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PRESIDENT’S CORNER

Last weekend we had a number of pro-life victories. It started out with the wins by pro-life candidates Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie, to become the new governors for Virginia and New Jersey. Then the House approved the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the Health Care Bill. Can we sit down and relax now? NO WAY!!!! It is time to get ready for the battles to come. Our next battle is in the Senate.   Sen. Harry Reid wants a vote in the Senate by mid-December. If a bill is passed there, it will be sent to a conference committee which would hammer out the differences in the House and Senate versions, then that would go back to the House and Senate to be passed. President Obama wants something on his desk by the end of the year.           Then there are the Congressional races next year. It will be busy until Nov. 2, 2010, election day. It is time to work, not sit down and relax.
We would like to thank Reps. Childers, Harper and Taylor for their support of the Stupak Amendment. All three of these also voted against the Health Care bill. Sens. Cochran and Wicker have told MSRTL that they will oppose any abortion funding. See last month’s newsletter for their statements. Please thank all of these lawmakers for their pro-life stand.
There are two stories in this newsletter that I would ask you to please read. They are about an abortionist that admits to knowing he is killing and one about a Planned Parenthood manager who quit.

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Controversy about Pro-Life Vote for Stupak Amendment The following three articles, taken from the Nov. 9 edition of LifeNews tell parts of a controversy about the Stupak-Pitts vote. This amendment would stop federal payment for abortions except in limited cases. Shown here are links to the Weekly Standard, about the controversy from a political standpoint, and LifeNews that goes into an indepth account of what has happened since Saturday morning about the amendment and the health care bill, weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11
/killing_the_stupak_amendment_w_1.asp and lifenews.com/nat5638.html The House GOP leadership issued the following statement, "To be clear, the Stupak-Pitts Amendment's passage is the right thing to do," Representatives Boehner, Cantor, and Pence said in a statement. "We believe you just don’t play politics with life." Mississippi Representatives Childers, Harper and Taylor all voted for the Stupak Amendment (then voted against the health care bill). These representatives put themselves on the line, especially the Democrats. They argued and fought with their leadership for months to get the Stupak Amendment and other pro-life efforts in front of the House. Only at the very last minute did Speaker Pelosi allow the vote. President Obama and Speaker Pelosi promised pro-abortion groups they would have abortion covered in the health care bill. The pro-life votes by the above MS representatives are just that, PRO-LIFE. They put themselves in a difficult position by voting as they knew was right.

MISSISSIPPI RIGHT TO LIFE THANKS REPRESENTATIVES TRAVIS CHILDERS, GREG HARPER, AND GENE TAYLOR FOR THEIR COURAGEOUS STAND IN FACE OF PRESSURE EXERTED FROM MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT BY VOTING FOR THE STUPAK-PITTS AMENDMENT.