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National Right to Life announces general election endorsements for Congress

WASHINGTON – National Right to Life and Nebraska Right to Life PAC today announced their endorsements for the November general election. Citing the outstanding pro-life records of all four lawmakers, the organizations endorsed pro-life Sen. Deb Fischer, and pro-life Reps. Jeff Fortenberry, Don Bacon, and Adrian Smith for reelection. “Nebraska’s mothers and their unborn children …

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“In order to continue confirming those strict constructionist judges, we need to win senate elections in November”

By Carol Tobias, President Editor’s note. This speech was part of a Friday general session entitled, “Saving Lives Means Saving the House and Senate in 2018.” I’ve been thinking back to campaigns of many years ago — back to the day when political leaders who supported abortion would say “I’m personally opposed to abortion” which …

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Frustrated with Congress? Elect a Pro-life President and more pro-life senators

By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director Editor’s note. This appeared in the November digital edition of National Right to Life News at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsNov2015.pdf. The entire 41-page issue can be accessed at this URL. Please read as much of the “pro-life newspaper of record” as you can and pass along links to your …

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Pro-life leaders warn of dangers of government shutdown, as U.S. Senate rejects tying Planning Parenthood cutoff to government-wide funding bill

WASHINGTON (Sept. 24, 2015) — The U.S. Senate today defeated a resolution to fund government programs on a temporary basis while blocking all federal funding to Planned Parenthood for one year. The measure, a “continuing resolution,” drew only 47 votes — 13 votes short of the 60 votes that would have been necessary to send …

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House Judiciary Committee Hears Testimony on Planned Parenthood’s “Horrific Abortion Practices”

By Dave Andrusko Today’s three-hour hearing of the House Judiciary Committee was titled, “Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider.” Testimony from witnesses and questions from committee members amply illustrated just how ghastly these “practices” are, recently brought to the public’s attention by a series of eight undercover …

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Battle for Life Taking Place in Congress and State Legislatures

By Dave Andrusko Under the category of ‘be careful what you [pro-abortionists] wish for’…. Earlier today the House of Representatives passed the Protect Life Act, 248-173. The Act is very much needed remedy because ObamaCare is a vipers nest of ( among other things) funding streams for abortion. The insistence of President Obama and Senate …

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