If any info on this web site is
inaccurate, please notify us and we will do our best to revise it.
Thank you!
A list of pro-life
electees is presented here for your information, so you can
participate and exercise your civil duties and responsibilities, as
an informed citizen.
All pro-life candidates, irrespective of
party, are listed if the information is available.
Your vote counts!
Everyone, each of us - individually, is encouraged to make his/her own
voice heard by their representatives and legislative entities. Voice
for the candidate for life!
John McCain
is the most likely pro-life candidate to win.
This is a time to decide who will do the least amount of evil, and who will,
given the opportunity, to do the most good for our society.
John McCain is the pro-life candidate as
listed in several voter guides.
If he doesn't win, it is very likely that the opposing candidate, Obama, will
win.
This is not a time to split hairs about who is the most pro-life, it is a time
to choose who will do the most good, and the least amount of evil.
If the pro-life vote is split then it is likely that Obama will win and our
bishops have told us that it is not good to have someone in the presidency who
will make abortion laws more permanent in our land. See comments below and
visit the various web sites referred to.
The other presidential candidate [from the Democratic Party] is not
pro-life at all, an assessment based on his public statements and in voter
guides published at publicly available websites.
Why? you should
not vote for the Democratic candidate for
president, if you are "prolife".
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Senator Obama has made it know to the public that his
first act upon becoming president of the United States will be to sign the
Freedom of Choice Act [ FOCA]. See further comments about this
below.
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Why is this FOCA bad legislation? -- see article below and other references.
Fr. Corapi said: "No other issue, not all other
issues taken together, can constitute a proportionate reason for voting for
candidates that intend to preserve and defend this holocaust of innocent human
life that is abortion". See
www.fathercorapi.com
Here's a quote from the Catholic Spirit, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of St.
Paul/Minneapolis, MN [Bold or color emphasis added]. Refer also to the
website,
www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/FOCA/index.html US Conference of Catholic
Bishops website for furth analysis of FOCA.
"Freedom of Choice Act is
bad legislation
By Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
Wednesday, 29
October 2008
The Freedom of Choice Act will be
considered by Congress (S. 1173, H.R. 1964) when it reconvenes in
January.
That They May
All
Be One
Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
Contrary to its deceptively clever title, FOCA would create a
“fundamental right” for a woman to “terminate a pregnancy prior to
fetal viability” or to “terminate a pregnancy after viability where
termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the
woman.”
No governmental agency at any level (federal, state or local) could
“deny or interfere with” this right nor discriminate against the
exercise of this right “in the regulation or provision of benefits,
facilities, services or information.”
Devastating effects
If enacted, this would become the first time in our nation’s history
that abortion is established as an “entitlement.” This, in effect,
would move our country beyond even the Supreme Court’s decision of
Roe v. Wade.
It would also do away with a large number of existing state laws on
abortion, substantially impede the ability of states to regulate
abortion, and override nearly 40 years of jurisprudential experience
on the subject of abortion.
Legal experts say it would likely invalidate informed consent laws,
parental notification laws, laws promoting maternal health (if they
result in an increased cost for abortions), abortion clinic
regulations (even those designed to make abortion safer for women),
laws prohibiting a particular abortion procedure (such as
partial-birth abortion) and laws requiring that abortions only be
performed by a licensed physician.
It is hard to imagine a more radical piece of pro-abortion
legislation. FOCA would have a devastatingly destructive impact on
the government’s ability to regulate abortion.
I urge our readers to contact their senators and representatives and
tell them to vote against this bill.
Cardinal’s warning
Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of our U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said on the occasion of
last month’s Respect Life Sunday:
“FOCA establishes abortion as a ‘fundamental right’ throughout the
nine months of pregnancy, and forbids any law or policy that could
‘interfere’ with that right or ‘discriminate’ against it in public
funding and programs. If FOCA became law, hundreds of reasonable,
widely supported, and constitutionally sound abortion regulations
now in place would be invalidated.
“Gone would be laws providing for informed consent, and parental
consent or notification in the case of minors. Laws protecting women
from unsafe abortion clinics and from abortion practitioners who are
not physicians would be overridden. Restrictions on partial-birth
and other late-term abortions would be eliminated. FOCA would knock
down laws protecting the conscience rights of nurses, doctors and
hospitals with moral objections to abortion, and force taxpayers to
fund abortions throughout the United States.
“We cannot allow this to happen. We cannot tolerate an even
greater loss of innocent human lives. We cannot subject more women
and men to the post-abortion grief and suffering that our counselors
and priests encounter daily in Project Rachel programs across
America.
“For 24 years, the Catholic Church has provided free, confidential
counseling to individuals seeking emotional and spiritual healing
after an abortion, whether their own or a loved one’s. We look
forward to the day when these counseling services are no longer
needed, when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law.
If FOCA is enacted, however, that day may recede into the very
distant future.”
In effect, FOCA would certainly be a boon to the abortion industry
with the government forced to condone and promote such procedures.
Now is the time to reduce, not increase, the
incidence of abortion. Now is the time to work for the defeat of the
Freedom of Choice Act.
God love you! "
End of quote. See also Frequently Asked Questions
page; click here. Items #1 and #2.
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Also browse to see what Bishop Chaput of Denver has to say about Roman Catholics
for Obama '08. See article at
www.firstthings.comm/onthesquare/?p=1073 or search for "Roman
Catholics for Obama '08" by Bishop Chaput.
The National Catholic Register also published an article about how "Obama's
votes and official positions deny the right to life to three categories of human
beings: the unborn, the 'accidentally born', and, at least in one case, the
'unfit'." See full article- click here:
www.ncregister.com/site/article/14928 or search for "Obama versus Right to
Life" by the editors of NCRegister.
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A prayer from NeighborsforLife.org:
"O God, our Father, we recognize you as the Creator of Life.
We implore your Divine Mercy and Divine Power to end the tax-payer funding
of abortions. Thank you, Father, for your patience with us a sinful
people; we ask that You lead us to repentance. Since all individual
people were created in Your Image, we ask that you forgive those mothers
and fathers who have aborted their nascent children. Amen."
