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LAST GASP BEFORE INAUGURATION: Group Aims to Head Off Obama’s Likely First Move in Office
President-elect Obama has made it clear on a number of occasions during his campaign that his top priority in the White House will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, a move that would repeal every single restriction on abortion in this country.
But Pro-Life advocates like Chris Slattery, president and founder of EMC Front Line Pregnancy Centers, are calling out to their constituents to keep up the good fight.
“Politicians make promises to get elected,” says Slattery, “but the situation is more complex than that. First, the bill has to be re-introduced in Congress. That has not happened yet. Even then, it has to go through the committee process in both Houses, and pass by vote in both the House and the Senate before it can get to Obama for his signature. We have time to act.”
However, having said all that, Slattery says there is no time like the present. Obama’s likely confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle, has a lopsided Pro-Choice voting record as a Senator. And Obama also has the power to issue Executive Orders. Both stand as challenges.
Slattery is available for interviews to project on what these challenges really mean in the abortion battle and, more importantly, what Pro-Life voters can and should do to maintain the footholds they’ve gained in recent years.
He also offers a sharp view on the laundry list of agenda items the Pro-Abortion lobby has placed on the table in front of the President-elect, as they eagerly anticipate his inauguration.
THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT WOULD ELIMINATE EVERY RESTRICTION ON ABORTION, INCLUDING:
1. Partial-birth abortion, or the dismembering of babies as they are being born, will now be legal.
2. Parental consent laws for minors will no longer be in effect. Although a seventeen-year-old girl has to have her parents present in order to get acne medicine, a thirteen-year-old can get an abortion without her parents knowing. Think of the injury done to these young women, as well as to their children!
3. Laws prohibiting public funding of abortion will be struck down. The American taxpayer will now have to fund something many of us know to be murder.
4. Laws requiring women to be shown information about and alternatives to abortion will be struck down. Think about any other surgery that's performed: you are bombarded with information. And yet, in one of the most invasive medical procedures, women would be kept ignorant of the facts.
5. Laws allowing medical staff and hospitals to refuse to perform abortion on grounds of conscience will be struck down. (Where's the freedom of choice here?)
6. Laws prohibiting medical personnel other than licensed physicians from performing abortions would be invalidated because they may "interfere with" access to abortion. (Talk about protection for women!)
7. Government agencies and officials would be prohibited from taking any action that would "discriminate against the exercise of" the FOCA-created legal rights, with respect to any "benefits, facilities, services, or information," would leave government officials open to lawsuits for anything that anybody thought "discriminate(s)" against abortion.
ABOUT YOUR EXPERT GUEST CHRIS SLATTERY…
Chris Slattery, founded Expectant Mother Care, also known as EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers, in 1985 in Manhattan. EMC has grown to 15 office locations in 6 counties, including Westchester, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Hudson County NJ.
Chris was honored with the "Champion for Life" award, a pro-life tribute, from John Cardinal O'Connor, and had the privilege of being the Confirmation sponsor of the famous Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the producer of the acclaimed videos, "The Silent Scream,” and "Eclipse of Reason."
Chris's opened NYC's first full time crisis pregnancy center locations, and quickly implemented on site clinic care with ultrasound and full pre-natal care programs 20 years ago, to supplement the main work of crisis pregnancy counseling. EMC's counselors have served over 70,000 girls and women since they opened, and have saved over 12,000 from a certain abortion in that time. Thousands have turned to abstinent lifestyles, as well. They provide one-on-one friendly counseling and in many locations on site medical care, in addition to referrals for adoption, housing, and legal aid, and provide material supplies for mothers and babies.
Chris has been sued by two NY State Attorney Generals, Robert Abrahms, and Elliott Spitzer, current Democrat candidate for Governor of NY, and by numerous abortion mills.
He also recently won a quick settlement of suit filed against a major NY abortion mill chain for their deceptive advertising in the Yellow Pages.
Chris has been a pro-life leader for over 25 years...organizing Operation Rescue in NYC, prayer vigils, protests at Planned Parenthood conferences -their Board meetings& their abortion sites, Marches, Life Chains, Truth Tours, training sessions, conferences, press conferences, lawsuits against his opponents.
Chris has granted hundreds of TV, radio, and print media interviews with local, national and international media in the past 20 years.
More info at: www.nationalproliferadio.net
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