Fight FOCA Postcard Campaign Expected for January 24 to Stop Abortion Bill
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The nation's Catholic bishops are sponsoring a nationwide postcard campaign on January 24 to send postcards to members of Congress urging them to oppose the so-called Freedom of Choice Act. That is the bill that would legalize abortion throughout pregnancy for any reason and overturn hundreds of pro-life laws in every state. Bishop Robert J. Hermann of the Archdiocese of St. Louis talked about the effort to get members of Congress to oppose the bill. "FOCA is the most radical pro-abortion legislation that has ever been promoted, and therefore, it is very important that every Catholic inform their public representatives that we cannot tolerate legislation that will intensify the destruction of our children," he said. FOCA "is more radical than Roe vs. Wade because it will not allow anyone — the government, doctors, parents — to interfere with the so-called ‘right’ to an abortion," Christina Heddell, director of the Respect Life Apostolate, told the St. Louis Review. "It is imperative that the Church send a clear message to the elected officials in Washington that we do not want women and their unborn children to suffer under FOCA or any related measure that promotes procured abortion." The postcards will be distributed to parishes on the weekend of January 24 and pro-life advocates are asked to contact their church or diocese for more information.

Pro-Life Response Strong to Pro-Abortion Memo With Obama's Marching Orders
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- When LifeNews.com reported about the memo that dozens of leading pro-abortion groups put on the Barack Obama transition team web site, pro-life advocates were up in arms. The memo contained the new president's marching orders -- with requests to spend billions on promoting abortions and funding pro-abortion groups domestically and overseas. It also asked Obama to sign the FOCA bill to overturn hundreds of pro-life laws nationwide that have reduced abortions to historic lows. Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, talks about the reaction to the memo and she explains how pro-life advocates have flooded the Obama transition team web site with opposition. "I am also heartened by the response to the 55-page Wish List pro-abortion forces sent to President-elect Obama," she said. "Now there are nearly 3,000 comments, mostly pro-life, on the site." Yoest says the response is indicative of how pro-life people will stand against Obama during his administration. "Many people have been asking me how things stand, and what our strategy will be, with an incoming presidential administration that has taken such a radical stance supporting abortion. The short answer: I am, frankly, heartened by the tremendous response" from pro-lifers.

CNN Promotes Pro-Abortion Group as Possible Charity Recipient for Pro-Lifers
Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) -- After nearly nearly 36 years of an intense battle in the United States over the issue of abortion, people on the pro-life side of the abortion debate are used to media bias. CNN displayed another example of it in a recent news story. CNN reporter Elizabeth Landau wrote a recent piece on a new web site that allows participants to make a financial wager about some sort of New Year's resolution ranging from losing weight to driving slower to spending more time with family. If the person fails to accomplish the goal, they forfeit a pre-determined amount of money and the money can be designated to charity. In an attempt to promote abortion, Landau named a prominent pro-abortion group as a possible charity a participant could designate and said pro-life advocates could support it as motivation to meet the desired goal. "Forfeited money from unfulfilled promises goes to a charity or, depending on the user's preference, an 'anti-charity' -- one the user doesn't support. For example, a person who feels strongly against abortion can designate the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation as the recipient of the money if he or she does not meet a personal goal." Landau failed to promote a pro-life charity for abortion advocates to support if they fail to meet their own goals and did not respond to a request for comment from LifeNews.com. Express your displeasure to CNN by going to http://edition.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?35

Nursing Web Site Poll: Majority of British Nurses Opposed to Assisted Suicide
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll from a leading British web site Nurses UK finds a majority of nurses in England join Prime Minister Gordon Brown in opposing any bill to legalize assisted suicide. The survey found only 20.9% of UK nurses think that assisted suicide should be legalized in the UK. "With Nurses being on the front line of care here in the UK we wanted to get their opinion on this sensitive subject," stated Matt Farrah, Sales Director of Nurses.co.uk. "The results show overwhelmingly that nurses here in the UK would like the law to remain as it is and for assisted suicide to remain illegal." Nurses.co.uk is a leading portal for Nurses and Nursing Jobs in the UK and over 30,000 nurses visit the web site every month. As LifeNews.com previously reported, Brown said in an interview at the end of December that he would block any legislation to legalize assisted suicide and that British law should make “absolutely clear” that it recognizes the value of human life. "I am totally against laws [allowing assisted suicide or euthanasia]," Brown said. "It is not really for us to create any legislation that would put pressure on people to feel they had to offer themselves because they were causing trouble to a relative or anyone else."

Cuba Still Violates Pro-Lifer's Human Rights 60 Years After Key UN Document
Havana, Cuba (LifeNews.com) -- Last month, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights marked 60 years, but political prisoners in Cuba don't see much reason to celebrate. That includes Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a leading pro-life advocate in the communist Caribbean nation who stood up to the Castro regime's pro-abortion demands. A physician and founder and president of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, Biscet has been confined to a prison cell for all but 36 days since 1999. Daniel and Jordan Allott recently penned a piece at the American Spectator about Biscet. Here is an excerpt: "He first drew the ire of the communist regime by exposing its use of infanticide and forced abortion. (Cuba has one of the world's highest abortion rates.) In 1999, after hanging a Cuban flag upside down in protest, Biscet was given a three-year sentence for the crime of 'disrespecting patriotic symbols.' Held captive in a tiny, windowless cell at the Combinado del Este prison outside Havana, Biscet is denied most family visits as well as essential medicine and food. He suffers from a variety of chronic ailments and reportedly is losing his eyesight. But Biscet, an epitome of fortitude, endures in prison, praying for freedom and justice while writing letters of encouragement to his supporters and continuing to defy his captors. All of which makes Biscet almost as much of a menace to his captors in prison as he would be on the outside." In 2007, President Bush presented Biscet, in absentia, with the presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation's highest civil award.

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