Sanctity of Life


Nik

Nikolas T. Nikas of the Bioethics Defense Fund will discuss “Should Morality Be Legislated? Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” Commentary by the Executive Director & Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Innovation, Gary Marchant.

5pm-6pm: Mixer/Welcome reception: Hors d’oeuvres will be served
6pm-8pm: Presentation by Nik Nikas and Commentary by Professor Marchant

This event will qualify for up to one hour of CLE credit. There will be a $10 fee and an RSVP is required for CLE credit. Please send your RSVP to Callie Parkinson at cnparkinsonlaw@gmail.com.

Date:
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Time:
5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location:
ASU Law School

AZRTLBanquet

Arizona Right to Life Cordially Invites you to Our 6th Annual Benefit Banquet Event Generations for Life

Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. Carolyn F. Gerster and Honoring Dr. Michael Rock, M.D.

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
5:30 Registration
6:00 Cocktail Hour
7:00 Dinner

Scottsdale Chaparral Suites
5001 N Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale, AZ

Cocktail Attire

The Cocktail Hour will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to meet, greet and mingle with elected officials and candidates from all levels of Arizona and United States government.

The Dinner Program will inspire and encourage you with testimonials of the many life-saving victories of the previous year, and the plans for 2010. We will also celebrate the legacy of Dr. Carolyn Gerster and her many years of service to the pro-life movement. Dr. Michael Rock, M.D. will receive the Carolyn F. Gerster, M.D. Award for his faithful efforts throughout the decades to save and protect innocent life.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann will greet us by video, and Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., has been invited to join us. You will also have the opportunity to continue your partnership with Arizona Right to Life in the ever-expanding, ever-intensifying battle for life.

In order to allow more of our pro-life friends to join us in this celebration, we have adjusted the registration fee from $125 per person in previous years to $75 per person this year.

However, because of the struggling economy, we need your support now, more than ever, so please plan to join us for this special evening.

Registration is easy-simply:

· Click Here to register online using Paypal

·Download this form to submit by fax or mail

·Or telephone us at (602) 285-0063.

Sponsorships from $1500-$7500 are available and provide a wonderful opportunity to promote your organization, business or campaign. Click here for complete pricing details.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at your convenience.

Center for Arizona Policy

For Immediate Release: February 2, 2010

PHOENIX – Center for Arizona Policy announced today that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker for the 2010 CAP Family Dinner on April 24, 2010, at the Glendale Renaissance Hotel & Spa.

Sarah Palin is a trailblazer who understands the challenge of overcoming adversity on both a personal and professional level. Rising from small-town origins to become a dominant figure on the national scene, she served as the first female governor of Alaska and was the first Republican woman nominated for vice- president. Palin is a fearless, resilient, and independent voice who stands firm by the principles and values for which she holds dear.

Also speaking at the event will be Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod. Arizona newspapers have recognized Cathi as one of the ten most influential leaders of the 2000-2009 decade, one of the top five female lobbyists, and as one of the key people “with juice” at the Arizona Capitol.

For information about the event, contact 602.424.2525 or www.azpolicy.org.

Center for Arizona Policy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and defending the family by influencing policy, communicating truth, and empowering families to promote timeless values.

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Center for Arizona Policy

7227 N 16th Street, Suite 250 | Phoenix, AZ 85020 | 602.424.2525 | Fax 602.424.2530

Statewide 800.FAMILY.1 | info@azpolicy.org | www.azpolicy.org

The latest leftist assault is the condemnation of Tim and Pam Tebow for their audacity to be part of a pro-life commercial scheduled to air during the Super Bowl.  Sports pundits, political talking-heads, and news reporters are all over this story.   Liberal “women’ s groups” have asked CBS to deny Focus on the Family the right to buy air time to broadcast the ad and sports analysts are denouncing the Tebow  effort as damaging to his career.  One writer likened Tim Tebow to a full-time evangelist moonlighting as a football player.  Did he think that was insulting?

I could go on and on about what sort of false religion and destructive values are being exploited every day in pro-sports…. But I digress.

Apparently that writer has no idea the call on the life of the Tebow family and has no understanding of service to something greater than you.  Tim Tebow could no more turn his back on the opportunity to tell the world the miraculous truth of his healthy birth than a sports writer could turn away the scoop of a lifetime.   It is what he was put here to do.  And he knows it. On Florida game days, the most frequent Google search is for whatever scripture Tebow has on his eye black.

With that said, all the hyperbole about this being a sporting event and not a religious venue is a distortion of the truth.  The faulty premise is in the concept that the sanctity of life should be viewed only as a religious cause; it should be a humanitarian cause.  Protecting the life of the unborn, giving hope to women and families who are facing odds they see as insurmountable, and telling the truth where a lie has been accepted is not religious. If there were a call for aid to the people of The Sudan, or any region were genocide is practiced, would it be religious or humanitarian? It may be the love of Christ that empowers them but since when is love a religious act not to be confused with the real world?

An unborn child is a life, a real person with a real soul.  Life does not spontaneously occur and that which is not alive cannot become alive; it is formed and developed just as the unborn child is within the womb of the mother.  We all grow, change and have different stages of our being.  Such is the reality of life…and it starts at conception.

Today was the annual March for Life here in Arizona. This day was a day to commemorate the millions of precious lives lost and affected by the wanton violence of abortion which breaks the sacred bond between a mother and child.

It has now been 37 years since Roe v. Wade started us down the path of 50 Million lives lost.

This video currently appears on the front page of Arizona Right to Life’s website.

(There are also some great photos taken by Jennifer Wright posted on Facebook and Flickr.)

Congressman Trent Franks is one of my biggest Pro-Life heroes in the movement and he deserves our thanks for standing many years firm on this issue.

Please take a moment to watch this video. It may be a year old but it is still as important in 2010 to out survival as a nation.

Thank you Congressman Franks.

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Arizona Right to Life
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Contact: 602-285-0063
Join Top Officials, Organizations & Candidates
Standing Up for Life
37th Annual March and Rally for Life – Sunday, January 24, 2010
12:30 March, 1:00 Rally

Phoenix, AZ -The AZ Life Rally Committee invites you to TAKE A STAND FOR LIFE by participating in the 2010 March and Rally for Life.  All the information you need to get involved is listed below:

Confirmed Speakers
Governor Jan Brewer
Bishop Thomas Olmsted
Senator Jon Kyl
Congressman John Shadegg
Congressman Trent Franks
Treasurer Dean Martin
County Attorney Andrew Thomas
AZ State Senator Linda Gray
AZ State Representative Nancy Barto
AZRTL President, Jinny Perron
Life Ed. Corp. President, John Jakubczyk

Pro-Life Booths
Pro-life organizations will be on-hand to explain how they help women and unborn children.  In addition, you will have the opportunity to meet some of Arizona’s 2010 pro-life  candidates.  See a list of confirmed booths.

MAP OF MARCH AND RALLYMap of March & Rally



Musical Performers

Ike Ndolo
Brandon Kagel
Rebecca Woodbury

Colors Presentation
US Marines, Bulk Fuel C-Company

March for Life

  • Begins at 12:30 PM at Brophy College Prep located at 4701 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85012. Route continues south on Central, east on Indian School, west on 3rd Street/Herrera (1.6 miles)
  • Detailed map of public parking areas are in ORANGE on this map. Brophy’s south lot closes at 6:00 PM. Please do not park at St. Francis Xavier Church as they have a 1:00 PM Mass.
  • Concludes at Steele Indian School Park Amphitheater
  • Shorter alternate route via Central & Glenrosa/Steele Park

Rally for Life
The Rally will begin with entertainment at 1:00 PM at Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix.  On Indian School, turn north at the light 3rd Street/S. Herrera, and it will lead you into the park.  Go past the parking lot at the VA entrance and continue to the main park parking lot.  There is also additional parking on the west side of the park on Steele Park/Glenrosa and Central (SEE COLOR-CODED MAP: Parking Areas are in ORANGE).

Diaper Drive
Arizona Right to Life is partnering with Pregnancy Centers, Maternity Homes and Elder Care centers to conduct the state’s oldest Diaper Drive.  Please help these centers by bringing your donated infant or adult diapers to the the AZRTL Booth.  See local drop-off locations

Bishop’s Mass for Life
For those of you who would like to participate, at 11:00 AM Bishop Olmsted will celebrate a Mass for the Unborn prior to the March and Rally for Life at St. Francis Xavier Church (4715 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ) adjacent to Brophy College Prep.

In Case of Heavy Rain or Flood
Sunday forecast: sunny with a high of 60 degrees.  In the event that Steele Park becomes flooded, the march will be re-routed to conclude with the rally in the Brophy Prep Gym.
Any changes to the location will be posted to www.AZLifeRally.com on Sunday morning by 9:00 a.m.

Requests meeting of open and honest dialogue in the best interest for the state.

PHOENIX, AZ – January 7, 2010 – After receiving numerous letters from supporters, Mayor Vernon Parker wrote a letter to Bryan Howard, President/CEO of Planned Parenthood Arizona opposing Jan Brewer attending the home of a prominent Planned Parenthood leader and requesting a meeting for open, honest dialog in the best interests for Arizona. The text of the letter follows:

Bryan Howard
5651 N. 7th St.
Phoenix, AZ 85014

Dear Mr. Howard:

I write to you today to let you know that I have been in contact and have agreed to meet with members of Planned Parenthood in case you can make it. This meeting is to discuss why I strongly opposed Jan Brewer attending a fundraising event held at the home of a prominent Planned Parenthood leader.

As you are aware, I have received many letters from supporters of Planned Parenthood. They all say basically the same thing. Most letters make the case that Planned Parenthood provides needed health services to low-income women and that abortion-related services are a fraction of the overall work of Planned Parenthood. That may in fact be the case.

As I noted in my press release (enclosed), many of my supporters are pro-choice. However, I can never support your organization’s position on abortions. And, worse yet, I cannot support an organization that lobbies the legislature and courts on behalf of one of the most gruesome procedures imaginable, partial birth abortion.

Planned Parenthood has consistently lobbied against middle-of-the-road reform such as parental consent, parental notification, informed consent and a waiting period. By any reasonable standard, Planned Parenthood is far outside the mainstream of public opinion on all these issues.

I strongly believe that life begins at conception. I can’t compromise that deeply held personal value.

My press release strongly encouraged Jan Brewer to cancel the fundraiser because she was sending mixed messages. As someone who is pro-life, I would not knowingly attend a fundraiser at a home of someone who played such a prominent leadership role with your organization.

I will coordinate a time with the group that has contacted me. While our differences on these critical issues will not be resolved by meeting, I believe open and honest dialogue is in the best interests of everyone.

Sincerely,

Vernon Parker

For more information go to www.Parker2010.com.

Where has the color blind society gone?

Where has the color blind society gone?

WASHINGTON — The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jO8jbAnwaP-wLfs93UGI-l_-llMgD9CKM8VG0

It was once said, by the losing side of the last major debate over immigration,  ‘… they who control a nation’s immigration policy control the future of that nation.’

That was said in 1924 just prior to the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924.   Many are unaware that in the nearly two decades leading up to this legislation , the issue of immigration had been building to a crescendo of national passion and debate.  So what’s changed?

Consider carefully the policies, cultural practices, religious orientation, and achievements of the United States prior to the last huge wave of population migration onto our shores.  This flood of humanity, many responding to the words on the Statue of Liberty, lasted for just a bit more than one generation, about 30 years.

During that time our population grew dramatically and peoples mostly from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region fled oppression and  sought new political expression within our borders.  Certainly they did not assimilate immediately.  However, its been now about three generations and look at the changes in our policies, cultural practices, religious orientation and society today.  The wave of immigration shown in this chart certainly changed America.

Notice the absence of illegal immigration since President Reagans limited amnesty program in the 1980s

Notice the absence of illegal immigration since President Reagan's limited amnesty program in the 1980's

Now consider the abortion chart below (provided courtesy of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, special research affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Abortions in the US since RvW

This graph is a link to source.

There have been more than 32.5 million abortions in the twenty one years since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized unrestricted abortion on January 22, 1973.

Conservative immigration statistics; the impact on population however is culmutive

This graph is a link to original

Next consider the chart of illegal immigration into the United States – presently supported by some U.S. Senators from border states and entirely supported by the previous U.S. Administration.

Next consider the chart of illegal immigration into the United States – presently supported by some U.S. Senators from border states and entirely supported by the previous U.S. Administration.

Unlike any culture in history, we are aborting our children.  Have we bought into the Self-Hate so much that we are committing a protracted national and cultural suicide?

America can you handle the CHANGE?  You’ll have to.  Consider once again that we are aborting our native born population and importing their replacements.  The numbers speak for themselves.

Presently the Department of Homeland Security estimates the population of individuals residing within the United States now to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 million souls.  This does not include children of undocumented residents.  They are counted as legal citizens under a Supreme Court interpretation of the Constitution.

A glimpse of the past is necessary once again here.  In 1964 the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act, and under Republican President Richard Nixon the first Affirmative Action programs were instituted in 1971.  There are 2 cases ruled by the SCOTUS that directly shaped the outcome of these actions;   Griggs v. Duke Power Company in 1971 and  the University of California v. Bakke in 1978 in which a minority student was admitted to the university’s medical school with a C+ undergraduate grade average over a non-minority student who held an A- undergraduate GPA.

The entire point of this trip down memory lane is to understand where we are as a people today.  To understand why the Associate Press in conjunction with other mainstream media chose to highlight the story that is linked to in the opening paragraph of this blog.  Why does it matter when the whites become a minority?  If we are moving towards a color blind society, it should not.  Yet there it was in big headlines on Yahoo.

Please understand, Veritas is not really concerned about daily life in the North American Union much after 2040.   For me the point is moot.   My hope is to bequeath to posterity an  independent, sovereign and color blind United States in which the innocent unborn native population will realize the American Dream.   Unchecked immigration is no substitute for a healthy birthrate.

Really think about it.  Has immigration become a substitute for a natural birth rate?  And consider the impacts of a generation of immigration, remembering the first huge wave of immigration from Eastern Europe and the changes it has wrought in all sectors of our society and has influenced our view of government and society.

So what might the United States look like in 3 generations following the mid-1980s, or a decade before there is no more ethnic majority?  And what cultural, political and religious changes will their posterity on our shores bring?    Here are the sources for the look of the future.

Country of Origin (January 2006)

Mexico 6,840,000 57%
Latin & Central Amer. 3,000,000 24%
Asia 1,080,000 9%
Europe + Canada 720,000 6%
Rest of World 480,000 4%

Chuck CoughlinUnlike some conservatives who get all worked up over the issue of immigration, I still get fired up over the issue of taking innocent human life through the act of abortion.

So I was quite irritated this evening when I read a post written by High Ground defending Governor Brewer over her appearance at a fundraising event at the home of two individuals who have given their time, talent and treasure to helping elect candidates who support the killing of precious innocent life. Both Paulina Vazquez Morris and her husband Jason are members of Planned Parenthood which everyone knows is the largest provider of abortions in Arizona.

Jason RoseThe post also took a swipe at Vernon Parker, one of several Republican gubernatorial challengers who issued a press release prior to the event demanding that Governor Brewer pull out of the event.

High Ground’s post also took a swipe at another consultant/PR guy, Jason Rose of Rose & Allyn, who is helping Parker with his bid for Governor so this may also be somewhat of a spat between Jason Rose and High Ground’s Chuck Coughlin who remains one of Governor Brewer’s closest advisors.  (For the sake of full disclosure, my firm, Red Mountain Consulting, does not have a candidate in any of the gubernatorial races.)

So allow me to set the record straight as someone who has been involved in the pro-life movement in Arizona since 1990; operated the largest pro-life organization in Arizona;  and even lent my name as the Executive Director of Arizona Right to Life on a mass fundraising letter to our members on behalf of then candidate for Secretary of State, Jan Brewer. (Many of her $5 donations came from the true and faithful pro-life community.)

Before I issue my criticism, I do have to applaud Governor Brewer for signing multiple pro-life bills this year – legislation that Cathi Herrod with the Center for Arizona Policy and Ron Johnson with the Arizona Catholic Conference have been working on for many years and which would never have been signed if Napolitano had remained Governor.

The correction comes in High Ground’s statement claiming that Barry Goldwater’s wife was the founder of Planned Parenthood.

Not true.

In reality, the founder of Planned Parenthood was Margaret Sanger who was also deeply entrenched in the American eugenics movement and who had ties to Germany’s elite. Sanger was an ardent racist and obviously wanted to limit the propagation of African Americans and Hispanics as revealed in her writings and speeches. The underlying theme of her agenda was to stop the breeding of African Americans and Hispanics across the country.

Peggy GoldwaterShockingly, you can still hear these whisperings amongst upper class Democratic and Republican’s who tend to reside in zip codes defined by incomes greater than $150,000/year. (Hmmm… This should make anyone wonder whether or not the issues of illegal immigration and abortion are related – I really want to discuss this in another post.)

Why then should we not be surprised when there is an adverse reaction when a Pro-Life Governor raises her glass and toasts a couple who have been so actively involved with an organization who’s primary agenda is to exploit women, kill their unborn babies, take their money and send them out broken and robbed of their innocence?

Frankly, I’m disgusted by it all. Would High Ground have reacted the same way Parker’s campaign did if Vernon Parker had held a fundraising event with Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan or Jeremiah Wright and said the event was about “bringing people of different backgrounds and outlooks together?”

Excuse me if I’m missing High Ground’s consistency or attempt to reconcile two opposing worldviews. Maybe that’s why many conservatives are scratching our heads wondering who the Governor really is and what has High Ground done with Jan Brewer?

Or, maybe that’s what makes consultants like myself “true believers.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Vernon Parker Calls on Jan Brewer to Cancel Fundraiser by Planned Parenthood Board Member

DECEMBER 16, 2009. Today, Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker released the following statement.

“I am extremely concerned and troubled that Jan Brewer would hold a fundraiser in the home of someone who brags[1] about being a board member for Planned Parenthood of Arizona’s Action Fund. Planned Parenthood supports partial-birth abortion, and this is the arm of Planned Parenthood specifically designed to elect pro-abortion candidates to political office.

I have many friends and supporters who are pro-choice. They know that I am unequivocal in my belief that life begins at conception and is sacred. If this were simply the case of a pro-choice supporter hosting a fundraiser, I would not take issue with it. However, in this instance, Jan Brewer is having a fundraiser hosted by someone actively involved in the leadership of the state’s best known pro-abortion organization. That is totally unacceptable for someone who claims to be pro-life and I call on Jan Brewer to cancel this fundraiser immediately.”

[1] http://www.witheymorris.com/2008/09/30/jason-barclay-morris/

For more information go to www.Parker2010.com.

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