by Rusty Pugh and Bill Fancher
(AgapePress) – A pro-life activist says a national pro-abortion group is spending millions of dollars to try and legitimize the killing of innocent children.
The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) has introduced a $10-million campaign to smear President Bush's pro-life policy and to push abortion. Wendy Wright, a spokeswoman for Concerned Women for America, says any campaign that pushes abortion promotes the pain that abortion inflicts on women.
“NARAL seems to be concerned that the American public does not believe as they do, and that's why they feel they need to spend $10 million to try and persuade people away from the pro-life position,” Wright says. “If they felt confident that they had a majority of people on their side, then they would not feel that they need to spend so much money to try and propagandize people to believe that abortion is something that they're willing to fall on their swords for and should elect a good man out of office just on that one thing.”
Wright says on the one hand, she is encouraged that NARAL feels the need to spend so much money to change public opinion. But she feels it is just as important that the campaign be seen as an opportunity to educate people on what abortion does to women. She says even a study conducted by the leftist Center for Gender Equality concluded that 70% of women favor more restrictions on abortion.
Paperwork on RU-486
While the Bush Administration's policy on the pro-life issue has received nods of approval from many pro-family groups, not all conservatives are pleased with what they have seen thus far from the White House. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, for example, is a little concerned that the Administration is trying to hide something regarding the FDA's approval of the abortion drug RU-486.
The legal watchdog group wants to know the details of the drug's approval, but the White House has fought the release of the papers associated with the process. That is why Fitton has requested the courts give his group access to the reports and paperwork — especially anything related to the factory in communist China that manufactures the drug.
“There are a lot of questions to be answered, and those questions can be answered by obtaining documents from the government about the approval and the events relating to it,” Fitton says. “We haven't been able to get those documents. They want to delay it at least until October before I even see the first document, even though they've got them sitting there, collected already.”
Fitton has pledged to get the details of the approval of the abortion pill.
(For a related article on NARAL, go to The Edge.)
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
