Educational Presentations

The Right to Life of Michigan Educational Fund has developed two educational presentations which may be used in churches or for group meetings. The Story of Right to Life and Created in the Image of God are PowerPoint presentations. Both presentations come with a presenter's script for a seamless presentation. The Story of Right to Life is about relationships and the human journey. Created in the Image of God highlights the sanctity of human life and the two U.S. Supreme Court rulings legalizing abortion for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy. MORE

Tebow Super Bowl ad surprised many

CBS aired a commercial featuring prolife college football star Tim Tebow and his mother Pam during the Super Bowl on February 7. The prolife organization Focus on the Family sponsored the ad, the 30-second ad's theme was "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life."  Pam Tebow contracted amoebic dysentery while pregnant and doctors advised her to have an abortion because the treatment could result in harm to the unborn Tim. Several pro-abortion organizations including the National Organization for Women publicly denounced the ad before it aired. NOW President Terry O'Neill called the planned ad "extraordinarily offensive and demeaning." If you watched the Super Bowl, let us know what you think of the Tebow ad. E-mail us at info@rtl.org.

Remembering Roe

The 37th memorial of the two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy was remembered in Michigan. These rulings, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, rather than providing a solution for women have only caused more problems. Local affiliates of Right to Life of Michigan planed more than 50 events to bring attention to the 50 million lives lost to legal abortion. Thousands in Michigan attended memorial services, prayer vigils and marches across the state. From Michigan, 25 buses of people went to Washington, D.C., to take part in the annual March for Life. We must take a stand against injustice and work to protect all human life.

Petitions send message to Washington, D.C.

In Michigan, the people have spoken clearly on national health care reform; we do not want to pay for or participate in abortion. Petitions were delivered to Michigan's members of Congress. In addition, a letter dated October 21, from Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing was sent to U.S. House Representatives from Michigan and to our U.S. Senators highlighting our stand against making abortion part of our nation's health care reform. More than 39,960 people from Michigan have signed petitions asking that abortion be explicitly excluded from any health care reform legislation.

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Tell lawmakers: Reject Obama's pro-abortion health care bill

White House and top congressional Democrats are not giving up on passing a pro-abortion health care bill.

The Obama White House and top Democratic congressional leaders, although shaken by the January 19 election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), are attempting to push broad health care legislation through Congress within a matter of weeks -- meaning that prolife interests remain in grave jeopardy. MORE

Time is short! Please telephone the offices of your U.S. Senators and your U.S. House member. The Washington offices of your representatives can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121. Or, for direct and local numbers, see the Congressional Contact Information.

Action Item:

Call, fax and e-mail Senator Carl Levin, Senator Debbie Stabenow and your U.S. House Representative to let them know your desire to keep the government out of the abortion business.

Sample message: "I strongly urge you to oppose any health care legislation that does not contain explicit and comprehensive protections against federal subsidies for abortion and federal pro-abortion mandates. I am strongly opposed to the bill passed by the Senate on December 24 (H.R. 3590), which would result in funding of abortion, subsidies for private insurance plans that cover abortion, and pro-abortion federal mandates. The language of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, approved by the House on November 7, 2009, is absolutely necessary in any health care bill."

Embryo research guidelines pass committee

The Michigan Senate Health Policy Committee, on a vote of 5-2, advanced a bi-partisan package of bills designed to implement the constitutional amendment adopted by Michigan voters in 2008. The passage of Proposal 2 allows live human embryos to be destroyed for research purposes. Proposal 2 of 2008 contained a series of requirements for allowing embryos created for infertility treatment to be donated for research. The legislation moved by the committee today ensures that those requirements are backed up in law with definitions and penalties. MORE

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Real Life Stories

Students for Life to the Rescue

Pregnancy resource centers are places for pregnant women to seek help. They offer a wide range of services, but they often depend heavily on the generosity of volunteers to help them provide those services. When Jackson Right to Life found out two of their local centers were in dire need of diapers, they decided they needed to help. It was their students for life group though that got the show on the road. MORE