Harry Reid Is The Last Person Who Should Call Anyone An Abortion Extremist

Harry Reid is the last person who should call Sharron Angle or anyone else, extreme on abortion. Reid's actions torpedo his protest that he is pro-life because he has helped implement the agenda of Planned Parenthood, NARAL and the abortion industry, including taxpayer funding of abortion in America and around the world.

1. Harry Reid wrote the health care reform law which contains massive government abortion funding provisions and he led the effort to defeat amendments that would have kept abortion out of health care. Americans, whether they are pro-life or pro-choice on abortion, oppose government funding by abortion by wide margins and support the long standing widely held provisions that prevent it.

Reid introduced his health care bill after the House passed the Stupak amendment which would have kept abortion out of health care. Reid could have easily left abortion funding and subsidies out or included the House's Stupak Amendment. Reid knew it takes 60 votes to put abortion language in or take it out. By including abortion language that will fund and subsidize abortion throughout pregnancy for any reason, Reid made his choice to give abortion advocates the advantage.

When an identical Senate version of the Stupak amendment to was submitted, Reid dutifully went to the Senate floor to keep it out. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards explained later, "At a crucial moment, Majority Leader Reid went to the floor of the U.S. Senate to deliver his speech against the Senate version of the Stupak amendment."

2. Harry Reid supports funding of groups who provide and promote abortion around the world at United States taxpayer expense. Reid opposes the Mexico City policy that prohibits taxpayer funding to groups who perform abortions, promote abortion or lobby to change abortion laws in other nations. Reid voted twice against amendments that make sure that taxpayer funding does not go the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which helps fund China's brutal One Child Policy that uses forced abortion and sterilization. The Cato Institute's Stephen Moore says, "This program will go down in history as one of the greatest abuses of human rights in the 20th century."

3. Harry Reid has opposed pro-life nominations to the Supreme Court and supported nominations of pro-abortion justices. In Reid's first year in the Senate, he helped defeat Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. The National Abortion Rights Action League says that, "The defeat of Robert Bork was the single most important victory for pro-choice forces during the 1980s."

But that's not all; Reid opposed the nominations of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Reid voted for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Justices Breyer and Ginsburg (former chief counsel for the ACLU) opposed laws banning brutal partial birth abortions. Harry Reid has been working to make sure abortion stays firmly entrenched by supporting radical justices for the Supreme Court while masquerading as being pro-life.

4. Harry Reid is a key ally of the abortion industry. While other abortion advocates claim friendship and a good relationship with Reid, Reid has a special relationship with abortion leader Planned Parenthood. Nevada Advocates for Planned Parenthood Affiliates' 2010 "Voter Guide" rates Reid as "Leans Pro-Choice," defined as "70-99% . . . Pro-Choice on many but not all, issues." Their guide also notes that Reid "carried policy for Planned Parenthood." It's no wonder Planned Parenthood also awarded him their "2008 Voice for Sound Policy" award. Reid has been fighting for Planned Parenthood and has even bragged about this award and being named a Planned Parenthood Nevada legislator of the year while claiming to be pro-life.

Reid deserves Planned Parenthood's ratings and award. Just after casting his vote against the Senate amendment to keep abortion out of health care, ABC News reported that while Reid may oppose abortion rights, Reid said it "doesn't mean I'm opposed to finding common ground for the greater good." Reid was and has been selling out unborn children for his political fortunes and doing the bidding of extremist abortion groups against the will of the American people.

That makes Harry Reid the last person who should call Sharron Angle or anyone else, extreme on abortion. Harry Reid is a phony to call himself pro-life and has long forfeited the right to do so due to his efforts to implement the agenda of Planned Parenthood, NARAL and the abortion industry in America and around the world.

Pro-Life Voting and Where to Vote Early in Nevada

Early Voting has begun in Nevada and for informational purposes, we suggest readers of Nevada LIFE News check out our good friends and colleagues at Nevada Right to Life and Nevada Concerned Citizens who have posted their recommendations to help pro-life voters be informed voters.

Click here to go to the Nevada Right to Life site. Scroll down to two articles, "Nevada Right to Life PAC (Political Action Committee) makes Federal Endorsements" and "LIFEPAC General Election Endorsements" to see what candidates they are recommending.

Click here to go to the Nevada Concerned Citizens site. Their endorsements are on the front page.

Nevada LIFE, the group I belong to, is not a PAC (Political Action Committee) and we do not make endorsements, though our board members are free to and do give personal endorsements.

Pro-lifers can always cross check with pro-abortion Planned Parenthood's voter guide to see what they say about a person's position on pro-life issues. It's important to note that when Planned Parenthood says someone is "pro" or "leans pro", that means they are pro-abortion, not pro-life. Planned Parenthood will favor the pro-abortion candidate, not the pro-life candidate.

Where to Vote. Click here to go to the Nevada Secretary of State's early voting page to find out where to vote early in your county.

How important are elections to our cause? If John McCain were president, McCain would have already appointed two pro-justices and we would have a 5-4 advantage on the court and Roe would be in jeopardy. There would be no abortion funding or subsidies in any health care reform, the Reagan-Bush Mexico City Policy would still be in effect and Americans would not be funding abortion, abortion counseling and abortion advocacy around the world. If McCain were president Americans would not be funding the forced abortion and sterilization China One Child Policy through our funding of the United Nations Population Fund, and we would not be encouraging international treaties through the UN which force other nations to change their pro-life abortion law and more. That's how important elections are.

Don't forget state races. We need pro-life legislators in Carson City to introduce pro-life legislation and to protect important pro-life laws and regulations still on the books.

This is another important election in a series of many more elections. Be an informed voter and vote pro-life.  If you live in California, go the California Pro-Life Council website.

Reid Refused To Say Abortion Shouldn't Be Covered By His Health Care Law In Debate With Angle.

On Thursday night, in his debate with pro-life candidate Sharron Angle, Senator Harry Reid refused to say that abortion should not be covered under the health care reform act that Reid wrote.

When the moderator asked Reid and Angle a simple yes no question, "do you think the health care reform act should include coverage of abortion," Angle said "no," but Reid refused to say no. Instead, Reid said "the law we passed maintained Hyde, the Hyde amendment." When the moderator asked, "That would be it? Yes or no?" Reid said "under the law that exists today, the Hyde Amendment, which has been the law in this country for thirty years, is still there."(click here to watch this exchange)

Harry Reid knows that the Hyde amendment will not prohibit government funding or subsidies of abortion through the health care reform law he wrote. Harry Reid has been in the House and Senate for 28 years and he knows that the Hyde amendment does not apply to the health care reform law that he personally wrote.

Reid also knows that not only is the Hyde amendment not permanent law and that it is a yearly patch that must be voted on every year, Reid knows that the Hyde amendment applies only to funding through the department of health and human services and covers Medicaid. Other prohibitions, like the ban on federal funding for federal employees, the military, Indian health care and others, are covered by separate amendments. The Hyde amendment will continue to be necessary, but will not stop funding through health care reform.

Harry Reid had the chance to make sure that a Hyde type amendment was included to keep government funding and subsidies for abortion out of his health care bill. The Stupak amendment to the House of Representatives' health care bill closely replicated the Hyde amendment and would have excluded government funding and subsidies of abortion under health care reform. But after the House passed its bill with the Stupak amendment, Reid refused to include that same Stupak language in his bill. And when an identical Senate version of the Stupak amendment to keep abortion out of health care was submitted, Reid dutifully went to the Senate floor to keep it out. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards explained later, "At a crucial moment, Majority Leader Reid went to the floor of the U.S. Senate to deliver his speech against the Senate version of the Stupak amendment."

Reid also knew it takes 60 votes in the Senate to take out language keep abortion out of health care and 60 votes to put it in by an amendment. That means that Reid chose to give the advantage to Planned Parenthood and abortion advocates.

Reid's repeated statement that the Hyde amendment will keep abortion out of health care shows his contempt for Nevadans, contempt for the truth and shows that he will say and doing anything to maintain his grip on power and to advance the interests of Planned Parenthood* and the abortion industry. Harry Reid cannot be trusted to tell the truth on abortion and no pro-lifer can trust him when he says he is pro-life. It's time for Reid to "man up" and tell the truth about abortion.

 

* Nevada Advocates for Planned Parenthood Affiliates' 2010 "Voter Guide" rates Reid as "Leans Pro-Choice," defined as "70-99% . . . Pro-Choice on many but not all, issues." This guide also notes that Reid "carried policy for Planned Parenthood." It's no wonder Planned Parenthood also awarded him their "2008 Voice for Sound Policy" award.

One Of The Biggest Pro-Life Differences You Can Make Is Helping A Pro-Life Candidate

Right now we can all make one of the biggest pro-life differences of all. One of the biggest impacts anyone can have for the unborn and the pro-life cause is to help a pro-life candidate get elected.  If pro-life John McCain were president, we would have a pro-life majority on the United States Supreme Court and Roe would be in serious jeopardy. Harry Reid's abortion funding, health care rationing death panels health care bill would have been vetoed and dead on arrival at President McCain's desk.

But electing a pro-life president is not the only important office. Candidates for Senate, governor, state legislators, county commissioners and others are also important.  And there are a lot of them. They not only need any money that you can give them, they need prayers, help at their phone banks, literature drops, setting up signs, writing letters and etc. Pro-life candidates need your help. It's the biggest help to the unborn and the cause we can give. Now is the time. Please help them today.

Republicans Promise To Repeal Reid's Abortion Funding, Health Care Rationing Health Care Law.

The "Pledge to America," the House Republicans' proposed new governing agenda, includes vital promises to pro-life Americans, including repeal of Harry Reid's career defining massive abortion funding health care bill.

·  Republicans Promise To Repeal Reid's Abortion Funding, Health Care Rationing Health Care Law.

In their "Pledge to America," the House Republicans have promised to roll back Senator Harry Reid's career defining health care reform bill, which will bring health care rationing death panels and lead to the largest increase in abortion and abortion funding since Roe v. Wade. Reid was solely responsible for the contents of the bill and excluded language like the House's Stupak amendment that would have kept abortion out of health care. And just when it looked like the Senate version of the Stupak amendment might be added to the health care bill, Reid dutifully went to the Senate floor to keep it out. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards explained later, "At a crucial moment, Majority Leader Reid went to the floor of the U.S. Senate to deliver his speech against the Senate version of the Stupak amendment." The House Republicans have promised to roll back the Reid health care law with its abortion funding and health care rationing provisions. There's no doubt that Reid's Republican opponent Sharron Angle will lead the charge to overturn those provisions in the Senate. The House Republicans' Pledge Regarding Abortion: "We will permanently end taxpayer funding of abortion and codify the Hyde Amendment." p. 6 "Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to using tax dollars to pay for abortion, and the executive order issued by President Obama in conjunction with congressional passage of the health care law is inadequate to ensure taxpayer funds are not used in this manner." p. 26 "We will establish a government-wide prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion and subsidies for insurance coverage that includes abortion. This prohibition would go further and enact into law what is known as the Hyde Amendment as well as ban other instances of federal subsidies for abortion services. We will also enact into law conscience protections for health care providers, including doctors, nurses, and hospitals." p. 28 Along with National Right to Life's Douglas Johnson: "We welcome the Republican leadership's commitment to repeal and replace the Obama health care law, which is a top priority for the pro-life movement because that law, when fully implemented, would result in the rationing of lifesaving medical treatments, and an array of federal subsidies for abortion as well." "In addition, a permanent government-wide prohibition on federal funding of abortion is long overdue, and we applaud the inclusion of that legislation in this action plan." Pro-life Nevadans face another consequential election. Harry Reid is up for re-election and is pretending-again-to be pro-life. That's a difficult act when you are the author of the massive abortion funding health care bill and when Nevada Advocates for Planned Parenthood Affiliates' 2010 "Voter Guide" rates Reid as "Leans Pro-Choice," defined as "70-99% . . . Pro-Choice on many but not all, issues." This guide also notes that Reid "carried policy for Planned Parenthood." Planned Parenthood also awarded him their "2008 Voice for Sound Policy" award. Reid deserves Planned Parenthood's award. Just after casting his vote against the Senate amendment to keep abortion out of health care, ABC News reported that while Reid may oppose abortion rights, Reid said it "doesn't mean I'm opposed to finding common ground for the greater good." Reid was willing to sell out unborn children for his political fortunes. The subsequent vote on the abortion funding Reid bill was cast on Christmas Eve while Americans were exchanging gifts and celebrating the birth of a child, Jesus Christ. Pro-life Nevadans have a choice between Harry Reid, who wrote the health care law with its abortion funding provisions that will lead to the most massive increase in abortion since Roe, and Assemblywoman Sharron Angle. Angle is a true pro-lifer who has never made a deal at the expense of unborn children or sacrificed them for some "greater good." If the House Republicans and Senators like Angle get their chance, they promise to roll back the Reid-Obama-Pelosi abortion funding and health care rationing law and write the Hyde Amendment's prohibitions against abortion funding into law.

Judge Issues Temporary Injunction Against Obama Embryonic Stem Cell Policy

Judge Royce Lamberth has issued a preliminary injunction against federal funding of embryonic stem cell research because it violates United States law under the Dickey Amendment.

The Dickey Amendment says "(a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for-

(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or

(2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.208(a)(2) and Section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act [1](42 U.S.C. 289g(b)) (Title 42, Section 289g(b), United States Code).

As Judge Lamberth notes, "The Dickey-Wicker Amendment is unambiguous. It prohibits research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subject to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed under applicable regulations." "ESC (embryonic stem cell) research is clearly research in which an embryo is destroyed." And therefore, "The Guidelines (instituted by the Obama Administration) violate that prohibition by allowing federal funding of ESC research because ESC research depends up on the destruction of a human embryo."

We agree, but the Obama Administration, like the Clinton administration, thought they found a way to legally fund embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) under the Dickey Amendment. Both administrations separated embryonic stem cell research into different "pieces of research," destroying the embryo and creating an embryonic stem cell line/culture, and performing research on the embryonic stem cell line that has been created by destroying the embryo. Both administrations argued that as long as the government didn't fund the destruction of the embryo, it could fund research on embryonic stem cell lines created by private funds.

The judge didn't buy that argument: "Despite defendants' attempt to separate the derivation of ESCs from research on the ESCs, the two cannot be separated. Derivation of ESCs from an embryo is an integral step in conducting ESC research. Indeed, it is just one of many steps in the "systematic investigation" of stem cell research. 45 C.F.R. § 46.102(d). Simply because ESC research involves multiple steps does not mean that each step is a separate "piece of research" that may be federally funded, provided the step does not result in the destruction of an embryo. If one step or "piece of research" of an ESC research project results in the destruction of an embryo, the entire project is precluded from receiving federal funding by the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. Because ESC research requires the derivation of ESCs, ESC research is research in which an embryo is destroyed. Accordingly, the Court concludes that, by allowing federal funding of ESC research, the Guidelines are in violation of the Dickey-Wicker Amendment."

The judge also noted that his injunction "would not seriously harm ESC researchers because the injunction would simply preserve the status quo and would not interfere with their ability to obtain private funding for their research. In addition, the harm to individuals who suffer from diseases that one day may be treatable as a result of ESC research is speculative. It is not certain whether ESC research will result in new and successful treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease."

Meanwhile, non embryonic stem cell breakthroughs keep coming.

The injunction is temporary and could be lifted by a higher court. Lawmakers are also threatening to take action and write the Obama policy into law. And since the Dickey amendment is a yearly amendment that has been passed every year since 1996 it and can be left out or vetoed by the President. We'll keep you posted.

Read Dr. Keith Shonnard MD and Don Nelson's Reno Gazette Journal op-ed Embryonic Stem Cell Research is Unethical, Dangerous and Unnecessary on why we oppose embryonic stem cell research and the Obama policy.

Unborn Baby Gives British Mom a Thumbs Up in Rare Ultrasound Picture

 
Here’s an awesome picture from a rare ultrasound showing an unborn child giving a “thumbs up.”  Here’s the story about the ultrasound from LifeNews.com.    

 

Unborn Baby Gives British Mom a Thumbs Up in Rare Ultrasound Picture

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 24, 2010  

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Marie Boswell expected to get the latest information about the status of her unborn child from her physician. In a rare ultrasound picture showing her baby giving her a thumbs up, she got a progress report from the baby boy himself.

Bosworth was stunned by the ultrasound photo of her 20-week-old unborn baby giving her the popular sign when everything's all right.

"It was really funny," the 35-year-old mother said of the ultrasound picture she had at Wythenshawe Hospital, near her home in Manchester.

She told the London Daily Mail newspaper, "I went to the scan with my friend and my mum and we were all just laughing. He was giving us the thumbs up, it was just so clear."

"We couldn't believe it. I have big hands, but nothing on the scale of his," she told the newspaper. "We're thinking he might make a good goalkeeper. I've never seen a scan like this before - but we love it."

"I've been keeping it in a book because I want to show it to him when he is older," she added.

Boswell already has a 10-year-old daughter named Olivia and the doctors informed her that her baby, expected in September, is doing just fine.

Shari Richard, a pioneer of the use of ultrasound, believes it has the power to stop abortions.

More than a million American women will have an abortion in 2010 and 44 percent of American women will have an abortion at some point in their lifetime, Richard says.

With improvements in the imaging taking a two-dimensional picture and moving it into the world of 3D and 4D, Richard is not surprised that more Americans are becoming pro-life and more are opting against an abortion.

"Ultrasound technology is credited with an important role in changing attitudes. If women see images of their unborn children, and are educated about developing life in the womb, they are less likely to abort," she says.

Richard personally experienced the grief and pain of abortion but, in 1990, through Sound Wave Images, she produced the videos Ultrasound: a Window to the Womb and Eyewitness to the Earliest Days of Life.

These powerful videos, seen by millions, showed fetal development and facts related to the emotional and physical trauma of abortion.

As a voice for the unborn, Shari Richard knows a picture is "worth a thousand words."

Note: A law was recently passed in Oklahoma which requires abortion doctors or staff to perform an ultra sound and give the woman considering the abortion a chance to view it.