Pro-life group ramps up for election, legislation push

[NashVegas]

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060623/NEWS06/606230400/1009/NEWS

More than 1,000 members of the National Right to Life Committee convened at a Nashville hotel yesterday to hash out strategy for pushing pro-life legislation, winning over the American public and electing pro-life candidates in November and beyond.
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Organizational leaders, however, said they aren't ready to publicly back specific candidates. They will await state primary results before meeting again in mid-July to decide. As for a presidential candidate, there's no clear front-runner yet to support, said political director Karen Cross.

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At yesterday's opening meeting — the first in the three-day conference — U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Brentwood, greeted attendees via videotape. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., will be the host of a reception at the Wildhorse Saloon tonight.

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Morning speeches were followed by afternoon workshops — closed to the public — on the "nuts and bolts" work of fundraising, direct mail, telemarketing, using the Internet and grass-roots lobbying, as well as educational sessions on the effects of an "abortion pill" now legal in the U.S., fetal development, and overcoming opposition of acongregation or denomination to pro-life views.

The great thing about being in Nashville is you get a front row seat in Bible Belt theatre.

[krkaufman]

1. Ummm... that would be "Anti-Abortion Group"

A "pro-life" group would be focusing their attention on stopping war and the death penalty, rather than the single-minded focus of stopping all abortions.

[agio]

2. I prefer the term

Funamdentalism Fristian Pharisees.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. And they obviously don't care about the life of cats either. -nt

[Cerridwen]

4. I'd argue "anti-choice" as their agenda includes far more than

banning abortion.

From their own website :puke: I read it so you don't have to. I won't post a link here, either. blech!

They would remove our individual choices regarding:

Contraception for women in any form - they haven't yet gone after condoms, I think.
Drugs and surgical procedures used to terminate ectopic pregnancies.
Carrying a dead fetus to term or giving "birth" to a baby to watch it die.
Death with Dignity.
Stem cell research.
Medicare coverage.

They also include in their agenda:

Judicial Nominations
Denying equal rights to women
Forced teen pregnancy
Denying funding to exploited countries based on women's health issues

There's more but I just can't keep reading it.

Opposition research is painful. Erk!

[NashVegas]

5. I Heard Leslie Stahl Use "Anti-Abortion Rights" on 60 Minutes

And thought it was pretty apt.

[Cerridwen]

6. Yeah, it works

but it hides the scope of their "anti-" measures. Too many years of being told "oh, they'd never try to take away our contraception" for me to be comfortable with helping them hide their full agenda.

In actual fact, I believe they're more "control everything" to fit their anti-sex and/or pleasure agenda, than anything. Our own 21st century Puritans.