Life of the Party

How To Tell When a Candidate is Merely "Cosmetically Pro-Life"

The Republican Party was founded on the principle that no human being should be considered the property of another. Protecting the Right to Life is the moral issue of our day that must be addressed for our Party and our Nation to survive.

If we are ever going to restore legal protections of the Right to Life from conception until natural death, we must guard ourselves against the mindset of "Republicans for Choice" who have declared a "battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party".  Don't let them win this battle!

They say, "Focus on issues that unite us."

We say, "If we can't be trusted to protect the unalienable Right to Life, we can't be trusted to uphold any other rights."

They say, "Electoral victories are dependent upon having 'pro-choice' or 'mixed-choice' moderate candidates on the national ticket." 

We say, "Watering down our principles--beginning with the Right to Life--is what has led us to minority status as a party."

Republican candidates all know what buzz words to use to appeal to conservative crowds. We say, ask the right questions and they must reveal their beliefs.

Here are some questions to help you dig deep:

1. Do you agree that all innocent human beings, from fertilization until natural death, at every stage of life, deserve legal protection?

2. Should a woman have the legal right to an abortion for any of the following reasons:
   The baby was conceived through rape or incest?
   The baby has a handicap?
   The baby has a genetic defect?
   The health of the mother?

3. Will you introduce, sponsor and/or vote for legislation that defines human life as beginning at fertilization?

4. Do you agree with the Republican Party Platform principles about the elderly, handicapped, and infirm, including: opposing euthanasia, assisted suicide, non-consensual withholding of care or treatment because of disability, age or infirmity.

5. Will you vote to ban scientific research that involves the killing of human embryos?

6. Will you vote to ban human cloning?

7. Will you sponsor, work and vote for legislation that protects the conscience rights of health care professionals and organizations who refuse to perform, provide for, fill a prescription for, or refer for a health care service including abortion or abortion causing drugs?

8. Will you vote against taxpayer funding of surgical abortions and abortion-causing drugs such as RU-486
and the “morning after” pill under the guise of “family planning?”

Be the Life of the Party and hold Republican politicians accountable to pro-life principles!  Tolerate nothing less! 

 

Welcome New Readers

Glad you're here.  Please take a look at the Welcome Page, where you will find the purpose of this website stated in two posts, when it was launched in September of 2006:

1) To inform pro-lifers in Washington State of where the candidates stand on the pro-life issues, early enough in the campaign season, that you aren't duped into supporting the establishment's choice, rather than letting them hear from you who your choice is in the primary and 2) To make the case to the Republican Party as a whole, that we must stand up for the unalienable Right to Life because it is a winning issue when presented correctly, but most of all, because it is the right thing to do! 

Life of the Party, since its launching, has existed through one full even year political season, when we elect legislative and executive offices for state and federal level and announced a statewide list of endorsements based on objective criteria: their stated support of the protection of the Right to Life, from conception to natural death, without discrimination of any kind (such as rape, incest, life or health of the mother, the percieved need to destroy a human life for cells to cure another's disease, etc.).  Any interested Republican who does not see their favorite candidate(s) listed on the endorsement list, should know that either a) the candidate chose not to answer the survey of Human Life of WA or the RNC for Life or b) they answered the survey and did not meet the objective criteria for a Life of the Party endorsement.

As the author of this blog, I reserve the right to make this material public for all of WA voters and interested readers from outside of WA as well, particularly for pro-life Republicans and pro-lifers in general, to make informed choices.  At times, there may be candidates that I personally support that fall slightly short of an endorsement here, based on my close discernment and evaluation of the candidate to be trustworthy and their openness to consider the points I make here, as well as their position on other important issues.  An endorsement from Life of the Party is not automatic for all Republican candidates, no matter how popular they may be among Republican leaders and their followers or the media.

"Imposing Your Values on the Rest of Us"

Cross posted at One Thousand Times NO

A month ago, the proponents of I-1000 sent out a press release, making a big deal that Catholic dioceses and archdioceses had donated $132,650 in the previous eight days to the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide. That's small potatoes, compared to the money being sent in from out of state to help the initiative pass. As Joel Connelly points out in his column today:

By contrast, just one wealthy donor, former Gov. Booth Gardner, has given $170,000 to the Yes on 1000 Committee.

Oregon Death with Dignity gave $300,000 to seed the pro-1000 campaign. Various Compassion & Choices groups, mainly headquartered in Denver, have donated $265,000.

In fact the "Yes on I-1000 campaign has raised a total of $1.906 million to the "No" campaign's $508,952. The complaint of the "Yes" campaign was that the Catholic Church is "imposing its values on the rest of us." Joel Connelly makes the obvious point:

Existing state law prohibits assisted suicide. Isn't it accurate, then, to say that Gardner, Compassion & Choices, the Hemlock Society and Euthanasia Research are trying to impose THEIR values on the rest of us?

In fact, Washington has already said "NO" to a similiar proposed bill. 25 states have also said "no", every state where it's be proposed, other than Oregon. Let's say it again, "One Thousand Times NO" to Assisted Suicide.

New Local Blog: "One Thousand Times NO" to I-1000--Assisted Suicide

Check it out. 

Quality of Life

On the topic of Washington State's ballot initiative to legalize physician assisted suicide, Laura Ingraham interviewed John Peyton, a Washington resident who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease. He expresses his "dying wish": to defeat I-1000, and movingly, he describes his "quality of life":

Proponents of the initiative would argue, "well that's just him" and "not everyone who suffers from a fatal disease feels they have 'quality of life'".  So instead of helping to give them the love and support like John's family and friends do, they believe the compassionate thing to do is to help them kill themselves?   

NARAL WA Endorses Assisted Suicide

What a surprise!  The freedom to kill, from cradle to grave. 

Full Report of Washington GOP Convention

Coming Soon!

Highlights include:

Allocated National Delegate Ballots with only one candidate (pre-screened by John McCain staffer), and no option for write-ins or nomiations from the floor.

Ron Paul takes 4 unallocated national delegates from the state of Washington. 

McCain & Party Leadership led a March Out in Exodus, in order to pull quorum, to avoid debate on the issues. 

When the March Out backfired due to the hefty quorum remaining, the McCain & Party Leadership Marched back in to fillibuster and obstruct the body from completing any other business.

Still, the body managed to pass three pro-life resolutions including: support for a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, opposition to the WA state Assisted Suicide Initiative I-1000, and support for the freedom of conscience for pharmacists to not despense abortion drugs.  In addition, the body passed a resolution opposing any military action on a nation without the U.S. Congress declaring war, which is in keeping with our Constitution.

The spontaneous Ron Paul March and Rally immediately following the convention, signalling this movement has just begun. 

Please stay tuned for the full report.  I need to get reacquainted with my family and then find an opportunity to write a blow by blow.  Meanwhile, TVW has full coverage of the convention business.  Note: there are three segments and they are long.  Most interesting are segments B and C.  More details can be found here, here and here. 

My apologies to Geri Modrell (Snohomish Co. Republican Chair), who appears to have stayed during the "march out".  It was reported to me otherwise, and I am sorry for repeating that misinformation.

Oppose Assisted Suicide in Washington

Read the facts, and find out how you can help spread the truth about I-1000, the so-called "Death With Dignity" iniative.  Coalition Against Assisted Suicide

Georgia Poised to Pass Human Life Amendment

Jan. 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- Today, Jenny Hodges, National Director for Pro-Life Unity at ProLifeUnity.com is distributing 20,000 signed petitions to Georgia representatives at the state Capitol. The petitions were signed by citizens of Georgia. Georgians for Life, a grassroots effort, assembled the petitions to show the Georgia representatives that there are many people in Georgia who know that abortion must end. This effort follows the Let Them Live Rally, an event sponsored by Pro-Life Unity, which was held yesterday, January the 14th, 2008.

According to Hodges, this petition campaign is proving that grassroots efforts are reaching out to communities and challenging abortion. She said that this will be the year that Georgians take charge of protecting their own people.

The Let Them Live Rally at the Georgia Capitol was in support of HR 536, a Human Life Amendment and was submitted by Rep. Martin Scott. A steady stream of people came to the rally, closing two lanes in front of the Capitol for almost four hours.

Read the rest of the story here. 

Georgia's Human Life Amendment:

Life Amendment
(currently known as HR536):

Paramount right to life. (a) The rights of every person shall be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life. The right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person.(b) With respect to the fundamental and inalienable rights of all persons guaranteed in this Constitution, the word 'person' applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, sex, health, function, or condition of dependency, including unborn children at every state of their biological development, including fertilization.

More information about Georgia's Human Life Amendment can be found at Let them Live. 

Local Pro-Life Activist on Talk Radio Today

My friend and fellow pro-life activist, Mary E. will be on the radio this afternoon.  She'll be talking about the local chapter of Silent No More Awareness and the seemingly unrelated topic of the current push for legalizing Assisted Suicide....er...dignified killing....er "Death with Dignity" in Washington State.

Listen in if you're local:

KGNW am 820
4:00 pm
Thor Tolo Show