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April 2010

PRESIDENT’S CORNER
Are you getting ready for this year’s elections? Have you even started thinking about it? Start preparing now!!!! The primaries are just around the corner. I have been working with a friend to get people to work the polls for the primary coming up in June. (not in my capacity as president of MSRTL, but personally). It isn’t far away.

We have some of the questionnaires that National Right to Life sent out coming in and by the next newsletter will have that information shown in this newsletter. We should have it on the website within the week. We will post the criteria for endorsement by NRLC PAC with the information from the questionnaires.
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------ ACTION ALERT ------ Contact your state legislator NOW to ask for support for the suspension resolution that Sen. Nunnelee will introduce on Tuesday. It is too late in the session for anything to be put through our legislature this year without this suspension resolution. Forward this newsletter to pro-life friends on your e-mail list or call them to ask them to contact legislators.

Suspension Resolution
Senator Alan Nunnelee will introduce legislation that will prevent Mississippi from spending any state or federal funds on abortions as included in Obamacare.

The first step in this process is a Suspension Resolution that Senator Nunnelee will introduce in the Senate Tuesday and must be passed by both chambers with a two-thirds majority to allow the actual bill restricting the use of these funds to come before the legislature.
Senator Nunnelee is asking the pro-life community to join him in assuring that this important legislation passes both the Mississippi House and Senate.

The following articles are taken from LifeNews. For further information go to www.LifeNews.com

Tennessee House Passes Bill to Opt Out of Abortion Funding in Obama Health Care Law Nashville, TN (LifeNews.com) -- The Tennessee state House has approved legislation to have the state opt out of using state tax money to pay for abortions in state health care exchanges. The bill responds to the federal legislation Congress approved and President Barack Obama signed into law that includes massive taxpayer funding of abortion.                                         In a dramatic show of opposition to taxpayer funding of abortion, a strong bi-partisan majority of pro-life Tennessee House members passed HB 2681, which strictly limits the use of public funds in health exchanges mandated by the new federal health plan.   Lawmakers approved the bill, which helps protect pro-life Tennessee residents from some abortion funding, on a 70-23 vote.                                                         The language of the measure states: "No health care plan required to be established in this state through an exchange pursuant to federal health care reform legislation enacted by the 111th Congress shall offer coverage for abortion services."                       Tennessee Right to Life worked feverishly for passage of the measure and told LifeNews.com it appreciates the victory.                                                             "Tennessee is a strongly pro-life state," said Brian Harris, president of the pro-life group. "Following years of a pro-abortion minority squelching the voices of the majority, our legislators have boldly expressed our state's commitment to life," Harris said. "We thank each pro-life member for their leadership and their courage."

Georgia Bill to Stop Forced Abortions Gets Support From Governor Mike Huckabee

Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) -- Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is urging Georgia residents to support a bill that would help women who are pressured to get abortions. Huckabee announced his support for SB 529 in a message that is going out across the state.

The legislation also would make it illegal to do an abortion when it is done because a baby is a certain race, gender, or because the mother was coerced into having one.

Huckabee noted the importance of this bill, saying, "SB 529 is a simple bill that prevents a woman from being forced to have an abortion against her will and prohibits the use of abortion as a means of race or gender discrimination. I'm asking you to support SB 529 and to ask your representative to support SB 529."

Two weeks ago the Georgia Senate passed SB 529 with overwhelming support. On Tuesday, April 13, 2010, SB 529 had a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, but no vote was taken.

Pro-Life Groups Applaud Passage, Signing of Nebraska Abortion Screening, Fetal Pain Bills

Lincoln, NE (LifeNews.com) -- Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed two pro-life bills into law today -- one measure that bans abortions after 20 weeks based on the notion of fetal pain and another that screens women to prevent them from becoming victims of forced or pressured abortions.

Saying the Nebraska legislature may have changed the course of the nation's abortion debate with its 44 to 5 passage today of LB 1103, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Julie Schmit-Albin, director of Nebraska Right to Life, hailed its passage.

"The Nebraska Legislature took a bold step today which should ratchet up the abortion debate across America." said Schmit-Albin. "LB 1103 bans abortion at 20 weeks gestation based on medical documentation that unborn babies are capable of feeling pain at that point and beyond."                                                                   "What we didn't know in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was foisted upon the nation; we know now through the technological advances of in-utero surgery and 4-D ultrasound. Nebraska has a compelling interest in protecting unborn babies who feel pain at this gestation because we have a late term abortionist, LeRoy Carhart, performing abortions through at least 24 weeks here," she said.

Meanwhile, a ground-breaking bill ensuring that women will receive specific information about the possible physical and psychological complications of abortion was passed yesterday by the Nebraska legislature on a 40-9 vote.

Officials Hiding Report Showing How Obama Administration Wrongly Tracked Abortion Groups Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Wisconsin state Justice Department will not release a report revealing more details about how the Obama administration improperly conducted a threat assessment on pro-life and pro-abortion groups in Wisconsin. The assessment came before a rally last year in response to the University of Wisconsin Hospital board decided to allow abortions.

In February 2009, pro-life advocates planned to protest the hospital's decision to open up a new Madison Surgery Center doing abortions. The Department of Homeland Security admitted in February that it conducted the assesment and an internal memo AP obtained said the Obama administration "destroyed all of the copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence gathering guidelines about 'protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security.'"   The assessment was reportedly only shared with the director of Wisconsin's intelligence-sharing center and local police in Middleton, Wisconsin, the site of the rally. Wisconsin officials say the report will stay under wraps. Their decision to refuse to release the report comes after the Middleton police department refused a similar request from AP to release its copy.

AP says the police department would not release the report because it contains sensitive law enforcement information and Wisconsin officials are keeping its copy private saying that releasing it could jeopardize its relationship and sharing of information with other law enforcement agencies.

Romney and Huckabee Now Lead Obama in Potential 2012 Presidential Race                  Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- New polling data from the Public Policy Polling national survey finds four of the potential Republican candidates are now tied with pro-abortion President Barack Obama in preview of the 2012 election. The pro-life movement will be working overtime to support one of the pro-life candidates against Obama due to his extensive pro-abortion record.                                                                    Obama trails Mike Huckabee 47% to 45% and Mitt Romney 45% to 44%, the new poling data shows.    The abortion advocate is tied with Newt Gingrich 45% to 45%, and leads Sarah Palin 47% to 45%.              "This is the weakest performance Obama's posted in these 13 monthly surveys and a pretty clear indication that passing health care has not done anything to enhance his political standing, at least in the short term," the polling firm says in a statement. "Whereas in previous months a good number of the voters disapproving of his job performance weren't ready to commit to voting Republican in 2012 yet, now 85-89% of them do in each of these hypothetical contests." "That suggests that even if Obama's overall unpopularity has not increased, the intensity of it has," PPP noted.