We also anticipate having a new pro-life majority in the U.S. House of Representatives once all the votes are counted. We will work tirelessly with pro-life members of Congress to enact robust pro-life policies that protect both mom and baby.

Today, more than ever, we must also continue to march, both in Washington, D.C. and in the states, in order to change hearts and minds and combat the onslaught of abortion extremism.  Marching in the states is increasingly critical, as we saw disappointing results on the ballot initiatives in California, Michigan, and Kentucky.

However, the efforts made by many of you who knocked on doors, phone banked, and educated your friends on these ballot measures made a difference. Even in a state like California, we saw an upward shift in people who identify as pro-life by nearly 10% following the campaign against Proposition 1, and those who identify as pro-choice dropped by nearly 7%.

The critical nature of our mission to be a voice for the voiceless in the public square is evident now more than ever, not only here on Capitol Hill, but in the critical battlegrounds in the states.

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Because a decision will not be reached until next summer, this next year will be a hard-fought battle – not only in the courts – but also for public opinion on the matter. 

With tremendous advances in science and technology, we know so much about the unborn baby at fifteen weeks, including that the baby has all of his/her functioning organs, a visible skeleton, and is practicing things like sucking and swallowing! 

Additionally, public opinion polls for well over a decade show that 65% or more of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in the second trimester. As of January 2020, Marist Poll found that number to be 7 in 10 Americans who support limiting abortion only to the first three months of pregnancy. 

Despite this, immediately following the Supreme Court announcement, pro-abortion advocacy organizations began working overtime to convince Americans they don’t want the Supreme Court to rule in favor of the unborn.  

While we have come a long way in educating the American public about the humanity of the unborn child, this moment is a critical one for education. Please stay informed! 

Here are a few recent interviews, opinion pieces and articles that explain the importance of this case:  

President of the March for Life Explains Significance Behind US Supreme Court’s Announcement 

Supreme Court to Hear Major Abortion Case 

A Time for Courage on the Supreme Court 

Democracy Is the Issue in the Mississippi Abortion Case

Supreme Court Will Consider Mississippi’s 15-Week Abortion Ban

We hope you find these resources useful, and we will be sure to keep you in the loop as this case proceeds!  

In the meantime, please join us in praying for a favorable outcome that honors the dignity and humanity of the unborn child.  

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CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS

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According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute – originally the research arm of Planned Parenthood – 2021 is on track to the most impactful year of pro-life legislation in decades. 

Since January, 536 abortion regulations have been proposed across 46 states. In the words of Guttmacher, “A whopping 61 of those restrictions have been enacted across 13 states, including eight bans.” 

This past week alone has been the single most productive week for pro-lifers in at least a decade. Between April 26 and April 29 alone, 28 pro-life bills were signed into law. Here are just a few of the newest pro-life victories: 

 ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS 

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed SB 1457 into law, banning abortions based on a prenatal diagnosis of genetic abnormality, including Down syndrome. 

HEARTBEAT LAWS 

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed HB 366, also known as the Fetal Heartbeat Preborn Child Protection Act, into law on April 27. The law bans abortions after an unborn baby’s heart can be detected, usually around the 6-week mark. 

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt followed suit with HB 2441, with classifies a doctor performing an abortion after the heartbeat is detectable as “unprofessional conduct.” 

PAIN–CAPABLE LAWS 

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed HB 136, prohibiting abortions of babies capable of feeling pain. Other Montana laws include requiring a pregnant women be offered the option of viewing an ultrasound prior to an abortion and additional protective requirements surrounding chemical abortion. 

This momentum shows a true desire for a post-Roe America, and we can’t let up. We’ve seen the powerful impact we can have on the local level, even during times of extreme opposition.

Faced with a radically pro-abortion Administration and Congress, we need to unite our voices for the unborn. While the states fight to preserve the rights of the unborn, the House is currently stripping survivors of abortion – newborn infants –  of access to medical care. At the same time, the Senate is seeking to redirect millions of COVID relief funds to the abortion lobby. We cannot let these injustices continue. We need YOUR voice!

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She has been a Vice Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, Albright’s international strategic consulting firm, since the group’s formation in 2009. She advised Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign, and she has served with Thomas Donilon as an agency review lead for the State Department in the Obama presidential transition. She also sits on the Atlantic Council’s Board of Directors.

On the issues: 

On Abortion: 

From Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla):

Sherman served as one of the first directors of EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest pro-abortion political action committee. Her time in leadership saw the organization grow significantly and expand abortion advocacy in national politics. . . Sherman’s abortion advocacy has extended well beyond our own borders. While serving in the Clinton administration’s State Department, she helped to advance efforts to advocate abortion access around the world. . . . Referring to a United Nations program on women, she wrote, “Our intent… was to support reproductive choice. As a matter of principle, we believe that abortion should be safe, legal and rare. We believe that women should be provided the means to prevent unwanted pregnancies.”

Her work in leftwing politics continued into the Obama administration. Afterward, Sherman beat the pro-abortion drum as a senior advisor for an international consulting company run by Democrats.

In a USA Today op-ed about the 2017 Women’s March – published a day before President Trump even took office – she made clear that there was no negotiating when it came to issues such as “reproductive rights,” warning, “[W]e are here; we will not relent; we will not give up.”

On Promoting Abortion as Foreign Policy:

Under President Obama, a State Department ‘action cable’ from Wendy Sherman to all overseas posts urged top officials to push the U.S. position. “The priority issues for the U.S. include assuring family planning and reproductive health services, improving the status of women, resource mobilization and access to safe abortion.”

In November 2020, publicly supported overturning Poland’s pro-life laws.

Scandal connections:

After her tenure at Fannie Mae, Senior executives at Fannie Mae manipulated accounting to collect millions of dollars in undeserved bonuses and to deceive investors, a federal report charged. The government-sponsored mortgage company was fined $400 million.  Because of regulations the report only went back three years so it is unknown how long the practice was occurring.

Wendy Sherman is considered “instrumental” in the Iran Nuclear deal under President Barack Obama which was criticized by both the left and the right.  An op-ed in The Atlantic called it “less an arms-control agreement than cover for American inaction” which gae a clear path for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

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On Roe v. Wade

On February 12, 2020 Kristen Clarke testified in favor of the radical Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA).  The legislation would codify Roe v. Wade and seeks to eliminate all S. 1696 would wipe out 20-week laws.(laws designed to advance women’s health and protect unborn children from pain), protect the practice of discrimination abortions based on sex and disability, make it harder if not practically impossible for states to stop off-label uses of abortion drugs, make it harder if not practically impossible for states to stop the practice of telemedicine abortions and require that a physician be physically present, wipe out state ultrasound information requirements and waiting periods and could trump state and federal conscience laws that protect pro-life doctors and hospitals.

On Abortion-Giant Planned Parenthood/Taxpayer Funding of Abortion and State’s Rights

Kristen Clarke signed onto an amicus brief demanding federal taxpayer funding for the billion dollar abortion-giant Planned Parenthood, citing that such bans on taxpayer funding for abortion and abortionists are racist for it makes it difficult for women of color to get abortions.  On page 30, the amicus says that birth is dangerous for black women and abortion is safer (emphasis added.)

Black women, for example, are more likely to lack adequate access to contraceptives and other reproductive services compared to women of other races with similar incomes. Black women also suffer from dramatically worse outcomes in maternal health—a grim reality that holds true for Black women across the income and educational spectrum. While abortion is very safe in America, pregnancy and childbirth pose severe risks, particularly for Black women.

On Questionable Connections

At the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Kristen Clarke worked with the questionable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) – who were named as inspiration for the 2012 shooting at Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., which led to the first conviction under Washington, D.C.’s 2002 Anti-Terrorism Act.  After being named by Joe Biden the SPLC tweeted (and Kristen Clarke retweeted):

We also welcome the nomination of our talented friend & ally @KristenClarkeJD @LawyersComm to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Under your leadership we can restore #VotingRights protections and effectively confront hate & #WhiteSupremacy.

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On Roe v. Wade

Susan Rice opposed the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and contemplated a run against Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) over fears Justice Kavanaugh would overturn Roe v. Wade

On Promoting Abortion

After being nominated for Ambassador to the United Nations by President Barack Obama the abortion-giant Planned Parenthood praised Ambassador Rice as someone who will actively promote abortion “around the world.”

On Forcing Countries to Accept Abortion

Susan Rice joined abortion allies in condemning a “U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights” for fear it would affect the role of abortion as a “human right.” As U.N. Ambassador, Susan Rice tweeted she saw abortion as a “human right” that deserves U.S. Government protections

On Genocide

“At an interagency teleconference in late April, Susan Rice, a rising star on the NSC who worked under Richard Clarke, stunned a few of the officials present when she asked, ‘If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?’ Lieutenant Colonel Tony Marley remembers the incredulity of his colleagues at the State Department. ‘We could believe that people would wonder that,’ he says, ‘but not that they would actually voice it.’ Rice does not recall the incident but concedes, ‘If I said it, it was completely inappropriate, as well as irrelevant.’” Power, Samantha. “Bystanders to Genocide.” The Atlantic September 2001. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200109/power-genocide

On the First Amendment

Susan Rice wrote an op-ed in support of the liberal view of “campaign finance reform” as exemplified in the “For the People Act of 2019.”  In its attempts to “level the field” the legislation in fact would make it nearly impossible for the pro-life grassroots to interact with Congress, requiring onerous reporting if you wish to contact your elected official through a pro-life group.  In addition the legislation would force exposure of donors to targeting of violence.  The bill also includes the public funding of elections, forcing citizens to fund the campaigns of candidates with whom they disagree.

On Using Government Resources Targeting Political Campaigns

A three-year-old interview clip of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice resurfaced Tuesday after the declassified email she sent to herself on the final day of the Obama administration was released. It suggests Rice has lied about her knowledge about the Obama administration’s surveillance of President Trump’s transition team.

The clip comes from an April 2017 appearance on “PBS NewsHour.” Rice was asked about the then-breaking revelations about members of President Trump’s transition team having been surveilled before he took office.

In 2016 Susan Rice was implicated in publicly exposing Trump intelligence officials, an abuse of her authority.  She then lied when she was asked in a 2017 PBS interview whether she knew that Flynn and others “may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and their identities may have been disclosed.” Rice responded, “I know nothing about this.”

Other Controversies

Susan Rice came under fire for giving false or misleading statements to the press immediately after the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi which led to the death of the U.S. Ambassador.

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Health background

Andrea Palm has no health care education or experience prior to joining HHS and had no connections to Wisconsin prior to being named Secretary of Health there.  This lack of health care experience is on par with the HHS Secretary nominee Xavier Becerra

On Abortion-Giant Planned Parenthood

In 2019, Andrea Palm named a former lobbyist, Nicole Safar, for abortion-giant Planned Parenthood to be her assistant deputy secretary.  The billion-dollar Planned Parenthood’s agenda in Wisconsin includes repealing Wisconsin laws requiring that only doctors, not qualified advanced practice nurses, perform abortions; women seeking medicine that causes abortions see the same doctor on two separate visits; and doctors be physically present when dispensing abortion-causing drugs.

Nicole Safar, an attorney, supervised Planned Parenthood’s legal team and oversaw two successful lawsuits challenging state laws limiting access to abortions, according to her online biography on the Department of Health Services website.

On Abortion as an “Essential Service”

31 Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers sent a letter to Department of Health Services (DHS) Secretary-designee Andrea Palm demanding her immediate action to “ensure a halt to the operation of abortion facilities in Wisconsin for the duration of the declared public health emergency.” The letter states that “abortion clinics are continuing to operate in Wisconsin, needlessly exposing people to the potential to contract COVID-19 and using precious medical resources that are needed elsewhere to save Wisconsinites. It is deeply disturbing to find out that many lower risk businesses have been shuttered while you have given Wisconsin’s abortion clinics special dispensation to remain in operation.”

Andrea Palm refused to comply.

On COVID Response (With thanks to the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy)

On Overreaching Her Authority

Before Governor Evers’ Safer at Home order expired it was discovered that Governor Evers did not have the authority to issue the order for more than 60 days without the legislature’s approval. Andrea Palm falsely claimed that she did. She issued Emergency Order #31 to close the state indefinitely. The legislature sued her and won.

She had planned to keep the state closed until a vaccine was discovered until the state Supreme Court stepped in.

And Conscience Rights

In 2020 Andrea Palm was sued for continuing to close and restrict religious gatherings

Spreading Fear

Early in the pandemic, Andrea Palm predicted a 4,800 percent increase in deaths over a two-week period unless she and the governor’s stay-at-home order is followed.  This prediction imploded.

Throughout the crisis, Andrea Palm has caused confusion and seemed to not understand the data on the pandemic.  At one point, she claimed she never told lawmakers the lockdowns would last six months, but then immediately said that the lockdowns would probably last six months.

In October 2020 Andrea Palm claimed the hospitals were overwhelmed however after being confronted with an empty overflow center she backtracked her remarks.

On Elections during COVID

Andrea Palm advised the governor to delay the Spring Election, which the state Supreme Court blocked.

On Vaccine Distribution

In January 2021, the CDC reported Wisconsin ranked 40^th in the nation in its vaccine rollout. Half of the doses provided to Wisconsin had not yet been administered, and DHS still hadn’t completed its priority lists for who could be vaccinated and when

On Management Style

Under her leadership, three top DHS officials quit during the public health emergency.

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On Late Term Abortions

Dr. Levine opposed legislation in Pennsylvania that included a 20-week limit and a ban on dismemberment abortions.  Their statement against the bill misleads on what the bill actually does and spoke in favor of the abortion procedures as “appropriate medical care.”  The bill was eventually passed however it was vetoed by Governor Tom Wolf (D).

On Abortion-Giant Planned Parenthood

As Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Levine designated abortion facilities such as abortion-giant Planned Parenthood as “essential” services – while declaring other elected surgical procedures were not.   Dr. Levine also recommended that all school sports be banned — a proposal that was not followed by the state’s athletic association. There were no adverse consequences of kids playing sports — which likely saved lives, as states that banned sports have had multiple press reports of student-athlete suicides.

Following Dr. Levine’s nomination the main source of abortions in the United States praised the nomination as they look forward to working together.

On COVID Response

Pennsylvania State Senator Judy Ward, chair of the Senate Committee on Aging and Youth, released a statement listing the failures of Dr. Levine’s tenure as Secretary of Health, including her COVID response.

On Nursing Home Deaths

According to the New York Times, six of the 10 nursing homes with the most COVID-19 deaths in the nation were in Pennsylvania – a direct result of Secretary Levine’s policy to order nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients. Representatives of the nursing home industry have sued the Commonwealth, saying that the state under this administration illegally withheld $150 million in federal funding, diverting the money into other human services programs.

Secretary Levine moved their own mother out of a nursing home during COVID’s rise, while continuing to uphold a policy that placed COVID positive seniors back into nursing homes. More on that here.

On Vaccine Distribution

Under Secretary Levine, Pennsylvania ranks as one of the lowest states in the northeast in terms of percentage of population to receive the first vaccine doses. According to Fortune magazine, about 2.7 out of every 100 Pennsylvania residents have been vaccinated, putting the Commonwealth behind more than 30 other states. The leading state, West Virginia, has vaccinated about 5.8 of every 100 residents.

On Avoiding COVID

Secretary Levine’s recommendations included advise on what to do in “large gatherings” involving sex – including relying instead on pornography.

On Opioid and Drug Crisis

From Sen. Judy Ward’s press release, on the rise of drug overdose deaths under Secretary Levine: “The state counted 2,352 overdose deaths through June 30, an increase of 11.7% from 2,105 in the same period a year earlier.”

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NOMINEE:  Neera Tanden
Born: September 10, 1970, Bedford, MA
Family: Spouse, Benjamin Edwards, 2 children
Occupation: Highlights: 1990s, White House Associate Director of Domestic Policy, Senior Advisor First Lady Hillary Clinton; 2003-2005, Legislative Director for Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY); 2009-2011, senior advisor to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services; 2015 – Present, President and CEO of Center for American Progress.
Education: Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles (1992) Juris Doctor from Yale Law School (1996)

On Roe v. Wade

Neera Tanden attributes defending Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court case that, alongside Doe v. Bolton, legalized abortion at all stages of pregnancy with no protections for the unborn or mother, as the reason she got into politics.

On Health Care

Neera Tanden served in the Obama administration as senior adviser to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services. She helped to draft the administration’s health care legislation, including work specific to its proposed, but later withdrawn, public option. She has been described as one of the “key architects” of the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare contains federal subsidies/funds for plans covering elective abortion with massive taxpayer funding for abortion.

On Conscience Protections

Neera Tandem praised efforts to push contraception coverage as the strategy of using contraception as a wedge issue has been “successful as a political cudgel, helping isolate extreme … [pro-life] advocates from the mainstream.”

On Funding Abortion-Giant Planned Parenthood

In 2015 Neera Tanden criticized efforts to remove taxpayer-provided subsidies to the billion-dollar abortion-giant Planned Parenthood, calling the effort, as well as an effort to stop direct taxpayer funding of abortions in the District of Columbia, as “irresponsible” and “counterproductive.”

On Protecting Women and the Unborn

In 2020 the Center for American Progress spoke out against numerous states passing pro-life laws that would require abortion facilities to meet basic health standards, giving medical attention to babies born after an abortion, requiring medical supervision for dangerous abortion drugs and late-term abortion bans.

On Making America More Liberal

She has claimed that her goal was to shift the national political conversation in a liberal direction. She said, “our goal has always been to have a pan-progressive tent.”

On Center for American Progress and “The Resistance”

The Center for American Progress (formerly the American Majority Institute) launched on July 7, 2003, with an approximately $10 million budget. Created by a group of prominent liberal Democrats including Neera Tanden, billionaire financier George Soros, former Clinton administration White House Chief of Staff and Obama White House Counselor to the President John Podesta, and Morton Halperin from Soros’ Open Society Institute. The idea behind CAP was that it would serve as a “political research institute” that functioned as a liberal counter to conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.

In 2017, CAP Action announced that the organization was seeking to become the “nerve center for the anti-Donald Trump resistance” and announced a plan to create a war-room “which its leaders hope will provide Democrats with a centralized resource to oppose the president-elect’s moves — starting with his Cabinet nominations.”  Adam Jentleson, the war room’s director, said that his hope is “to bring is a relentlessly aggressive attitude and orientation toward holding Trump accountable every single day.” Further, he said, “they [CAP Action] have incredible resources here, a large staff, and I think what I hope to do is look to weaponize all of the resources that CAP can bring to bear.”

Center for American Progress Dark Money

The Washington Post reports that under Neera Tanden CAP has taken in tens of millions of dollars from foreign and corporate interests.  Fellow Democrat former-Representative Tulsi Gabbard summed it up:

Neera Tanden’s ‘think tank’ took millions from Wall Street, UAE, & defense contractors. She advocated taking Libya’s oil to pay for bombs we destroyed their country with. At OMB she’ll support more costly regime change wars & military-industrial complex. Senators, I urge a NO vote — Tulsi Gabbard ???? (@TulsiGabbard) December 3, 2020

Controversies Over Leaked E-Mails

In 2016, many of Neera Tanden’s emails to cohort John Podesta were leaked by Wikileaks. From the liberal magazine New Republic:

WikiLeaks release of the hacked emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who founded CAP in 2003. These emails, in which Tanden is a frequent figure, reveal an operator who, in spite of her professed deference to “serious ideas,” has actively blurred the lines between policy and politics, all to advance a single goal: electing Hillary Clinton. Even Tanden’s many, often amusing criticisms of Clinton, particularly for using a private email server, fall under this category. In pursuit of that goal, she has consistently prioritized politics over policy, and frozen out dissenters who might otherwise have ideas of value to contribute to the Democratic agenda. . . . Tanden’s story is a typical one. As the Podesta emails show time and again, this is just how Washington works. Call it the banality of D.C. politics.

The language that Tanden used in the emails against people she disagreed with became a point of controversy. The New York Times described Tanden’s emails as “profanity-laced” and fiercely protective of Hillary Clinton.

Other Controversies

During the 2017 wildfires in southern California, Neera Tanden replied to a tweet talking about then head of Fox News Rubert Murdoch’s house burning down: “There’s a God, and she’s unhappy,” describing the fire as an act of “karma.” Tanden later deleted the tweet, saying “it wasn’t funny.”

In a piece for the Huffington Post in 2016 entitled, “Donald Trump Doesn’t Deserve the Support of American Hindus” she questioned an Indian-American businessman’s support for Republican candidate Donald Trump and suggested because of his race, he should not support the candidate of his choosing.

On Confirmation

“Neera Tanden, who has an endless stream of disparaging comments about the Republican Senators’ whose votes she’ll need, stands zero chance of being confirmed,” tweeted Drew Brandewie, the communications director for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).  Neera Tanden has tweet attacked many of the Senators she now needs support from.

From Politico

To former Sanders staffers and allies, Tanden is one of the Democratic elites who helped sink his 2016 campaign behind the scenes, not to mention a union-buster, a threat to Social Security, a hippie-puncher who constantly picks fights with the left, and much more.

“I don’t know anyone personally in Bernie’s world who is happy about this choice,” said Briahna Joy Gray, Sanders’ former national press secretary. “We’re talking about a woman who’s notorious for assaulting Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager.”

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