life in oregon

Life In Oregon

The Eugene/Springfield area is the latest in the state to be targeted by Planned Parenthood as they expand their abortion empire. As is customary for the giant abortion provider, all the planning for its proposed 19,000 square foot abortion facility was held in secret for as long as possible.

On August 3, pro-lifers in Eugene and Springfield were alerted by an observant of-fice employee that the city of Springfield had conducted an environmental review on a Planned Parenthood construction project that was to be “assisted” by funds made available through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Planned Parenthood is using $73,893 of HUD money for the “medical facility.” Agencies, groups or persons disagreeing with the positive findings of the review were invited to submit objections before 5 p.m. on August 5.

Concerned pro-lifers immedi-ately went into action. Letters

of objection were gathered and hand delivered to Springfield officials in time to meet the deadline.

Clergy from several churches quickly became involved in ob-jecting to Planned Parenthood’s plan to build the large abortion facility. Catholic churches in the Eugene/Springfield area collected signatures on petitions opposing the plan. Bill Diss, head of Pre-cious Children of Portland, the group battling Planned Parent-hood’s mega-clinic in Northeast Portland, came to Eugene to advise and help the energetic group. Petitions were circulated at other area churches and at the Right to Life booth at the Lane County Fair.

On Friday, September 16 a pro-life team, led by Ed Krupka including priests and pastors from the Springfield area met with the Springfield mayor and staff members. The mayor was given the petitions and the book Unplanned by Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director. The group emphasized

the fact that Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country and voiced opposi-tion to taxpayer dollars being used to fund its proposed facility.

Eugene/Springfield pro-lif-ers will continue their efforts to prevent Planned Parenthood from building its deadly clinic. “We cannot allow Planned Par-enthood to expand their death facilities,” said Jo Zollinger, a local activist. “Abortion is the leading cause of death in the state of Oregon and we are ask-

ing everyone to join with us and say no to Planned Parenthood. No more dead babies.”

A groundbreaking was held on September 28 with Demo-crat Senator Ron Wyden and Democrat Congressman Peter DeFazio attending, along with an estimated 300 protestors.

For additional information, contact Ed Krupka at 541-463-0670. Please see the Action Alert on page 6 for information about how you can help with this important effort.

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2012 Roe v. Wade Memorial Rally January 22, 2012 Pioneer Courthouse Square Portland, Oregon

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Planned Parenthood targets Eugene/Springfield for new facility

Come and join us!2012 Roe v. Wade Memorial Rally

January 22, 2012Pioneer Courthouse Square

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Life In Oregon/Oregon Right to Life 4335 River Road North, Salem, OR 97303

Phone: (503) 463-8563 • website: www.ortl.org • e-mail: [email protected]

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from the ChaiRManCLAIM: We are making

Medicare solvent, extending its life by eliminating waste and fraud.

FACT: One of the most dangerous provisions of the Obama Health Care Law is the creation of a powerful rationing board known as the “Independent Payment Advisory Board,” or IPAB. To the extent that Medicare growth rates are expected to exceed growth targets, that gap would be reduced through reduction of Medicare Advantage payments, and reductions in payments to doctors and so forth. The recommendations of the IPAB would automatically go into effect.

This is likely to have two rationing effects. First, an increasing number of Medicare providers, being paid further and further below their costs of providing care, would stop accepting new Medicare patients. Second, the Board would change the way reimbursement rates are structured, away from a fee-for-service model toward a model, for example, under which practitioners are paid a set annual amount per patient, or toward an “episode” model, under which a set amount is paid per illness or injury. In either of these cases, the physician or other health care

provider would have a strong financial incentive to limit treatment, especially if it is costly. So, the Board itself would not be “rationing” treatment — instead, it would be compelling health care providers to do so.

CLAIM: Patients will be given the information they need to make good decisions.

FACT: Patients will be pushed and cajoled to reject life-saving treatment in order to reduce costs. Under the “Shared Decision Making” program, the federal government will contract with private entities to produce “patient decision making aids,” and doctors and other health care providers will be brought to regional centers to be trained in their use.

One example of this is found on the website for the Foundation for Informed Decision Making. Under the box titled, “Did You Know?” you see statements like these: “About 25% of Medicare dollars are spent on people in their last 60 days of life,” “Whether or not they receive active treatment, most men diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer will die of something else” and “More care does not equal better outcomes.”

Under the guise of giving accurate and unbiased information to guide their

informed consent, these groups develop material whose clear bias is to push and persuade patients to reject medical treatment.

CLAIM: If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.

FACT: The Obama Health Care Law allows bureaucrats at the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services to refuse private fee-for-service plans (or any Medicare Advantage plan) altogether, for any reason or for no reason.

CLAIM: This bill holds insurance companies accountable for unreasonable rate hikes.

FACT: This may sound appealing; however, when government limits by law what can be charged for health insurance, it prevents access to life-saving medical treatment that costs more to supply than the price set by the government. Instead of Americans making their own choices balancing the cost against the benefit in evaluating competing insurance plans, that decision will be made by bureaucrats whose principal duty is to hold health care spending down. Denial of life-saving diagnostic tests and treatments would surely follow. This is rationing, pure and simple.

Rationing in Obamacare: The facts

Prime opportunity

Joan Sage, M.D. ORTL Board Chairman

The state’s largest pro-life organization would love to have you as a member. Please consider partnering with us in our effort to save lives and change hearts about abortion and other issues such as health care rationing, embryonic stem cell research, physician-assisted suicide, and cloning. The cost of membership is a bargain at only $5 per year.

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Each year over 1.2 million U.S. babies die by abortion: a social injustice against unborn children that grieves our hearts as it does God’s (Psalm 139:13-17, Exodus 20:13). The loss of these innocent lives is the reason so many of us daily pray, serve and give to help pro-life groups empower women to choose life for their unborn babies. With the upcoming elections in 2012, we at Oregon Right to Life see a prime opportunity, by our votes, to do even more to help. Like you, we know that next year’s election will result in a major step forward or backward in dealing with the abortion problem.

Consider the impact of recent elections on this issue. On the federal level, a staunchly pro-abortion administration has led to increased tax-payer funding for abortions and placed many pro-abortion activists in high-ranking healthcare and judicial positions. Alternatively, on the state level, election of pro-life governors and legislators has led to several states now limiting taxpayer funding of abortions, as well as enacting laws to save babies based on research that fetuses of a certain age do indeed feel pain. The contrasting effects based on who is in leadership prove the opportunity before us.

How can we improve the probability of a pro-life outcome with our votes next year? I believe learning as much as we can about local and na-tional candidates’ true positions on abortion and other life issues is key.

At Oregon Right to Life, we strive to remain a significant source of reliable information and encouragement as you follow the issues and candidates. Some may not realize, though, that our ability to impact elections depends on our membership census. The broader our member-ship, the more leverage we have in being able to disseminate candidate information. Won’t you consider becoming a member of ORTL? For some of you, it may be time to renew your membership. The cost is only $5. You may join by using the coupon on this page or visiting our website at www.ortl.org. So this leads me to ask — Got membership?

Politics is not the ultimate answer to abortion. However, political participation is an important opportunity we are privileged to exercise. On behalf of the pre-born, I encourage each of us to stay engaged and continue to do all we can to promote legal protection for these endangered fellow humans. We have a prime opportunity with Election 2012.

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POlitiCal FORuMORTL PAC: A behind the scenes tour

My son went on a pre-school field trip to our neighborhood grocery store where our family shops. Even though he is now in second grade, we are regularly reminded when we stop by the bakery for a free cookie or grab yogurt from the refrigerated section that he’s been “back there” behind the scenes. In-spired by my son’s excitement, I decided to give you a quick “behind the scenes tour” of our political office. Presiden-tial candidates aren’t the only ones who are already working toward November 2012.

Right now, our whole political team, including Colm Willis, Karen Minnis, and our Oregon Right to Life PAC Board, is laying the ground-work for our Pro-Life Voter’s Guide.

Before we ever contact a candidate we do quite a bit of research. It is important for us to update the statistics of each legislative and congressional district, such as voter registration information and past election results. The 2010 census also requires that we go through our list of pro-life voters and reassign each household to the correct district. I am so thankful for our database wizards because we have more than 200,000 households on our lists!

The statistics only tell part of the story. Each district has a unique set of circumstances that must be evaluated. These include whether the incumbent is running for reelection, determining the key issues for that area, and discerning what other interest groups think about the race. We are always actively looking for pro-life individuals to run for office now or in the future.

Along with this research, our PAC Board reviews the questionnaire that we require every candidate who seeks our endorsement to com-plete. Over the years, we have added some questions and eliminated others to help us gain an understanding of a candidate’s positions and commitment.

The next phase in the process begins as candidates begin to file to run for office. As individuals file for office, we contact them based upon criteria the board has established. If they meet the criteria, we contact them with information about Oregon Right to Life PAC, includ-ing how to proceed if they would like an endorsement. Currently, we are focusing on statewide, congressional, Oregon Senate and Oregon House candidates.

This work will continue through the end of the year, when the board begins to interview candidates and make endorsement decisions. From the beginning to final primary endorsements, the process takes about eight months.

Your vote is valuable and your trust is priceless. I hope that this short behind the scenes tour gives you confidence that our endorse-ments and information are trustworthy. There is much more of our office activity to tour, but we’ll have to save that for another time.

Lois Anderson, Director of Political Operations

After months of press reports of bizarre behavior, the exit of key staff members, and pressure from his fellow Democrats, Congressman David Wu resigned from office. This set the stage for a special election to replace him and elect a new representative from Oregon’s First Congressional District. A primary election to be held on November 8 will determine the Democrat and Republican candidates in the general election to be held January 31. The winner of the election will go directly to Washington, D.C. to be sworn in and begin serving immediately.

The Democrat primary features three prominent officeholders — Labor

Commissioner Brad Avakian, State Senator Suzanne Bonamici and State Representative Brad Witt. All three have pro-abortion records. Senator Bonamici has been endorsed by EMILY’s List, a political action committee which supports only pro-abortion women. Other Democrat candidates include Saba Ahmed, Dominic Hammon, Robbert E. Lettin, Todd Lee Ritter, and Dan Strite.

The Republican field is led by businessman Rob Cornilles, who lost to Wu in 2010. Cornilles is pro-life and received the endorsement of Oregon Right to Life PAC. While there are other pro-life candidates running in this special election, the PAC

Board determined that Rob Cornilles has the experience and skill to succeed, especially given the short time before the special election. Therefore, the board voted to endorse Cornilles in the special election primary. We encourage you to get involved. This election combines a short timeline, national attention, and the potential to send a pro-life vote to the U.S. Congress from Oregon. That’s exciting!

Recent special elections in New York and Nevada resulted in sending two new pro-life members to Congress. It will take a lot of hard work, but we Oregonians have a unique opportunity to do the same thing.

Special election to replace David Wu

According to the Oregon Secretary of State, out of an estimated 2.8 million eligible voters, only about 2 million Oregonians are actually registered to vote. In 2010, we fell short of having pro-life leadership in both the Oregon House and Senate by less than 2,500 votes. This is only 70 votes per county. If only 70 unregistered Oregonians in each county had registered to vote and supported pro-life candidates in the last election, we could have passed our Pain-Capable Child Protection Act this year. Instead, after we forced a hearing of the bill in the legislature, pro-

abortion politicians killed it in committee.

As a result, in preparation for the 2012 election, Oregon Right to Life PAC engaged in a pilot voter registration drive in the Salem-Woodburn area this past summer. With the help of four college students, we tested various registration efforts focused on registering pro-life voters in one state house district. We were pleasantly surprised to find that our work made a difference. We were able to identify a number of eligible pro-life voters and successfully registered them to vote. Our results were so encouraging

that we are planning to make voter registration an integral part of our effort in the upcoming election cycle.

However, we need your help. Will you help us register seventy new pro-life voters in your county? You can take registration cards to your church, coffee shop, and any other place that like-minded pro-lifers gather. With your help, we can ensure that the abortion industry and their political allies are stopped in 2012. For help with registration cards or other information, please contact Colm at 503-463-8563 or at [email protected].

Help us register voters!


Oregon Right to Life summer fair booths save babies and change hearts!

Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation sponsored fair booths in the following cities: Albany, Astoria, Baker City, Bend, Burns, Canby, Coos Bay, Corvallis, Dallas, Eugene, Fossil, Gold Beach, Hillsboro, Klamath Falls, La Grande, McMinnville, Medford, Ontario, Prineville, Roseburg, Salem, Tillamook, and Tualatin.

DaLLas — POLk COunty

EUGENE — LANE COUNTY ONTARIO — MALHEUR COUNTY

Canby — CLaCkamas COunty

COOS BAY — COOS COUNTY ROSEBURG — DOUGLAS COUNTY MEDFORD — JACKSON COUNTY BURNS — HARNEY COUNTY

“It was exciting to see the many children who

were fascinated with the unborn baby models. So many young boys wanted to hold the

Touch of Life babies.”

“Informing people regarding the “dark” side of Obamacare was very

gratifying. Most, if not all, people were as ignorant as

I had been regarding the new health care bill and its pro-death leanings.”

“I have never seen so many children come to the booth.

We had special “baby growth” books to give them. Also, we always run out of the little

plastic baby models that we hand out. The children, teens, and

adults all love them.”

“Many young ladies (and men) were astonished

at the human features evident at such an early age as they looked at our Touch of Life baby models. They were finally able to see that a

fetus is a BABY. Now that’s what this is all about.”

the OregOn state FaIr bOOth, hosted by Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation, displayed a new backdrop with television monitors which showed the development of unborn babies in utero. The fair, which ran from August 26 through September 5, drew 350,000 attendees.

Ideas for pro-life young people

Many motivated young people lament that, “I’m pro-life, but I can’t vote yet.” There is so much more to pro-life activism than vot-ing and young people are vital to the movement. We need their voices speak-ing up for those who can’t speak for themselves. Here are a few ideas about how you can spread awareness about abortion:1. Join the 40 Days for Life

campaign and peace-fully pray in front of an abortion facility in your community from September 28 through November 6. Over 4,000 babies have been saved through this peaceful campaign. For information, go to www.40daysforlife.com.

2. Organize or participate in the Silent Day of Solidarity on Tuesday, October 18. Last year, students from over 4,000 campuses in 28 countries participated and 64 babies were saved in one day. For information, go to www.silentday.org.

3. Participate in Oregon Right to Life’s 2012 Rally for Life in Port-land at Portland Courthouse Square on January 22, 2012. Bring a van or bus filled with your church youth group.

4. Register for Oregon Right to Life’s Camp Joshua, a pro-life camp for students ages 16 to 21. For more information or to register, go to www.campjoshua.net. The next camp is March 25-28, 2012.

5. Bring a pro-life speaker to your campus, church, or other organi-zation. Call ORTL (503-463-8563) to arrange for a speaker.

6. Wear pro-life gear. Don’t be afraid to spread the message by wearing pro-life shirts, buttons, and Precious Feet pins. Girls have cancelled abortions after seeing pro-life messages on t-shirts, stickers, posters and more.

7. Post pro-life information online. Update your Facebook profile picture to a pro-life graphic or post links on your status about fetal development. Become a fan of Standupgirl.com on your Facebook page.

8. Volunteer at a local pregnancy center in your community. Collect and donate new or gently used baby and maternity clothing. Organize a diaper drive. Mother’s Day is a great time of year.

9. Take advantage of opportunities to distribute pro-life educational material and display fetal models or other educational materi-als at school or church events. Choose issues like abortion, fetal development, or how abortion harms women as topics for school assignments and speeches.

10. Use signs and stickers to get out the message. Pro-life yard signs, bumper stickers, posters and book covers are all good ways to spread the pro-life message. Make book covers with pro-life artwork or sayings like “She’s a child, not a choice” or “Abortion stops a beating heart.”


EduCating FOR liFE

Just when we think that our estate planning is finished once our will is made and securely filed, the fairly simple act of purchasing a U.S. savings bond, certificate of deposit or opening a bank or retirement account can undo it all.

Investors increasingly can choose to name beneficiaries such as Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation on a variety of financial products. When the account owner dies, the assets go directly to the beneficiaries listed on the accounts. The problem is that because these beneficiary designations override the will,

they will need to be coordinat-ed with the entire estate plan.

A carelessly completed beneficiary form on a financial account can cause a loved one or charitable non-profit orga-nization such as Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation to lose out. Many of us simply don’t remember whom we named as beneficiaries of ac-counts we opened in the past. Advisors recommend reviewing beneficiary designations regu-larly to make sure that they coincide with our will. In the world of frequently merging financial institutions, records can be misplaced. It is impor-

tant to keep copies of all our beneficiary forms and check regularly with the institutions by certified mail, return receipt requested to make sure they are correct.

As always, a reputable tax attorney or financial advisor can help navigate the difficult waters of estate planning. For further information about how to include Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation in your estate plans, please contact our Director of Development, Lynda Harrington, at 1-800-524-9271 or [email protected].

Failing to update documents can create havoc for your heirs

Kate Ewald OrtLeF Director

Are you a college student with a firm belief in the sanc-tity of life from conception to natural death? Are you studying to enter the field of web design, graphic design, television or radio broadcast-ing, film, journalism, or a similar profession? If so, then we are looking for you! Web, television and radio majors are particularly encouraged to apply.

The Oregon Right to Life Education Founda-tion is now offering a scholarship/internship for the college sophomore, junior, or senior who is certain of their major and desires to impact the world of media in a positive way for the pro-life

movement. The $2,000 scholarship award involves

an internship with the ORTL Education Foundation in which you will have the opportunity to

work in your chosen field of study.For more informa-

tion, visit http://www.ortl.org.

ORTLEF $2,000 Media Scholarship!Application deadline: November 1, 2011

Applications are now being taken for two General Direc-tor positions for the Oregon Right to Life Board of Directors. Directors will be voted on by the

general membership in January 2012 and serve for two years. Interested parties can send their pro-life resume and reasons for wanting to serve on the board

to Oregon Right to Life, 4335 River Road N., Salem, OR 97303 or email [email protected].

Right to Life board positions open


163 million “missing” womenWorldwide, 163 million women are

“missing.” This equals the entire female population of the United States. These missing females weren’t victims of neglect. They were victims of ultrasound technology and second-trimester abor-tion.

A fascinating new book by Mara Hv-istendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, has caused quite a stir. What makes this book so interesting is that the author is not pro-life, but is an abortion supporter. She argues that there is a difference between abortion to not have a child at all and abortion to not have a girl. She believes that it is access to technology like ultrasound and lax enforcement of laws against sex selec-tion that is the problem, not legalized abortion. In fact, Kvistendahl frets that misreading her book and her feminism may lead to the “feminists’ worse night-mare: a ban on all abortions.”

Hvistendahl begins with what author Paul Ehrlich, a leader of the population control movement in the 1960s and 1970s, called The Population Bomb in his 1968 book of the same title. Ehrlich proposed that “if a simple method could be found to guarantee that first-born children were males ... then population control problems in many areas would be somewhat eased.” Hvistendahl makes a compelling case that the “progressive” Western world forced population control down the throats of Asians and offered sex selection abortion as an “ethical” way to do it. In the 60s and 70s, the International Planned Parenthood Fed-eration, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and the

United Nations Family Planning Agency told couples all over Asia that they had to limit their family size or their children, and the rest of the world, would suffer.

China implemented its one-child policy of forced sterilization, forced contraception and forced abortion. At the height of China’s one-child policy enforcement, signs in villages warned “You can beat it out! You can make it fall out! You can abort it! But you cannot give birth to it!” By 2020, an estimated 20 percent of all Chinese men will lack a female counterpart. Worldwide, there are 105 boys born for every 100 girls. In India, there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121, though many Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. The imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbajan stands at 115, Georgia at 188, and Armenia at 120. Sex ratios are out of balance from Central Asia to the Balkans to Asian-American communities in the United States.

This imbalance has resulted in women being treated as commodities to be bought and sold, fueled a growing sex trafficking trade, and increased forced prostitution. Bride buying with little or no consent abounds.

An irony in this story is the deafen-ing silence of feminists, the so-called champions of women and their reproduc-tive rights. Although “choice” is resulting in the killing of millions of unborn baby girls, they have nothing to say because to them the right to abortion is sacrosanct.

Abortion for the purpose of selecting out certain humans has sobering results. Today, 90 percent of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome end up being aborted. In New York City, three African-

American babies are aborted for every two live births. Be assured that if we ever identify genetic predictors for certain conditions, we’ll see disproportionate abortions here as well.

Jonathan Last, a senior writer for the Weekly Standard, reviewed the book for the Wall Street Journal. Last’s conclusion:

“Despite the author’s intentions, Unnatural Selection might be one of the most consequential books ever writ-ten in the campaign against abortion. It is aimed, like a heat-seeking missile, against the entire intellectual framework of ‘choice.’ For if ‘choice’ is the moral imperative guiding abortion, there is no way to take a stand against ‘gen-dercide.’ Aborting a baby because she is a girl is no different from aborting a baby because she has Down syndrome or because the mother’s ‘mental health’ requires it. Choice is choice. This is where choice leads. This is where choice has already led. Ms. Hvistendahl may wish the matter otherwise, but there are only two alternatives: Restrict abortion or accept the slaughter of millions of baby girls and the calamities that are likely to come with it.”

Abortion is the greatest deliberate killer of women in the world today and the fact that 163 million girls have been aborted simply because they aren’t boys is a moral outrage. In a piece by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/opinion/27douthat.html) titled “160 million and Counting,” Douthat concluded, “The tragedy of the 163 mission girls isn’t that they’re ‘missing.’ The tragedy is that they’re dead.”

Planned Parenthood is building a new mega-clinic in the Glenwood area of Springfield (For more information, please see the article on page 1.) The abortion giant is the nation’s largest abortion pro-vider and has performed over 1.5 million abortions nationwide in the last five years. We are asking our readers to voice their opposition to this new facility. Please join us in this effort.

Call and write to the mayor and state that you do not think that killing unborn children is a good way to renew the Glenwood area.

Mayor Christine LundbergCity of Springfield225 Fifth Street • Springfield, OR 97477541-726-3702 • [email protected]

Please call and write to the following firms and urge them to withdraw from the Planned Parenthood project and let them know that you will not utilize their services if they choose to work with Planned Parenthood. Inform them about how Planned Parent-hood targets young people and encourage them to view Planned Parenthood’s very graphic material for teens in various sexual situations (see the sites www.takecaredownthere.org and www.teenwire.com).

General Contractors: Chambers Construction Co. 3028 Judkins Rd. Suite 1 • Eugene, OR 97403 Ph: 541-687-9445 • Fax: 541-687-9451

Consulting Engineers: KPFF Consulting Engineers 1201 Oak Street, Suite 100 • Eugene, OR 97401 Ph: 541-684-4902 •Fax: 541-684-4919

Architects: Robertson/Sherwood Architects 132 E. Broadway, Suite 540 • Eugene, OR 97401 Ph: 541-342-8077 • Fax: 541-345-4302

Structural Engineers: Hohbach-Lewin, Inc. 296 E. 5th Street, Suite 302 • Eugene, OR 97401 Ph: 541-349-1701• Fax: 541-349-1702

Mechanical/Electrical Engineers: Systems West Engineers 411 High Street • Eugene, OR 97401 Ph: 541-342-7210 • Fax: 541-342-7220

Landscape Architects: Cameron McCarthy Gilbert Scheibe 160 E. Broadway • Eugene, OR 97401 Ph: 541-485-7385 • Fax: 541-485-7389

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Action Alerts

Washington County Right to Life is purchasing ads for two bus benches. One bench is located near the Portland Planned Par-enthood mega-clinic in Northeast Portland. The other is near Lovejoy Sur-gicenter Abortion Clinic in downtown Portland. The benches offer a life-sav-ing alternative to girls contemplating abortion.


Portland abortion business closesAbortionist Peter Bours has closed his abortion center in For-

est Grove, a suburb west of Portland. Bours continues to operate an abortion facility in Eugene. In November, 2009 PeaceHealth Laboratories, the largest private laboratory in Oregon, stopped doing any testing for Bours’ clinic because it “was not in line with its values and mission.”

Gayle Atteberry, the director of Oregon Right to Life, is delighted with the news. “This is a significant victory, as Peter Bours has been Oregon’s infamous late-term abortionist for many years.” Atteberry explained that pro-life sidewalk counsel-ors have been praying and picketing at Bours’ facilities.

Bours, who began doing abortions in Oregon in 1975, is on the National Abortion Federation board of directors. The NAF has seen numerous abortion centers close or face disciplining from state health boards for running afoul of state health and safety laws protecting women.

Interestingly, Bours does not offer the abortion pill RU 486. His website features an article saying that Bours has quit provid-ing the pill “due to the high risk of serious complications.” In 2006, in a New York Times article about complications surround-ing the use of RU 486, Bours said, “None of these women should be dying; it’s shocking.”

[www.lifenews.com/2011/09/22/abortion-business-near-port-land-oregon-reportedly-closes]

Planned Parenthood president comes to Oregon

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund is the keynote speaker at the 2011 Oregon Summit, billed as “the Democratic Party of Oregon’s signature event and the foremost political conference in the Pacific Northwest.” Organiz-ers of the summit, held October 14-16 at Sunriver Resort, are calling it “Oregon’s Democratic kickoff to the 2012 campaign” and emphasizing opportunities for “significant networking.”

Lawsuits challenge legality of Obamacare

Several lawsuits have been filed challenging the constitu-tionality of the Obamacare law. Leading pro-life organizations oppose Obamacare because of its abortion funding component and concerns over the rationing of health care. When Congress passed the government-run health care bill there were no limits on abortion funding. Obama issued a controversial executive or-der taking the abortion funding issue off the table, but it doesn’t have the effect of law and can be ignored.

Obamacare requires citizens to purchase health insurance. In September, federal Judge Christopher Connor ruled the individu-al mandate unconstitutional after a three-judge panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state of Virginia. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said the key question is “whether Congress has a power never before recognized in American history: the power to force one citizen to purchase a good or service from another citizen.”

Matt Barber, Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law, observed, “The Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate ambitiously maintains — against considerable evidence to the contrary — that Democrats’ particular brand of health care reform is so important, so unique that the U.S. government is justified — for the first time in history — in forcing every American citizen to

purchase his own untenable, unsustainable and demonstratively defective product under penalty of law.”

Connor’s ruling now has three federal appeals courts at odds with one another. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals previously sided with the Obama administration, while the 11th Circuit struck down the individual mandate in a Florida case. These cases will eventually make their way to the Supreme Court. [www.lifenews.com/2011/09/13/judge-rules-individual-mandate-in-obamacare-unconstitutional.html]

Pro-life Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield dies

Senator Mark Hatfield will be remembered as an early pro-life warrior who supported efforts to pass the Human Life Amendment, the Hyde Amendment (which keeps federal tax dollars from funding abortions), and the ban on partial-birth abortion. Hatfield opposed the so-called Freedom of Choice Act. In 1983, speaking in favor of the Human Life Amendment, Hatfield said, “It would be simple if one concluded that convic-tions about abortion, however deeply felt, were ‘personal’ beliefs that should be followed individually, but not applied to society. But, the belief in life’s fundamental right to be has inevitable consequences. I do not, after all, believe merely in my right to be; I believe in the right of all life to be. It would be hypocritical cowardice to hold such a conviction, but not to propose, as a legislator, that society embrace this view.”

FDA report: RU 486 kills 14, injures 2,207

In a new report dated April 30, 2011, the FDA indicates 14 women in the U.S. alone have died from using the mifepristone abortion drug RU 486 and 2,207 women have been injured by it. Of the women experiencing medical and physical problems re-sulting from the drug, 612 women required hospitalization, 339 experienced blood loss significant enough to require transfusion, 256 experienced infections and 48 women experienced what the FDA called “severe infections.” These “serious infections” were likely life-threatening given that RU 486 can cause sepsis, a potentially lethal infection resulting in the deaths of women around the world. The report states, “Severe infections generally involve death or hospitalization for at least 2 to 3 days, intrave-nous antibiotics for at least 24 hours, total antibiotic usage for at least 3 days, and any other physical or clinical findings, labora-tory date or surgery that suggest a severe infection.”

The FDA admitted that RU 486 is contraindicated in patients with confirmed or suspected ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy outside the uterus). Jeanne Monahan of the Family Research Council pointed out that, “Clearly highlighting the need for more stringent medical oversight, the report also indicates that 58 women were prescribed RU 486 despite having ectopic pregnan-cies. To state it more clearly, a woman who has an ectopic preg-nancy and takes the RU 486 regimen places her life in danger.”

A recent report in The Australian (May 7, 2011) detailed a recent Australian health department audit of nearly 10,000 abor-tions in 2009 and 2010, concluding that the abortion pill is “less safe” than a surgical abortion, despite pro-abortion proponents’ claims to the contrary.

Monahan maintains, “The bottom line is that abortion drugs are not about improving women’s health but are more accu-rately about advancing a radical pro-abortion agenda regardless of the impact on women’s health, even when it proves deadly.”

[www.lifenews.com/2011/07/12/new-fda-report-abortion-drug-kills-14-women-injures-2200/]

States move to defund Planned Parenthood; Obama says he’ll re-fund with federal tax dollars

With a majority of Americans opposed to the funding of pro-abortion giant Planned Parenthood with public tax dollars, many states have moved to cut off funding. States which have de-funded Planned Parenthood or are trying to do so include In-diana, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Kansas, New Jersey, Tennessee, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, Ohio, and New Hampshire.

The Obama administration, however, is fighting those efforts. For example, when the state of New Hampshire’s Executive Council voted to eliminate $1.8 million in funding to Planned Parenthood, Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking if the federal government, already facing a debt crisis of its own, could spare a few million for their friends at Planned Parenthood. Sebelius didn’t attempt to find other providers and the U.S. Department of HHS will now provide the contract directly with federal funds.

In its pursuit of its pro-abortion agenda, the Obama adminis-tration ignored the nation’s massive debt, Planned Parenthood’s many scandals, the will of the people (who don’t want tax dollars to fund the abortion giant), and the autonomy of New Hampshire.

[Family Research Council, 9/15/2011; www.lifenews.com/2011/09/14/obama-forces-new-hampshire-to-fund-planned-parenthood/]

Planned Parenthood abortion numbers up

Planned Parenthood recently posted its annual report on its website showing abortion numbers have continued to increase for 15 straight years. During that time, it has gone from com-mitting 9.3 percent of all abortions in the U.S. to committing 27.5 percent. The nation’s largest abortion provider did 332,278 abortions during 2009 — a figure that flies in the face of the organization’s claim that abortion is only a small part of its services.

At the same time, Planned Parenthood’s report shows a drop in prenatal and adoption services. The abortion giant provided prenatal services to only 7,021 women and referred only 977 women for adoption services. These numbers represent a 25 percent drop in prenatal care clients and a staggering 59 percent decline in adoption referrals from the 2,405 adoption referrals in 2008. Planned Parenthood now does 340 abortions for every one adoption referral and 47 abortions for every one prenatal care client.

The bottom line is that 97.6 percent of pregnant women going to Planned Parenthood are sold abortions while less than 2.4 percent of pregnant women received non-abortion services including adoption and prenatal care — up from 96.5 percent in 2008. The organization has done 5,320,095 abortions since 1970.

[www.lifenews.com/2011/02/23/new-planned-parenthood-report-record-abortions-done-in-2009/]

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Pro-lifers are winning battles while fighting to defeat Roe

For years, Christians and other people of conscience have worked to undo the great damage done (53 million unborn lives lost and countless women deeply scarred) by the 1973 Supreme Court rul-ing known as Roe v. Wade.

Thus far, we have been unsuccessful in correcting Roe, which is why, after nearly four decades, there are those who say we should evacuate the public square, abandon political activism, support our local pregnancy care centers, and admit legislative and jurisprudential defeat. Focus on personal and ecclesial acts of charity, they say, but let politics alone.

Such an attitude betrays a weak understanding of the nature of political change. Such change is almost always incremental, involving two steps forward and one step back, over and over again. This process is tedious and sometimes discouraging. It is also necessary and intrinsic to any system of representative self-government.

At some point in the future, a Supreme Court that honors life might end Roe’s legacy of death. Until then conservatives and champions of life will have continued opportunities to hem in unrestricted access to abortion on demand.

For example, under President Bush, we were successful in enacting the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, a ban on partial-birth abortion, and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. We ended U.S. funding for organizations that perform abortions in the developing world and prevented federal funding of embryo-destructive stem cell research. Mr. Bush appointed a series of pro-life judges to the federal courts and actively fought efforts to clone human beings. This is only

a partial list.Under President Obama, some of

these have been reversed. Our country now funds groups that perform abortion abroad and subsidizes abortion at home. The president’s most recent Supreme Court nominee was a leading advocate for the legalization of partial-birth abor-tion. Yet, some of the progress under the previous president has not been, nor likely will be, reversed.

Since the first of the year, more than 400 pro-life measures have been introduced at the state level, with many becoming law. For example:• In Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer signed

legislation ending tax credits for Planned Parenthood.

• Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed into law four pro-life bills, including an ultrasound mandate and a ban on abortion coverage in the insurance exchanges mandated by President Obama’s health care law.

• Nebraska now has a law mandating pa-rental consent for under-age abortion.

• Ohio Governor John Kasich signed a measure preventing late-term abortions in his state.

• South Dakota now has a law requiring a three-day waiting period before a woman can have an abortion.

• In Kansas, pro-life champion Governor Sam Brownback has led his legislature in enacting key pro-life provisions.

Now in Virginia, pro-life Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli have won approval for new regulations on abortion clinics which require hospital-quality standards for first-trimester abortions. Insisting upon sound sanitation, adequate ventilation,

and sufficient physical space in facilities where a woman has one of the most invasive procedures known to medicine strikes most Virginians — and most people generally — as quite reasonable.

As University of Alabama scholar Mi-chael New has documented, these state laws play a significant role in reducing the number of abortions.

In other words, the pro-life movement has not won a single, comprehensive victory, but rather we have advanced a series of measures that increasingly have constrained abortion at both national and state levels. We have made great strides in convincing our fellow citizens that the unborn child has value independent of his or her mother, that this child is a person from conception onward and enjoys a God-endowed right to life that should be protected in law.

When some professing conservatives call for their compatriots to relinquish the battlefield for good public policy to those who oppose it, they do so out of a misapprehension as to the nature of po-litical achievement and also an immature weariness that vitiates productive, and needed, action.

“Defeat is never fatal,” Winston Churchill is reported to have said. “Victory is never final. It’s courage that counts.”

In the wake of the many welcome successes of recent years, let’s keep up the battle with the courage of which Sir Winston spoke and with the “grace and truth” Christ alone can give. After all, we know Who wins in the end.

This essay by Rob Schwarzwalker, of the Fam-ily Research Council, can be found at www.lifenews.com/2011/09/20/pro-lifers-are-win-ning-battles-while-fighting-to-defeat-roe

Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation Benefit Raffle

Happy Birthday, Baby!Saturday, October 22

Keizer Renaissance Inn 5188 Wittenberg Lane; Salem, Oregon

5:00 pm Silent Auction • 6:45 pm Dinner 7:30 pm Oral Auction

$40 per person

Proceeds benefit the educational programs and activities of Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation.

Come to bid on great items such as: billiard table, balloon ride for two, Chinook fishing trip, electric guitar, vintage cedar chest, woman’s mountain bike, and a week in Cabo San Lucas.

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• 1st Prize — $1,000• 2nd Prize — Central Oregon Weekend

(approximate $250 value)• 3rd Prize — $100 Dining Certificate• 4th Prize — Basket of Chocolates (approximate

$50 value)

The drawing will be held on October 22, 2011 at the ORTLEF Auction at approximately 9:30 p.m.

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: What women aren’t toldWhy aren’t women being told

abortion is the most preventable cause of breast cancer?• Extensive studies since 1957

document a connection between abortion and breast cancer

• In a study of eight European countries abortion was found

to be the “best predictor” of future breast cancer rates. (Journal of American Physi-cians & Surgeons, 2007 12-72-78)

• “... there is a considerable volume of evidence supporting this (abortion-breast cancer) link, which is moreover, highly

plausible. We believe that a reasonable person would want to be informed of the existence of this evidence before making her decision.” (Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director, Assoc. of American Physicians & Surgeons, Nov. 2002)

• Elevated levels of estrogen,

starting early in pregnancy, cause normal and pre-can-cerous cells to multiply and stimulate the breasts to swell. Third trimester hormones of a full-term pregnancy change cells into cancer-resistant, milk-producing tissue and turn off their cancer-forming

potential. Abortion interrupts this natural process of breast development, thus leaving the breast with more cells that can become cancerous.

For additional information, call 1-877-803-0102 or visit www.AbortionBreastCancer.com

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