I will be in LA this morning, representing NOM at a press conference for the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles. from their press release:
The Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, an organization of conservative Hispanics, will announce the details of a $1 million campaign in support of California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina at a press conference in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 27 at 11:00am Pacific Time.
NOM was asked to provide a speaker in support of this effort. When I became acquainted with their views, I was eager to help. The Partnership gives voice to the vast majority of Latinos who are pro-natural family. 56% of Latinos oppose gay marriage, compared to 42% of all non-Hispanic people. In 2008, for example, Latino voters helped provide the margin of victory for Proposition 8 in California restoring the traditional definition of marriage, supporting the initiative by 53% (compared to only 49% support among non-Latino whites).
Latinos strongly believe in the dignity of the human person. 57% believe abortion should be illegal, compared to 40% of all non-Hispanic people.
The Partnership supports Carly Fiorina because she believes in the right to life, from the moment of conception, and opposes same-sex marriage.
I am happy to stand in solidarity with my Latino sisters and brothers who share these views. See you in LA!
Recently (Saturday, June 10th) there was an awesome webcast called Ending Abortion. It’s well worth checking out.
You can download any (or all) of the ten hour-long sessions as an MP3 to your computer or ipod and listen to each at your leisure.
Marjorie Dannenfelser outlines her strategy for turning the ObamaCare fiasco into an opportunity for the pro-life movement. The core ideas: punish people who sell out (think Stupak), favor people who remain faithful (think Michelle Bachman), and build on the fact that the American people are growing in their opposition to federal funding for abortion, reaching 72% in November 2009 Quinnipiac poll.
The battle to dismantle this atrocity and to build a true Culture of Life is now underway, and a reckoning must happen for those Democrats – from old hands like Stupak and former House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Alan Mollohan to new turncoats like Dahlkemper and Driehaus. Read more…
Isn’t this nice? I’m so glad Planned Parenthood has found even more ways of using my money to kill babies.
by Sheila Liaugminas
Planned Parenthood is at once a hugely profitable business and a taxpayer-funded non-profit outfit. Now they’re expanding into telemedicine, a new method of delivering abortion. Backed by citizens’ dollars. Read more…
According to the Catholic Register (Canada), have been charged with non-academic misconduct for their graphic displays of the results of abortion:
The charges resulted from a Genocide Awareness Project display the group hosted April 8 and 9. Its display, which compares abortion to atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust, had been hosted without incident eight times since 2006. On April 8, campus security allegedly asked the students to turn their signs inward or leave the campus grounds. They refused. Read more…
Want to have fun? Promote life? Win a free i-Pod Touch?
Then check out the American Life League’s annual photo contest/scavenger hunt!
WHAT: American Life League’s National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week and “Yo! Where’s the Shirt?” Photo Scavenger Hunt.
Thousands of young people across the country will take to the streets and the schools a civil rights message for the 21st century: All human beings deserve human rights. Read more…
I’m waiting for someone in the MSM to get the message that the face of the pro-life, pro-marriage movement is female. But, hey, at least someone is noticing that conservative women are capable of running a grassroots movement:
Politico has gotten the message that the Tea Party grassroots movement is largely female.
“Most of the women do not want a large, top-down movement,” Walker said. “We like the local flavor and independence of the tea parties. We don’t need anyone to tell us what to do from D.C. or a large organization to lead us. We’re capable of handling most of it on our own.”
When will they notice the women-led social movement to help women in crisis pregnancies, and to support sexual integrity, and to support lifelong married love? Oh well. Regular Ruth Readers know.
We are so all about women that the Ruth Institute is in continual danger of being perceived as a Chick Outfit.
I would imagine that the Duke University Department of Literature had a big problem with this. You see, the Duke University Women’s Center went and just killed satire. Those professors who taught satirical works as part of their curricula are likely out of a job.
To wit:
DURHAM, N.C., March 29, 2010—Duke University’s Women’s Center has canceled an event about motherhood because the sponsor was engaging in pro-life expression elsewhere on campus. A Women’s Center representative told Duke Students for Life (DSFL) that “we have a problem” and an ideological “conflict” with the event, Read more…
If you go to PersonhoodUSA.com and click on the map of the United States, you’ll see there are now thirty-one states where they are working on putting a Personhood Amendment on the ballot. (Thank you, Kristi Burton!) You can also look at the top of the page and see links to sites where you can find the language of a few of the states’ Personhood Amendments, including the California Human Rights Amendment.
Language is critical when writing a law Read more…
February 25th, 2010
Betsy
The California Human Rights Amendment will amend the California Constitution and define human rights beginning at conception, and it will ensure that a pre-born baby of any age has the same equal rights and protection under law as adults.
Print petitions and collect signatures to get this important measure in the November election! View the flier for more information.
This article in the New Oxford Review follows nicely on my posts about the CA Human Rights Amendment. After going on about the inconsistency of some people in the pro-life movement, (an argument I haven’t got time for, frankly), he makes this observation:
It could be called the Personhood Movement. It would have a very specific goal: legal recognition of the personhood of the human individual from fertilization onward, with accompanying absolute legal protection. Read more…
February 23rd, 2010
Betsy
Great article by Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., friend of the Ruth Institute, much beloved and deeply learned professor of government at Georgetown University, and the author of many books on politics, theology and culture.
“In the act of procreation of a new creature is its indispensable bond with spousal union, by which the husband becomes a father through the conjugal union with his wife, and the wife becomes a mother through the conjugal union with her husband. The Creator’s plan is engraved in the physical and spiritual nature of the man and of the woman, and as such has universal value. Read more…
February 16th, 2010
Betsy
This is cool that these states are working toward making abortion illegal and aim to create a real threat to Roe v. Wade. Let’s just hope and pray it works.
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
Signatures are being submitted as Mississippi voters seek the opportunity to decide on a Personhood amendment, and Colorado residents may once again have the chance to determine when a person is legally a person.
The Mississippi petition drive needed a little over 89,000 valid signatures to put the issue on the ballot, and Les Riley, head of the Personhood Mississippi campaign, reports that results in that area have surpassed requirements. Read more…
February 15th, 2010
Betsy
Not long ago the Ruth Institute did a poll on the leading cause of death among African Americans. The correct answer, you got it: abortion, by far. Clearly, according to this FOX news article, Ruth is not the only one who has noticed.
ATLANTA — The message on dozens of billboards across the city is provocative: Black children are an “endangered species.”
The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been mixed, but the “Too Many Aborted” campaign, which so far is unique to only Georgia, is drawing support from other anti-abortion groups across the country. Read more…
February 13th, 2010
Betsy
My favorite lines come at the very bottom of this article: “Bravo, Dominican Republic, for showing the big, powerful, developed world how to govern with sanity and reason. And for reminding us what we can’t not know….but somehow forgot.”
Here’s more of the article by Sheila Liaugminas:
Imagine how we got to this point. In one generation, we’ve gone from abortion being unthinkable to the majority of civilized society, to the defense of human life being a controversial issue. I don’t know about you, but when I just let an idea sink in, the clarity and simplicity of its truth stands out. Read more…
The Associated Press reports that the Birmingham, Alabama chapter of Planned Parenthood has been put on probation by the state after serious violations were uncovered by citizen journalist Lila Rose and Live Action Films.
Kudos to Ms. Rose!
Currently South Dakota law requires abortionists to tell women that they are killing their babies. Wow. Wouldn’t it be great if more states did that?
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is being asked to rule on South Dakota’s informed consent law.
The Eighth Circuit ruled the first time that South Dakota had a right to require abortionists to tell women that they were actually killing a human being. But this time, the Eighth Circuit will be asked to consider a lower-court ruling that struck down the provisions that require abortionists to tell women they have a legal relationship with their unborn baby and that there is a risk of depression and suicide associated with abortion. Read more…
David Boaz at Cato and Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO are going back and forth on whether social conservatives or fiscal conservatives are more significant to the general conservative coalition and Republican Party. (I guess that is the sub-text.) I have a couple of things to add:
1. Social conservatives in Congress tend to be more reliable voters for fiscal conservative issues than the reverse.
2. I personally believe there is no conflict between social conservatism and fiscal conservatism, as I have argued many times, most recently in the Heritage volume Indivisible.
3. If you want to see the future of the conservative coalition, go look at the photos from the Tea Party in San Diego and the photos from the Walk for Life in San Francisco. Nothing against the Tea Party people, of course, but the average age of the Tea Party people was probably 45 at least.
The average age of the (40,000) Walkers for Life in San Francisco was closer to 30. Look at our albums, here, and here, and the official Walk for Life page.
If you include the Babies in Strollers for Life, the average age probably drops by a couple of years! I’m betting there’s a lot of Life in the social side of the conservative coalition!
At this past weekend’s West Coast Walk for Life, I got to think about the connection between the abortion issue and the marraige issue. I have long thought that the life issues and the marriage issues are related, deeply connected at the philosophical level. The handful of protestors made the connection with their little chant: “Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay: Right-wing Bigots, Go Away.” (They do have a way with words, don’t they? Deep thinkers, all.) So, I am not going out on a limb Read more…
“Bump” is a new internet reality show that follows three women through their decision-making around unplanned pregnancies. This series is being produced by students at John Paul the Great Catholic University in San Diego. Some of these students have been involved in Ruth INstitute activities. Check it out!
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