| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 18, 2015 |
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| Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act a Crucial Piece of Pro-Life Legislation | |
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WASHINGTON – Legislation that would ban abortions after 20 weeks is going to be debated and voted on in the United States Senate this week. The debate on S. 1553, The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, will begin on Monday and a vote is expected Tuesday morning. At the age of 20 weeks or 5 months post-fertilization, scientific evidence tells us an unborn child can feel pain. Pain medication is administered directly to the unborn child in second-trimester fetal surgery, in addition to anesthesia. The unborn child shows physical, chemical, brain and stress responses demonstrating pain at this stage of development. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is based on science, has overwhelming public support, and is necessary to protect unborn children from painful and untimely deaths. “This is a common-sense bill that the large majority of Americans strongly support. We thank the Senate for taking it up and call upon both sides of the aisle to pass this. Any abortion is one too many. But Americans are are in agreement that we need to bring an immediate end to late term abortions.” said Jeanne Mancini, President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund. Who: Pro-Life Legislators, March for Life and other Pro-Life Organizations What: Press Conference on Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Where: Senate Visitors Center Room 215, United States Capitol When: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 10:15 AM ET The March for Life in Washington, D.C., began as a small demonstration on January 22, 1974, the first anniversary of the now-infamous Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world. The peaceful demonstration that has followed on this somber anniversary every year since is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, abortion. |
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| Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life Education and Defense Fund, is available for interviews. For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Ryan Hughes at RHughes@SBPublicAffairs.com or (703) 739-5920.
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Legislation Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks Set for Senate Debate and Vote
House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood
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CONTACT: Ryan Hughes |
| Pro-Life Groups Urge Senate to Pass the Defund Planned Parenthood Act | |
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Washington, D.C – The Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which today passed the US House of Representatives, imposes a one-year moratorium on federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which will allow for a thorough investigation of its practices. Any funding would be redirected to clinics that do not offer abortions. The vote followed months of intense focus on Planned Parenthood prompted by undercover videos released which showed violations of federal laws prohibiting the sales of fetal tissue for profit and restricting certain abortion procedures. Pro-life groups are now urging the Senate to take up the vote and end the practice of taxpayer money being used to fund this global abortion provider. While opponents claim that the bill would reduce funding to women’s health issues, supporters of the bill explained that the money will be re-directed to clinics that do not engage in the abortion procedures Planned Parenthood does. “The passage of the Defund Planned Parenthood by the US House of Representatives is a pro-life victory for all Americans,” said Jeanne Mancini, President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund. “As the bill moves to the Senate, let us hope that this bill passes and is ultimately enacted so that women and babies will receive the protection they deserve and no more taxpayer dollars will go to this criminal organization.” The March for Life in Washington, D.C., began as a small demonstration on January 22, 1974, the first anniversary of the now-infamous Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world. The peaceful demonstration that has followed on this somber anniversary every year since is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, abortion. |
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| Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life Education and Defense Fund, is available for interviews. For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Ryan Hughes at RHughes@SBPublicAffairs.com or (703) 739-5920.
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Pro-Life Leaders Rally to Defund Planned Parenthood
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2015 |
CONTACT: Ryan Hughes Shirley & Banister Public Affairs 703-739-5920/800-536-5920 rhughes@sbpublicaffairs.com |
Congress must Act Now and Approve Budget without Funding Abortion Provider |
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| Washington, D.C – The U.S. Congress must pass a budget funding the US government by the end of September. Congress must pass the budget without Planned Parenthood’s millions of taxpayer dollars and send the bill to President Obama’s desk to sign.
To make sure Congress and President Obama hear directly from women who have been harmed by Planned Parenthood, pro-life groups are organizing the #WomenBetrayed: The Real Stories Rally & Lobby Day in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, September 10th at 12:00pm to 2:00pm. “We need to stand together in unity to begin to restore our country’s goodness by our virtue.” said Jeanne Mancini, President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund. “Specifically we are called to live heroic perseverance, fortitude and love. I am certain that if we continue to fight for the human rights of the most vulnerable among us and continue to tell the truth about how abortion hurts women then one day soon we will win! We will restore a culture of love and life where no woman in her right mind would choose abortion and where every precious human life is respected from conception.” Who: March for Life and other Pro-Life Organizations What: #WomenBetrayed: The Real Stories Rally & Lobby Day Where: Area 10 on the Capitol Grounds on this map When: September 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET The March for Life in Washington, D.C., began as a small demonstration on January 22, 1974, the first anniversary of the now-infamous Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world. The peaceful demonstration that has followed on this somber anniversary every year since is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, abortion. |
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| Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life Education and Defense Fund, is available for interviews. For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Ryan Hughes at RHughes@SBPublicAffairs.com or (703) 739-5920.
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Pro-Life Victory over Obamacare’s Abortion-Pill Mandate
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2015 |
CONTACT: Ryan Hughes Shirley & Banister Public Affairs 703-739-5920/800-536-5920 rhughes@sbpublicaffairs.com |
Court says Government can’t force organization to Act Contrary to Pro-Life Beliefs |
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| WASHINGTON – A federal court issued an order Monday in March for Life v. Burwell that permanently prohibits the Obama administration from enforcing its abortion-pill mandate on the pro-life organization, founded with the sole purpose of ending abortion. The order is the first one to be granted in favor of an organization opposed to the mandate for pro-life reasons based on science and moral convictions rather than religion.
March for Life, which holds its well-known pro-life march each year in Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit through the Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys in July 2014 and requested a permanent injunction against the mandate. The mandate forces employers, regardless of their moral convictions, to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs and devices under threat of heavy financial penalties through the IRS. “We are delighted that the court has ruled in our favor on this crucially important case,” March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said of the ruling. “The government should not be allowed to force organizations like the March for Life to have health insurance with drugs and devices that can cause an abortion. We didn’t want to go to court but were backed into a corner and had no other options. As an American today I am grateful for the balance of powers. I am also deeply grateful for Alliance Defending Freedom and Matt Bowman working on our behalf this past year. ” “Pro-life organizations should not be forced into betraying the very values they were established to advance,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “This is especially true of March for Life, which was founded to uphold life, not to assist in taking it. The government has no right to demand that organizations provide health insurance plan options that explicitly contradict their mission.” “If the purpose of the religious employer exemption is, as HHS states, to respect the anti-abortifacient tenets of an employment relationship, then it makes no rational sense-indeed, no sense whatsoever to deny March for Life that same respect,” explains the decision. The March for Life in Washington, D.C., began as a small demonstration on January 22, 1974, the first anniversary of the now-infamous Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world. The peaceful demonstration that has followed on this somber anniversary every year since is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, abortion. Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life Education and Defense Fund, is available for interviews. For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Ryan Hughes at RHughes@SBPublicAffairs.com or (703) 739-5920. ### |
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Real Healthcare for Women and Babies
Are you following the March for Life on Instagram? If not, 
then you missed our most recent guest, Good Counsel Homes! We were honored to highlight this organization, which serves women and babies with loving, life-affirming healthcare.
You can learn more about them HERE. There are real options for women to receive life-affirming care across the United States.