the film, test counts of first degree murder. The Federalist, one of the few screenings “scored off the What follows gives more detail Suppressing the reporters who covered the case charts.” and provides a happier side “Controversial” Truths of from the courtroom tweeted, Pro-life advocate David development. Abortion and Murder “Sat through a full day of Daleiden, whose three-year Hollywood may be too afraid For over 30 years prior to his testimony at the Kermitt (sic) undercover research revealed to tell the truth about abortion, arrest and ensuing convictions Gosnell trial today. It is beyond the abortion industry’s illegal but the same doesn’t go for in 2013—which included the most morbid Hollywood underground market in the AlphaCare, a pro-life medical three guilty verdicts of murder horror. It will change you.” body parts of aborted babies in clinic set to relocate its services in the first degree—Gosnell In an email to supporters 2015, said it “is the best film just a wall away from Gosnell’s operated what one government Wednesday, producers Phelim about abortion ever made.” former office this December. investigator famously called a McAleer and Ann McElhinney Intentionally lacking any AlphaCare’s move, slated for Dec. 19, will mark a significant step for the pregnancy center and two of its leaders—Karen Hess and Kim Bennett—who have been praying and planning to bring hope and healing to the neighborhood since 2011. Having served women since 1981 within just a few miles of the Lancaster Ave. site it will now call home, AlphaCare is bringing its free ultrasounds, free pregnancy testing, options counseling, post-abortive healing, parenting education and more to many of the same “House of Horrors.” announced that, after having graphic scenes or unnecessary women on whom Gosnell At Gosnell’s clinic, babies shown their film to “every major depictions, the film is rated preyed for three decades. were not only routinely killed distributor in Hollywood,” not PG-13, accomplishing a major A major impetus for Hess after they were born alive, but one of those companies would goal of the production team to and Bennett—herself post- conditions were so unsanitary agree to move forward on a remove any legitimate obstacles abortive—is to help women and medical attention so deal, citing the “controversial” to its release, per Nussbaum’s and families in the immediate derelict that at least one nature of the movie. report. area heal after so many years woman, Karnamaya Mongar, Starring Nick Searcy and “Hollywood’s refusal to of oppression, and an estimated died after a botched procedure Dean Cain, a record-breaking distribute the Gosnell movie is 40,000 lives lost through at his clinic. 30,000 individual supporters a politically-motivated double abortion. While media coverage of sponsored the entirety of standard because the Gosnell “There is a darkness in what the trial and gruesome details the film’s $2.3 million-plus took place in that neighborhood uncovered in the investigation budget at Indiegogo.com. The and the impact of that business of Gosnell’s practice has been producers had originally started See “Silver,” page 36 in that corner of the city,” scant to say the least—a trend a .com campaign to 34 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org The Civil War, The French Revolution, Segregation: no parallel too ridiculous to describe a Post-Roe v. Wade world By Dave Andrusko

To old-timers, the name In her 1,500-word-long Greenberg’s launching pad is is analogizing what would Linda Greenhouse is instantly “Chasing Abortion Rights the 60 Minutes program where a ensue to “separate but equal”– familiar. As the Supreme Across the State Line,” hostile, grim-faced Leslie Stahl segregation. Court reporter for the New asked President-elect Donald By the fourteenth paragraph, York Times for nearly three Trump what would happen if Greenhouse has moved on to decades, Greenhouse held Roe v. Wade were overturned. the French Revolution and enormous sway over how legal He said, quite accurately, “if it Marie Antoinette (bride of King decisions were interpreted. So ever were overturned, it would Louis XVI): influential was her coverage go back to the states.” While President-elect that critics attributed at least That is to say, each state Trump’s “let them part of the Supreme Court’s would formulate its own go somewhere else” shift to port to her incessant abortion statutes, which was was at odds with the lobbying thinly disguised as the case before Roe (and the country’s deep seated analysis—-“the Greenhouse companion case of Doe v. constitutional culture, effect.” Bolton) overturned the existing it also conveyed a A couple of years ago, in abortion laws of all 50 states. “let them eat cake” analyzing one of Greenhouse’s Equally accurate, Trump said, cynicism. hysterical critiques of the Roberts’ Court (her insistence (By the way, historians that “politics drives the court’s agree Marie Antoinette said decisions” which is code for President-elect Donald Trump nothing of the sort. But they came down with decisions fact-checking never was she disapproved of), National Greenhouse says of her opening Greenhouse’s strong suit nor Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru paragraph (which reads) would mere accuracy ever be astutely observed, “This Half slave and half allowed to get in the way of critique of the court is itself free. The last time the an outlandish, over-the-top pretty ideological and not very United States split into parallel.) self-aware.” two countries, it didn’t And so it goes…and will go With regard to abortion, work out at all well for the media elite of whom Ponnuru observed Greenhouse remains a star, Greenhouse has long “If that sounds like a although she is no longer been an influential hyperbolic reaction to the Supreme Court correspondent voice. In 1970, she yawning red state, blue state but a contributor to the Times’ publicized the claims divide, so be it.” So at least op-ed page. of an academic that she is self-aware that what Linda Greenhouse Nothing but nothing is too American law had will follow may seem to the ridiculous to predict, nothing never been concerned unenlightened to be a tad “It’s got a long way to go, just but nothing too vicious to with protecting the lives overboard. so you understand. That has a be said about President-elect of unborn children. But, if you understand what’s long, long way to go.” Trump. Those claims have long really going on, you’ll concur But Greenhouse was just Unfortunately, rather been discredited. They that were abortion jurisprudence getting warmed up. By the than cooling off, the Media nonetheless left an returned to the 50 states, we’d fourth paragraph, Greenhouse Establishment which did enduring mark, having be in a situation equivalent to has hit her stride. She talks everything in its power to elect made their way into the pre-Civil War United States. of a new kind of “a new Hillary Clinton President, will Roe v. Wade, the court’s (Get it? Half slave, half free– underground railroad from red only grow more and more landmark abortion Abraham Lincoln’s famous to blue [states].” deranged. case. “House Divided” speech?) By the sixth paragraph, she www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News December 2016 35 The inhumanity of euthanasia in Belgium This brilliant short documentary explains why euthanasia abandons patients. By Michael Cook

Euthanasia is billed as want to wear glasses, then we for it repeatedly, so what is the ADF International, a global a humane practice. But are in a situation within the problem?” partner of the US lobby group after watching this brief criteria of the law. They ask The video was made by Alliance Defending Freedom, documentary about Belgium an alliance-building legal it’s hard to believe that. organization that advocates Euthanasia was legalised there for the right of people to freely in 2002 and since then about live out their faith. It features 8,000 cases have been officially several Belgians who have an registered. Experience shows intimate knowledge of their that demand grows with country’s euthanasia culture. availability. Now children and the mentally ill can be given a Editor’s note. You can lethal injection. watch the video at https:// As one doctor remarks, www.youtube.com/ “If someone thinks that watch?v=r7ME2HKsUd4. it is intolerable to have This post appeared at bad eyesight, and that it is MercatorNet and is reposted incurable because they don’t with permission. Saying “Adoption – Not Abortion” and Really Meaning It From page 7 of what it requires to save the thinking twice. So don’t let the time and talents, while still ADOPT. I don’t have words to life of the same child. Having challenges deter you. others support in other ways. explain what it means, so I will walked the adoption path I am asking you to consider Together we are an amazing just leave you with this. twice, I will tell you that every all of this for two reasons. First force. On this last day of It may seem a paradox but it penny is worth it, and that (at of all, I don’t ever want you to National Adoption Month for is not: Adoption is the hardest least in my experience) every say “adoption – not abortion” 2016, as we move into one of thing you will ever do but it dollar went to pay for services again without understanding the most celebrated seasons in will bring you more joy than rendered with the utmost care the reality behind those three our culture, I’m asking you – you can imagine. and dedication. No one, at least words. (Don’t stop saying it. It ALL of you – to find a way you Adoption will reveal things in in Hague countries with proper is absolutely true. Just realize can make the adoption equation you that you didn’t realize were oversight, is getting rich in that there is more to the picture easier for someone. there. It will stretch you. It will the process. But people’s time than most of us ever sees.) If you know of a family try you. and expertise, plane tickets, Secondly, I very much hope who is fundraising to adopt, But, and please hear this from attorney’s fees, orphanage that you will look at the realities contribute – as much as you can. the deepest places of my heart, donations, hotel costs and other of adoption and do one of three If you know of a family who it will change you in the best things add up fast. things: adopt, reach out to help has adopted, please find a way way possible. Adoption filled As I mentioned in the a family who has adopted, or to help. Offer to bring a meal in my home and my heart with beginning, adoption is a lot be in serious and fervent prayer the early days. Stay in touch as two little girls, each of whom like anything else you will do for families who are releasing they’ve had their child home for faces her own struggles in life. in life that is worth your time. children for adoption, or making a a longer time. Offer to babysit so Separately we are broken and Marriage takes commitment. child their own through adoption. the parents can get some much- imperfect people. Together we Parenting takes work. Making Our Movement is comprised needed time to breathe. Pray are a family – one that, like a difference in the world takes of amazing people with vast that their family would thrive. yours, still has flaws – but one sacrifice. Most among us do resources. Some have money And you. If you’ve ever that loves just as deeply as any these things every day without to give, others give of their considered adoption, please – created by biology. 36 December 2016 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org A National Referendum on Abortion From page 1 people, made it clear that the what were perhaps the strongest states which determined the recalled hearing, seeing or Supreme Court was on the pro-life statements ever made election, it is clear that abortion receiving information from a line for a generation and that by a candidate to a national made a clear difference in the state right to life group such he would appoint only pro- audience and called out Hillary election. as an NRLC affiliate. life justices. Hillary Clinton Clinton on her past Senate vote How did they vote? 31% National Right to Life and made it just as clear that she in favor of partial - birth abortion. said they voted for candidates its political action committees would appoint only justices Hillary Clinton countered by who opposed abortion while mailed 3.3 million pieces of who would uphold, and continuing to defend her support only 18% said they voted literature, made 5 million undoubtedly expand, abortion for legal partial-birth abortion, for candidates who favored phone calls, sent 3 million on demand paid for with undoubtedly thinking that was a abortion – a 13% advantage e-mails and reached 9.2 taxpayer dollars. winning ticket. How wrong she for the pro-life side. When you million through social media, Donald Trump gave 100% was. think how close the vote was in many of whom undoubtedly pro-life answers to National A national poll of voters the states like Florida, North shared, reposted and Right to Life’s questions, taken on election day, Carolina, and Pennsylvania retweeted National Right to met with pro-life leaders of November 8, by the polling which determined the election, Life’s information. National Right to Life and company Inc./Woman Trend it is clear that abortion made a All in all National Right made campaign manager found that essentially half clear difference in the election. to Life’s PACs were actively Kellyanne Conway, a strong, of all voters (49%) said that The poll results also clearly involved in 58 federal well known pro-life advocate, a abortion affected their vote. reflected the heavy involvement campaigns, winning 48 (83%) public face of his campaign. At How did they vote – 31% of National Right to Life and of them. the same time Hillary Clinton said they voted for candidates its political action committees, Yes, there was a referendum made seemingly countless who opposed abortion while the National Right to Life PAC on abortion on November 8. appearances at Planned only 18% said they voted and the National Right to Life Hillary Clinton lost and Donald Parenthood events pledging for candidates who favored Victory Fund. Trump won – but unborn over and over her fealty to their abortion – a 13% advantage Fully 29% of voters recalled children won also. abortion agenda. for the pro-life side. When you hearing, seeing or receiving In the their third debate think how close the vote was information from National President - elect Trump made in Pennsylvania and the other Right to Life and 17% Silver Screen is Rejecting “Gosnell,” But Here’s a Silver Lining From page 33 movie is a true story and it McAleer and McElhinney services, is ready to write a new years include two in Iowa— shines a negative spotlight on are planning to release the story in Philadelphia. including one former Planned abortion,” the producers wrote film independently, and have This August, a Christian Parenthood clinic—two in in Wednesday morning’s email. released a book, “Gosnell: social services agency that Miami, one in Toledo, Ohio, “But we are not going to The Untold Story of America’s works closely with a local and a former flagship Planned give up. At every point in the Most Prolific ,” pregnancy center bought and Parenthood building in Bryan, story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell which available for pre-order at converted an abortion clinic Texas, that now houses both 40 the establishment have tried Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble formerly owned by notorious Days for Life and a pregnancy to suppress the truth. They and Books a Million. abortionist James Pendergraft help medical clinic. suppressed the truth when he In the meantime—and for in Ocala, Fla. was operating his house of the long run—AlphaCare, Former abortion clinics This appeared at Pregnancy horrors and killing women and which recently added a mobile turned into life-affirming Help News and is reposted with children.” ultrasound unit to its suite of pregnancy centers in recent permission.