Rahm being more pro-abortion than Obama is, Palin, etc.

http://politicalvindication.com/?p=2879


http://www.lifenews.com/nat4555.html

http://www.lifenews.com/int977.html

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Barack Obama Pushes Abortion on Day One With Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 5, 2008

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Barack Obama didn't wait 24 hours before making his first decision to promote abortion as the President-elect. Obama has offered the White House chief of staff position to pro-abortion Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, who has a 0 percent pro-life voting record.

Emanuel has reportedly officially accepted the position.

During the presidential election, pro-life organizations strongly opposed Obama because he supports unlimited abortions any time in pregnancy, backed taxpayer funding of abortion and opposes any limits.

In Emanuel, Obama has chosen a clone of himself, according to voting records from the National Right to Life Committee.

In July 2007, Emuanel voted against an attempt to stop taxpayer-funding of the Planned Parenthood abortion business that brings in over $1 billion annually by doing 25 percent of the abortions in the United States.

As a Congressman, Emanuel has voted against upholding state parental involvement laws allowing parents to know when their daughter is considering an abortion. He voted for making Americans pay for abortions at U.S. military base hospitals, and voted for funding a United Nations agency involved in the forced-abortion one-child family planning policy in China.

Emanuel also repeatedly voted against the ban on partial-birth abortions and opposed the bill to protect pregnant women and their unborn children, like Laci and Conner Peterson, from violence.

The White House chief of staff is a key policy position with an advisory role that often equals or surpasses that of the vice president and offering the position to Emanuel confirms Obama will promote abortion as president.

Giving the nod to Emanuel also appears to undermine Obama's mantra of change as the congressman worked on President Clinton's first presidential campaign and later served as an advisor to the former pro-abortion president in the White House.

In the House, where he is the fourth-highest member of the Democratic Party leadership, Emanuel also voted to force Americans to pay for embryonic stem cell research and voted for a measure that would have allowed human cloning.




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Leading Pro-Life Women Stand Up to Latest Round of Attacks on Sarah Palin

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 6, 2008

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Now that the elections are over and their candidate came in on the losing side of the vote, former staffers for John McCain and other unnamed Republican insiders are attacking pro-life running mate Sarah Palin. But two leading pro-life women aren't standing up for this latest round of bashing.

The attacks have renewed the debate over Palin's clothing during the campaign and unnamed sources have attack Palin claiming she doesn't know basic political facts and information.

But pro-life women leaders won't let stand the attacks on one of their own.

As someone who could be the party's standard bearer in 2012, Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America and Jane Abraham of the Susan B. Anthony List want to make sure the reputation of the pro-life Alaska governor stays intact.

"With the Presidential election over, the news media is turning its attention to Sarah Palin, coverage that will guarantee headlines and generate on-air time for those reporters who continue in their politics of personal destruction," Crouse told LifeNews.com.

"It is amazing the lengths to which some people will go to destroy anyone who stands for moral principles, especially those who are pro-life," Crouse added.

Sarah Palin, the newest star on the political horizon and the most natural campaigner since Ronald Reagan, is not only a Republican, she is also a woman. She is not only a woman, she is a conservative woman. She is not only a conservative woman, she is a Christian conservative woman," Crouse explained.

"It is entirely predictable, but unconscionable, that the media would consider her fair game for personal destruction," she said.

Dannenfelser chimed in and said she thinks Palin will be successful despite the continued attacks on her and the attempt to make her a scapegoat in McCain's loss.

“Despite the unfounded vitriol and criticism, Governor Palin’s success will endure," she told LifeNews.com.

"Sarah Palin’s success story is just beginning and it will take more than some baseless remarks from a few malcontents to stop her rise in American politics," she added. "Governor Palin will continue to influence American politics: her reputation as a ... voice for modern American women balancing work and family cannot and will not be ignored.”

SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser said the 40,000 members of Team Sarah, a coalition of pro-life women who came together during the campaign to support Governor Palin, will speak up in her defense.

“As soon as the post-election criticism and blaming began, Team Sarah members reasserted their commitment to and defense of America’s brightest female political star," she said.

"She has inspired millions, and her audience of enthusiastic support will only grow in the future," Dannenfelser said.

Crouse said the attacks on Palin and other pro-life advocates will come back to haunt the media.

"They must realize, however, that their bias and distortions all but destroyed their credibility during the 2008 presidential campaign," she told LifeNews.com.

"Now, major newspapers are cutting staff, network viewership is declining, and more and more people are bypassing the mainstream media in an effort to find the truth. If the mainstream media continues with their politics of personal destruction, they are earning their own destruction."


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Washington Doctors, Hospitals Refuse to Take Part in New Assisted Suicide Law
by Steven Ertelt

LifeNews.com Editor
November 7, 2008
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Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) -- Voters in Washington may have made their state the second in the nation to legalize assisted suicide but that doesn't mean patients who want their physician's help in killing themselves will be able to get it. Doctors and hospitals are already speaking up saying they will refuse assisted suicide requests.
Though voters approved I-1000 on Tuesday, the Washington State Medical Association says doctors have no obligation to participate in killing patients.
Meanwhile, Providence Health and Services, the largest medical system in eastern Washington sates it will prohibit doctors from killing patients at hits medical centers, nursing homes and other facilities.

"Providence will not support physician-assisted suicide within its ministries," it said in a statement published in the Spokesman Review newspaper.
"This position is grounded in our basic values of respect for the sacredness of life, compassionate care of dying and vulnerable persons, and respect for the integrity of medical, nursing and allied health professions. We do not believe health care providers should ever be put in a position of aiding a patient in taking his or her own life," the statement continued.
Spokeswoman Karina Jennings said Providence has no plans to pursue legal action to overturn the assisted suicide law and will take advantage of the exemption in the law.
Hospice of Spokane will also not participate in the law and its mission is to provide care and support for patients, not kill them.


Wesley J. Smith, a top bioethics watchdog based in California, applauded the decisions not to engage in assisted suicides.
"One of the most important services that medical professionals can offer to the people they serve, I think, is to declare their offices and facilities to be 'assisted suicide free zones," he said. "Indeed, I hope that medical organizations create plaques and certificates to that doctors and health care facilities can mount on office walls."
He called opting out of doing assisted suicides "important" and said, "Medical professionals must resist turning killing (which means to end life) into a medical treatment. None can be forced (yet) to participate."
"Such modeling may save lives of people who, thanks to the continued professionals of non participating medical professionals, will never ask for assisted suicide. And it will give courage to others to resist the culture of death that this way comes," he added.
There is time for physicians and hospitals to put their internal policies in place as the assisted suicide law won't go into effect until July 2009 after state officials write the ballot measure into law.
Washington voters approved I-1000 after proponents spent $7 million -- mostly coming from out of state -- against the paltry funds opponents had to educate voters against it.

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