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6 Tips (from a local) for Riding Metro

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6 Tips (from a local) for Riding Metro

 

As many March for Life participants come from out of town, riding the Metro can be a new and confusing experience. We, at the March for Life, want your transportation to and from the March to be safe, comfortable, and commotion free.

Before leaving your bus, hotel room, or gym floor, make a plan, and communicate it to your team members. Make sure everyone in your group understands the fundamentals of riding the D.C. metro system. Plan your trip using the Metro Trip Planner, know what color line you are getting on, know your departure station, and arrival station. Download and distribute to your group the Metro Pocket Guide. Have a plan in case someone in your group gets separated in the crowd, or accidentally misses your train. Provide chaperone and group leader cell phone numbers to every participant of your group. Purchase fare cards ahead of time, and ensure you have enough money on the card to cover travel.

Here are six “local tips” which will help make your metro ride as smooth and as easy as possible. Follow these tips, and you’ll be riding the metro like a D.C. local!

1. Have your metro card easily accessible, before you enter the station. Metro Stations are crowded during rush hour, and even more crowded on the March for Life, during rush hour. One way to alleviate long lines, and avoid the frustration of fellow metro riders is to have your metro card ready, in your hand, before you enter the line for the faregate.

2. Don’t Run. I understand your scenario, and see it every day: you are walking down the escalator, and you see your train on the platform. You think “I better run so that I don’t miss that train!” You end up pushing and shoving, and someone gets hurt. I promise, another train will come, and most likely in no more than five minutes, and very often in less than 1 minute. Metro officials are expecting a high volume of riders this January 22, and are well accommodated for your arrival. The last thing that we want to happen is for pro-lifers to have a bad name among D.C. residents!

3. When riding the escalators, stand to the right, walk to the left.  This is an easy way to avoid the annoyance of local metro riders. If you are going to stand, stand on the right hand side escalator and walk on the left, unless of course, everyone is walking, then walk.

4. DO NOT try to hold the metro doors open. Metro doors are not like elevator doors, and will close on your hand, arm, leg, backpack etc, and believe me, it hurts. Attempting to hold open doors will only delay train departure, frustrate your fellow riders, and possibly injure you. If you are afraid that some of your group members will be separated, make a plan ahead of time, in the event that this happens.

5.Keep your valuables in a safe place. Electronic thefts in metro stations have been on the rise in recent years. Metro advises that you put electronics away while riding metro, but if you must have them out, be aware of your surroundings. Most cell phone thefts happen near the door, so do not use your cell phone near the door of a metro. You don’t want to end up like this guy: 

6. Don’t eat or drink on Metro. It is illegal to eat in the DC metro facilities; this includes escalators, platforms, trains and buses. There are large fines for eating, drinking and littering on metro. I think it’s safe to assume this is the last thing you want to spend your money on at the March for Life.  

In short, be aware of your surroundings, and keep a close hold on your valuables, be courteous, don’t push, shove, or run. Treat Washington D.C. as you would treat your own home, and treat other riders, as you would treat your friends. Let’s blow away local riders by how courteous and polite pro-lifers are!

 

 

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2 Days of Life: Democratic Party Plays the Lying Game on Abortion

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Last week the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 7, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” by a vote of 22-12. Twenty-one Republicans and one Democrat, Rep. Pedro Pierluisi from Puerto Rico, voted for the bill.  During the markup, the Committee rejected eight amendments from rabid pro-abortion Democrats however the Democrats saved their true manufactured drama for outside of the hearing room. 

The aptly named Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) falsely decried “that the only women’s agenda that the Republicans have put forward is to take away your health care rights and then tell you to get lost.” The most pro-abortion Member of Congress, Rep. Diana DeGette (R-Colo.) echoed Rep. Slaughter’s deceitful comments however she saved the true deceit for a fundraising email she sent out later that day.   In her attempt to continue her “War on Women” Congresswoman DeGette decided that the best way to get ahead is too lie and spread fear among rape victims.  An excerpt from the e-mail:

 

Right now, Rep. Goodlatte and his all-male Republican Judiciary committee members are fast-tracking a bill that could force rape survivors to prove their cases to the IRS in order to have their abortion covered by insurance.

 

Some background, under Obamacare, premium assistance subsidies to help individuals purchase health insurance are classified as “tax credits” even though the “credits” are paid in advance by the government to insurance companies on behalf of an individual even if the individual has no tax liability in the first place. In effect it is how Washington turns the Internal Revenue Service into a welfare organization.  This is one way that H.R. 7 merely tries to take taxpayers completely out of the abortion business.

 

As for rape survivors, women who have been raped cannot be targeted for audits under H.R. 7.  Individual tax returns reflect total dollar amounts for medical care. They DO NOT list each and every expense. Since abortions aren’t listed on the return anywhere, the IRS would have no information to prompt an “abortion audit.”

 

If H.R. 7 is enacted, the IRS, under President Obama’s authority, will decide what documentation is necessary for the exceptions allowed under H.R. 7. Other federal agencies like Medicaid and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) have had no difficulty distinguishing between rape abortions and elective abortions and have done so without a reporting requirement. Barring a very unusual pattern of claims, these programs generally accept a physician’s statement that the abortion was for one of these rare cases; there is no reason to expect different behavior from the IRS.

 

Two congressional agencies (Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Commission on Taxation (JCT)) looked at the bill and decided that Rep. DeGette is bold faced lying:

 

CBO and JCT have determined that H.R. 7 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.

 

The ONLY purpose of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is precisely what the title implies.  There is no hidden agenda but a very bold one that is supported by a majority of Americans.  Polling routinely shows that over 60% of those polled oppose taxpayer funding for abortion.  

 

  • An April 2011 CNN poll showed that 61% of respondents opposed public funding for abortion
  • A January 2010 Quinnipiac University Poll showed 67% of respondents opposed federal funding of abortion
  • A November 2009 Washington Post poll showed 61% of respondents opposed government subsidies for health insurance that includes abortion; and lastly
  • A September 2009 International Communications Research poll showed that 67% of respondents opposed measure that would “require people to pay for abortion coverage with their federal taxes.

 

H.R. 7 establishes a permanent, government-wide prohibition on taxpayer subsidies for abortion and abortion coverage, including cutting off taxpayer funding for plans that include abortion under the Affordable Care Act.  The result of removing tax dollars from abortion funding is saving lives.  Research published by the pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute, closely affiliated with abortion-giant Planned Parenthood,  demonstrates that policies that prevent tax-funded abortion actually prevent 25% or more of the abortions that would otherwise occur among the covered population.

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Why We March – Silent No More

Guest Blog Post by Georgette Forney

As we gear up for the annual March for Life in DC, someone inevitably asks me why I do this every year, especially when we typically march in freezing temperatures.

I think different people march for different reasons, so there is not one simple answer, but I march in honor of those who have died because of abortion.

I march for the 56 million babies who have died by abortion, including my baby.

When I am marching, walking alongside other folks from the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, I am honoring the life of my unborn child, Elizabeth (the name I gave her at the memorial service held at the end of the abortion healing program I attended) and they are honoring their children’s lives as well.

When I was 16 years old and found out I was pregnant, I didn’t consciously acknowledge or know that every life is created by God and has purpose. It was all about me and how a child would ruin my future hopes and dreams.

Now I understand every life has value and every aborted baby is a loss for parents, family, and society.  My selfishness denied my daughter her personhood, her purpose, her dreams, and her achievements. It was when I finally acknowledged her real-ness and wept for what I missed out on that my healing and restoration began. Grieving for her opened the doors of my heart, my tears came with the reality of what I lost.

I also march for all the women who should be marching with us but cannot do so.

Some women won’t ever march with us because they have died from abortion or suicide afterwards.  In the US, 31% of women suffer from health complications after their abortions.[i]  Additionally, suicide rates among women who have had abortions are six times higher that women who have given birth.[ii]  

Some women can’t march with us because they are dealing with physical complications, while others struggle from emotional complications.  Women who have had abortions are 65% more likely to be at risk of long-term clinical depression than women who gave birth.[iii]  Finally, there are many still locked in silence, afraid of judgment, bearing shame and guilt, feeling alone, and unsure if anyone cares.

I march because I want these women to know I care, and there is an organized group of us who care. We carry signs that bear the truth “I Regret My Abortion,” and we share testimonies that explain the reality of abortion and the hope and healing we have found. We march to offer help, and we march to show the world that abortion has consequences—real children who died, real parents and families who suffer, and real people who want the world to know the truth.

 

[i] VM Rue et. al., “Induced abortion and traumatic stress: A preliminary comparison of American and Russian women,” Medical Science Monitor 10 (10): SR5-16, 2004.

[ii] M. Gissler et. al., “Injury deaths, suicides, and homicides associated with pregnancy, Finland 1987-2000,” European J. Public Health 15(5):459-63, 2005.

[iii] JR Cougle, DC Rearden & PK Coleman, “Depression Associated with Abortion and Childbirth: A Long-Term Analysis of the NLSY Cohort,” Medical Science Monitor 9(4):CR 105-112, 2003.