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<p align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><strong>To: SCCL E-Mail
Tree</strong></font></p>
<p align="left"><strong><font face="Courier New" size="3">From: Holly Gatling, Executive
Director</font></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 125%;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">What
follows is a release from the National Right to Life Committee
(NRLC) in Washington, D.C., issued on Tuesday, October 7,
2008. </span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 125%;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">For
further information, call 202-626-8820 or send e-mail to
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CTRL + Click to follow link" style="color: blue; line-height: 125%;">Legfederal@aol.com</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 125%;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">NRLC
Legislative Director Douglas Johnson and other NRLC staff persons
are available for interviews on the subject of Mr. Johnson's
</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"><a rel="nofollow" title="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGM5YzIzYTExNjIyZmExODY0MzQyZDUxNmRmNmU1NmM="><i><span title="wlmailhtml:%7bC7B84F11-5749-4ECE-9580-309AED2135BD%7dmid://00004632/!x-usc:http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGM5YzIzYTExNjIyZmExODY0MzQyZDUxNmRmNmU1NmM=
CTRL + Click to follow link" style="color: blue; line-height: 125%;">new
article on National Review Online, "Unholy
Messaging</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">," including
radio debates with advocates for Barack Obama. Please forward
this e-mail to any appropriate e lists.</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">
</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; line-height: 125%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Barack
Obama's sweeping agenda for pro-abortion policy changes </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">examined
by NRLC's Douglas Johnson in <em>National</em> <em>Review
Online</em></span></strong></p></font></div>
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<div>WASHINGTON (October 7, 2008) -- The Obama campaign and its
allies have adopted an extensive "messaging strategy" that seeks to
persuade religiously committed Americans that Obama has a
middle-of-the-road position on abortion policy and will promote
"abortion reduction."</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>Douglas Johnson, longtime legislative director for the National
Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and author of <a rel="nofollow" title="wlmailhtml:{C7B84F11-5749-4ECE-9580-309AED2135BD}mid://00004632/!x-usc:http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGM5YzIzYTExNjIyZmExODY0MzQyZDUxNmRmNmU1NmM=
CTRL + Click to follow link">an
article published today on <em title="wlmailhtml:{C7B84F11-5749-4ECE-9580-309AED2135BD}mid://00004632/!x-usc:http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGM5YzIzYTExNjIyZmExODY0MzQyZDUxNmRmNmU1NmM=
CTRL + Click to follow link">National
Review Online</em>, titled "Unholy Messaging</a>," calls the Obama
effort "a brazen scam."</div>
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<div>"The scam depends on the Obama campaign, with cooperation from
the mainstream news media, deflecting attention away from
Obama's actual record, and from his extensive commitments to
pro-abortion interest groups," Johnson said. "Barack Obama is
firmly committed to an agenda of sweeping pro-abortion policy
changes that, if implemented, will surely greatly increase
the number of abortions performed."</div></div></div>
<div> </div>
<div>Johnson noted that a few short months ago, during his primary
contest, <a rel="nofollow" title="wlmailhtml:{C7B84F11-5749-4ECE-9580-309AED2135BD}mid://00004632/!x-usc:http://mediamatters.org/items/200712140004
CTRL + Click to follow link">Obama
and his advocates were boasting about his record</a> of leadership
in opposition to legislation to ban partial-birth abortions, to
protect infants born alive during abortions, and to require parental
notification for minors seeking abortions, among other pro-life
bills. "Those boasts were well-founded, and the current effort
to re-package Obama as a moderate is a brazen scam," Johnson
said.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The Obama "messaging" campaign includes a recently
launched "Faith, Family & Values Tour" that will visit Colorado,
Indiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Missouri, Florida, New Mexico, Virginia, and Wisconsin. In
addition, various independent groups are disseminating advertising
and literature that advances the same strategy.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Among the specific Obama positions documented in Johnson's
article (which contains extensive hyperlinks to
documentation):</div>
<div> </div>
<div>-- Obama is a cosponsor of the so-called "<a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.nrlc.org/FOCA/index.html">Freedom
of Choice Act</a>" (FOCA, <a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.nrlc.org/FOCA/FOCA2007S1173.html">S.
1173</a>), which Johnson calls "the most sweeping piece of
pro-abortion legislation ever proposed in Congress." The FOCA
is a bill that would make partial-birth abortion legal again, strike
down restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion, and nullify
virtually every state and federal law or policy that would in
any way "interfere with" access to abortion, including parental
notification laws. In <a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.nrlc.org/FOCA/USCCBRigaliLetterOnFOCA.pdf">a
letter</a> sent to every member of Congress by the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on September 19, Cardinal Justin Rigali
wrote, "No one who sponsors or ! supports legislation like FOCA can
credibly claim to be part of a good-faith discussion on how to
reduce abortions.� In a speech to the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, Obama said, "<a rel="nofollow" title="wlmailhtml:{C7B84F11-5749-4ECE-9580-309AED2135BD}mid://00004632/!x-usc:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR1RD2-fabA
CTRL + Click to follow link">The
first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice
Act. That's the first thing that I'd do</a>."<br> </div>
<div>-- Obama advocates the nullification of state laws
requiring parental notification or consent for a minor daughter's
abortion, which would be one of the effects of the FOCA.
Moreover, since entering the U.S. Senate, Obama has had two
opportunities to vote directly on the question of parental
notification for interstate abortions on minors, and he
voted "no" on both occasions. <br><br> --
Obama advocates repeal of the Hyde Amendment, the law that since
1976 has blocked almost all federal funding of abortion, even though
both pro-life and pro-abortion analysts agree that this law has
prevented many abortions. By even the most conservative
estimate, there are more than one million Americans alive today
because of the Hyde Amendment. "Because the Hyde
Amendment must be renewed annually, a new president hostile to the
Hyde Amendment could quickly place it in jeopardy," Johnson
observed. The FOCA wou! ld also nullify all state laws
restricting state funding of elective abortion.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>-- In <a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/12/21/sen-barack-obamas-reproductive-health-questionnaire">a
written response to a pro-abortion advocacy group</a>, the Obama
campaign said that Obama is opposed to continuing current federal
funding for "crisis pregnancy centers," which provide needed
assistance to many thousands of pregnant women.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>-- NRLC has <a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/WhitePaperAugust282008.html">thoroughly
documented</a> that in the Illinois state Senate, Obama led the
opposition to legislation to protect babies who are born alive
during abortions, and persisted in his opposition even after
Congress had enacted a virtually identical federal bill without a
single dissenting vote. Obama has in numerous ways actively
misrepresented the content of this legislation, and his actions on
it, but even when such misrepresentations were proved by NRLC and
others, the major media simply let Obama abandon them and fall back
to a different set of equally misleading claims.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>In his article, Johnson criticizes recent coverage in
the "mainstream news media," which, he writes, "have, with few
exceptions, been very compliant with Obama's recent efforts to
downplay his hard-line pro-abortion history and policy commitments,
for the purpose of winning the general
election." Typically, journalists simply describe Obama's
position as "supports abortion rights," without giving details
regarding his advocacy of federal funding of abortion,
invalidation of parental notification laws, and the rest.
</div>
<div><br>****</div>
<div> </div>
<div>NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson and other NRLC staff
persons are available for interviews on the subject of the
Obama agenda on abortion, including radio debates with advocates for
Barack Obama. Call 202-626-8820.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Mr. Johnson's article has been cross-posted on the NRLC
website under the title "<a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.nrlc.org/FOCA/ObamaFOCAarticle.html">Efforts
to Sell Obama to Pro-Life Americans Collide With His Support for
Sweeping Pro-abortion Policy Changes</a>." </strong></div></div>
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