by Bill Fancher and Sherrie Black
The pro-life movement has re-launched a massive campaign that was postponed shortly after it had begun: one week before September 11.
Thirty-six pro-life organizations have pooled their resources in a campaign called “Shake the Nation–Back to Life.” Organizer Janet Folger of the Center for Reclaiming America announced the restart of the campaign and explained its goals.
“We have joined together in this historic union … to say … we want to see children protected again in our lifetime,” Folger says, “and the way that we're doing that is [by] sending the message of encouragement to the President.”
Folger says 86,000 petitions urging President Bush to appoint a pro-life justice when he gets the chance are one element of the campaign. But the main theme deals with noise. “We're also sending a message to the Senate that cannot easily be ignored,” she says. “We're sending it with a baby rattle.”
Through its website, the campaign is asking donors to purchase the rattles, which are then sent to the donor's respective senators. Folger says every penny generated from the purchase of the rattles has gone into a national ad campaign. “We are now running commercials on the Fox Network, on CNN, on MSNBC, on CNN Headline News, and CNN Airport,” she says. “We've bought everything we can buy, and we're going to take the message to the American people.”
According to Folger, the make-up of the groups behind the campaign makes it an historic effort. “What is … historic about this campaign is that all of the heroes of the pro-abortion movement — the 'poster children,' if you will, that legalized abortion — are all now pro-life,” Folger explains. “And they are, for the first time in history, joined together to expose the lies that are abortion.”
Those “heroes of abortion” include Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League; Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of Roe v. Wade; and Sandra Cano, the “Doe” of Doe v. Bolton.
While the campaign is an historic effort, former Presidential candidate Gary Bauer says there is something more important happening. “I've been working on the right-to-life issue, along with a lot of other things … for at least 20 years,” Bauer says, “and I have to tell you that in [that time] I have never seen the pro-life movement as united around a strategy as I've seen it on this particular project.”
Both Folger and Bauer believe this will be the effort that finally ends abortion in America.
Cloning Debate
Elsewhere on the pro-life front, cloning foes are launching their own campaign to ban the process on humans. According to The Boston Globe, momentum is building behind a campaign to get the U.S. Senate to act quickly to ban human cloning. Conservatives believe during his State of the Union address on January 29, President Bush will urge the Senate to follow the House in passing a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
Although Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has said it will come up for debate later this spring, the bill's Senate sponsor, Kansas Republican Sam Brownback, says it cannot wait that long since a Massachusetts research firm has announced the first human embryo has already been cloned.
Brownback says now that the threshold has been crossed, it is “only a matter of time” until cloned human embryos are implanted for live birth.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
