President’s Message: Is RLM too political?

"Right to Life is just too political," is a statement in a recent e-mail to me. You, too, as you are reading this may be thinking the same thing. But can any organization that exists to end abortion and restore protection to the unborn be too political?

Let’s examine what politics and politicians mean to our mission. First, in order to have life-saving laws on the books, we must have men and women in office who will initiate and then vote for such laws or vote against those bills that promote death as a solution to society’s problems. Second, we need a chief executive who will sign and not veto such life-saving laws. And then we look to a judiciary that is willing to uphold laws instead of making law.

This November 7th election finds us looking at key races that directly affect our goals: Governor and U.S. Senate. Are you thinking, "What’s the big deal about electing a prolife governor or prolife senator?"

Well, presently Michigan is represented by two proabortion women who have a great deal of power.

Governor Granholm’s powers:

-can and has vetoed prolife legislation, including a law to ban partial birth abortions
-can and has appointed proabortion people to fill judicial and elective office vacancies
-is Michigan’s official voice who before a proabortion rally publicly attacked Republicans as wanting "to go in your bedroom, in your doctor’s office and in the confessional."

U.S. Senator Stabenow’s powers:

-has the power and has used the power to oppose judicial appointees who value life
-has voted 100% of the time throughout her legislative career to oppose life-saving bills, such as a ban on partial birth abortions

Both of these proabortion women have received and will continue to receive thousands of dollars and political endorsements from both state and national proabortion groups. We who support life must not be absent from the political scene and let the proabortion supporters prevail.

Because Right to Life of Michigan’s Political Action Committee, working through its local volunteers, has made the tough decisions regarding candidate endorsements, we now, after years of hard work, have a majority of prolife legislators. This majority has been built election by election over the past 30 years. With this majority we have seen a steady decrease in abortions through the passage of prolife laws such as preventing secret teen abortions, requiring abortionists to provide information about the stage of development of the unborn child and requiring that a woman be allowed to see the ultrasound of her baby. The next step in this legislative arsenal is passage of a law that will prevent women from being forced into an abortion by their male partners.

Yes, Right to Life of Michigan’s PAC is involved in the elections, and, as a result, lives are being saved. Politics and elections affect all of our lives. You, too, can be a part of our life-saving team. Visit our web site at www.rtl.org to see our Adopt Five project.

My prayer is that those who value the most vulnerable member of our human family, the unborn, will accept the challenge to take an active role in our political process by campaigning for and electing men and women who will promote the choice of life and not the choice of death.

May Michigan be represented by a Governor and U.S. Senator who proudly stand for LIFE.

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