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FaxNotes - May 9, 2008

2008-05-09T13:40:00.002-06:00

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

FaxNotes - April 25, 2008

2008-04-27T13:01:00.000-06:00

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Senate Passes Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

SPECIAL ALERT FROM TENNESSEE!!

When will McCain be Cushioned by Conservatives?, 3-28-08

2008-04-04T08:28:00.003-06:00

Numerous conservatives throughout the country have called me to say that while they may have supported candidates other than John McCain for the Republican nomination, they would now like to campaign for the Arizonan -- if for no other reason than the thought of "President Obama" or "President Clinton 44" gives them nightmares!

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3/28/08 FaxNotes

2008-03-28T12:16:00.002-06:00

3/28/08 FaxNotes

McCain Campaign Appoints Liberal Republican as RNC Liaison

Title X (Ten) — A Bush Family Legacy?

South Dakota Governor Signs Ultrasound Law

Physician's Group Tries to Excise Consciences of Colleagues

Spitzer Fall May Stymie Pro-Abortion Bill

FaxNotes March 6, 2008

2008-03-06T13:01:00.001-06:00

John McCain Will Head Republican Ticket

Senate's Vote Sets Tone on Abortion

2008-03-03T17:08:00.001-06:00

Planned Parenthood Could Lose Funding

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More on Planned Parenthood from CNS News Service:

2008-03-03T09:29:00.001-06:00

More on Planned Parenthood from CNS News Service:

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200802/CUL20080228b.html

FaxNotes, February 22, 2008

2008-02-22T13:43:00.001-06:00

TEXAS

LOUISIANA

MICHIGAN

OBAMA/CHE GUEVERA SHARE SUPPORTERS

FaxNotes, February 22, 2008

Pro-Life Challenger Beats Pro-Abortion Incumbent in MD Republican Primary

2008-02-15T14:20:00.002-06:00

Maryland State Senator Andy Harris won the 1st District Primary on Tuesday in a four-way race against liberal Republican Wayne Gilchrest who has represented the district for the past 16 years. Mr. Harris, who was endorsed by the Republican National Coalition for Life PAC, defeated Gilchrest, who reportedly votes with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi more than any other House Republican, despite support from former MD Lt. Governor Michael Steele and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Andy Harris offered a clear contrast between his own solid pro-life record and that of Rep. Gilchrest who earned a 100 per cent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America.

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John McCain funded by Soros since 2001

2008-02-14T13:10:00.002-06:00

Candidate's Reform Institute also accepted funds from Teresa Kerry

As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.

Read entire article at WorldNetDaily.com

Republicans for Choice Endorses McCain

2008-02-14T13:07:00.001-06:00

Some prominent pro-life Republicans have endorsed John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination. Visit the McCain for President web site — you will see some names that may surprise you http://www.johnmccain.com/supporters/. They will surprise you because, while John McCain claims a pro-life record, he supports research that involves the killing of human embryos and he justifies abortion for babies conceived through rape or incest. Those are not pro-life positions. He voted to expand taxpayer funding of embryo-killing research, and he joined other Senators in signing a letter to President Bush asking him to expand the number of embryonic stem cell lines to be used for research.

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Presidential Primaries Still Wide Open

2008-02-01T14:18:00.000-06:00

John McCain won the Florida Primary and every left-wing RINO (Republican in Name Only) politician is rushing to endorse him. Rudy Giuliani, whose defeat was entirely predictable, given his liberal views on social issues and personal peccadilloes, rushed to endorse him. Yesterday, McCain received the embrace of none other than Governor Arnold Scwarzenegger of California, another pro-abortion, liberal Democrat-in-Republican clothes. The liberal Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party is reveling in what they see as their return to control of the Republican Party.

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Abortion kills babies.

2008-01-30T15:50:00.000-06:00

To: Friends of RNC/Life

Abortion kills babies. That’s a fact. Those in the pro-life movement who take a clear and unequivocal approach to ending legal abortion in this country are doing a great job, as evidenced by the letter below, written by two of the most prominent leaders of the pro-abortion movement. They are losing and they know it.

We are entitled to a sense of satisfaction (for a moment or two) upon reading it before we get back to the business of working to rebuild a culture in which every innocent unborn life is protected from the moment of conception/fertilization—no exceptions—no compromise. What we need is strong and uncompromising leadership that will refuse to support candidates for public office unless they commit to taking proactive measures to accomplish that goal.

Nobody said this would be easy, and after 35 years, some of us may feel discouraged at times, especially in light of the current political climate. But minds and hearts are changing, thanks to our efforts on all the varied pro-life fronts. And, when people change their minds to a pro-life perspective, that change is reflected in their voting patterns. The day the pro-life movement unites behind the candidates who share our goal and refuses to support those who do not, we will win this battle.

In the meantime, if you need a bit of a lift, read this letter.

News Outlets Distort Delegate Counts

2008-01-30T15:07:00.000-06:00

An insightful article for the New York Sun written by Josh Gerstein (1/22/08) reveals discrepancies in the Delegate counts being reported as the primaries and caucuses occur.

For instance, "on the Republican side, CNN's tally has Mitt Romney with 72 Delegates, the Associated Press has that number at 59, and so far CBS has counted just 35 Delegates for the former Massachusetts governor. Governor Huckabee has racked up 40 Delegates according to the AP, 29 Delegates per CNN, and only 7 in the view of CBS."

FaxNotes - Jan. 25, 2008

Republican Primary Contests Remain a Mixed Bag

2008-01-17T13:11:00.000-06:00

Life Issues May Determine South Carolina Outcome

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RNC/Life PAC Endorsements

2007-12-27T10:30:00.000-06:00

May the blessings of Christmas extend to you and your families during the coming year. And may each of us renew our commitment to seek the restoration of respect for the right to life of each human being from the moment of conception and the protection of that right under the United States Constitution.

Read entire article, 12-21-07

Homeschooler Wins Heisman

2007-12-10T12:05:00.000-06:00

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is the first sophomore to win the Heisman trophy as the nation’s outstanding college football player. Since 1935 every previous winner had been a junior or senior. He’s also surely the first homeschooled athlete to win the award. In the past decade or so we’ve gotten used to homeschoolers winning spelling bees and geography bees and science fairs. But who ever heard of a homeschooler winning a top athletic prize? Well, now we have.
Tebow benefited from a Florida law that allowed homeschooled students to play on public school athletic teams. Some states bar students who don’t attend a particular school from participating in extra-curricular activities. No doubt fans of the University of Florida Gators are glad that their state was so open to letting homeschoolers develop their athletic skills.
He's a fine young man–born in the Philippines, where his parents were Christian missionaries and where he often spends summers preaching and doing charity work. And even more startling, he says he’ll return to the University of Florida for two more years rather than taking the big bucks from the NFL now.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/12/10/homeschooler-wins-heisman/

FaxNotes – December 7, 2007

2007-12-07T14:00:00.000-06:00

HENRY HYDE – R.I.P.
CONG. ROSKAM INTRODUCES RESOLUTION TO HONOR HENRY HYDE

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Article about one of Guiliani's advisors

2007-11-27T16:02:00.000-06:00

http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1643&Itemid=48

Project Reality on the Today Show!

2007-11-27T13:33:00.000-06:00

National Speakers to address how to be good role models for youth.

Naples, FL November 27, 2007 The Today Show's segment featuring Julie Laipply, Shanette Howard and Johan Khalilian, three nationally known speakers who have spent their lives showing youth how to make healthy lifestyle decisions, has been rescheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, November 28th. Tune in to the "Today Show" on NBC from 8:00-9:00am ET for the interview with these excellent role models.

Julie Laipply is a national speaker on successful choices for young people. As Miss Virginia USA 2002, an Emmy-nominated TV show host in New York City, and a four-year Pentagon Senior Management Consultant in leadership, Julie's life demonstrates the power of healthy choices in achieving success and she shows young people how to do the same!

Shenette Howard, Miss Florida International 2006, is a trendsetter for this generation. As a professional speaker she has spoken before the Duval County Legislative Delegation, and has toured with the 2006 Great To Wait conferences throughout Florida. Shenette is currently an educator at Project S.O.S. in Jacksonville, FL where she has been afforded the opportunity to speak to over 50,000 teenagers about making healthy lifestyle decisions.

Johan Khalilian currently serves as a Senior Educator for Caris Prevention Services. Johan is a proud product of Humboldt Park Chicago. His upbringing in the inner-city of Chicago is a major inspiration for communicating a message that deals with an issue that eats away at the very fabric of our culture. Johan has worked in the field of abstinence for five years, starting with Southwest Parents Committee (a branch of Project Reality). Johan was recently featured on the cover of Chicago Tribune's Red Eye promoting abstinence, on Chicago's FOX Morning News and on the Tyra Banks show.

Pro-Life Group Backs Thompson Despite

2007-11-14T14:01:00.000-06:00

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200711/

Cybercast News Service
Rejection Of GOP Platform
By Fred Lucas

Citing a pro-life voting record and electability, the nation's largest pro-life organization endorsed Republican Fred Thompson for president Tuesday.

The endorsement by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) comes
just weeks after Thompson said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he
opposes "criminalizing" abortion and that he does not support the call for a pro-life amendment to the Constitution in the Republican Party platform.

...

"We could not endorse Fred Thompson based on our criteria" in a primary or general election, Colleen Parro, executive director of the Republican National Coalition for Life, told Cybercast News Service.

"All I can say is our criteria for endorsement is a candidate who supports a human life amendment to the Constitution and will work for it - someone who will support every issue with respect to life, including embryonic stem cells and end-of-life issues," she added.

The Republican Party platform has included a pro-life plank since 1984 that supports a "human life amendment" and endorses "legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."

...

Read entire article: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200711/

Bob Novak on Thompson's Interview on Meet the Press

2007-11-13T12:15:00.000-06:00

A Major Abortion Blunder

By Robert D. Novak

Thursday, November 8, 2007; A27

Fred Thompson was well into a prolonged dialogue about abortion on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday when he said something that stunned social conservatives: "I do not think it is a wise thing to criminalize young girls and perhaps their parents as aiders and abettors." He then went further: "You can't have a [federal] law" that "would take young, young girls . . . and say, basically, we're going to put them in jail."

Those comments sent e-mails flying across the country, reflecting astonishment and rage from pro-life Republicans who had turned to Thompson as their best presidential bet for 2008. No serious antiabortion legislation ever has included criminal penalties against women who have abortions, much less their parents. Jailing women is a spurious issue raised by abortion rights activists. Interviewer Tim Russert did not bring it up in his questioning. What Thompson said could be expected from NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Continue reading article.

On Presidential Endorsments

2007-11-07T13:44:00.000-06:00

To: Friends of RNC/Life:

We have been getting messages about Pat Robertson’s endorsement of pro-abortion presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, asking “What is going on?” – “How could Pat Robertson do this”?

We suggest people contact Pat Robertson and ask him. We are stunned and extremely disappointed.

Pat Robertson endorses Giuliani Pat Robertson, a prominent Christian leader and social conservative, endorsed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, at a news conference this morning in Washington, D.C.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21669328/from/ET/

Great pro-life news article from LifeNews.com

2007-11-06T09:34:00.000-06:00

To Friends of RNC/Life:

Huckabee reacts to Thompson\'s \"NO\" to a human life amendment.

Huckabee says he would fight for passage of a HLA.

We know that Duncan Hunter would do the same.

Nothing yet from Romney.

FRED THOMPSON A THREAT TO THE PRO-LIFE PLANK IN THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM

2007-11-05T14:04:00.000-06:00

Pro-life Republican voters who had hopes that Fred Thompson might be their man to support for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination had their hopes dashed yesterday when Mr. Thompson appeared on “Meet the Press.”

The Republican Party Platform has supported a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution since 1976.

Pro-life Americans want legal protection restored to innocent human beings from the moment of conception.

That protection will not be restored simply by overturning Roe v. Wade, which is all Mr. Thompson supports. If the issue were slavery rather than abortion, his approach would be to allow states to be either slave or free, regardless of the fact that black people are human beings not to be treated as property. Thompson admits that he knows a human being exists at the moment of conception and abortion is the taking of a human life. The fact that he opposes protecting those lives at the federal level is shocking and reveals a mindset that, contrary to his rhetoric, considers the unborn child nothing more than the mother’s property and unworthy of protection under the law.

A transcript of the interview can be seen below.

Fred Thompson Opposes Human Life Amendment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeyLcj69lU

TIM RUSSERT: Let me ask you about an issue very important in your party's primary process, and that's abortion. This is the 2004 Republican Party platform, and here it is. We say the unborn child is a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution. We endorse legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortion. Could you run as a candidate on that platform promising a human life amendment, banning all abortions?

FRED THOMPSON: No.

RUSSERT: You would not?

THOMPSON: No. I have always -- and that's been my position the entire time I've been in politics. I thought Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. I think this platform originally came out as a response, particularly Roe v. Wade, because of that. Before Roe v. Wade, states made those decisions. I think people ought to be free, state and local levels, to make decisions that even Fred Thompson disagrees with. That's what freedom is all about. And I think the diversity we have among the states, the system of federalism we have where power is divided between the state and federal government has served us very, very well. I think that's true of abortion. I think Roe v. Wade hopefully one day will be overturned and we can go back to the pre Roe v. Wade days.
RUSSERT: Each state could make their own abortion laws?
THOMPSON: Yeah. But to have an amendment compelling going back even further than pre Roe v. Wade, a constitutional amendment to do that, I do not think would be the way to go.

Fred Thompson Would Not Ban Abortions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-b1xQNRA4g

TIM RUSSERT: We went back to your papers at the University of Tennessee and read through them. This is what you said back in 1994 as a candidate. Here is the first one. I'm not willing to support laws that prohibit early term abortions. I'm not suddenly upon election as a Senator going to know when life begins and where that place ought to be exactly. It comes down to whether you believe life begins at conception. I don't know if my own mind if that is the case, so I don't feel law ought to impose that standard on other people. So, you yourself don't know when life begins?

FRED THOMPSON: No. I didn't know then.

RUSSERT: Do you know now?

THOMPSON: My head has always been in the same place. My public position has always been the same. I've been 100% pro-life in every vote I've ever cast in service as a United States Senator.

RUSSERT: Your for allowing states to have pro-abortion rights. And you yourself, and I have ten different statements from you, saying that you would not ban abortion, it's a woman's right, and you would not ban it in the first trimester.

THOMPSON: You've just said two different things here. You know it's a complex issue concerning whether or not you're going to have a federal law, whether or not you're going to have a federal constitutional amendment, those kinds of things. Nobody's proposed a federal law on this. Nobody's recently proposed a federal constitutional amendment. I had an opportunity to vote on an array of things over eight years, whether it be partial-birth abortion, whether it be Mexico city policy, whether it be transporting young girls across state lines to avoid parental notification laws, all that. 100% pro-life. But let me finish on my point, and my legal record is there, and that's the way I would govern if I was President. I would take those same positions. No federal funding for abortions, no nothing that would in any way encourage abortion. When I saw -- again, all consistent with what I've said. People ask me hypothetically, okay, you know, it goes back to the states. Somebody comes up with a bill and they say we're going to outlaw this or the other. And my response was I do not think it is a wise thing to criminalize young girls and perhaps their parents as aiders and abettors and perhaps their family physician. And that's what you're talking about, it's not the sense of the Senate. Your talking about potential criminal law. I said those things are going to ultimately be won in the hearts and minds of people. I'm probably a pretty good example of that. Although my head and my legislative record's always been the same, when I saw that sonogram of my little now 4-year-old, it's changed my heart. It's changed the way I look at things. I was looking at my child when I saw that. And I knew that, and I felt that, and that's the way I feel today. And I think life begins at conception. I always -- it was abstract to me before. I was a father earlier when I was very young. I was busy. I went about my way. One of the maybe few advantages you have of getting a little bit older.

RUSSERT: So you believe life begins at conception, and that's taking of a human life?
THOMPSON: Yes, I do.

RUSSERT: You would allow abortion to be performed in states if chosen by states for people who think otherwise.

THOMPSON: I do not think that you can have a law that would be effective and that would be the right thing to do, as I say, in terms of potentially -- you can't have a law that cuts off an age group or something like that which potentially would take young girls in extreme situations and say, basically, we're going to put them in jail to do that. I just don't think that that's the right thing to do. It cannot change the way I feel about it morally, but legally and practically, I've got to recognize that fact. It is a dilemma that I'm not totally comfortable with, but that's the best I can do in resolving it in my own mind.

Fred Thompson Opposes Federal Marriage Amendment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl5o-q35YA8

TIM RUSSERT: And also with gay marriage, according to the Associated Press, Thompson favors a constitutional amendment that bars judges from legalizing gay marriage, but also leaves open the door for state legislature to approve the practice. So, if a state said we want to have gay marriages in our state, you would be okay with that?

FRED THOMPSON: Yes. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Nobody ever thought that was contested until recently. We've had a couple of judges in a couple of states decide to turn all that on its head, so we've had, again, a judge created problem. I would support a constitutional amendment that addresses this judge created problem and say judges can't do that. But at the end of day, if a state legislature and a Governor decide that that's what they want to do, yes, they should have the freedom to do what Fred Thompson thinks is a very bad idea.