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<div><b><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> Thursday, May 31, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:</b> NRLC Media Relations, 202-626-8825, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org">mediarelations@nrlc.org</a><br>or NRLC Federal Legislation, 202-626-8820, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:federallegislation@nrlc.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:federallegislation@nrlc.org">federallegislation@nrlc.org</a></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><i><b>Strong U.S. House majority votes to ban sex-selection abortion </b></i><b><br>NRLC says Obama and 168 U.S. House members “complied with the political demands of pro-abortion pressure groups, rather than defend the coerced women, and their unborn daughters, who are victimized by sex-selection abortions”</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives today conducted a roll call vote on the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 3541), a bill to make it unlawful to perform or coerce a sex-selection abortion. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://m1e.net/c?89460156-VF/nRQl61yGW2%407569922-XvEqnMrrZU.GA">The vote was 246-168</a> in favor of
the bill – a strong majority, although short of the two-thirds vote required under the fast-track procedure utilized today. In a statement obtained exclusively by ABC News late May 30, the White House acknowledged that President Obama opposes the bill. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of state right-to-life organizations, issued the following statement after the roll call:</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“<b>We are heartened that a strong majority of House members voted to ban performing or coercing abortions for the purpose of eliminating unborn babies of an undesired sex – usually, girls,” </b>said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson. <b>“Shamefully, President Obama, and a minority of 168 House members, complied with the political demands of pro-abortion pressure groups, rather than
defend the coerced women, and their unborn daughters, who are victimized by sex-selection abortions.”</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Among the organizations that warned House members not to vote for the bill was the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation’s major abortion provider. PPFA sent an email memo to House members on May 29 warning of its “intent to score” a vote for the bill as a vote against “women’s health.” Also on May 29, the Huffington Post reported that “no Planned
Parenthood clinic will deny a woman an abortion based on her reasons for wanting one, except in those states that explicitly prohibit sex-selective abortions (Arizona, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Illinois).” So, for PPFA, abortion for sex selection is just another menu option, except where it is illegal – and PPFA vehemently opposes making it illegal.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b>“We commend the House Republican leadership for bringing this bill to the floor today under the fast-track procedure,” </b>Johnson said. </span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">“Today’s groundbreaking majority vote was a stepping stone to this bill ultimately becoming law – perhaps after the replacement of some of the lawmakers who today were unwilling to protect victimized women
and their unborn daughters from sex-selection abortions, because they were more concerned with maintaining favor with the abortion industry, pro-abortion advocacy groups, and Hollywood donors.”</span></b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b>NRLC’s letter to House members in support of the bill, and links to academic studies demonstrating the prevalence of sex-selection abortions (often coerced) within certain immigrant communities in the United States are posted on this page: </b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://m1e.net/c?89460156-Tf09F/38fQrvs%407569923-djByFhM.OwcFU"><b>http://www.nrlc.org/Sex-SelectionAbortion/index.html</b></a></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;">Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization.</span></i></span></span></div>
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