Dear Friend
As you well know, last week’s overturning
of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court was a historic event.
While the Supreme Court made the decision, the victory belongs to all
of you. For 50 years, you have marched, petitioned, and prayed for the
day Roe would be overturned, and the LORD was gracious to answer this
prayer.
As an organization, we have worked incredibly
hard doing our part to protect life. We are quite nostalgic
as we think of what our team has been through leading up to this
decision:
- All those hours in prayer seeking wisdom and guidance and
praying for results
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All those bills we helped pass at the State legislature—over 30
restrictions on abortion—most of which are still law, and some of
which were vetoed
- All those emails and social media posts urging action to
support our legislative work
- All those hours of working on bill language and meeting with
legislators in their offices to lobby them
- All those late nights at the legislature and in front of a
computer or on the phone just to ensure pro-life bills won
- All those emails sent by people around the state to
legislators and the Governor supporting limitations on
abortion
- All those rallies outside the General Assembly…bringing in
abortion survivors and others to testify to the horrors of
abortion
- All those press interviews with hostile members of the press,
trying to get our message out and persuade those on the fence about
abortion
- All those post-abortive women who have regrets about their
abortions showing up to tell legislators they wish they had more time
to think it over
- All those precious children with Down Syndrome, some of whom
testified before committees, who met legislators and told of the value
of their lives
- All those people we brought to the General Assembly to show up
in committee meetings and the House and Senate galleries, and to speak
to their legislators about pro-life bills we pushed
- All those phone calls and visits collaborating with
pregnancy centers, abortion clinic prayer groups, and pro-life public
policy groups to join forces as allies and brothers and sisters and
Christ
It all finally came together last week when the LORD gave us
all a great victory!
Because of a 1973 statute and a
federal court decision, abortion is currently legal up to “viability”
(24 weeks) in North Carolina.
We have a lot
of work to do to make North Carolina pro-life!
Except
for Virginia, all the states that border North Carolina have already
become pro-life due to Heartbeat bills or Trigger laws they passed.
Unless we do something about it, North Carolina will become the
largest abortion destination in the South, possibly tripling the
number of abortions taking place in our state. As reported in this Assembly NC
article entitled “The State of Last Resort,” “the medical team at the
Asheville clinic are preparing to step into an unprecedented position:
providing abortions for patients coming from all over the South.”
The Dobbs decision rightly returned the issue of abortion to
our state, and it is now up to us to work on electing veto-proof
pro-life majorities in the NC House and Senate, and then passing
pro-life legislation that saves lives and stops this all from
happening.
In anticipation of all the questions that surround
abortion in North Carolina, we have launched a resource site at ncvalues.org/prolifenc. On it, you can
get info, laws, history, and answers to frequently asked
questions related to the state of abortion in NC. We’ve
even created an interactive GIS map that helps women find their nearest pro-life
pregnancy centers.
We CANNOT allow our
state to become the abortion destination of the
South!
If you agree, would you
honor the work we have done all these years—and equip us to perform
the work that is ahead—by making a needed pro-life end-of-month
donation of $10, $25, $50, $100, or more before MIDNIGHT
tonight?
Tami Fitzgerald, Executive
Director, NC Values
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