New polling data confirms Mitt Romney is surging in key battleground states and could be headed not only to an election victory over pro-abortion President Barack Obama but a bigger victory than initially expected. Roanoke College surveyed likely voters in Virginia and found Romney leading by five percent: Governor Mitt Romney has overtaken President Barack Obama by a very narrow margin in Virginia (49% – 44%), according to a Roanoke College Poll conducted after the Presidential debates. Read More Eric Holder Linked to Doctor Who Killed Patient in Abortion
New documents a conservative publication obtained link Attorney General Eric Holder with a Georgia-based abortion practitioner responsible for killing a patient in an abortion and who has been accused of Medicaid fraud. Human Events says Holder has ties to Tyrone Cecil Malloy (right) and that they help explain why Holder has failed to prosecute abortion practitioners who run afoul of federal laws and why he has been eager to prosecute pro-life advocates who protest outside of abortion centers. Read More Poll: Black Pastors Stumping for Obama Again in Churches
A new Pew poll of voters finds pastors at black pastors are apparently, once again, stumping for pro-abortion President Barack Obama when talking about the upcoming election during their sermons. A Pew poll out today shows 45 percent of regular attendees at black churches say their pastor are talking about the election in a manner that is favorable to Obama, while not one African-American surveyed indicated discussion of the elections was favorable for Romney. Read More Election Will Have Major Impact on Abortion, Vote Pro-Life
Nobody knows who’s gonna win. Polls, projections, studies, reports, and well-paid pundits have plenty of predictions, but nobody knows what’s gonna happen. We do know a few other things, though. For one, we know that whoever is elected president of the United States may play a major role in reshaping the Supreme Court. As the New York Times said back in June. Read More Planned Parenthood Sinks $835K More Into Attacking Romney, $13M Total
The Planned Parenthood abortion business is putting another $835,000 into its efforts to attack Mitt Romney’s pro-life positions — reaching almost $13 million in its 2012 election efforts for President Obama. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund will spend $853,000 to run a 60-second radio ad on Colorado, Ohio and Virginia radio stations from now until Election Day. The ad relies on the some tactic it has used before to bash Romney — saying his pro-life views on abortion and women “seem like they’re from the 1950s.” Read More More Support Than Ever for Repealing Pro-Abortion Obamacare
You have to assume President Obama is sincere when he says he doesn’t mind the Affordable Health Care Act being referred to as “ObamaCare,” described as “the president’s signature domestic achievement and the source of a multi-year, major national policy debate about the role of government, health care, and insurance regulation.” (Alas, such shorthand misses that ObamaCare is not only riddled with abortion language and incentives but also gives federal bureaucrats the power to impose rationing standards on all health care providers that would require them to deny some lifesaving treatments even if the patient is willing and able to pay for it.) Read More Pro-Life Group Exposes Senate Candidates’ Pro-Abortion Records
CitizenLink, the policy arm of Focus on the Family, is challenging the pro-abortion views of seven U.S. Senate candidates by sending more than three-quarters of a million pieces of mail to micro-targeted voters in their states. In “Planned Parenthood Doors” – a gatefold piece in which Planned Parenthood’s “doors” swing open – CitizenLink exposes the priorities of Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Jon Tester (D-MT), who threatened to shut down the government unless the nation’s largest abortion business continued to get taxpayer funding. Read More Obama’s Abortion-HHS Mandate a Full-Fledged War on Religion The fact that Tyndale House Publishers, based in Carol Stream, has needed to take a stand in court against ObamaCare’s abortion pill mandate should itself shock most Americans. The publisher simply believes that devout Christians in America are exercising religion when they publish the Bible and give the proceeds to religious charity. But even this idea is now disputed. Read More
Hey President Obama: Women Vote on All Issues, Not Just Abortion I come from a line of strong women. Unlike many of their generation, both my grandmothers earned college degrees. Both studied political science, followed politics nearly all their lives and had lives rich with experience. Each had the challenge of raising teenagers in the 1960s and the joy of watching the Iron Curtain fall. With one deceased and the other suffering the signs of aging, I’m glad they aren’t following this election closely. Both would be angered over how some politicians and political parties are courting female voters. Read More
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Mitt Romney holds a strong lead in early voting results that could pave the way for an election victory over pro-abortion President Barack Obama. Yesterday, Gallup leased a new poll showing Romney leading Obama in early voting, something that had been a key part of the Obama campaign strategy. The polling firm also reported that more Republicans than Democrats have already voted by a margin of 19 to 15 percent. 
Richard Land, a Baptist leader who has been one of the leading pro-life evangelicals for many years has written an opinion piece in which he lays out the case for social conservatives as to why they should vote for Mitt Romney. Land is executive editor of The Christian Post and president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, but wrote the endorsement piece as a private citizen. The endorsement represents a break from his 24-year-old tradition of not endorsing presidential candidates. 
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn is the latest Catholic official to say that voting for pro-abortion President Barack Obama is essentially off limits for Catholic voters. He said the Catholic Church needs to do a better job of teaching Catholic voters who gravitate towards pro-abortion candidates. In his column in the diocesan newspaper, Bishop DiMarzio wrote: 
The Register recently ran a news piece slamming Mitt Romney’s plan to defund Planned Parenthood. (“Why it matters” 10/25/12). Planned Parenthood should be defunded. Here’s why: 1. Planned Parenthood duplicates services offered by county health. With overhead costs, this is an inefficient use of taxpayer funds. 
The pro-life group CatholicVote has released a new video that addresses issues of concern to Catholic voters who may be inclined to support pro-abortion President Barack Obama for re-election. The video shows how Obama’s HHS mandate, which denies religious freedom to Catholic schools, businesses and organizations, makes it more difficult to promote social justice areas like helping the poor. 
This week, as many as two million American workers are supposed to receive notice that their jobs will be ending – notices that are sometimes called “pink slips.” The massive layoffs are scheduled to hit workers for defense and other federal contractors whose payments from Uncle Sam will end or be sharply cut January 2nd under the joint Obama/Congressional budget plan called “sequestration.” 
In the final week of the elections, Mitt Romney leads pro-abortion President Barack Obama in new state and national polls as pro-life groups are working to turn out as many pro-life voters as possible. His sustained leads in the polls following the first debate in Denver have led many political pundits to move from speculating whether Romney will win the election to wondering whether he will win by a bigger margin than expected. 
The Christian Post asked me to distill the case for Mitt Romney down to 400 words. Considering that I’ve probably written (conservatively) more than 400,000 on the topic, it was a challenge. But here it is — the 400 word Christian case for Mitt Romney. Share with all your wavering friends: This election presents perhaps the clearest moral contrast of my adult life. On one side is a Republican candidate who is pro-life, supports marriage, defends religious liberty, has real-world experience creating jobs, and has a realistic understanding of the threat of jihad. 
In a last-ditch effort to get Catholic voters to support pro-abortion President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, who also backs abortion, has released a new web ad. In the ad, he claims he is a “practicing Catholic” and he claims Obama’s record matches Catholic doctrine. “As a practicing Catholic like many of you, I was raised in a household where there was absolutely no distinction between the values my mom and dad drilled into us and what I learned from the nuns and priests who educated me,” Biden says. “We call it Catholic social doctrine: ‘Whatever you do to the least of these, you do for me.’” 
With Barack Obama continuing to slip in the polls, speculation persists that Obama or his supporters will try to spring an “October surprise,” some shocking allegation to hurt Mitt Romney just before election day. One web site suggested that abortion supporters might try to re-surface an old story that they apparently think will hurt Romney’s chances of getting elected if it gets out widely. 
As we head into the final stretch of the campaign, we are starting to see abortion workers give up on their stereotypes … of YOU. Weeks into the campaign, all the labels are finally set aside. The workers begin to question what they are doing … and why it is wrong. This has already led to three workers having a change of heart during this campaign! 
The pro-life women’s group Susan B. Anthony List launched a new web ad countering the false statements made by President Obama and Vice President Biden on the campaign trail. The new ad debunks the claim that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion company, provides mammograms but does not provide abortions. The ad also hits back on the falsehood that religious institutions including hospitals and charities are not forced to provide coverage of abortion-inducing drugs under the HHS Preventive Services Mandate. 
A new video from an ad agency features children singing a liberal theme song about the problems that will supposedly occur should Democrats not vote and Mitt Romney becomes president. In the video, the children sing that sick people will be required to “just die” in a Romney presidency. The video is shocking enough without the false characterization of Romney as opposing health care for seniors or the disabled. Never mind that the claim is more appropriate for the Obama administration, which has been tagged with supporting “death panels” and health care rationing that will take place under Obamacare once it is fully implemented. 
While the economy dominates the election, there is much at stake for unborn children and those who want to ensure they are protected by law from the violence of abortion. Next January, the United States marks 40 years of virtually unlimited abortion under Roe v. Wade and more than 55 million unborn babies have lost their lives in this national travesty. The next president will have an opportunity during the four-year term to leave an indelible mark on the nation’s high court. 
When the Catholic Bishops called for a nationwide protest against the HHS mandate they fundamentally changed the topography of Catholic outreach in 2012. The battle over the Catholic vote was moved closer to the parish, not just its parking lots, but the pulpit itself. In the last three presidential elections, bishops, priests and deacons were accused of partisanship when they spoke on opposition to abortion or the defense of true marriage anmd opposition to the counterfeit notion of “same-sex marriage”. Archbishop Chaput, for example, while in Denver had to pay $45,000 to defend himself against an accusation made to the IRS by a ‘Catholic’ group supporting abortion. 
“No federal funds pay for abortion,” is Planned Parenthood’s favored response whenever taxpayer funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider is questioned. But even in spite of funding restrictions such as the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits Medicaid funds from being used directly for abortion (a restriction which Planned Parenthood unequivocally states it “strongly opposes”[i]), Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding subsidizes its abortion practice. Federal law, even before Roe v. Wade, has been concerned about abortion providers like Planned Parenthood misusing “family planning” funds to support their abortion businesses. 
My dear friend and colleague Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law professor at Liberty University School of Law, recently guest lectured during “Sexual Behavior and the Law,” a course I teach. Dr. Reisman’s lecture was filmed by CSPAN and will be airing soon. In past years, Dr. Reisman has served as scientific consultant to four U.S. Department of Justice administrations, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is a world renowned expert on the discredited research of bug doctor turned “sexologist,” Alfred Kinsey. 
The fact that abortion clinic staff routinely protect statutory rapists is not a new revelation, especially to the pro-life movement. Life Dynamics exposed this years ago, and Live Action followed that up with video proof from Planned Parenthood clinics in six states. Yet, I was still surprised to read an interview with a man calling himself “George” who runs the administrative end of an abortion clinic in New York blatantly admit that he ignores statutory rape. He was doing an “Ask Me Anything” interview on Reddit.com, a news aggregation website. (I’m not recommending Reddit to anybody because of some of the content that routinely shows up.) During an AMA, any Reddit user can ask questions, and the person doing the AMA can stay as long as he or she wants, answering as many questions as they want. 
The shocking ad from the Obama campaign that compares voting to sex and first-time voting to losing one’s virginity is a copycat of an ad released during a Russian election campaign by Vladimir Putin. The Putin ad was also intended to appeal to younger voters based on sexual themes. In the Obama campaign ad, left-wing actress Lena Dunham says, “Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy.” Later, the view learns she is talking about voting and not sex. 
The pro-life community has reacted swiftly to the controversial Obama ad that likens voting to sex and first-time voting to losing your virginity. A group of pro-lifers called Pro Life Artists Unite created a new image that encourages people to practice “Obama Abstinence” by not voting for the president for re-election. The counter-image features left-wing actress Lena Dunham, and the message “Don’t lose your job because of an unwanted Presidency.” 
The Washington Post has confirmed President Barack Obama lied about the Planned Parenthood abortion business doing mammograms during comments the other night on the Jay Leno show. Obama appeared on “The Tonight Show” Wednesday and suggested that Mitt Romney’s pledge to cut Planned Parenthood funding would deny women mammograms at Planned Parenthood. 
Desperate times apparently call for desperate ads. That’s the only way to explain the President’s sorry excuse for a get-out-the-vote video–which has all the class of a rest stop bathroom stall. With help from Lena Dunham, star of HBO’s sleazy Girls, the ad compares voting for Obama with losing your virginity. It’s low brow even for this White House, which seems to think using expletives to describe your opponent is conduct becoming a U.S. President. 
“I do not see how a Catholic could, in conscience, vote for an individual expressing him or herself as favoring abortion.” (John Cardinal O’Connor) Performing an abortion is intrinsically evil. Legislators, executives and judges supporting or maintaining the legalization or funding of abortions, and individuals voting for a referendum that legalizes or funds abortion cooperate in an intrinsic evil. 
When a 40 Days for Life vigil is just getting started, abortion workers first consider you a religious zealot, then a radical. As time goes on, you’re seen as someone who simply has nothing better to do with your time. But toward the end of the campaign, you become a question for them. The stereotypes wear off and the abortion center staffers see you as a human being … and they ask themselves the question, “What good do I really do here?” 
Live Action has released a new undercover video today showing officials with the Planned Parenthood abortion business lying about how women have been victimized by botched abortions at its centers. Live Action Advocate investigators called Planned Parenthood abortion clinics with recent cases of medical emergencies and botched abortions in 7 different states asking if Planned Parenthood’s abortion practice was safe and if women had ever been hurt at the clinics. Not a single Planned Parenthood abortion clinic acknowledged the recent injuries of women. 
Indiana pro-life groups are standing strongly behind pro-life Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he made comments abortion rape and abortion that pro-abortion activists are using to paint him as an extremist. During a debate Tuesday night with his Democratic opponent, Rep. Joe Donnelly, who is opposed by pro-life groups, Mourdock explained why he opposes abortion in the case of rape. 
Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, has recorded a new television commercial urging voters to not vote for President Barack Obama. McCorvey, who became pro-life over a decade ago, hopes the commercial will change hearts and minds on abortion. Below is the script for the TV ad: “I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought ‘legal’ child killing to America." 
Abortion proponents and their friends in the mainstream media are going ballistic over a comment yesterday by Richard Mourdock, a Republican running for senate in Indiana. In explaining his pro-life position during a candidate’s debate, Mourdock said, “Life is a gift from God and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” Immediately after the debate, Mourdock’s Democrat opponent, Joe Donnelly, tried to construe Mourdock’s remark as some kind of endorsement of rape, as if Mourdock meant that the violent act—rather than the child’s life—was intended by God. 
The Planned Parenthood abortion business is attacking Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock today over his comments on rape and abortion in last night’s debate. But the abortion business has repeatedly covered up actual or alleged cases of child rape. “Wow. Another extreme comment made about rape by an out-of-touch candidate,” Planned Parenthood said on its Facebook page. “This is the same politician Mitt Romney proudly endorsed this week, and has even said, “We’ve gotta get this guy elected to the US Senate!” Anyone with these kind of dangerous views has NO place in Congress.” 
President Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, and countless supporters have claimed again and again that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms. President Obama did so in the second presidential debate, describing the “millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for . . . mammograms.” The problem is the mammogram claim is untrue, as was just cleverly highlighted by “Schedule Your Imaginary Mammogram Day,” a phone campaign that found no Planned Parenthood clinics capable of breast cancer screening. Planned Parenthood has neither the license nor the machines. The most the abortion giant has ever done is refer women to outside mammogram providers, filling the role of the Yellow Pages or Google. 
The Obama administration filed legal papers today in an attempt to stop the lawsuit the Christian craft store Hobby Lobby brought against the HHS mandate, which violates the consciences of Christian companies. The Justice Department asked a federal judge to deny Hobby Lobby’s request to block the pro-abortion HHS mandate, which requires companies to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs. 
First Lady Michelle Obama has come under criticism before for a fundraising letter she wrote for her husband during his 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate that has her defending partial-birth abortions. Today, LifeNews is posting a rarely-seen image showing the copy of the actual letter, written to Obama financial supporters, which opposes a ban on the gruesome abortion procedure. 
Speculation has reached a fever pitch today after the Drudge Report started the rumor mill moving in full swing about a potential October Surprise pro-abortion attorney Gloria Allred reported has in store for Mitt Romney. Drudge teased the potential October surprised on Friday and the “news” web site Radar Online is reported today that Allred is moving forward with whatever she has planned, in an effort to shake up the presidential race. The move is likely intended to help Obama, who is clearly trailing in polls now to the former governor. 
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has upheld a lower court judge’s ruling that the state of Indiana can’t de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business via the state Medicaid program it runs. The ruling from a three-judge panel indicates Indiana can’t enforce a state law signed by Governor Mitch Daniels disqualifying Planned Parenthood from participating in family planing program because it does abortions. 
The Obama administration has forced multiple states to fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. In two cases, the administration has filed legal papers taking on states in court by siding with the abortion giant in its attempt to overturn de-funding laws. Last week, the Obama administration-Planned Parenthood partnership was successful in defeating the state of Arizona. Today, that partnership won at the appeals court level against the state of Indiana. 
Thomas Peters of CatholicVote puts the 2012 presidential election in perspective in a new blog post outlining 10 reasons why the next four years under President Barack Obama could be a worse setback for the pro-life cause than his first four. Peters, whose organization endorsed Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan because of their pledge to advance pro-life values in the White House, rightly focuses on the long-term entrenchment of abortion at the Supreme Court level as the number one reason. If Obama is re-elected, it is likely he will have appointed about half or more of the members of the Supreme Court — perhaps cementing unlimited abortions for another 40 years. 
We are receiving reports everyday that it’s hand-to-hand combat out there. Catholics who defend life, marriage, and religious liberty are encountering one obstacle after another in their efforts to educate fellow Catholics about the importance of Nov. 6. Case in point: Some dioceses are insisting that the only voter guides that can be distributed on parish property are the alphabetical issues guides that we discussed last week. This is the issues guide that expressly ignores the instructions issued by the bishops in the “New Introduction to Faithful Citizenship”. 
Yep, you read that headline correctly. WomensHealth.gov is a “Project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health.” This federal site has a page with a pretty long title: “Pregnancy > Before you get pregnant: Information for all women > If you are sexually active.” And, near the bottom of the page, there’s a section called “Connect with other organizations.” Most of the organizations are generally well-recognized medical groups – like the American Academy of Family Physicians. But two non-profits make the list as well: March of Dimes and Planned Parenthood. 
