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Lila Rose Wows the Crowd at Wisconsin Right to Life Event

Last week, nationally-known  student activist Lila Rose spoke at a Wisconsin Right to Life event at the Butte Des Morts Country Club in Appleton.   This young right-to-life dynamo showed the crowd just why she and her organization "Live Action" is receiving mega-kudos  from throughout that nation.

Lila has dedicated herself to building a culture of life and founded "Live Action," a student-led  organization that uses "new media" to educate and mobilize both local and national audiences, to demand accountability from the abortion industry and human rights for the unborn.  In 2007, Lila carried out her first undercover investigation - an expose of pro-abortion counseling at the UCLA (where Lila is a student)  health center and institutional support for abortion for pregnant students.

Since then, Lila has led numerous other undercover stings through "Live Action" exposing corruption and illegal activity within Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider.  Her work has prompted officials in several states to take action against Planned Parenthood.

Here in Wisconsin, Lila's investigative work brought her to the Planned Parenthood clinics in Milwaukee and Appleton. The videos from these particular undercover stings revealed the shocking (but not surprising) manipulation of pregnant girls in those clinics.  In the Milwaukee PP Clinic, a girl who was 6-8 weeks pregnant asked "What comes out?"  She was told it was "just an embryo" - "not a baby."  In Appleton, a girl was told that her baby's heartbeat was "a cardiac activity but it is not a beat on its own."

But there's so much more and you've GOT to see it for yourself!  

Visit the "Live Action" website at liveaction.org

No question about it - "Live Action" and Lila Rose are doing incredible and invaluable work for the right-to-life cause!

Wisconsin Right to Life is working with several legislators on legislation which will allow Wisconsin to opt-out of abortion coverage in the state-based insurance “exchanges” created by Obamacare.  Polling indicates that citizens do not want to subsidize abortion coverage or pay for abortions.

The new law requires federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that will pay for elective abortions.   The law also opens the door to direct federal funding of abortion in Community Health Centers, hundreds of which are operated by Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion provider.

The Executive Order signed by President Obama, widely and inaccurately reported as prohibiting taxpayer abortion funding under the law, cannot overrule the abortion impact of the law.   Unfortunately, the opt-out provision can only be applied to abortion coverage.   Action at the federal level will be needed to negate the impact of direct abortion funding at Community Health Centers.

Opt-out legislation cannot be introduced until January of 2011.  Wisconsin Right to Life is promoting a petition to our new Governor, who will take office then, letting him know that thousands of Wisconsin citizens want Wisconsin to opt-out of subsidizing abortions through health insurance under Obamacare.

You can download the opt-out petition here.   Or, you can sign up online and urge your friends and email address book to do so also.

Compassion and Choices (C & C), the nation's leading proponent of euthanasia, lost in its bid to have a Connecticut trial court overturn Connecticut's law which prohibits assisted suicide. What C & C was trying to accomplish in this suit was to redefine what constitutes assisted suicide by giving it a new legal name, "aid in dying." The court rejected this argument, ruling that the legislature clearly intended to prohibit physician-assisted suicide when it was made a criminal act.

Bottom line: C & C's commonly-used rhetoric that "aid in dying" is not really "assisted suicide" fell by the wayside. C & C is considering an appeal of the decision.

Euthanasia advocates are now 0 for 3 in 2010 with massive losses in the New Hampshire and Canadian legislatures and now in a Connecticut court. It has been an incredibly good year for the lives of those who would be victimized by assisted suicide and euthanasia.

A virtually unheard of Wisconsin candidate named Ron Johnson is just two points shy of Russ Feingold in a late May Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters.   Feingold leads Johnson by a mere 46% - 44%  with 3% preferring another candidate and 6% undecided.

This can't be good news for Feingold.  But, does it spell victory for Johnson?

This same poll reveals that 56% of Wisconsin voters favor repealing Obamacare with 45% strongly favoring repeal.    Again, not an enviable position for Feingold given his support of Obamacare.

The key for Johnson is to exploit Feingold's record on Obamacare and things like partial-birth abortion without making any major campaign mistakes.   It is a long way until November.   But Feingold's opponents, including we at Wisconsin Right to Life, are salivating over the prospects of a Senator Johnson from Wisconsin.

Planned Parenthood will stop at nothing to expand abortions and make money.    It’s newest scheme, hatched in Iowa, involves a Planned Parenthood abortionist located in Des Moines visiting with an abortion patient via videoconferencing to discuss the abortion.  The abortionist then presses a computer button which opens a drawer in front of the patient who could be at a clinic hundreds of miles away.  Inside the drawer are abortion pills -- RU 486 and misoprostol.  RU 486 shuts down a baby’s life support system, causing the tiny baby to shrivel and die.  Misoprostol acts to eject the baby from the mother’s body.

 According to an article in the Des Moines Register, over 1,500 Iowa women have used this videoconference system, called “telemed abortions,” to obtain deadly and powerful abortion drugs.   Planned Parenthood insists that this procedure (or lack thereof) is safe for women and “efficient” and that the law is being followed.   Women are being monitored, says PP, because the woman is watched via a secure communications system as she takes the RU 486.   She takes the second drug at home.  Women then come back to the videoconferencing set-up in two weeks as a follow-up.   Bottom line: the woman does not see or is not examined in person by a doctor.

Before they leave the first video conference, women are shown a "put on a happy face" video.  "Well, you're no longer pregnant," an actor in a white coat tells a woman portraying a patient.  "That's great," the woman actor says.  "I really would like a baby sometime.  But right now, we just can't afford it.  I'm really glad we had this choice."