Media Advisory: AUL President Dr. Charmaine Yoest Attending GOP Platform Deliberations, Available for Interviews
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life, is attending the Republican Platform Committee meetings August 26-27, and is available to media for interviews.
Dr. Yoest said, “Survey after survey confirms that Americans are becoming more pro-life each year. It is vital that the political parties understand this and incorporate it into their platforms.”
In a Gallup poll from May of this year, 71% of Americans want all abortions to be limited to rare circumstances or to be illegal. An ABC News / Washington Post poll this year indicated the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as “pro-life” has risen to tie a previous peak in the percentage of pro-life Americans. Recent polls by CBS News and by Zogby report substantially the same thing.
Dr. Yoest is available for interviews.
About Americans United for Life
Americans United for Life (AUL) is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which every human being is welcomed in life and protected in law. The first national pro-life organization in America, AUL has been committed to defending human life through vigorous judicial, legislative, and educational efforts at both the federal and state levels since 1971. The Wall Street Journal has profiled AUL, and PBS’s Frontline program chronicled AUL’s successful efforts in Mississippi.
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Is America Really Becoming More Pro-Life?
Charmaine gets to the 71 percent by adding the percent legal only under certain circumstances (54 percent) and illegal under all circumstances (17 percent).
Our abortion-friendly friends at Pandagon add the numbers a bit differently. They add the middle ground number of 54 percent to the 28 percent legal under all circumstances to arrive at 82%.
Does this mean that America wants abortion on demand throught all nine months and beyond as Pandagon suggests?
Nope. The 54 percent would include, say, my old boss, governor Gilmore of Virginia, who supported abortion only before the 13th week — but ran on a pro-life platform and promised a pro-life administration and followed through by hiring pro-lifers like Your Business Blogger(R).
This is what that 54 percent number means. Over half of the country wants real restrictions on abortion. People want parental notification when a teenager wants an abortion. Very few support Partial Birth Abortion. Very few women have abortions when they see a sonogram of their baby. People think a 24 hour waiting period is a good idea. Very few support abortion in the third trimester or would permit abortion for sex selection.
No one except for Obama and interesting characters like Professor Singer from Princeton want infanticide by neglect.
Americans want restrictions on abortions.
Otto Scott, the author and publisher of his ‘Compass,’ during the
1980s-1990s wrote several books James I: The Fool as King, and
Robespierre: The Fool as Revolutionary which unmasked the part played by
‘fools’ in high places which led to revolutionary movements on the world
stage of history. He played an important part in my life as the first
historian to prominently and positively review my 1996 book, The New
Totalitarians, in his ‘Otto Scott’s Compass.’ Hence, the subject of this
message.
Senator John McCain has now continued the string of ‘fools’ in history
by choosing Governor Sarah Lapin as his running mate for the presidency.
This desperate, spur-of-the-moment, ill-considered, dangerously flawed, and
wildly risky choice is a dramatic display of the poor judgment shown by John
McCain throughout his lifetime. Robert Timberg, McCain’s biographer (pay
attention to the footnote references at the hyperlink in the last paragraph
below), has chronicled this pattern of recklessness in his seminal book, The
Nightingale’s Song. McCain has not displayed a strong record of
well-thought-out, well-considered judgments – his pattern has been more like
a ‘crap shoot.’
This surprising choice is not only a knee-jerk ‘grandstanding’ decision
made by a crass, self-serving politician with a reputation for irrational
behavior, but exposes his past as a person who would betray his country by
advancing the radical feminist cause one that has the potential of
destroying American civilization. It is characteristic of his past political
maneuvers.
This choice has left voters with a terrible choice in the coming
presidential election an articulate, completely inexperienced young black
politician with direct connections to the Black Muslim brotherhood of Black
Power and a former prisoner of war who has played on that ‘hero’ role as a
catapult to political prominence. John McCain has based his entire political
career on the foundation of supporting the radical feminist (actually a
cultural-Marxist) cause and now, glaringly, revealingly, shows his
shallowness of mind by attempting to ride on the shoulders of Hillary
Clinton’s ‘18 million’ primary campaign voters to victory on the road to the
presidency.
It is obvious that Sarah Palin is a bright young star in American
politics. She has demonstrated, as the governor of Alaska, traits and an
attitude that are admirable, courageous, and timely. But McCain is taking
advantage of this gifted woman by attempting (with incredible naiveté) to
use her ‘womanhood’ as a crutch to ‘steal’ Hillary’s radical feminist
followers. Even if successful, it will cost him, and our nation, dearly.
Sarah Palin has been thrown into the political ‘mosh pit’ at a time when
her family of five youngsters one, a baby, with a permanent cognitive
disability desperately need a constant mother’s care. She is completely
naïve with respect to national security affairs. She is of the ‘correct’
generation, the 13er generation, for leadership in America’s current Fourth
Turning when the nation needs such leadership for the coming Social Moment.
McCain’s choice is not fair to this inexperienced, overburdened woman, to
his party, and to our nation. General David H. Petraeus of the same 13er
generation would have been a much better choice for Vice President should
(heaven forbid) McCain fail to outlive his first term (a second term is not
possible). General Petraeus (the architect of the successful ‘surge’
strategy in Iraq) is a member of a military which the American people regard
with much higher esteem than any other institution in the land, especially
that of the Mass Media, the Congress and the Presidency.
But no, John McCain made the fatal ‘political’ choice, a woman bent on
‘breaking the glass ceiling’ of American politics. This is typical of John
McCain’s political past. He has bowed to the radical feminists all through
his political career.
In 1993 I wrote an essay, The Annapolization of America: A Social Epidemic,
I described a ‘Tipping Point,’ a magic moment when an idea, trend, or social
behavior crosses a threshold, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single
sick person can start an epidemic of the flu. It describes a process and the
‘actors’ required to foment a cultural revolution such as the one which
John J. Miller described in the National Review. His article, ‘Babylon Comes
to Sparta: Have our service academies gotten too modern?’ (14 July 2003) was
prescient.
That article has meaning far beyond our nation’s premiere service
academies. It is a description in microcosm of what has slowly overtaken
America over the past 40 years and spread in the ‘wink of an eye’ of
cosmic time during the 1990s. And it comes to a head during the 2008
election cycle.
In a nutshell, Miller’s premise is that our nation’s premiere service
academies are being forced to follow the lead of the Naval Academy in
essentially purging the ‘warrior spirit,’ the ‘warrior ethos,’ from the
training and education of our nation’s core combat leadership. Their
education at Annapolis is producing a result that looks ‘too much like
America.’ The numerical dominance and relative power of the civilian faculty
at the Naval Academy is the touchstone of Miller’s argument. But it is more
than that, much more. What we have seen occur at the Academy is an example
of a tiny grain of seed the seed of the ‘socialization’ of not only the
U.S. military, but every institution in the land.
I have written extensively on this subject. Two books, numerous articles
published in the FORUM section of The Sunday Washington times and a
voluminous set of essays on my website provide evidence, detailed
foundational evidence, that Miller has it just right. Miller’s article may
have been a tad late, but, finally, the subject has been exposed to a
national audience. The problem, however, is much broader and deeper in
America than just at the Naval Academy. The epidemic has spread across the
land to every institution, including attempts to dissolve the family unit,
the basic building block of any long-lasting civilization.
Read a pre-publication copy of the September/October 2008 issue of my Eternal Vigilance journal (a hyperlink to which appears on my website scroll down to the bottom of the front page) to learn how Senator John McCain has been at the forefront in supporting this revolution. This issue of the journal also unmasks in minute detail the true background of Barack Obama, who Charles Krauthammer describes as ‘The Perfect Stranger’ (Washington Post.com, 08/29/08), but without the subterfuge of effete prose by a Washington pundit. Indeed, we have a Hobson’s Choice in this coming election. A choice between a Black Liberation Theology (Black Power) candidate and a slinky, opportunistic, behind-the-scenes supporter of radical feminism.
You may read this stuff and weep. But read it. And, regardless of who
becomes our next president, we had all had best be prepared to pick up the
pieces!
Best Regards,
Beak