30 years, 30 pro-life faces

Long before he rose to U.S. Attorney General, Mr. Ashcroft, as attorney general of Missouri, argued his state's parental consent law all the way to the Supreme Court. He won a 5-4 decision in 1983.

A theologian and academic by training, in 1975 he co-founded the Christian Action Council, an anti-abortion group that pioneered the crisis pregnancy center movement.

President and co-founder of the American Life League, she has stayed the course in pro-life activity during all three of the Roe decades.

Though he may have been a little unenthusiastic, the first President Bush repeatedly vetoed bills from a hostile Congress that would have rolled back Reagan-era pro-life measures.

After eight years of unrelentingly bad news, the second President Bush cheered pro-lifers by signing a raft of pro-life executive orders his second day in office.

Pro-aborts torpedoed the distinguished jurist's nomination to the Supreme Court, largely because his strict constructionist philosophy endangered the fuzzy logic of Roe vs. Wade.

The Florida congressman introduced his Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act in 1995. Eight years later, the bill is still at the center of a political firestorm.

As Mary Doe, a young, homeless mother in the early 1970s, her attorneys turned her child custody request into Doe vs. Bolton, the landmark abortion case decided along with Roe.

The popular Pennsylvania governor, a Democrat, was famously blacklisted by national Democratic leaders for his pro-life views. He was the defendant in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.

Committed to compassionate alternatives to abortion, the president of Care Net (formerly the Christian Action Council) died in an automobile accident in 2000.

In 1974, in the first major statewide contest after Roe vs. Wade, Mr. Dole defeated Rep. William Roy, a doctor who had performed abortions.

Fearing the first anniversary of Roe would pass without protest, she gathered grassroots leaders and organized the first March for Life. She hasn't missed a year since.

In 1981, the Utah senator introduced his amendment declaring that the U.S. Constitution secures no right to abortion. It was defeated in 1983 by a vote of 49-50.

Much to the chagrin of her leftist colleagues, the Emmy-winning actress has taken an outspokenly pro-life stand in Hollywood.

With New York Sen. James Buckley as a co-sponsor, the first-term senator from North Carolina introduced the first-ever Human Life Amendment in 1975.

The first lawmaker to introduce successful pro-life legislation, Rep. Hyde sponsored a bill banning Medicaid funding of abortion as early as 1976.

The first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, she went on to become the first president of the National Right to Life Committee.

The Gospel of Life, the pope's 1995 manifesto, reemphasized that the full moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church is squarely behind the pro-life movement.

Over strong objections from the UN, the congressman sponsored a 1985 bill that denied U.S. foreign aid to any international organization that supported forced abortion.

In 1995 the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade emerged—as a pro-lifer. Her testimony about the lies in her case spotlighted the desperation of pro-abortion forces.

Traveling in China in '79, Mr. Mosher discovered and publicized China's forced-abortion policy. His work resulted in the eventual passage of the landmark Kemp-Kasten Bill.

At the National Prayer Breakfast in 1995, she lectured President and Mrs. Clinton: "America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe vs. Wade has deformed a great nation...."

A co-founder of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League), Dr. Nathanson later had a change of heart, publishing his seminal work, Aborting America, in 1979.

His executive orders banning public funding of abortions both at home and abroad saved lives for more than a decade, until they were overturned by Bill Clinton.

Principal sponsor of the Senate's partial-birth abortion ban, he refused to consider a late-term abortion when his own child was diagnosed with a fatal deformity.

Through his friendship with Billy Graham and C. Everett Koop, the Reformed theologian/writer helped to popularize the pro-life cause beyond its Roman Catholic base.

As president of the Pro-Life Action League, Mr. Scheidler advocates abortion clinic protests that are nonviolent but hardly noncontroversial.

A Chicago nurse, she exposed the scandal of babies being left to die after unsuccessful abortions. Her efforts led to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, enacted in 2002.

The oft-arrested, always-defiant pro-life activist founded Operation Rescue in 1986. His tactics provoked a federal overreaction, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Dr. Willke served 10 years as president of the National Right to Life Committee and then founded the International Right to Life Federation in 1989. c

Testimony of Gianna Jessen

Hearing on H.R. 4292, the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2000"

House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution

July 20, 2000

My name is Gianna Jessen. I would like to say thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I count it no small thing to speak the truth. I depend solely on the grace of God to do this. I am 23 years old. I was aborted and I did not die. My biological mother was 7 months pregnant when she went to Planned Parenthood in southern California and they advised her to have a late-term saline abortion.

A saline abortion is a solution of salt saline that is injected into the mothers womb. The baby then gulps the solution, it burns the baby inside and out and then the mother is to deliver a dead baby within 24 hours.

This happened to me! I remained in the solution for approximately 18 hours and was delivered ALIVE on April 6, 1977 at 6:00 am in a California abortion clinic. There were young women in the room who had already been given their injections and were waiting to deliver dead babies. When they saw me they experienced the horror of murder. A nurse called an ambulance, while the abortionist was not yet on duty, and had me transferred to the hospital. I weighed a mere two pounds. I was saved by the sheer power of Jesus Christ.

Ladies and gentleman I should be blind, burned.....I should be dead! And yet, I live! Due to a lack of oxygen supply during the abortion I live with cerebral palsy.

When I was diagnosed with this, all I could do was lie there. "They" said that was all I would ever do! Through prayer and hard work by my foster mother, I was walking at age 31/2 with the help of a walker and leg braces. At that time I was also adopted into my wonderful family. Today I am left only with a slight limp. I no longer have need of a walker or leg braces.

I am so thankful for my Cerebral Palsy. It allows me to really depend on Jesus for everything.

When the freedoms of one group of helpless citizens are infringed upon, such as the unborn, the newborn, the disabled and so called "imperfect," what we do not realize is that our freedoms as a NATION and Individuals are in great peril.

I come today in favor of this Bill, in favor of the Protection of Life. I come to speak on behalf of the infants who have died and for those appointed to death. Learned Hand, a well respected American Jurist (within our own century) said: " The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near 2000 years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there is a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest."

Where is the soul of America?! Members of this committee: where is YOUR heart? How can you deal with the issues of a nation without examining her soul? A murderous spirit will stop at nothing until it has devoured a nation. Psalm 53:1-3 says: "The fool has said in his heart, 'there is no God'; they are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good. God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. Every one of

them has turned aside; they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one."

Adolph Hitler once said: "The receptive ability of the great masses is only very limited, their understanding is small; on the other hand their forgetfulness is great. This being so, all effective propaganda should be limited to a very few points which in turn, should be used as slogans until the very last man is able to imagine what is meant by such words." Today's slogans are: "a woman's right to choose" and "freedom of choice," etcetera.

There was once a man speaking from hell (recorded in Luke 16) who said "I am tormented in this flame." Hell is real. So is Satan, and the same hatred that crucified Jesus 2000 years ago, still resides in the hearts of sinful people today. Why do you think this whole room trembles when I mention the name Jesus Christ? It is because He is REAL! He is able to give grace for repentance and forgiveness to you and to America. We are under the judgement of God - but we can be saved through Christ. Romans 5:8-10 "But God demonstrates his own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For when we were ENEMIES we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life."

Death did not prevail over me....and I am so Thankful!!

The Emerging Reality of Fetal Pain in Late Abortion The disturbing concept that an unborn child feels pain while being destroyed has once again entered the public conscience in England, when a pro-choice fetal researcher suggested that anesthesia should be given to comfort the fetus from pain from abortions as early as 17 weeks gestation.

ABCNEWS.com : New Ultrasound Gives Womb With a View As early as the seventh week of pregnancy, they provide a window parents have never had, and an early opportunity to bond.

The scan provides completely different information from the 2-D black and white ultrasound images that all women are offered at 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy," said Stuart Campbell, head of obstetrics and gynecology at St. George's Hospital Medical School. "The 2-D scan is excellent at showing the structure of the internal organs but the [more-detailed scan] gives better views of the surface features.

The Use of Graphic Photos of Aborted Children in the Public Forum Ephesians 5:11 states "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them." The large graphic photos expose the heinous truth about abortion in an unsurpassed way. Unlike other modern social movements, the media has been unwilling to take images of injustice against the unborn to the public. Pro-life activists have struggled one city, one neighborhood, one person at a time to expose the grim truth about the plight of the unborn. The large graphic photos are a crucial tool, which has successfully allowed Christians to fulfill the Biblical mandate to expose evil.

The Silent Scream A Realtime ultrasound video tape and movie of a 12-week suction abortion is commercially available as, The Silent Scream, narrated by Dr. B. Nathanson, a former abortionist. It dramatically, but factually, shows the pre-born baby dodging the suction instrument time after time, while its heartbeat doubles in rate. When finally caught, its body being dismembered, the baby's mouth clearly opens wide - hence, the title (available from American Portrait Films, P.O. Box 19266, Cleveland, OH 44119, 216-531-8600). Proabortionists have attempted to discredit this film. A well documented paper refuting their charges is available from National Right to Life, 419 7th St. NW, Washington, DC 20004.

After showing this film to thousands of women contemplating an abortion, we can testify to its powerful impact on them to choose life for their preborn child.

Click Here to See What Abortion Looks Like From the inception of his pro-life work, Fr. Frank Pavone has been urging the mass media to show the American people what an abortion is. Abortion is a reality which is so horrific that words alone can never convey its meaning.

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Some prominent pro-life faces throughout the last thirty years