Harassment of SD Legislators Who Sponsored/Supported the Abortion Ban

Adolescent Health Care Coalition Held Fundraiser at Playboy Headquarters

Planned Parenthood Condom Key Chains

Child Protection & Safety Act: Senate Sets Fines & Imprisonment for Misleading Children to Harmful Sites  (Child Custody Protection Act stalled)

Companies/Universities Offer "Same-Sex" Benefits Despite State Bans

Top UN Official Calls for New Multi-Million $$ UN Agency for Women's Rights

WashForLife.com

Choose Life License Plates Donate Millions in 12 States

Unborn Victims Law Goes Into Effect in Alabama

THE COALITION ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH CARE held a fundraiser at the Playboy headquarters, which was protested by local pro-lifers. According to Joe Scheidler of Chicago: “They want to corrupt the youth of America with their program of perversion, pornography and free contraception...” [Pro-Life Action League letter dtd 5July06]

HARASSMENT IN SOUTH DAKOTA. SD has banned all abortions. Pro-abortion groups are boycotting some legislators who own small businesses, & some legislators have been subjected to threats on their lives, including the main sponsor of the ban. Others have had private property vandalized and stolen. [Cincinatti Rt to Life, June/July 2006]

CONDOM KEY CHAIN, thanks to Planned ParenthoodConnecticut; it is offering a condom key chain online, with 28 different models containing slogans in the condom. “One style shows a crying baby with the comment, ‘Condoms are cheaper than diapers’. Enough said.” [Cincinatti Rt to Life, June/July 2006]

WASHFORLIFE.COM. A group of college grads have given up a year after college to organize pro-life fund-raising. Their idea is to organize teens to hold CAR WASHES all over the USA on 16Sept06 to raise funds for thier local pregnancy centers.

20 YEARS FOR DISGUISING PORN/HARMFUL SITES AS CHILD-FRIENDLY: SENATE LEGISLATION. Luring children to websites containing sexual content by using child-friendly words may soon be a felony, under new legislation approved by the U.S. Senate, reported CNET News.com. The Child Protection and Safety Act would see fines and imprisonment for up to 20 years handed to anyone convicted of deliberately misleading children to view potentially harmful web pages. “Whoever knowingly embeds words or digital images into the source code of a website with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material harmful to minors on the Internet shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not more than 20 years,” the legislation declares.

“This bill will protect children and save countless lives by dramatically improving our efforts against sex offenders and violent criminals,” said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, after the vote. “Too many parents are devastated by an innocent child exploited and harmed by predators lurking in our communities.” Webmasters, however, would have to clearly indicate an “intent to deceive” visitors who access the site before they would be subjected to charges under the legislation, a requirement that would leave the application of the law open to extensive judicial interpretation.

The legislation would also tighten laws relating to child pornography, sex offender registration and child exploitation. The Senate approved the bill by a voice vote. The House, which voted to approve an earlier version of the bill, is expected to clear the revised version next week and send the legislation to President Bush for his signature. The president endorsed the legislation Friday, saying it would provide “law enforcement officials with the tools they need to track those who prey upon children”. See “Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006”:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/adam.walsh.child.protection.072106.pdf
[25July06, LifeSiteNews.com]

Child Custody Protection Act (S. 403). On July 25, the U.S. Senate passed this, 65-yes, 34-no, 1-not voting (Roll Call 216). However, when Majority Leader Bill First (R-TN) moved to request a conference with the House on the House-passed H.R. 748, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), the Assistant Minority Leader, objected. The question of how to proceed remains to be resolved. Sen. Frist is quoted as saying that S. 403 eventually will go to conference. He hopes the Democrats will relent, but if not, "he plans to push ahead to overcome all obstacles before the Senate recesses in early October for the fall elections" (CQToday, 7/27/06). Sen. Frist may file a cloture motion to overcome the objection. Invoking cloture requires 60 votes. [NCHLA, 28July06]

COMPANIES/UNIVERSITIES OFFERING SAME-SEX BENEFITS DESPITE GAY "MARRIAGE" BAN. The Cincinnati Post reports that most of the region’s major employers offer the same benefits package to co-habiting homosexual partners as to legally married couples.

While the federal government deliberates on a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex “marriage” and individual states are being turned into legal battlefields, businesses and service organizations across the country have been quietly rendering the struggle moot for years.

The Post reports that Procter & Gamble, Health Alliance, Toyota and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ashland, Federated Department Stores, Delta Air Lines and E.W. Scripps all offer marriage or domestic partner benefits to employees.

This is despite the fact that in 2004, Ohio passed one of the strongest prohibitions against equating in any way homosexual partnerings with true marriage. The law not only prohibits the state from recognizing as legitimate gay “marriages,” but forbids benefits for “domestic partners” for state employees, including cohabiting heterosexual couples.

The legal ban in Ohio does not put a prohibition on such benefits in private companies.

The ban likely does affect publicly funded universities, however. The Post reports that Ohio’s Miami University is being sued by Republican state Rep. Tom Brinkman of Cincinnati to halt its recently established domestic partner benefits policy.

Lawmakers in Kentucky are considering legislation that would prohibit marriage or marriage-like employee benefits at public universities in response to the decision of University of Louisville to offer the same kind of benefits.  The Post quotes the homosexual lobby organization, Human Rights Campaign, that says some 9,000 companies and 300 colleges and universities extend benefits to employees' same-sex partners. [Related: Ohio Passes Strongest Same-Sex 'Marriage' Ban in U.S.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jan/04012306.html]  [25July06, LifeSiteNews.com, Hilary White]

TOP UN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR NEW UN AGENCY FOR WOMEN. A top official at the United Nations has called for the creation of a multi-million dollar agency devoted to women's rights; one that opponents suspect would be devoted to the ongoing UN push for radical feminism. Stephen Lewis, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and former Canadian Ambassador to the UN, said his travels around the world have led him to call for the new agency. Lewis told Voice of America, "We have United Nation's agencies for everything from children, to health, to food, to education. We do not have a United Nation's agency to represent, and assist and liberate, and enhance the lives of more than half the world's people."

Lewis says the new agency would be constructed differently than other agencies in that it should be created with major input from non-governmental NGOs that were active in the various world conferences on women, particularly the Fourth World Conference for Women (Beijing, 1995). Those NGOs are considered by conservatives to be among the most radical in the world and are those calling for making abortion a universally recognized human right.

Some UN sources have indicated the proposal will gain little traction because of internal resistance from other UN agencies who would see a new women's agency as a threat to their turf. The Toronto Sun reported that the agency "would consolidate scattered projects now under the wings of the children's fund UNICEF, the UN Population Fund, the World Health Organization, and the UN Development Program." It should also be pointed out that Lewis's premise is shaky; much of the work of the UN in recent years has been the push for women's rights. UNICEF, the agency for children, has a substantial department devoted to women's rights, for instance.
 Lewis tried to diffuse fears his proposed agency would encroach on existing ones and denied the claims of the Toronto Sun. "No, that is explicitly not the case . . .  I would not think for a moment of taking pieces out of reputable existing agencies which are doing a good job — albeit within their limited mandate."

Lewis has recently proposed the new agency to a UN panel in Geneva. If the panel backs the proposal it is conceivable the proposal would eventually come before the UN General Assembly. Even if the GA agrees to the concept, an agency like this can only come into fruition if independent funding is found, generally from the pool of donor nations like the United States.  [14July06, C-FAM; Friday Fax Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required.Mark Adams]

CHOOSE LIFE LICENSE PLATE. “Over $6 Million for Pregnancy Care Centers, Maternity Homes and non-profit adoption agencies (to help them with their adoption efforts) in the 12 states where the plate is currently available. Three more have been approved and KY will be available later this month, TN sometime this fall and IN around Jan07.

None of these funds come to Choose Life, Inc. and we are launching into a large advertising campaign wherein we will be mailing out 300,000 flyers in a number of counties to vehicle owners as a test program to see if we can urge them to switch to the Choose Life license plate. If this campaign works, we will be sharing the idea and concept with all groups promoting the Choose Life license plate. If you are able to help us with these costs, please make a check payable to Choose Life, Inc., a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization - all donations are tax deductible. You can also support us by purchasing Choose Life items at http://www.ecognizant.net/chooselife/show_items.tcl.” [17July06 email] [Coordinators, Choose Life, Inc.; www.choose-life.org,   (877) 454-1203]

UNBORN VICTIMS LAW GOES INTO EFFECT IN ALABAMA. Prosecutors can charge perpetrators with 2 crimes if they kill or injure an unborn child during an attack on the mother. The bill was signed into law into law in April and took effect in July; 34 states now have such laws on the books during all or part of pregnancy, with 24 states, including AL, protecting women & unborn children from violence during all nine months of pregnancy. Advocates hope the law will provide greater protection for unborn children and their mothers and deter those who might use violence to force a woman into an unwanted abortion. Studies have shown that homicide is the leading cause of death among pregnant women, and in many cases women have been assaulted or killed for refusing to have abortions. [Elliot Institute, 27July06, vol. 5, no 6; LifeNews.com]