--PRO-LIFE UPDATE ~

-"Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter."
---[Proverbs 24:11] --

---Vice President Mike Pence recently conducted a "Life Wins" multi-state pro-life tour, starting in Florida, where he visited a pregnancy center that has saved about 500 babies in the last 12 months. While making some remarks, Pence stated, "Life is winning in America, from the White House to courthouses, the U.S. Senate, and in conservative legislatures across the country. But I also believe life is winning because of the compassion and love that have been shown to women facing crisis pregnancies all across this country now for decades. The pro-life movement is defined by generosity, compassion, and love for women and unborn children."
--Abiding Word Ministries~

--Source:lifesitenews.com
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--AT JUST THE RIGHT TIME ~~
--[PRO-LIFE UPDATE]

~~A young woman recounted her story where she found herself unexpectedly pregnant. Without a home or a stable income, she felt hopeless and helpless, so she made an appointment at a local abortion clinic. While on her way, she missed her bus and was late to her appointment. When she approached the entrance, a woman named Lorraine was there, offering an understanding ear and counsel that she wouldn't receive inside the abortion clinic. Lorraine was trained in pro-life counseling and immediately offered her other options that would enable her to keep her baby. Connected to support and resources, the young lady changed her mind and decided to keep her baby. She credits Lorraine with caring enough to be there at just the right moment for her and her baby. ~~
--Abiding Word Ministries~~

--Source: liveaction.org

--LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION~~

-"Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter." --[Proverbs 24:11]

--A Missouri state court ruled on a case that challenged a state law that required abortion clinics to give every woman a booklet that states, "The life of each human being begins at conception. Abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being."

The case was brought by a female member of TST [The Satanic Temple], who sued the state, asserting the law violates her religious beliefs and the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment. The court ruled the Missouri law does not violate the U.S. Constitution. It remains to be seen what effect this ruling may have on a national level. ~~
--Source: christianheadlines.com
--'Abiding Word Ministries'

--WHAT'S AT STAKE FOR THE UNBORN ~~

--ABORTION is a civil wrong; life is a civil right! From the womb to the tomb, we as human beings are one blood, one race. The two major candidates in this year’s presidential election—and the parties they represent—have starkly differing views on this issue, and as Christians prepare to vote, they must be aware of the future that each side hopes to deliver.

In his first term as president of the United States, Donald Trump has made the nation safer for the unborn, as well as for people whose religious and moral convictions make it impossible for them to have anything to do with the slaughter of the innocents that is legal abortion.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. --
—Jeremiah 1:5, NKJV

The president has stripped the abortion industry of millions in federal funding by formalizing the Protect Life Rule under the Title X program, which mandates the financial and physical separation of an abortion business from a clinic that provides birth control to patients. Those working in the family planning clinic cannot refer their patients for abortion.

Because of this rule, **Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion business, decided to leave Title X rather than give up or relocate its lucrative trade in child killing. While it was not a full defunding of Planned Parenthood, it did take away $60 million in taxpayer money. The bulk of the organization’s federal money comes from Medicaid reimbursements.
[**Planned Parenting is NOT Christian. We must TRUST in the LORD to save our unborn children. Christians should vote PRO-LIFE. ]

The president also vowed to veto any pro-abortion legislation that reaches his desk. That has not happened this term because neither party has full control of Congress. But that vow could come into play if he is elected to a second term.

The president and his administration protected Priests for Life (the ministry for which I work) and other pro-life organizations from having to cover early abortions in the health insurance plans we offer our employees. That is exactly what the Obama-Biden HHS mandate was attempting to do. Under an exemption that President Trump expanded, Priests for Life, the Little Sisters of the Poor and every employer with a sincere religious or moral objection to providing drugs and devices that cause very early abortion is now protected from the deadly mandate.
“In the White House right now, we have the most pro-life president in our history. With four more years, President Trump may have the opportunity to nominate one or even two or more Supreme Court justices.”

Priests for Life would never have complied, but the fines the Obama administration was hoping to levy would have been ruinous.

Our nation’s regrettable role as abortion provider to the world also ended under President Trump. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan enacted the Mexico City Policy, prohibiting U.S. dollars from being funneled to overseas organizations that perform or promote abortion.

The Mexico City Policy has long been a sort of political seesaw, with Democrat presidents overturning it and Republicans reinstating it. But President Trump went further than any of his pro-life predecessors by expanding the rules to apply beyond just family planning organizations to all aid groups, preventing some $8.8 billion from going to abortion services or advocacy.

In March 2019, the president cut funding to the Organization of American States and prohibited the use of U.S. tax dollars to lobby for or against abortion rights.

“We will enforce a strict prohibition on backdoor funding schemes and end runs around our policy,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time.

Perhaps the most enduring thing President Trump has done for the unborn and those who advocate for them is to fulfill his vow to nominate originalist judges. The president has nominated, and the U.S. Senate has confirmed, more than 200 judges for the federal district courts and the courts of appeal. He has placed two pro-life justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Most of these jurists are young people whose lifetime appointments will offer protection from the Democrat-appointed activist judges who have perverted our Constitution for decades.

These accomplishments, and many more, came about because in the White House right now, we have the most pro-life president in our history. With four more years, President Trump may have the opportunity to nominate one or even two or more Supreme Court justices. A solid pro-life majority, even without the vote of Chief Justice John Roberts, would be able to uphold laws put in place to protect the unborn and the health and safety of their mothers.

Based on public statements and the party platform, there is reason to believe that many of these gains will vanish if Joe Biden—or any Democrat—is elected president. Supreme Court nominees will be as extreme in their abortion beliefs as the president who nominates them. Pro-life laws will fall.

**If the Democrats retain the House and reclaim the Senate, the unborn will be in a more vulnerable position than they ever have been, because the “safe, legal and rare” of the Clinton years—no matter how disingenuous that may have been—has given way to “abortion on demand and without apology.”

**Let’s look at what a pro-abortion president could accomplish.
“The president also vowed to veto any pro-abortion legislation that reaches his desk. That has not happened this term because neither party has full control of Congress. But that vow could come into play if he is elected to a second term.”

The Mexico City Policy could be reversed and the U.S. could again export its poisonous ideology along with its foreign aid.

The Protect Life Rule could be killed with the stroke of a pen, restoring hundreds of millions of Title X dollars to the abortion industry. Planned Parenthood not only could reap a harvest of $60 million but, many believe, could become a cabinet-level department in a Democrat administration.

By this move, Planned Parenthood could make an end run around two constant battles: that of funding or defunding the mega-abortion business, and that of having access to the public schools. Planned Parenthood— likely with a new, family friendly name—could take over school health departments, and sex education programs could aim (as most do already) for every student to become sexually active as early as possible.

Biden has already vowed to put the HHS mandate, discussed earlier, back in place, and thus reignite the battle between religious groups and the government. And a year ago, he flipped on his long support for keeping the Hyde Amendment in place. That amendment—which has to be renewed yearly—keeps the hard-earned money of pro-life citizens from funding abortions. Biden and the Democrat platform have committed to eliminate it. If Biden had a Democrat House and Senate, the Hyde Amendment would be history.

A Democrat trifecta also would ensure that Roe v. Wade was codified, making legal abortion the law of the land, even if the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe. Every law aimed at protecting the unborn in every state that has passed one would be nullified. Teenagers would no longer need parental consent or even notification to get an abortion anywhere in the nation; ultrasound laws, mandated waiting periods and conscience protections for health care workers would be gone; pain-capable bills that protect babies from the brutality of a late-term abortion would be overridden. The fight to pass a born-alive law would be lost.
“Life reaches beyond politics, beyond religion.”

The born-alive law isn’t even about abortion; it merely mandates life-saving care for a newborn infant who survives abortion. But as we know from the radio interview where Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam accidentally told the truth, pro-abortion fanatics don’t believe these tiny survivors are entitled to anything but to be made comfortable while they die.

If President Trump, America’s most pro-life president ever, returns to the White House, things will not be this dire, even if the Democrats control the House and Senate. His vow to veto any pro-abortion law could still stand, thus offering vital protection to the unborn no matter what evil Congress cooked up.

Christians have a lot to think about this election, with so many issues of importance to so many hanging in the balance. I understand that often we pro-lifers are chastised for being single-issue voters, but I agree wholeheartedly with Father Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life, that while there are many issues, it is the right to life that makes anything an issue to begin with. It is the foundation of every other right; without life, we don’t have anything.

Life is an inalienable right promised to us in our Declaration of Independence. Life reaches beyond politics, beyond religion. If you want to vote with a clear conscience, the best vote is a vote for life. ©2020 Alveda King
--Alveda King, the niece of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is the director of Civil Rights for the Unborn, a ministry of Priests for Life.
--[-- Please read this carefully. The Democrats are FOR abortion. WE must not allow the Left to allow abortion. That is murder. Killing innocent babies. In the name of Jesus, please vote PRO-LIFE! Thank you and may God bless America! ]

--UNPLANNED ~~ [Matthew West/ lyrics]

--"For you formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother's womb. --

I will give thanks to You,
I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from You.."
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me.
When as yet there was not one of them."
-[PSALM 139:13 thru 16]

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-[Friend, our Lord God forgives us when we repent. If you have had an abortion, please repent and move on with your life. If you know someone planning on getting an abortion please encourage her with these scripture verses. God Loves You! /

--UNITED STATES~~

--Number of Pro-Life Women in House Doubles ~~
-[DECISION / Dec. 2020]

---A record number of pro-life women will now be serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, including all 11 pro-life female incumbents who won reelection and at least 13 new pro-life women who will join the House in January. Seven of the newcomers won races against pro-abortion Democrats, doubling the number of pro-life women in the House.

"The surge of victorious pro-life women candidates in the U.S. House is a stunning blow to Nancy Pelosi and her pro-abortion agenda," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, said in a statement.

"These gains are a repudiation of abortion extremism and further evidence that life is a winning issue in politics," she added.

Additionally, at least six pro-life women have been elected to serve in the U.S. Senate.

"It is encouraging to know that despite the media-driven 'blue wave' lie, the number of conservative, pro-life women in Congress has doubled," Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel founder and chairman, said. "These women who value the sanctity of life will now be serving in the U. S. House and Senate. These pro-life women will bring new energy to Washington to preserve precious preborn children. This is another important step to making the womb a safe place again in America." ~~
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--PRO-LIFE FOUNDER PASSES ~~
--[Please keep the family of Joe Scheidler in your prayers. Thank you.~]

--The man affectionately called the "godfather of the Pro-Life Movement" passed away on January 18, 2021, at the age of 93.. Joe Scheidler was well known as the defendant in the RICO lawsuit, NOW v. Scheidler, a landmark case that went to the Supreme Court three times and fought to protect free speech rights for pro-lifers. Joe Scheidler was the founder of the Pro-Life Action movement. He was a former Benedictine monk and journalism professor whose passion to see abortion laws overturned drew him deeper into the pro-life movement. Joe attended a pro-life conference in 1972 where he saw photographs of aborted babies. He responded by learning all that he could about the issues and eventually became a pro-life activiist.

Joe was most likely the first national leader to convince abortionists to leave the industry. He would invite them to dinner and treat them respectfully. In a 2017 interview with Life Action News, Joe shared what the pro-life movement had accomplished over these many years. He said, "Well, we kept abortion on the front page for one thing. Abortion is THE issue: He continued, We have gone to the clinics. We have converted the doctors. We have saved thousands of women from abortion through going to the the clinics, talking tot he women, talking to the doctors. Many women are going around speaking about abortion--how bad it is."

--Source:liveaction.com
Abidings Word Ministries ~

---PRO-LIFE UPDATE ~~

----CITY BANS ABORTION~~

--Lubbock, Texas, just passed a law to outlaw abortions. Citizens of this city of 264,000 voted by a landslide to pass an ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits.

The vote was 63% for the ordinance and 37% against it. It became the 26th city to pass such a law, 14 of them in Texas. It has joined a growing number of cities under the "Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative."
It should be noted that it does have some concessions where it is permissible, and the ordinance also gives a life-of-the-mother exception for doctors under affirmative defense. It also does not penalize the mother of the unborn child who has been aborted. If the city of Lubbock faces a lawsuit as a result of the ordinance, attorney Jonathan Mitchell has offered to represent the city at no cost to the city or taxpayers.

--Source: liveaction.org
--Abiding Word Ministries~~

----PRO-LIFE UPDATE ~~

--$2 MILLION ON TV ADS

--Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life organization, announced that it is spending $2 Million on a TV campaign that will "highlight the humanity of unborn children." It will include a 30-second ad that will appear on national cable networks, including Bravo, Hallmark, and Lifetime.

A sample of the ad's wording" "Five decades of medical breakthroughs--every age group has more opportunity, except one. The unborn still fall victim to outdated laws,. Science tells us that at 15 weeks, these babies have formed faces . They smile, they yawn, and they feel pain...

~In five decades we've learned they are just like us. Isn't it time the law reflects the science?" ~
--Source:prolifeupdate.com
--Abiding Word Ministries

---TEXAS / STATE Enacts New Pro-Life Law / Governor Greg Abbott

---On Dec 2, the day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a new law restricting chemical abortions took effect in Texas.

"Mail order abortion drugs are now prohibited in Texas, "Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted. "Earlier this year, the Biden Admin. temporarily lifted restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs allowing them to be delivered by mail. We will not allow that in Texas."

The law, known as S. B. 4, specifies that a manufacturer, supplier, physician or any other person may not provide to a patient any abortion-inducing drug by courier, delivery or mail service."

Instead, the law require an in-personal examination by a physician, a mandatory follow-up visit within 14 days and new reporting requirements for providers.

Any physician, health care or facility that defies the new law could be charged with a criminal offense and sentenced to jail time. ~~

--Decision/ Front Lines