{"id":20718,"date":"2012-09-04T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=20718"},"modified":"2013-04-04T00:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T04:51:18","slug":"action-memo-from-lila-rose-to-pro-life-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/action-memo-from-lila-rose-to-pro-life-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Action memo from Lila Rose to pro-life activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Action Memorandum<br \/>\nDate: September 1, 2012<br \/>\nTo: Pro-life Activists<br \/>\nFrom: Lila Rose, President, Live Action<br \/>\nRe: Democrat Establishments\u2019 Charlotte Abortion-palooza<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the Democratic Party establishment puts on an abortion-palooza at\u00a0\u00a0their convention in Charlotte next week, it is important that the prolife community speaks boldly and unequivocally about how out of step with women and numerous other constituencies the President and the Democratic leadership are when it comes to their taxpayer funding of abortion on demand policies.<\/p>\n<p>The record is quite clear: President Obama is the most pro-abortion, anti-religion president in American history. Using our vast prolife network, from blogging to social media to earned media, I hope we can join our voices together to\u00a0educate the public and the media about President Obama\u2019s extremist obsession with abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Given the Democratic establishment\u2019s casting of its convention as\u00a0largely one about abortion and their anti-religious freedom, anti-First Amendment, HHS mandate, the pro-life community has a golden opportunity this coming week to promote life and freedom. The Democratic establishment\u2019s abortion- palooza features speeches by a Who\u2019s Who of Big Abortion \u2013 including representatives of abortion profiteers and advocates Planned Parenthood and NARAL.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the convention will feature politicians and Hollywood\u00a0\u00a0stars hostile to the prolife cause and religious freedom. Not to be featured: Prolife Democrats. Pro-life Democrats are being ostracized and if in attendance are to maybe be seen, but not heard. The message is clear, if you are a pro-life Democrat you are not welcome at this Democrat establishment abortion-palooza. Yes, the Party that spins diversity is telling pro-lifers that they have no business showing up in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>This presents a unique opportunity for the pro-life, religious freedom\u00a0community to come forward and educate the public about how extreme and obsessed the President and the Democratic Party establishment are when it comes to abortion. They are so obsessed on funding abortion, the President and Democratic leaders in Washington are even willing to undercut the founding principle of religious freedom to fund abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s obsession on abortion is well known in pro-life\u00a0\u00a0circles, but it\u2019s a story many in the media refuse to report. Catholics, Evangelicals, Hispanics, Jews, African Americans and women need to know that they are mocked and not welcome by the President and the Washington Democratic establishment. We need to communicate that the ultimate act of social justice is the defense and human rights of the preborn.<\/p>\n<p>Pro lifers should aggressively work to expose President Obama\u2019s\u00a0extremist abortion record:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama arrived in the U.S. Senate just in time to denounce the Supreme\u00a0Court\u2019s ruling upholding the ban\u00a0on pulling children half way out of the womb, and then killing\u00a0them&#8211;also known as the brutal practice of partial-birth abortion.<\/li>\n<li>When fully developed babies were being left to die in hospitals after\u00a0failed abortion attempts, Obama voted against the legislation that\u00a0would protect them with life-saving care. In the Illinois legislature,\u00a0Obama voted four times against the \u201cBorn-Alive Infants Protection\u00a0Act.\u201d The bill\u00a0recognized babies born after attempted abortions as\u00a0persons and required doctors to give them\u00a0care. The federal version of\u00a0the\u00a0bill that Obama opposed in Illinois passed the U.S. Senate\u00a0unanimously.<\/li>\n<li>He opposed a partial-birth abortion ban in Illinois, even as the\u00a0federal version passed the House\u00a0with 282 votes and the Senate with 64 votes and was signed into law by\u00a0President Bush in 2003.<\/li>\n<li>In May, a bi-partisan majority of the House, including 20 Democrats,\u00a0voted to ban abortions that target baby girls in the womb (sex-selective abortion). A White House spokeswoman expressed the\u00a0President&#8217;s opposition to the baby-saving ban, saying: \u201cThe government\u00a0should not\u00a0intrude in medical decisions or private family matters in\u00a0this way.\u201d In other words, gender-based discrimination is OK\u2014so long\u00a0as it results in an abortion.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007, Obama announced to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that\u00a0his first act as president would be\u00a0signing the Freedom of Choice Act.\u00a0The act would enshrine in federal law a right to abortion\u00a0more far-reaching than in Roe v. Wade and eliminate basically all\u00a0federal and state-level\u00a0restrictions on abortion.<\/li>\n<li>The President, in a down economy, is taxing American families to pay\u00a0for abortions. Under his Administration government funding of abortion has reached historic levels. Obama has bypassed bans of public funding of abortion funneling more money to the abortion\u00a0industry, mandated private business and religious institutions to pay for abortion services and aggressively funded international abortion programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After all, 50 percent of Americans now identify themselves as\u00a0\u00a0pro-life, according to Gallup, while those calling themselves pro-choice are at a historic low at 41 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In another Gallup poll, 86 percent of Americans said abortion should\u00a0\u00a0be illegal in the third trimester. Meanwhile, an out-of-touch Democrat Party establishment supports abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Social justice is a winning issue with many youth and religious\u00a0Americans, and what more fundamental right to protect than the right to life for the most vulnerable?<\/p>\n<p>Overwhelming majorities of Americans want basic restrictions on\u00a0abortion\u00a0and protections for pre-born children. They support a ban on the brutal practice of partial-birth abortion, a ban on sex-selective abortion that target baby girls, and a ban on abortion after the unborn child can feel pain. Americans also oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The contemporary Democratic Party has positioned itself as extremists on\u00a0abortion \u2013 anywhere, for any reason \u2013 paid for by taxpayers. President Obama is in the pocket of Big Abortion and his record shows he is the most pro-abortion president in American history. It\u2019s time for us to do the job the media simply won\u2019t do \u2013 tell the American people the truth about Obama&#8217;s anti-life record on this fundamental human right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to speak boldly and unequivocally about President Obama&#8217;s pro-abortion record and ideology!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":20721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Action memo from Lila Rose to pro-life activists - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/action-memo-from-lila-rose-to-pro-life-activists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Action memo from Lila Rose to pro-life activists - 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