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Dear John,
In late February, only days after Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated his unprovoked war against Ukraine, the U.S. Senate reconvened to vote on new proposed laws.
What urgent issues were they debating? The deceptively named Women's Health Protection Act, which should really be called the "Abortion on Demand Act."
The most extreme pro-abortion bill ever considered by Congress, it would have eliminated almost every state-level protection for the unborn and codified abortion-on-demand into federal law. Thankfully, it failed by a 46-48 vote in the Senate when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) sided with the pro-life position.
But the fact that such a bill was even brought up for a vote was a disturbing snapshot of leftist leadership--revealing that their war on the unborn is one of their top priorities, even with an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
During an election year, Washington calls this failed legislation a "messaging bill." The message is: Democrats are obsessed with brutal, inhumane, late-term abortion.
What has sparked this latest leftist extremism?
It's an impending U.S. Supreme Court decision--Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which challenges a Mississippi state law. The high court's decision coming in the next few months could overturn Roe v. Wade and return jurisdiction over issues of life and abortion to states.
Lives are on the line right now--and your support of Family Research Council matters during these decisive months. Can you help us in this effort?
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FRC is on the front lines in pro-life battles: writing needed legal briefs, urging policymakers to take a stand, and informing the public of what's really happening.
On our national program Washington Watch, FRC's Senior Director of Government Affairs, Quena Gonzalez, explained the nature of the Mississippi case at the nation's highest court. "We don't know how the Supreme Court will react. But the states aren't waiting."
Several states including Arizona, Florida, and Kentucky have passed laws similar to Mississippi's Gestational Age Act, the law at the heart of the Dobbs case that protects the child in the womb from abortion once the baby reaches 15 weeks gestation. The West Virginia House also passed similar legislation that is being considered in the state Senate.
Other states are taking different approaches--three of them putting the question to voters, who will head to the polls in November. Ballot measures in Kansas and Kentucky, if enacted by popular vote, would declare there is no state constitutional right to abortions. In Montana, their pro-life ballot initiative centers on defining a baby in the womb as "a legal person" deserving of medical care to preserve his or her life.
But the pro-abortion lobby is also mobilizing. They have one (and possibly two) of their own ballot measures for state voters.
In Vermont, pro-abortion groups are trying to get abortion written into the state constitution. But to obscure the issue, they use the euphemism "personal reproductive autonomy." Michigan has a separate pro-abortion measure that could make it onto their November ballot--which is being backed by Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business. No conflict of interest there!
Clearly, the work of FRC to educate and mobilize Americans will be essential in the coming season. We appreciate your support through prayer and your best financial gift during this time.
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Leftist efforts to legalize unlimited, taxpayer-funded abortion up to birth are surely unjust, wrong, and immoral.
As Psalm 139:13-14 states clearly: "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . . ."
And the Left's extreme pro-abortion position also goes against the views of most Americans, as reflected in countless surveys over many years. Last year, a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that only eight percent of Americans voiced support for third-trimester abortion.
In fact, FRC's Gonzalez says leftist efforts to expand abortion have largely been failing. "If you're on the pro-abortion side, at the state level, you're very much on the defensive these days . . . We're seeing state after state pick up that [pro-life] mantle and begin to really whittle away at abortion in their state."
With your voice and active participation, I believe our nation will continue to reject outrageous proposals that represent the outer bounds of inhumane treatment of lives in the womb. Thank you in advance for supporting FRC's impactful work to voice your values.
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