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LifeNotes
LifeNotes is a series of educational fact sheets produced by the Right to Life of Michigan Educational Fund which focus on specific life issues. LIFENOTES DIRECTORY

Michigan Newspaper Contact List
Letters to the editor are an important part of many newspapers. These letters allow readers to voice their views and respond to stories and editorials in the paper. GO TO A LIST of addresses and fax numbers of Michigan newspapers.

Prolife Picketing

Provides information, guidelines and suggestions for prolife picketing.

Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
A Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPOAHC) is a legal mechanism which allows you to appoint a person (agent/patient advocate) to make health care decisions for you should you become unable to do so. FULL BOOKLET

Halt the Assault on Human Life

Until the next mid-term elections in 2010, pro-abortion forces in Congress will have the opportunity to remove many prolife laws and create new ones assaulting the sanctity of human life. Prolife people need to come together to halt the assault on human life. HALT THE ASSAULT


President Obama's Abortion Agenda

President Obama's Record on Life

Feel free to download, print and distribute this fact sheet on President Obama's Record on Life.

Expanding the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research

On March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama announced and signed an order to overturn President Bush's limits on the funding of human embryonic stem cell lines. MORE

Rescinding conscience protections

On March 6, 2009, President Obama's administration moved to completely rescind protections President George W. Bush put in place to make sure medical staff and centers are not forced to do abortions. This again reveals President Obama's strong pro-abortion positions. MORE

U.S. Tax Dollars to International Abortion Provider

Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow had an opportunity to keep our tax dollars from going to organizations who perform or promote abortions in foreign countries, but both chose instead to fund abortion providers in the name of "population assistance."
Roll Call Vote
Mexico City Policy

Abortion wish list given to President-Elect Obama

Change.gov, the web site of President-elect Barack Obama has recently posted a document entitled "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration." The document was produced by abortion advocates (including Planned Parenthood and NARAL) who call on Obama to "advance and implement the(ir) agenda." MORE

Contact your State Representative: Support Transparency in Embryo Research

In May, the Michigan Senate approved the annual budget bill for our colleges and universities. The budget included a simple reporting requirement for public universities conducting embryonic stem cell research. Universities would report to the state the number of embryos received for fiscal year 2009-2010, how many embryos were used for research, how many embryos were retained in storage, and the number of embryonic stem cell lines created.

This basic reporting requirement has encountered fierce opposition in the House. It was stripped from the House version of the budget and leadership has been blocking a vote to reinsert the requirement via an amendment to the budget. Opponents want to derail this reasonable call for transparency and accountability from our public universities.

Please contact your state representative in Lansing with the following message: “I support our public universities and colleges, and I have a right to know basic information about embryonic stem cell research at our universities. Vote YES on the Hildenbrand-Dean Amendment to S.B. 1157 (Higher Education Budget). Support transparency in embryo research!”

We are urging calls and emails to all House members. Click here to find your state Representative. We especially want to encourage and support our prolife Democrats in Lansing. If one of these individuals is your Representative, it is particularly important that he or she hears from you:

Bob Constan
Ed Clemente
Andy Dillon
Richard LeBlanc
Jim Slezak
Kathy Angerer
Dudley Spade
Robert Dean
Roy Schmidt

John Espinoza
Terry Brown
Jeff Mayes
Joel Sheltrown
Andy Neumann
Gary McDowell
Judy Nerat
Michael Lahti


U.S. House passes Obama-backed health bill, 219-212

The U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday, March 21, gave final approval to a massive health care restructuring bill, H.R. 3590, strongly opposed by Right to Life of Michigan and National Right to Life Committee.

The House vote was 219 to 212 in favor of the bill. All 219 votes in favor were cast by Democrats.Of the opposing(prolife) votes, 178 were cast by Republicans and 34 by Democrats. The official roll call can be viewed here.

Because the Senate already approved the bill on December 24, 2009, it will now go straight to President Barack Obama for his signature.

Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing said, "We are deeply disappointed and dismayed that Rep. Bart Stupak (D) approved of a compromise in the form of an executive order. With the compromise, some prolife U.S. House Democrats supported the health care bill."

Lawmakers who voted for this bill voted to require federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that will pay for elective abortion and voting to undermine longstanding prolife policies. This was a key, defining vote.

The executive order promised by President Obama was issued for political effect. It changes nothing. It does not correct any of the serious pro-abortion provisions in the bill. The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says.

The question of Rep. Bart Stupak's endorsement is one for the Right to Life of Michigan Political Action Committee. As stated above, this vote was scored as a pro-abortion vote and will certainly be a defining factor in present and future endorsements.

Barbara Listing said, "Prolife citizens know, and they will be reminded again and again, which lawmakers deserve their gratitude for voting against this pro-abortion legislation and which lawmakers should not be supported for re-election. This serves as a reminder for us all to be involved in the political process. Lives depend upon it."

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