Next Meeting: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:30 PM

Soldiers and Sailors Hospital, Conference Room

The monthly EMPfHL meetings are on the 2nd Thursday of every month in the Conference Room of Soldiers and Sailors Hospital, Wellsboro, PA. Turn right when entering the lobby, then left at the end of the hallway. The Conference Room is two doors down, on the right. All meetings are open to the public.

Note: Because of planned construction at the hospital, the conference room will not be available in the latter half of 2010. We will post alternate room information as we receive it.

Upcoming Events

Info-Season Is Coming!

During the spring and summer, we host an information table at various events in the county. We are always looking for help manning our tables, so if you are interested in volunteering to work at one of these events — or you have an event at which you would like us to present our information — please come to the next regularly scheduled meeting. If you can't make it to a meeting, contact Joel Kershner and let him know about your interest.

Event Schedule

Publicize Your Pro-Life Event

If you are organizing a pro-life event and would like us to publicize it here, contact us with the dates of your event. And if you would like us to provide our information table there, just ask!

Noteworthy Information

The Worst of 2008

On January 7, 2009, American Life League released a news article: Red Faced and Red Handed: Top Ten Pro-Abortion Moments of 2008.

Public Opinion and Abortion

The July 11, 2007 online issue of Opinion Journal (a weblog produced by one of the editors of the Wall Street Journal) contains an encouraging report on a study of public opinion and abortion. Authors Christopher Blunt and Fred Steeper analyze opinion-poll data from the bellwether state of Missouri between 1992 and 2006, focusing on voters' answers to the question whether they regard themselves as “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” Opinion Journal summarizes it this way:

The finding: Public opinion has moved strongly in the “pro-life” direction. In 1992, 34% of Missouri voters described themselves as “strongly pro-choice”; by 2006 this figure had declined to 23%. The proportion describing themselves as “strongly pro-life” rose from 26% to 36%. When those describing themselves as “somewhat” pro-whatever are included, the “pro-life” rise is 11 percentage points (30% to 41%), and the “pro-choice” decline is 13 points (43% to 30%).

The article then goes on to speculate about what this shift means. Although the conclusions are not 100% encouraging, they are certainly thought provoking, and worth your time.

President Obama at Saddleback Church: His Own Words

Pastor Rick Warren’s Question: Let’s deal with abortion. I, as a pastor, have to deal with this all the time, every different angle, every different pain, all the decisions and all of that. 40 Million abortions since Roe v Wade. Some people who — people who believe that life begins at conception would say that's a holocaust for many people. At what point is a baby entitled to human rights?

Barack Obama’s reply: Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion because this is something obviously the country wrestles with. One thing that I'm absolutely convinced of is there is a moral and ethical content to this issue. So I think that anybody who tries to deny the moral difficulties and gravity of the abortion issue I think is not paying attention. So that would be point number one. But point number two, I am pro-choice. I believe in Roe v Wade and come to that conclusion not because I'm pro abortion, but because ultimately I don't think women make these decisions casually. They wrestle with these things in profound ways. In consultation with their pastors or spouses or their doctors and their family members. And so for me, the goal right now should be — and this is where I think we can find common ground and by the way I have now inserted this into the Democrat party platform is how do we reduce the number of abortions because the fact is that although we've had a President who is opposed to abortions over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.

President Obama as U.S. Senator

During his eight years in the Illinois legislature, Barack Obama cast a number of votes on abortion and received a 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council for his support of abortion rights, family planning services and health insurance coverage for female contraceptives. He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive, a vote that especially riled abortion opponents.