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VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6

“All that’s needed for evil to conquer is for good people to do nothing”

The New York State Right to Life Political Action Committee has announced its endorsement of the following candidates for 2012.

The election is on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

President/Vice President
Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan

U.S. Senator
Wendy Long

House of Representatives — 17 Congressional District
All of Rockland County
Frank Morganthaler

New York State Assembly — 98th Assembly District
Part of Ramapo in Rockland,  and part of Orange County
Annie Rabbitt

New York State Senator — 39th Senatorial District 
Haverstraw and Stony Point
William J. Larkin

Frank Morganthaler — “I’m Prolife”
Joe Carvin — “I’m Prochoice”
Nita Lowey — “I’m Strongly Prochoice”

The three candidates for the 17th CD clash on life issues and other matters in this “Editorial Spotlight”  webcast of an interview conducted by the Journal News editorial board on Oct. 24.

Click here to watch the Journal News Video  (Be patient. It takes time to load.)

Below you’ll find a list of topics covered in the interview. You can drag the timeline to the topics you’d like to hear the candidates discuss.

01:20 — Opening comments
07:44 — Who’s responsible for the log jam in Congress?; bipartisanship
14:23 — The economy
18:45 — Social Security and Medicare
28:25 — The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
32:02 — Creating jobs
40:00 — The Tappan Zee Bridge
46:00 — Abortion rights, Planned Parenthood funding
52:37 — Gun control; Second Amendment
51:30 — Federal minimum wage

N.Y. Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and her Republican challenger, Wendy E. Long, faced off in an hour-long debate on Wednesday, Oct. 17.

Ms. Long declared emphatically in the debate that she was prolife. She has been endorsed by the prolife Susan B. Anthony Fund. Sen. Gillibrand said she upholds abortions rights and the HHS Mandate, which requires employers to provide insurance plans that offer contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs.

For the C-Span video, we’ve provided a list of topics covered so you can drag the timeline to the topics you’d like to hear the debaters discuss.

http://youtu.be/Xox0v5Gf1gc

00:00 Opening remarks
04:00 Foreign affairs, Libya
07:00 Stimulus program and government spending
13:43 Roe v. Wade, abortion rights, NY abortion laws, HHS mandate
22:08 Supreme Court
24:01 Gun control — Second amendment rights
28:20 Lightning Round — death penalty, funding PBS, banning large sugary drinks
31:38 The economy, reforming tax code
32:57 Sexual harassment scandal cover-up in Albany
35:44 Medicare and the Affordable Care Act
37:33 Bipartisan compromise
40:37 Foreign affairs, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan
48:01 Economy in New York state, fracking
54:41 The Dream Act, immigration
56:55 Closing remarks.

Please click here to enlarge the flyer “Where Do the Candidates Stand on Life?”

Make sure you know the positions on life issues of all candidates for federal, state, and local offices.

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When pro-abortion candidates win, unborn babies lose.

The Democratic National Committee banned dozens of Charlotte churches from distributing gift baskets to delegates because the congregations hold values that are contrary to the party platform, according to local religious leaders.

The baskets contained Carolina praline candy and a letter welcoming the delegates to the city and offering assistance in transportation, childcare, or spiritual matters. Heaven forbid there might be a prolife sentiment in there among the goodies.  Read on.

New York, New York – Former New York Governor George E. Pataki yesterday enthusiastically endorsed Wendy Long for the United States Senate.

The three-term Governor said, “We need to send Wendy Long to Washington to cast the deciding vote to repeal Obamacare, end our dangerousaddiction to borrowing and do what the Senate has failed to do for over three-years: finally pass a budget.”

Added Pataki, “In Kirsten Gillibrand and Wendy Long, New Yorkers have a clear choice between an ultra liberal agenda that favors higher taxes and government intervention versus a belief in limited government that values individual freedom and private sector initiative.”

Wendy Long said, “I am honored to have Governor Pataki’s endorsement – he proved that Republican-conservative policies work.   Under his leadership, more than one million New Yorkers got off the welfare rolls, and crime was reduced so that New York was transformed from one of the most dangerous to one of the safest states in America, George Pataki reversed the liberal slide in New York, as Senator I will reverse it in Washington.”

Pataki concluded, “It’s the old saying, ‘be careful what you wish for,’ Senator Gillibrand keeps saying she wants more women in politics – now let’s see if she wants to debate them too.”

“Wendy is a remarkable advocate for women and families and we are thrilled with tonight’s victory,” said Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Not only does she provide an ideal contrast to the pro-abortion leadership of Senator Gillibrand, Wendy is an accomplished leader in her own right. A mother and successful career woman who even went on to clerk for the Supreme Court, Wendy has the broad-based appeal that New York voters are looking for.

Read the rest of the article from the Susan B. Anthony Candidate Fund here.

The Susan B. Anthony List, and its connected Political Action Committee, the SBA List Candidate Fund, are dedicated to electing candidates and pursuing policies that will reduce and ultimately end abortion.

Last week Rick Santorum suspended his campaign for the presidency. Santorum, who never shied away from issues of life, faith, and family, is the father of seven, including 3-year-old Bella, who has Trisomy 18, a condition which, when detected prenatally, almost always results in the child being aborted.

Sometimes a candidate’s  strongest message is not found in his speeches or debate arguments. It emanates from who he or she is, and that can have the most powerful influence of all.  Below, Joe Klein, the Newsweek columnist, who says he disagrees with Santorum on “almost every possible issue,” nevertheless  admits that Rick and Bella have made him think about his own and our society’s response toward the disabled.

I am haunted by the smiling photos I’ve seen of Isabella with her father and mother, brothers and sisters. No doubt she struggles through many of her days — she nearly died a few weeks ago — but she has also been granted three years of unconditional love and the ability to smile and bring joy. Her tenuous survival has given her family a deeper sense of how precious even the frailest of lives are.

All right, I can hear you saying, the Santorum family’s course may be admirable, but shouldn’t we have the right to make our own choices?

Yes, I suppose. But I also worry that we’ve become too averse to personal inconvenience as a society—that we’re less rigorous parents than we should be, that we’ve farmed out our responsibilities, especially for the disabled, to the state—and I’m grateful to Santorum for forcing on me the discomfort of having to think about the moral implications of his daughter’s smile.

Right-to-Life Movement Focused on Defeating Barack Obama in November

WASHINGTON – Determined to secure a pro-life victory in the November election, which will decide the fate of unborn children for decades to come, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, today endorsed Mitt Romney for President of the United States.

“On pro-life issues, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama provide a stark contrast. As the country’s most pro-abortion president, Barack Obama has pursued a radical pro-abortion agenda,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “It is now time for pro-life Americans to unite behind Mitt Romney. For the sake of unborn children, the disabled, and the elderly, we must win.” Continue reading →