President Barack Obama's Approval Rating Falls 17 Percent Since Taking Office
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Gallup polling organization has been conducting a daily tracking poll and, in the past month, Obama's job approval ratings have plunged by several percentage points. The drop in support has been particularly noticeable among Independents and Republicans (one month ago a narrow plurality of Republicans approved of the way Obama was handling his job, now a majority of Republicans say they disapprove). The polls also follow a survey that showed a majority of Americans disapproved of his sending taxpayer dollars to groups that perform and promote abortions in other nations. Although Gallup still shows 63 percent of Americans approving of Obama's job as president and 24 percent disapproving, Obama's negatives have trended higher and his positives lower since taking office. Obama started his presidency with a net 56 percent positive approval rating. Since then he's lost a 17 percent to have only a net positive of 39 percent. Looking at the poll on the Mexico City Policy, 58 percent of Americans opposed Obama's pro-abortion decision while just 35 percent support edit and 7 percent had no opinion.

Pro-Abortion Speaker Nancy Pelosi Took Months Meet With Her Bishop
San Francisco, CA (LifeNews.com) -- It appears pro-abortion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took months to meet with her own bishop, San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer. In the nearly six months since she told Tom Brokaw on ABC’s Meet the Press that the Catholic Church supposedly didn't know when life began and that it only recently came to a pro-life position on abortion, Perlosi was been unable to meet with her main spiritual shepherd. “While she initially accepted the archbishop's invitation to a pastoral meeting, she has not been able to arrange such a meeting on her schedule, despite our putting forward several available dates,” Maurice Healy, spokesman for the archbishop, told Our Sunday Visitor. Pelosi finally made her way to a meeting with Niederaurer on February 8, but it appears Pelosi was reluctant to change her pro-abortion views. “It went well,” Brendan Daly, press spokesman for Pelosi, told OSV. “They both thought it was productive and agreed they would meet in the future at some point.” Daly said they did not set a date. Daly said that the meeting did not sway Pelosi's stance on life issues. “She is not changing her position on abortion,” he said. According to the Catholic newspaper, Healy said the archdiocese also received “hundreds of e-mails and phone calls to the archdiocese from Catholics across the country” after Pelosi’s comments. “Archbishop Niederauer was on a pastoral visit to Vietnam and returned in early February. I have brought to his attention the reaction to Speaker Pelosi's comments,” Healy told OSV. Pelosi attends St. Vincent de Paul parish in San Francisco and has described herself as an “ardent, practicing Catholic.”

Pro-Life Debate-Legal Movie "Come What May" Heading for DVD Release
Washington, DC (LIfeNews.com) -- A pro-life movie largely produced by over 40 homeschooled students will release nationwide on DVD next month after receiving critical acclaim from Christians and conservatives over the past several months. Produced with local cast and crew members, as well as approximately 40 homeschooled students from across the country, “Come What May” is the maiden project of Advent Film Group (AFG), a faith-based film production and distribution corporation founded by filmmaker George Escobar. The movie follows the story of Caleb Hogan, a recent transfer to Patrick Henry College who must decide whether to vigorously defend an abortion parental rights case from a distinctly Christian perspective or do what might win the National Moot Court Championship. PHC founder and chancellor Dr. Michael Farris, who wrote the film's legal framework, is a constitutional attorney who has successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. And the core team of homeschoolers who worked on the movie tapped into speech and debate clubs for homeschoolers, in particular the NCFCA league. "That's our 'secret sauce,'" Escobar said. "The NCFCA is the third-largest speech and debate league in the country, created exclusively by and for high school home schoolers. Graduates from NCFCA dominate college debate tournaments." Like Sherwood Pictures, producers of “Fireproof” and “Facing the Giants,” AFG produces with extensive volunteer help, donated locations, learn-as-you-go filmmaking, and considerable "prayer coverage." Since it first started producing films, Sherwood Pictures has gone from producing films on a $20,000 budget to a $500,000 budget and recently raked in over $33 million from their last film, "Fireproof."

Pro-Life British MEP Nirj Deva Nominated for Seat on House of Lords
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life MEP Nirj Deva was nominated today for a peerage (seat in the British House of Lords) by ConservativeHome.com, the most influential of the Conservative Party's informal activist-led web sites. Benjamin Harnwell, Secretary General of the European Parliament's Working Group on Human Dignity, told LifeNews.com, "It is crucial, not simply for Nirj, but more importantly for the credibility of the causes he personally champions, such as the pro-life agenda, that there are as many positive comments made on this web site as possible. I therefore ask all LifeNews readers to make a short comment in support of this nomination." Harnwell continued: "Nirj has held to the pro-life cause in meetings when it has been popular; and far more commonly, when this has been unpopular. I have seen personally with my own eyes other MEPs blackening his character saying that he is a fascist who wants women to die in childbirth, and other poisonous slurs. Nirj has given leadership on this issue, with little regard for his own reputation for so long. LifeNews.com readers can post a comment here.

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