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Questioning CWA's Pro-life Credentials

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DENVER, Feb. 23 -- American Right To Life Action, the political 527 group which claims responsibility for derailing Mitt Romney's presidential hopes in 2008 in Iowa and South Carolina, is now questioning the pro-life credentials of Concerned Women for America and their president Wendy Wright.

ProlifeProfiles.com, created by a nationwide research team working for American RTL, today is publishing their dossier on Wendy Wright and CWA. Leslie Hanks, ARTL spokesperson, was also a longtime legislative liaison for CWA in Colorado. Hanks has since resigned her CWA membership and is saddened that, "CWA has repeatedly undermined the eventual re-criminalization of abortion by their continued support for abortion regulations and pro-choice candidates."

"Many people wrongly assume that they could trust CWA to endorse pro-life candidates" said Darrell Birkey, ARTL research director. "This has led many Christians to vote for candidates who not only work against the right to life, but who, by their own policies, have approved of the killing of millions of unborn children, as documented in this CWA profile."

Wright and CWA have also repeatedly endorsed legislation that, even if Roe v. Wade were ever simply overturned, would keep abortion legal.

ARTL "hit a nerve" with its Sarah Palin profile according to Mother Jones magazine which reported that within, "24 hours after the group posted the report, Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, scrubbed its website." ARTL also celebrates Mitt Romney's loss this weekend, after three years of consecutive wins, of the CPAC presidential straw poll. With the release of ProlifeProfiles.com/Romney, ARTL began publicly predicting that Romney would lose the majority of his Christian endorsements, and the group sees that prediction as on track with this Conservative Political Action Conference loss.

Announced profiles "coming soon" include Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and National RTL's president Wanda Franz.

Burning Buildings and Half-a-Loaf

Consenting to the Killing of Some

Clickable Contents: Because there are so many clichés used to justify pro-life strategy, we provide a clickable table of contents so you don't need to read this whole article. We recommend the Introduction and Hostage Takers sections, and then the clichés you yourself have used or heard.


INTRODUCTION

What if you can only save one of a hundred dying children?

Some pro-family groups actually oppose advocating for the God-given right to life and personhood of the unborn. These organizations have collectively taken in hundreds of millions of dollars from abortion politics. They try to discredit those advocating for personhood by calling them "purists" and they claim that "purists" would not try to save a child from a burning building if they could not save all the children threatened. And they say that half-a-loaf is better than none and that we should never make the perfect the enemy of the good. What of these things?

Personhood Campaign Guidelines

Lessons Learned
from the 2008 Colorado Campaign
that Launched Today's Personhood Movement

The leaders of American Right To Life were involved with Colorado's 2008 Personhood campaign from beginning to end. In the hope of hastening future victories, we are sharing some of the lessons learned with those across the U.S. fighting for the recognition of Personhood. And we've attached helpful documents including an example Campaign Statement of Values and Personhood Talking Points!

Focus On The Strategy II

Watch ARTL's groundbreaking Focus on the Strategy II. Learn how to do your part to restore the pro-life movement and to end America’s “legalized” child killing. Focus II has cameo appearances from ARTL friends like Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice, Ambassador Alan Keyes, Columbine dad Brian Rohrbough, founding board member of Nat'l RTL and Americans United for Life John Archibold (now older and wiser). And hear also a Focus on the Family staff member, Salem radio host Hugh Hewitt, LifeNews publisher Steve Ertelt, talk host Laura Ingraham and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and finally, Dr. James Dobson, all caught revealing the most shocking truths.

“Awesome! Six hundred thumbs up!” Focus on the Strategy II was filmed before a live audience of 300 Christian activists in the Supreme Court chambers of the Colorado State Capitol building during an event marking to the very day the 40th anniversary of America’s first law "legalizing" abortion for rape and incest and health.

ARTL Questions Ron Paul's Pro-life Credentials

Denver, Colorado, Jan. 11 -- American Right To Life Action, the political 527 group which claims responsibility for derailing Mitt Romney's presidential hopes in 2008 in Iowa and South Carolina, is now targeting U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX). But for what?

ProlifeProfiles.com, created by a nationwide research team working for American Right To Life, today is publishing their dossier on Ron Paul and his surprisingly dismal record on abortion.

USCCB McQuade: Never a need for abortion

January 25, 2010

In an age of moral compromise, Deirdre A. McQuade, assistant director of policy and communications at the pro-life secretariat of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, makes a principled public statement that there is never a "need" to intentionally kill a pre-born child.

"Egg" Term is Unscientific for Personhood

Washington D.C.'s National Museum of Health and Medicine, established in 1862 by the U.S. government now houses 24 million specimens and artifacts in its collections, some of which are maintained in its Human Development Anatomy Center.

ARTL Unfurls World's Largest Protest Sign

Size of world's largest protest sign by ARTL compared to the Statue of Liberty
Size of world's largest protest sign by ARTL compared to the Statue of Liberty

DENVER /PRNewswire/ -- An official Guinness Book of World RecordsTM attempt to display the largest ever protest sign has succeeded. The 530-foot tall and 666-foot wide message is being shouted from the mountaintops overlooking the Democratic National Convention with the leading 2008 protest message.

Depending on their location, thousands of DNC delegates and journalists can look out their hotel windows to the west to see the sign. Sponsored by American RTL Action, the message initially appeared with three enormous 160-foot tall, bright yellow letters, D-N-C, stacked on top of each other.


Photo from 7 miles away shows enormity of ARTL sign

See also the time lapse video of the unfurling; the follow-up expert verification report as requested by Guinness; TV news coverage of the Sheets of Shame; media reports of pro-lifers running circles around liberal activists who "had no coherent message" whereas the pro-lifers "were seemingly everywhere… and then there was the little matter of that giant message that showed up on North Table Mountain;" and a great downloadable .pdf file with amazing photos including of some of the scores of backpacks used by ARTL's "letter carriers." more...

Plan B Side Effect on Daughters

This riveting TV advertisement (see it also at Vimeo), produced and directed by ARTL's founding vice president Steve Curtis, demonstrates one of the great dangers of Plan B in that it even further destroys the boundary of protection that naturally surrounds women and young girls. Of course the greatest danger of the "Morning After Pill" is that it is designed to kill a child, whether son or daughter.

"The Fire" Personhood Television Ad

This TV advertisement posted by PersonhoodUSA supports Colorado's personhood ballot effort...com!