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Endless Mountains Pennsylvanians for Human Life is a local chapter of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation. Our primary task is to keep Tioga County residents informed regarding pro-life issues. Primarily, that means attending local events where we can distribute pro-life literature and talk with the public about life issues. When significant issues are on the horizon, we publish a newsletter in order to provide information critical to making an informed decision.
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Next Meeting: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 7:30 PM
Soldiers and Sailors Hospital, ’41 Room

The monthly EMPfHL meetings are on the 2nd Thursday of every month at Soldiers and Sailors Hospital, Wellsboro, PA. Our meetings are held in the “’41 Room” which is near the cafeteria. Turn right when entering the lobby, then left at the end of the hallway. Go to the end of the hallway and turn right. The ’41 Room is immediately on your right.

Upcoming Events

Event Schedule

February 9, 2012: 7:30PM EMPfHL Meeting — S&S Memorial Hospital, 41 Room (near cafeteria)
March 8, 2012: 7:30PM EMPfHL Meeting — S&S Memorial Hospital, 41 Room (near cafeteria)
April 12, 2012: 7:30PM EMPfHL Meeting — S&S Memorial Hospital, 41 Room (near cafeteria)
May 10, 2012: 7:30PM EMPfHL Meeting — S&S Memorial Hospital, 41 Room (near cafeteria)

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!

Becoming Pro-Life

Do you ever wonder if somebody you know will ever change their opinion about abortion? Sometimes it seems like opinions are set in stone. A new article on our web site tells the story of a former registered nurse from our area who made the journey from Pro-Choice to Pro-Life. Where arguments failed, facts prevailed. Read her story here.

Noteworthy Information

Recent Opinion Pieces of Interest

Kevin Burke in National Review Online on Post-Abortion Trauma

Michelle Malkin’s February 11 article on Planned Parenthood

National Review Online article on how the Gosnell case might affect abortion law on February 3, 2011

National Review Online Jan 24, 2011 editorial on the Gosnell case

Michelle Malkin’s Jan 21, 2011 article on the Gosnell case

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.