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Nov 22, 2011 The Hill: Cain signs anti-abortion pledge, leaving Romney as sole GOP presidential outlier Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has signed the Susan B. Anthony List's anti-abortion pledge, leaving Mitt Romney as the only major candidate who hasn't done so. The "Pro-Life Presidential Leadership" pledge commits candidates to abide by four pro-life goals if elected to the presidency. Read More |
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Nov 20, 2011 NRO: Gingrich Defends Abortion Record Newt Gingrich has consistently upheld a pro-life standard. He had a consistent pro-life voting record throughout his twenty years in Congress, including his four years as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Gingrich pledges to uphold this consistent pro-life standard as president. Gingrich’s consistent pro-life standard is reflected by the following: Read More |
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Nov 17, 2011 Dannenfelser on Redstate: Obama's Executive Order on Abortion = Magic After word broke that the Supreme Court agreed to take up the challenge to Obama’s health care law, the political left and right went into full swing trying to dig up reasons opposing justices should recuse him or herself for this decision; and Judicial Watch hit the mother lode. Read More |
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Nov 16, 2011 Dannenfelser on Newsbusters: Huffington Post's Laura Bassett Doesn't Get It: Being Pro-Life Is Pro-Woman Pro-abortion forces in the Democratic party, unable to face the facts, have instead engaged in a head-spinning, mind-numbing campaign to portray political victories for abortion as motivated by anti-woman animus. The latest example? Check out the nasty little piece of anti-Catholic baiting by Laura Bassett in the Huffington Post, “The Men Behind the War on Women." Read More |
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Nov 14, 2011 Union Leader: Our Problematic Speech Former Rep. Steve Driehaus, a Cincinnati Democrat who considers himself pro-life, says he lost his 2010 reelection bid because the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, through its political action committee, ran ads saying — falsely, Driehaus insists — that when he voted for Barack Obama’s health care legislation he voted for taxpayer funding of abortion. Ohio’s law had a chilling effect on political speech when a billboard company, aware of Driehaus’ complaints, refused the SBA List’s business. Read More |
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Nov 4, 2011 Human Events: Pro-life PAC Targets Virginia State Senate Races “Sen. Houck has a 100% pro-abortion voting record, jeopardizing the health of women and teens,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a Washington-based PAC, which normally restricts its endorsements to national candidates. Read More |
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Nov 3, 2011 Washington Post: A feminine face for the anti-abortion movement When I spoke to one of the nation’s most prominent anti-abortion activists this week, she was in the car, rushing to meet her 10-year-old daughter at the school bus. “It’s not a very neat exercise,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, when I asked how she manages her work-life balance. Dannenfelser is the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which has grown to 330,000 members since she and a group of friends founded it in her living room in 1991. Read More |
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Nov 3, 2011 World Net Daily: Politician's claim of 'defamation' pushed to appeals court: A federal judge has pushed the "defamation" claim by a politician who was defeated during the 2010 election to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, today granting permission to the Susan B. Anthony List organization to try to argue the opinions it expressed about former Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus were protected. Read More |
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Nov 3, 2011 Washington Examiner: Defeating incumbent Democrats is not defamation Steve Driehaus formerly a House Democrat from Ohio sued the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life advocacy group, for defamation that he alleges torpedoed his re-election efforts. Talk about your sour grapes. Read More |
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Nov 1, 2011 Weekly Standard: Hidden Persuaders - The unheralded gains of the pro-life movement There’s an upside to this for the pro-life movement, a benefit of benign neglect. Foes of gay rights are now seen by the press as fighting the bad war, roughly analogous to Vietnam. Pro-lifers are waging the good war, like World War II. “You get much less grief fighting against abortion than you do fighting to preserve traditional marriage,” says Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. Read More |
