LifeNews.com Column

This was posted earlier in the week but we were out of town and access to a computer was so-so. Here it is and I am working on one for tomorrow.

LifeNews.com Column

This is from last Saturday but it did not post immediately at LifeNews.com so I waited to post it here. Because of a death in the family, my wait caused an extended delay since I didn't have time to post this week. My apologies.

I Hate to Say "I Told You So" But. . .

I hate the fact that we-- I and so many other conservative bloggers and pundits-- were right: we are seeing the beginning of what will be a very, very liberal White House.

The appointments thus far are not surprising. Disappointing, yes, but surprising, no. If voters had been paying attention to more than the wonderful words coming out of Mr. Obama's mouth, they would have known that, based on his record, liberal appointmees would be forthcoming.

As my friends at Human Life Review have noted however, there is some good news. While there is much to mourn and the loss of this election is great, we have truth on our side and we always will. Whether the electorate actually cares to take notice will take a great deal of work and prayer.

The 44th President's Council on Bioethics

Or whatever they'll be calling it.

The current council is comprised of people from various backgrounds, both pro-life and not. About seven members of the current council are considered to be not pro-life.

There is concern, especially among pro-lifers, of what Obama's council is going to look like.

As we saw during the debate over embryonic stem cell research, the president's advisory council makes recommendations regarding policy. These policies could forever change our nation. A really good post on this can be found at the LifeEthics blog.

A Novel Recommendation

One of my professors from college, Barbara G. Tucker, has written a book and it has been published--finally. I am so proud of her. I know how hard it is to write a book (my remains unpublished) and how much harder it is to write fiction. She sent me the galleys a couple of months ago and I have been reading them. The novel is called Traveling Through, and as the review in Amapedia says:

Traveling Through
This novel starts in 1986 with the arrival of a pastor’s family in a suburb of Cincinnatti, OH. The family includes father and mother and two children, a four-year-old girl and eleven-year-old son. So far, so good. But as neighbor Esther Lundy watches them move in, she is struck by the fact the son is, like her, African-American. She wants to know what’s going on, and makes friends with the wife, Carlie. As the book progresses, we learn through flashbacks how the son, Josiah, came to be in this family and what it has meant to his mother and father.

Through Esther, Carlie becomes involved in a crisis pregnancy center and becomes more and more convinced that because of her experience, her purpose in life is to work for the prolife movement. Her husband, Jeff, disagrees. Long-standing conflicts in their marriage come to a boil; Jeff begins to question his own place as a pastor. It all leads up to a hot day in July with unexpected and irreversible consequences.

Many themes are explored in the book, political, personal, and religious. It’s about people, however, not ideas. It is a novel for people who want a book that will make them think and feel.

The book is available through several outlets including Amazon.com. If you enjoy books, please check this one out.

The Most Pro-Abortion Candidate-- Ever

Barack Obama is, without a doubt, the most pro-abortion candidate ever to run for the presidency.

Today, pro-abortion groups were congratulating themselves and each other for the election of Barack Obama and other pro-abortion politicians across the country.

According to CNSNews:

Planned Parenthood, NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) Pro-Choice America, and the Center for Reproductive Rights have each publicly congratulated the new president-elect on his victory.

“NARAL Pro-Choice America worked hard for our slate of pro-choice candidates across the country, including pro-choice Sen. Barack Obama, and that hard work resulted in the reaffirmation of our commitment to the values of freedom and privacy,” Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America said in a statement.

The Center for Reproductive Rights has already sent a letter to the president-elect outlining what they would like to see come out of the Obama White House:

In a three-page letter, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) asked the president-elect to pursue other specific items on the abortion-rights agenda:

1. To stop funding abstinence-only education programs as part of the in the Title V Maternal-Child Health Block Grant and the Community-Based Abstinence-Education programs. CRR also wants the new administration to appoint agency heads “who will not allow politics to trump science.”

2. To appoint federal judges "committed to supporting established constitutional rights.” Specifically, the letter emphasizes the importance of judges who will preserve “reproductive rights.”

3. To send representatives to the U.N. who will promote abortion and “reproductive rights."

The center also wants Obama to repeal what it calls the “Global Gag Rule” – also known as the Mexico City Policy, a Reagan-era policy that forbids U.S. funding going to support abortion overseas – and to begin again to fund the U.N. Population Fund, a program which the Bush administration stopped funding because it supported forced abortion and sterilization programs overseas.

The abortion rights group asked that the administration direct the new Health and Human Services Secretary to reassess the FDA’s policy restricting over-the-counter access to so-called “emergency contraception.”

To every "pro-lifer" who voted for Barack Obama claiming that he wouldn't be that bad on abortion and that the "good" outweighed the "bad": congratulations you just turned back the clock on the pro-life movement by about 15/20 years.

Great job.

The rest of us will be trying to prevent CRR's wish list from becoming a reality.

On Palin

I have to weigh in on the Palin attacks.

First of all, the people who get involved in the campaigns and become staff are professionals. They move from campaign to campaign; when they lose they go on to the next campaign.

Second, McCain and Palin are in the spotlight and one or both will continue to lead Republicans through the wilderness of at least the next two years.

Campaign staff have nothing to lose, really, except their reputation for wins. So what to do when you lose?

Start pointing fingers-- which is exactly what they are doing.

This needs to stop and stop now. Campaign staffers may not care about Palin or what the GOP looks like in two years but the rest of us do.

Palin is pro-life to the core and may very well be the one to help reunite this party. We will need John McCain in the Senate to do everything he can to block pro-abortion legislation. Both candidates have jobs to do now.

Personally, if I were thinking about running for office, I would find out who the likely sources were for the leaks and cross them off my list of potential campaign staffers.

Stand Up and Be Counted

Michelle Malkin had this to say about the election.

I would like to add that social conservatives in D.C. will need to:

1. Stem the tide on pro-abortion attempts to pass FOCA and any attempts at late ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Yep, you betcha, we're talking amendment-out-of-mothballs here. Currently, the ERA has expired-- previous votes by states have expired and it would, Constitutionally, have to go through the whole ratification process again. However, there is a serious movement afoot that says that the previous state votes from the 70s and early 80s should stand and states that didn't pass it before should be able to vote now and add to that total. It's not legit but since when did liberals care about that?

2. Filibuster any pro-abortion appointees to the Supreme Court.

3. Block any attempts to reverse long-standing pro-life legislation such as the Hyde Amendment.

4. Block any attempts to undermine or hamper the work of crisis pregnancy centers nationwide.

5. Vow to come back stronger and better in 2 years to re-take the House and the Senate.

Can we do it? You bet.

Don't apologize for what you believe. Don't apologize for voting for John McCain. Be proud of what you believe: unborn children and their mothers have survived and thrived because we have been there for them. They are the ones who need us now.

Don't give in and don't give up.

God Is In Control

I know that today is disappointing for many but remember: God is in control.

It's easy to feel that last night and today are harbingers of doom but that is not the case. We survived eight years of Bill Clinton. We survived his first two years in office with a Democrat-controlled House, Senate and White House. We will survive this as well.

I have one request: if you are not involved in the movement, get involved.

Students Blocked from Voting in Ohio

This comes from reliable sources:

About 80 students from Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH are being blocked from voting by poll workers. The reason? Even though the students are registered to vote the poll workers say they can't be sure whether they are really registered since they are students. Name? Driver's license? Last I checked, a picture I.D. was sufficient.

Needless to say, the polling location is heavily favored toward Barack Obama.

A press conference has been called for around 7:50 p.m. and the students have filled out provisional ballots but no one is sure what will happen to those ballots since the polls closed at 7:30 p.m. These students have apparently been at this polling location for quite some time trying to vote.

I'll let you know what happens.

President Reagan: "You and I Have a Rendezvous with Destiny"

Please vote. . .



h/t Sister Toldjah

Vote

I haven't voted yet. I'm at work (our school is open today) and didn't get to go before school started so I'll be going afterward.

If you haven't voted, please do so. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility. We have been granted the right to vote and that right comes with an obligation to use it.

Also, if you are voting for a third party candidate instead of McCain, please reconsider. Eight years from now, no one will remember that 2 percent voted for Candidate X or even who Candidate X was but they will remember the major party candidate who lost by 1 percent.

John McCain has been consistent in his pro-life record and isn't one to go with the flow. He would have no problem defying pro-abortion leadership in the House and the Senate. He would stand his ground and would not falter.

Please vote today and please vote for John McCain.

Union-Leader Endorses McCain

"Barack Obama has no experience -- none. He may be the most unprepared major-party candidate ever. His own vice presidential pick says our enemies will test him quickly and severely. There is no good reason to take that chance." Joseph W. McQuaid, (New Hampshire) Union Leader

The Union Leader (NH) endorsed John McCain today. The editor's comments above speak for themselves.

Breaking Polls

National Review is posting the most recent polls on their website.

Two Days to Go

I have to admit that I am nervous about Tuesday. On the one hand, I don't trust anything the media has to say about polling numbers, on the other hand, I know that it's going to be a close race.

I realize that many Americans are going to go to the polls with the attitude of "anybody" but a Republican but it is my hope that they go to the polls with more thoughtfulness than that. I just have my doubts.

For some, this election is a litmus test on whether America can move past racism. This is wrong. This election is about ideologies and beliefs not the color of a man's skin. I would gladly vote for a man or woman of color if their beliefs mirrored many of my own but that's not the case with Barack Obama.

Barack Obama represents much of what I have worked against. I don't care about the color of his skin; I care about what he believes. In most cases, what he believes is in opposition to what I believe so I cannot vote for him.

I can and will vote for John McCain.

Should John McCain not win, I will do everything in my power to make Barack Obama's position on issues such as the Freedom of Choice Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act or the Born Alive Infants Protection Act known far and wide. The whole of the pro-life movement worked hand in glove to stem the tide of pro-abortion policies that came from the Clinton White House and we will do so again, if necessary.

But first, Tuesday, November 4th.

Please vote-- and vote pro-life. Vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin.