Randall Terry, former head of the pro-life activist group Operation Rescue, is running for president as a democrat! And in doing so, candidate Terry is entitled to run a graphic anti-abortion political ad during the Super Bowl.

If anyone remembers, the Tebow family ran a pro-life ad during the 2010 Super Bowl which drew storms of protests from liberals. CBS reluctantly approved the ad which was really quite mild.

Well Randall did some research and learned that networks must accept, and run uncensored, any ads submitted by candidates for federal office during the 45 days preceding a primary election. Over the last year, Randall apparently has met whatever the necessary requirements are to run for president and raised enough money to air the following ad in 35 small markets during this year’s Super Bowl on NBC. And though these are considered small media markets, the ad will reach 35 million viewers.

The ad depicts graphic pictures of the remains of aborted babies, never to be born children who were the victims of the “choice” so many Christians support as a “right”. While the ad’s content seems overly harsh for the Super Bowl venue, and the rhetoric is not our style, there is no denying the simple truth that Christians who vote for the politicians who enable abortion in our country do aid and abet the merciless barbarities that take place every day in America’s abortion clinics.

To donate money to help Randall air the spots in more and larger markets visit Terry For President.

At least two other pro-life activists have taken up on this idea. Former registered nurse Angela Michael is running unopposed as a democrat in Illinois’ 15th Congressional district. Angela’s ad is similar to Terry’s and can be seen on her campaign website Angela Michael For Congress.

David Lewis is running as a republican against Speaker Of The House John Boehner in Ohio’s 8th district. David’s ad attacks the Speaker for his  failure to end federal funding to Planned Parenthood and can be seen at David Lewis For Congress. Frankly we disagree with David Lewis’ contention, as we detailed last April in Credit Boehner A Partial Victory vs Planned Parenthood.

Though we may disagree somewhat with the approach of these three ads, Randall Terry, Angela Michael and David Lewis have worked long and hard to be able to air the pro-life message on the truth of abortion during America’s most highly viewed television extravaganza of the year.

At least some hearts will be opened, some minds will be changed. And undoubtedly at least one person (and hopefully many more) will be watching the Super Bowl in 2032 who would have otherwise lost his or her life in an abortion mill if not for Randall, Angela and David.

And that is what the pro-life movement is all about.

]]> http://radiantcross.org/Right-To-Life/2012/01/19/randall-terry-to-run-anti-abortion-ad-during-super-bowl/feed/ 0 http://radiantcross.org/Right-To-Life/2011/10/11/protect-life-act-vote-on-thursday/ http://radiantcross.org/Right-To-Life/2011/10/11/protect-life-act-vote-on-thursday/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:46:40 +0000 The Radiant Cross Staff http://radiantcross.org/Right-To-Life/?p=3236 A critical pro-life vote will take place in the House Thursday. A critical pro-life vote will take place in the House Thursday. The Protect Life Act (HR 358) will seal the loopholes nested in Obamacare which allow federal tax dollars to be used to fund abortions, and strengthen federal Conscience Clause laws. Anyone with an ounce of sense understood that any healthcare legislation written by abortion zealots Obama and Sebelius would include provisions for the use of tax dollars to subsidize abortion. Which it did. Within 90 days newly created Obamacare "high risk insurance pools" began accessing federal taxpayer funds to provide coverage for elective abortions. When the details began to leak, the administration was forced to pull back on the funding. This was essentially a money laundering scheme designed to benefit the abortion industry and similar attempts will continue unless explicitly prohibited by law.]]> Help end Obamacare money laundering schemes to fund abortion

A critical pro-life vote will take place in the House on Thursday. The Protect Life Act (HR 358) will seal the various loopholes nested in Obamacare which allow federal tax dollars to be used to fund abortions, and strengthen federal Conscience Clause laws.

Though various progressive Christian groups took the administration’s word that Obamacare would not expand abortion under the guise of “healthcare”, anyone with an ounce of common sense understood that any healthcare legislation written by abortion zealots Obama, Sebelius and Pelosi would undoubtedly include provisions for the use of tax dollars to promote and subsidize abortion.

Which it did. Within 90 days newly created Obamacare “high risk insurance pools” in PA, MY, and NM began accessing $5 billion dollars in federal taxpayer funds to provide coverage for elective abortions. When the details began to leak, the administration was forced to pull back on the funding.

This was essentially a money laundering scheme designed to benefit the abortion industry, and common sense again dictates that similar attempts will continue unless explicitly prohibited by law.

The Protect Life Act is sponsored by Congressmen Joe Pitts (R PA) and Dan Lipinski (D IL) and co-sponsored by 144 other Representatives.

The legislation specifically prohibits direct or indirect federal funding for abortions, or insurance coverage for abortion services, provided by Obamacare Insurance Exchanges and Community Health Centers, or any other Obamacare related program.

The token Conscience Clause incorporated into Obamacare, ostensibly to protect healthcare workers in facilities that receive Obamacare funding from being fired or otherwise discriminated against because they refuse to perform or assist with abortions, is, of course, a joke. The wording can be so narrowly interpreted that exemptions would not exist.

The Protect Life Act overwrites the Obamacare language, reinstating and increasing the traditional protections offered by Conscience Clauses.

The pro-life community will be lobbying House members extensively right up until Thursday’s vote. You can contact your Congressman through our White House And Congressional Contact page. Phone calls are good, but if traffic exceeds a certain level are often blocked – especially when pro-life legislation is pending. A barrage of e-mails will help drive the point home.

There is also a Protect Life Act Petition available. Follow the link or click the graphic.

Feminists and the abortion industry celebrated Obamacare precisely because they knew there would be ample opportunity to exploit the complex legislation in order to fund abortions.

We can wipe the heartless smiles off of their faces with passage of the Protect Life Act.

During Monday’s presidential primary forum in Columbia, SC, Princeton professor Robert George posed an interesting question to the candidates.

“Would you as president propose to Congress appropriate legislation pursuant to the 14th Amendment to protect human life in all stages and conditions?”

The 14 Amendment declares that states may not “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law” and the amendment empowers congress to pass legislation to enforce the amendment’s provisions.

Roe v Wade notably deprived an entire class of American citizens, our pre-born citizens, of due process and equal protection of the law.

Three candidates – Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain – said they favored such legislation, but Michele Bachmann’s response in the following clip was the most specific on the question of Roe v Wade and her resolve to end abortion in America.

Bravo! Michele Bachman’s record, personal history and outspoken courage of conviction are the stuff true Christian conservatives are made of. Her calm and poise under fire increase with each one of these debates, and the more one sees of Bachmann, the more presidential she looks and sounds.

Mitt RomneyCare, who’s campaign slogan seems to be “Hey America, I’m not a radical Tea Party guy”, said he would oppose such an approach because it could provoke a showdown with the Supreme Court. Romney’s novel idea of ending abortion would be to appoint Supreme Court justices who would return the issue to the states.

That, of course, has been the approach for the last 38 years during which two generations of Americans have been decimated by the abortion of 52 million preborn boys and girls.

And my goodness what kind of president would ever dare to stand up to the Supreme Court? As Professor George pointed out, Abraham Lincoln.

As would President Michele Bachman.

Abortion – the legal killing of 52 million of American pre-born boys and girls by some of the most barbaric manners of death imaginable – is the greatest human rights issue of our time.

The following short film puts abortion in the perspective of two other seminal human rights issues, slavery and the Holocaust.

The principal unnamed character finds himself in a position of authority in the American south in the 1800s, in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and as a modern day medical student faced with the unwanted pregnancy of his girl friend.

Though tortured by his conscience when confronted by the inhumanity of slavery and the deportation of Jewish families, the young man in those previous eras simply lacked the “Volition”, the courage and the will, to speak out and rebel against the injustices.

As the student he finds himself once again pressured by those around him to accede to something he knows to be inherently evil. It is a powerful, numbing presentation well worth the fifteen minutes of viewing time.

Though the film was released in 2008, the point is particularly pertinent to where we stand on abortion today.

As Christians we know that God has had a plan for each of us that reaches back into eternity. We were meant to live during this time. We have been given the challenge of stemming the tide of the modern age’s slaughter of the innocents.

The merciless horror of abortion could end within an election cycle if Christian America would only stand united in defense of God’s unborn children, Jesus’ “Little Ones”.

The only question is our “Volition”.

The 2009 and 2010 Marches For Life, though massively attended, were conducted in a perceptible air of grim determination and defiance. This year’s event had all the air of a boisterous rally for the future.

The overwhelming pro-life victories in November made all of the difference. America is saying “no” to NARAL, shredding Emily’s List and recognizing NOW as a thing of the past. The Year Of The Pro-Life Woman is setting the vision for the future.

The speakers’ platform set the mood of exuberance, with numerous members of the new pro-life House outlining legislation to 1) repair the damage done over the last two years, and 2) lay the groundwork for ending abortion in America. Not by challenging Roe v Wade in the courts. By circumventing the courts.

New House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced “the people’s House will stand unapologetically for life” and that Republicans’ “number one priority” will be passage of the Smith-Lipinski No Taxpayer Dollars for Abortion Act to plug the numerous loopholes allowing for federal funding of abortion surreptitiously written into Obamacare.

But Personhood may be the ultimate answer to America’s prayers. Roe v Wade did not center on whether life begins at conception. That is basically a foregone conclusion. The decision denying unborn citizens the fundamental right to life, as guaranteed in the Declaration Of Independence, was based upon the assumption that a fetus was not legally a person and therefore without rights.

In writing the Roe decision, Justice Harry Blackmun stipulated that if the “suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion rights] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”

The 70s and 80s saw several attempts to topple Roe via Personhood through amendments to the Constitution, a difficult process requiring two-thirds of the votes in both the House and Senate and ratification of the amendment by three-quarters of the states.

A 2008 Personhood state referendum failed in Colorado, though bills granting recognition of Personhood at conception are at various stages in other state legislatures, and there are Personhood petition movements going forward in all 50 states. But passage of a federal Personhood bill would settle the matter once and for all.

Senators Rand Paul (R KY) and Roger Wicker (R MS) are co-sponsoring the Life at Conception Act, a bill specifically defining the unborn as persons at the moment of conception and therefore entitled to protection under 14th Amendment.

With control of the Senate still in the hands of the democrats, and a sure veto against the rights of unborn children occupying the Oval Office, the Life At Conception Act is being denigrated in the media as an empty gesture to the conservative base.

Not as empty as Rachel Maddow would like to think. As we continue to point out, it has been precisely the Obama administration’s merciless zeal in expanding abortion that has effected the resurgence of America’s conscience over the unborn. This was clearly reflected in November, and senate democrats facing reelection in moderate states next year have surely taken note. It is important to force democrats to take a position on the personhood of an unborn child and it would be even better to force Barack Obama to have to explain a veto.

Though clearly an uphill battle, Personhood as a method of circumventing the courts and bringing down Roe v Wade is certainly worth pursuing. The culture of death, however, has its own, incredibly dark, definition of Personhood that the abortion/euthanasia lobby is certainly gearing up to pursue. We’ll get into that in our next post.

Addressing the March For Life rally, 85 year old Nellie Gray, founder and president of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund, told the country that pro-life supporters had come to Washington to bring their message to President Obama “with love, and we’re willing to work with you … as the president of all the people, including the preborn.”

Nellie need not have wasted her breath. Mr Obama had already commemorated the passage of Roe v Wade, referring to the dismemberment, decapitation and poisoning of 50 million unborn babies under Roe as “private family matters”. Mr Obama then went on to assure his benefactors in Abortion Incorporated that he was “committed to protecting this constitutional right.”

There we have another distinction in terms. Legally a person, but not necessarily having a heart.

The number of participants has been steadily increasing, with an estimated 300,000 gathered last year. People of all races, religions, ages, and walks of life. As one 77 year old woman stated, “it’s hard, but as long as I can walk I’ll be here”.

Especially notable among the faces seen are the increasing number of participants in their early 20s and younger. This contradicts the fact that the majority of America’s colleges and universities, including some faith-based institutions, are staffed with radical leftists and feminists. The distant left’s modus operandi has always been indoctrination of the young.

And though the majority of high school and college students likely consider themselves “liberal”, most who have a position on abortion assert themselves as pro-life. Peace, poverty and the environment might well be among the concerns for America’s young, but they are clearly rejecting the inhumanity of abortion.

This reflects to a degree the saying “If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you have no heart”. The majority of the young traditionally do have big hearts. But the young are just no longer gullible enough to believe that support of abortion should be mandatory for obtaining one’s liberal bona fides. Yesterday’s true liberal greats, in fact, would have little to do with the rabid progressives and feminists of today.

Liberal icon Hubert Humphrey on abortion in 1972: “I am not for it”

George McGovern opposed “the intrusion of the federal government” into abortion law, which he insistied should have been left to the states

Edmund Muskie, former democratic presidential contender: “It compromises the sanctity of life”

Rev Jesse Jackson who has said that abortion is “too nice a word for something cold, like murder”

The idealism of youth rightfully sees no heart, justice or compassion in dismembering babies and disposing of the bodies in a dumpster. Our children are proving to be quite capable of evaluating their teachers’ and professors’ ideologies point by point and are rejecting the fallacious arguments for “choice”. They are also of an age when abortion was an option for their mothers. A sobering thought many have likely reflected upon.

The growth of the pro-life movement in the next generation can also be seen in the hundreds of thousands of young people participating in the 40 Days For Life Campaigns and the increasing numbers of pro-life activist groups organizing on college campuses and even in high schools. Much to the bitter chagrin of NOW, the ranks of campus feminist groups have seen a corresponding decline.

The toppling of Roe v Wade is in sight, though many long time pro-life fighters may not see it come in their day. The torch, as another pro-life liberal once said, is “passing to a new generation”. Or to put into the 60′s style lingo hard core feminists are more familiar with…

You got the government, you got the money, but we’re gonna have the numbers.

Eighteen months into the most rabid pro-abortion administration in the dark history of Roe v Wade, the pro-life community has achieved what should have been unthinkable. For the first time since 1973, the majority of Americans stand for the right to life. From conception up to the moment of natural death.

As said previously, we believe that this shift is a backlash directed toward Barack Obama’s ruthless pro-abortion agenda designed to offer completely unrestricted abortion available to women of any age, during any stage of pregnancy. And along those lines, the proponents of the culture of death continue to bring the full force of the federal government, now at their disposal, to bear on those committed to overturning Roe.

So despite the efforts of millions of of pro-life Americans, we are now witnessing a massive expansion of abortion services in our country, and tax payers are being forced to fund abortions, under the despicable guise of “healthcare reform”.

At some point the selfless giving in pro-life rallies, marches, seminars, webcasts, blogs, etc drains the last ounce of one’s ability to pursue the good fight. It doesn’t mean we are beaten. Far from it. We just need to step back and let it all go.

At least for a while, hopefully a week or more, life has to be all family, friends and a renewal of the joy of living.

Most importantly we need to restore our weary souls by spending some time, one on one, with Jesus. Trade your yolk for His. Offer up your disappointments, weariness, anxieties and the outright pain in all areas of your life to Him. No one understands the human condition as well as Our Lord, because He loved us enough to become one of us. And after all of the unspeakable suffering Jesus endured to bring us salvation and the path to eternal life, He is still willing to take on our burdens when they begin to seem overwhelming.

It’s an offer we are not meant to refuse. Breathe. Bask in the relief of His peace and love. It’s ours for the asking.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

When you come back remember that God knows the difficulty of the challenge before us. Let Him know, everyday, that we will utilize the talents and resources we have been blessed with in this struggle. Profess, everyday, our faith in Him as our overwhelming, inexhaustible resource and we will obtain victory for countless numbers of His unborn children.

Our focus this year is on the opportunity offered by the November elections to begin stemming the tide of abortion on demand in a truly significant way. President Obama’s ruthless pro-abortion agenda has focused the nation’s attention on abortion as never before, leading more and more Americans rethink their position on abortion. To this end we have been publishing a series of articles on Bringing Christians Home On Abortion.

This summer Father Frank Pavone of Priests For Life and Dr Alveda King will launch a series of Pro-Life Freedom Rides. “Like the Freedom Rides of five decades ago, these freedom rides symbolize the principle of the greater movement of which they are part, namely, that justice and equal protection of human rights belong to each and every human being, regardless of size or age or any other condition.” The first Pro-Life Freedom Ride is scheduled for July 23 thru 25, beginning in Birmingham, AL and ending in Atlanta. Visit Pro Life Freedom Rides for information on how to participate.

Active participation in events like the Pro-Life Freedom Rides, the semi-annual 40 Days For Life Campaigns and the annual March For Life in Washington is of tremendous importance in raising awareness of the plight of the hundreds of thousands of unborn children lost to the vacuums, surgical instruments and poisons of America’s abortion mills each year. Americans are drawn into the pro-life community and money is raised to fund pro-life organizations.

But there are only a few such events each year, and most of us are unable to actively participate. We all, however, have access the most powerful weapon available in our struggle to overcome abortion. Prayer.

Abortion is a powerful evil perpetrated by Satan, “a liar and the father of liars”. Evil of such depth, like the most powerful demons mentioned in the Gospels, “does not come out except by prayer and fasting”. Every person committed to bringing an end to abortion needs to make daily prayer the focal point of that commitment.

Numerous prayers to bring an end to abortion have been composed. We offer two, one of our own composition and one of our favorites by Father Frank Pavone.

Radiant Cross Prayer To Overcome Abortion
Most Holy Trinity, hear my prayer for Your Divine Assistance
In our struggle to overcome the scourge of abortion plaguing our nation

I pray to You Eternal Father
For the repentance and conversion of all those involved in the abortion industry
Including our public officials who enable and support abortion in our country

I pray to Our Lord Jesus Christ to grant His compassionate forgiveness and merciful healing
To all who repent of, and grieve for, their participation in abortion

I pray that the Holy Spirit may touch the souls of all women contemplating abortion
May their hearts become filled with a mother’s natural love for her child
And may they become aware of all the evil and horrible realities which abortion entails

I pray that the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus
May open the hearts and minds of all people who have been misled on the truth abortion

May we all come together, Almighty Father, in defense of your helpless unborn children
Our brothers and sisters in Christ
Amen

Prayer to End Abortion In America (Father Frank Pavone)
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death by the Resurrection of Your Son

I commit myself to doing my part in ending abortion and to being active in the pro-life movement
I will never be silent, never be passive, never stop defending life until all my brothers and sisters are protected
And our nation once again becomes a nation with liberty and justice, not just for some, but for all
Through Christ Our Lord
Amen