June 2021 Sweeping abortion bill seeks to eliminate all pro-life protections nation-wide By Jennifer Popik, NRLC Federal Legislative Director See “Mobilize,” page 19 On Tuesday, June 8th, the to hear oral argument in so-called “Women’s Health the Mississippi case of Dobbs Protection Act” (WHPA) was v. Jackson Women’s Health introduced in the 117th Session Organization, on whether of the U.S. Congress. This prohibitions on abortions sweeping legislation seeks performed pre-viability are to enshrine into federal law unconstitutional. abortion-on-demand and This session’s bill was require taxpayer funding of introduced in the U.S. House abortion. of Representatives by Reps. While similar dangerous Judy Chu (D-CA) and in the legislation has been introduced U.S. Senate by Sen. Sydney for decades, a record number Blumenthal (D-CT). of pro-abortion co-sponsors The WHPA has a total of have signed on in 2021. Bill 48 Democratic Caucus co- advocates have claimed there sponsors in the Senate—all is a renewed urgency to pass the WHPA in the wake of the See “Sweeping,” page 37 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Nine days and counting until the start of the 50th National Right to Life Convention in Herndon, Virginia Rev. Gregory Seltz will address Prayer Breakfast, Sen. Tom Cotton, will speak at Closing Banquet By Dave Andrusko The deadline mentioned in the headline, referring to June 25, is very important but so, too, is the fact that Early Registration has been extended to June 21! Please go here [https://nrlconvention. com] to register. We very much want you and your family and friends to attend the June 25-26 convention which will be held at the Hilton Washington Dulles hotel in Herndon, Virginia, near Dulles Airport. 2021 will be our 50thconvention! That is a special landmark for the nation’s oldest and most representative single-issue pro- See “Convention,” page 25 life organization. See “Convention,” page 25 Editorials A shrewd analysis of how pro-lifers are hemming in Roe on the way to its extinction When you read articles by pro-abortionists such as “How the Anti-Abortion Movement Used the Progressive Playbook to Chip Away at Roe v. Wade,” your first thought (or at least my first thought) is that likely the authors will suggest that the usage is somehow illegitimate. Tainted, as it were. How could those people (aka us) be allowed to get away with using (as the subhead states) “The tactics that advanced civil rights and gay rights have been put to work against abortion.” But Profs. Mary Ziegler and Robert L. Tsai give every appearance of having a kind of grudging admiration for the genius of our Movement--incrementalism—perhaps because that was at the core of the successful “multi-decade strategy” employed by the civil rights and gay rights movements. (In the case of the former, the beginning of the “strategy” goes back over a hundred years.) However to jump ahead to the very end of their essay in Politico Magazine, I confess I also anticipated a stronger explanation of #1. Ziegler and Tsai understand that the Supreme Court both why they believe the wheel will turn again. That is, why pro-life makes changes and reflects them. They go into depth in many successes, including a potential victory in the Mississippi case areas but not about what may be the most telling. Courtesy of the Supreme Court has agreed to hear, will spark a “backlash that ultrasounds in particular, pictures/representations of the one-time ultimately writes abortion rights into black-letter law.” largely invisible unborn child are on refrigerator doors, in albums, I would strongly encourage you read the piece [www.politico. and in tons of advertisements. “Fetus” always was a clunky term, com/news/magazine/2021/06/13/anti-abortion-progressive-roe- v-wade-supreme-court-492506], so allow me to highlight four See “Analysis,” page 25 considerations. Future prospects for pro-abortion Democrats continually grow bleaker Last November, after most of the dust had settled, some pro- be, any more than the large (and growing larger) number of pro- abortion strategists were frank enough to acknowledge that the life Republican women taking their seats in Congress and the future did not look good for their party—the Democrats. At the statehouses. So, let me revisit and update what we wrote last time, borrowing from a piece that appeared in Slate magazine November, which is even more true today than seven months ago. (decidedly not our friend), we wrote about that grim scenario (for The title for Mary Harris’ piece in Slate, which was “an excerpt Democrats) under the headline, “‘It’s the statehouses, stupid.’ Pro- of a conversation from Slate’s daily morning news podcast, ‘What abortion publication acknowledges how well pro-life Republicans Next,’’ is “Democrats Have a Much Bigger Problem Than the did in the states.” Senate or the Electoral College: It’s the statehouses, stupid.” Why is this worth mentioning in June 2021? Simply because It’s a long post [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/ even those anti-lifers most determined to bury their heads in democrats-statehouses-republican-control-gerrymandering- the sand can’t miss the import of this recent headline from their redistricting-census.html], but let’s start with the conclusion that house newspaper, the New York Times. It read “Republicans win appears at the very end of the excerpt: two Texas mayoral races, including one in McAllen, which is 85 Mary Harris: The Democrats seem to lack the percent Hispanic.” organizational knowhow, the infrastructure to If you didn’t bother to keep track on what was going on last year, these are hugely surprising setbacks. But they shouldn’t See “Bleaker,” page 30 From the President Carol Tobias The Biden-Harris Budget, with no Hyde Language, Must be Defeated We knew it was The damage the Biden budget would plan offered through the Obamacare coming -- we knew inflict doesn’t just impact the Medicaid exchanges. (pg. 24) Biden promised during there would be a program, the initial intent of the Hyde his campaign that any public option would concerted effort to Amendment. For your information, I’m cover abortion on demand. make you and your including a summary from the office of *Increases the funding floor earmark for neighbors pay for pro-life Senator Steve Daines (R-MT). Sen. international family planning/reproductive abortion. Daines chairs the Senate Pro-Life Caucus. health by $8.7 million to $583.7 million As Memorial This is the most thorough analysis I’ve seen from $575 million (pg. 916). This is a Day weekend was of how the Biden budget would dismantle slush fund for international pro-abortion beginning, President Biden released his 40+ years of anti-funding protections for organizations including International proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2022. He babies and taxpayers. Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes is asking Congress to approve a budget As you may have seen, President Biden’s International, which can now receive these that removes Hyde amendment language, FY22 budget calls for the elimination of funds due to Biden’s rescission of Protecting thus allowing your tax dollars to be used to the Hyde Amendment (pg. 807) – which Life in Global Health Assistance. pay for abortion. Prior to enactment of the would allow taxpayer funding for abortion *72% increase in funding for the United Hyde Amendment, federal dollars, mostly on demand through Medicaid, Medicare Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) by Medicaid, paid for 300,000 abortions a year. disability, and other programs funded $23.5 million to $56 million from $32.5 How did we know such a budget was under the Labor/Health & Human Services million (pg. 125 of State Dept request). coming? In 2019, once Biden realized appropriations bill. The UNFPA promotes abortions around the that his chances of winning his party’s The Hyde Amendment has saved an world and supports China’s forced abortion presidential nomination were non-existent estimated more than 2.4 million lives and sterilization regime. if he did not roll over, he sold out the babies since it first became law in 1976, and it *Eliminates conditions on U.S. funds to and the taxpayers. He flipped on his 45-year routinely saves more than 60,000 lives in the UNFPA, including requirements that the history as a senator who opposed taxpayer the United States every year. Nearly 6 in 10 UNFPA not fund abortions and that funds funding of abortion. Biden and the abortion Americans oppose using tax dollars to pay not be directly used for country programs industry were now one. for abortions (Marist/Knights of Columbus in China (pg. 916) It was very different back in 1977 when poll, 2021). *Adds a sweeping notwithstanding then-Senator Biden wrote an open letter to Other pro-abortion provisions in Biden’s authority for funding “to promote gender his Delaware constituents, stating that he FY22 budget: equality” overseas, which would bypass has consistently opposed the use of federal *Eliminates the Dornan Amendment the Helms Amendment and Siljander funds to pay for abortion “unless the life of (pg. 1272), which would allow the District Amendments, to potentially allow taxpayer the mother is in danger.” of Columbia to fund abortions through funding for abortion or abortion lobbying Throughout the years, the pro-life its Medicaid program. When the Dornan overseas. (pg. 916) movement has faced its up and downs. amendment was last gutted in FY2010, D.C. *Eliminates the application of the Helms We’ve had pro-life presidents and pro- funded 300 abortions through Medicaid.