Save the Date! - January 19th Rally and March

Pro-Life Rally and March

Our annual RALLY and MARCH remembering the
anniversary (not to be celebrated) of the Roe-vs-Wade decision.

The city of Dallas is an important player in this historic and tragic event which legalized the killing of almost 50 million unborn babies in America. The landmark US Supreme Court case of January 22, 1973 began in the Federal Court building in Downtown Dallas.

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JOIN US as we gather forces, proclaim our dissent and march to the Federal Courts Building in Downtown Dallas on January 19th, 2008.

January 19th, 2008

12 noon

Rally & March For Life

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Cathedral Plaza, 2215 Ross Ave. at Pearl St., Dallas.

Parking - Cathedral/ Meyerson parking garage behind church (free)

[MAP]

30-minute rally at the Cathedral Plaza, then a march from the Cathedral Plaza to the Earle Cabell Federal Courthouse, where the Roe v. Wade case was first filed in 1970.

The very rainy January 20th, 2007 March - Dallas, Texas

ALL pro-life people are INVITED!

Come ONE ,come ALL!

Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, pro-life groups and

all church and school organizations are encouraged

to participate in this powerful prayer and public witness event.

Bring your troop flag or club banner for the March for Life!

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(Co-sponsored by

Texans for Life Coalition, the Catholic Pro-Life Committee

from the Diocese of Dallas, Catholics Respect Life from the

Diocese of Fort Worth, and other pro-life/pro-family groups.)

SAVE THE DATE!

Yes, they call us anti-abortion but we call ourselves "Pro-Life".

NARAL celebrates Roe-v-Wade with activism

The National Abortion Rights Action League is calling for their supporters to celebrate January 22nd as a day of victory.

January 22, 1973 is the day that abortion on-demand became legal in the USA. Since then, there have been about 48 million babies legally and cruelly killed before birth in the America. Certainly not a day to celebrate.

NARAL has candy-coated that historic day to be a day celebrating the "right to privacy... (including) ... abortion care". NARAL sends out periodic emails to it subscribers, of which I covertly have become a subscriber to as well. Here is a quote from the email:

"January 22, 2008, marks the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which ruled that the Constitutional right to privacy includes access to safe, legal abortion care. In commemoration of this landmark event and to prepare for the 2008 elections, we’ve created a kit specifically for Rapid Responders.

Our Rapid Responders kit is full of information to make your activism at home much easier. Whether you’re interested in sending letters to the editor, getting your friends to sign petitions, or hosting a house party in commemoration of Roe, there’s something for anyone who wants to mark this important milestone.

As always, thank you for the work you do on the front lines every time you act, you help protect reproductive justice and freedom for women everywhere. We’re looking forward to celebrating Roe’s 35th anniversary with you!

My best,

Nancy Keenan
President
NARAL Pro-Choice America"


Texans for Life's response to this shame is to rally the pro-life majority in DFW in making a statement to everyone that January 22nd is a day that should not be celebrated. It is a day for mourning, remembering, and making our life-affirming statement to the world that we oppose the slaughter of unborn babies and there is certainly no way to candy-coat the reality of that horror.

BE THERE.
Show your support for life.

January 19th, 2008

12 noon

Rally & March For Life

Cathedral Plaza,
2215 Ross Ave. at Pearl, Dallas.
Parking - Cathedral/ Meyerson parking garage behind church (free)

For more information about the RALLY and MARCH for life in Downtown Dallas

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Citizen-Activist-Training Seminar -- CATS

CATS (Citizen-Activist-Training Seminar)

[REGISTER HERE]

February 15-16, 2008

Stagecoach Inn ~~ Salado, Texas

Join outstanding leaders of the pro-life, pro-family organizations of Texas and learn how to be an effective activist.

Topics include:

• what the Scripture teaches about citizen participation in government,
• how the election process works and how to get a resolution to a party platform,
• understanding the legislative process as well as how legislation relates to the courts and how state legislation relates to federal legislation,
• how to interact with your local and state school board

It is time for God’s people in Texas to rise
up and help restore Godly values in government on a local, state and federal
level.

[REGISTER HERE]

Seminar Agenda

Friday, February 15

5:00 Registration

7:00 Rick Scarborough, Vision America

8:00 Reception with State Legislators and Organization Leaders

Saturday, February 16

8:00 Continental Breakfast in Robertson Room

9:00 Cathie Adams, Texas Eagle Forum

10:00 Joe Pojman, Texas Alliance for Life

11:00 Lunch (on your own)

1:30 Stacey Emick, Texas Right to Life

2:30 Kyleen Wright, Texans for Life

3:30 Kelly Shackelford, Free Market Foundation

4:30 Terri Leo, State Board of Education

5:30 Break

7:30 Banquet - featuring Kenda Bartlett, CWA National Field Director

Seminar Information

Stagecoach Inn

401 S. Stagecoach Road

Salado, Texas

Robertson Room

Registration fee is $50 per person, which includes materials, reception, continental breakfast, and banquet.

Registration deadline is February 4, 2008.

Accomodations: Call (254) 947-5111 for reservations. Questions? Contact Ann Hettinger at director@texas.cwfa.org or (972) 722-2776.

This seminar is presented by:

• Concerned Women for America of Texas
• Free Market Foundation
• Texas Alliance for Life
• Texas Eagle Forum
• Texans for Life
• Texas Right to Life
• Vision America

Blogging gets you noticed.

Kyleen gets mentioned in Kristen Fyfe's blog.
@ NewsBusters.org

READ IT HERE
Does AP Stand for Anti-Abstinence Propaganda?

"Another voice AP could have quoted is Kyleen Wright, President of Texans for Life Coalition, who commented online about the article, "Liberals and ‘sexperts’ are trying to rewrite history with their junk science in order to affect the funding debate underway in Congress." She added, "The fact remains that during the 1980s, teen pregnancy and birth rates, abortion and STD rates were through the roof, having doubled by the end of the decade. This was when the condom/contraception groups reigned supreme, entering the schools in record numbers while exploiting AIDS fears.… When the devastating numbers were released in the early 1990s, many parents, community activists and organizations began offering abstinence education. As a result, the numbers began to decline immediately, and have declined every year since. We have seen 60-year lows this decade, something the contraception crowd was never able to accomplish."

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Junk Science in the Media

The Dallas Morning News Reporter who interviewed me for the story in today's paper (see article below) left out some very important facts that I shared with him.

Liberals and "sexperts" are using junk science to discredit abstinence while Congress debates abstinence education funding. Unfortunately, the media is largely giving them a pass.

It is a fact that teen pregnancy and birth rates (not to mention STD & abortion rates) increased during the 1980's, when condom/contraceptive promoters reigned in the schools, exploiting AIDS fears. After seeing the devastating numbers in the early 1990's, Texans for Life and others began offering abstinence education in the schools. Since then, the pregnancy and birth rates have fallen every year, so that we have experienced 60-year lows in this decade. As my mom would say, the proof's in the puddin'!


Texas, like all border states, has struggled to match reductions in other states, but they are reductions nonetheless. Note that our pregnancy rate is not the highest. Texas, unlike other states, does not attempt to solve the teen pregnancy problem with abortion.

In 2003, Texas was awarded a federal grant for reducing out-of-wedlock pregnancies and births, without increasing abortions.

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Bless you for standing with us for life,

Kyleen Wright

PresidentTexans for Life Coalition

(SOURCE) Since 1990, pregnancy rates have declined substantially for teenagers aged 15--17 years. From 1990 to 2000, the pregnancy rate decreased 33%, from 80.3 per 1,000 females to 53.5, a record low. The birth rate declined 42%, from its peak at 38.6 in 1991 to 22.4 in 2003. The induced abortion rate peaked in 1983 at 30.7 and decreased by more than half to 14.5 by 2000.
SOURCES: Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw S. Estimated pregnancy rates for the United States, 1990--2000: an update; and Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Sutton PD. Births: preliminary data for 2003. These reports and additional information are available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm.

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article

Study: Abstinence-only programs aren't certain to curb teen sex

Including birth control in lessons to curb teen sex draws criticism

12:00 AM CST on Thursday, November 8, 2007

By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN – Just teaching abstinence remains unproven as a way to stop teen sex, while programs that both discuss contraceptives and urge teens to wait have better track records, a leading sex education researcher said Wednesday.

Even as a bill to continue funding abstinence-only instruction moves forward in Congress, researcher Douglas Kirby said that only a couple of programs that exclusively focus on abstinence have yielded even "modestly encouraging results."

However, many studies have shown that combining the abstinence message with explicit discussions of birth control "is a realistic, effective approach that does not appear to confuse young people," Dr. Kirby said in a report for a nonpartisan group that tries to reduce teen pregnancies.

In Texas, which leads the nation in teen births, backers of the more comprehensive approach applauded the study, but a social conservative was quick to denounce it as "faulty science."
Kyleen Wright of Mansfield, president of the Irving-based Texans for Life Coalition, said that contraception instruction was tried in the schools in the 1980s and didn't work.

"Now, we see a new spin, all these new attacks on abstinence ... trying to discourage parents from supporting what they feel in their gut is right for their children," she said.
Ms. Wright said the release of the report was timed to sway Congress to end federal funding of abstinence education.

Dr. Kirby denied that.

On Tuesday, the House passed a spending bill that would spend $141 million on community-based abstinence education, the level requested by President Bush. Though the Senate approved a smaller amount, proponents of more comprehensive sex education in the schools and wider availability of birth control for teens are unhappy the Democratic Congress hasn't killed the program.

On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest network of sex education providers, called on Congress to stop funding programs that focus solely on abstinence. It pointed to the Kirby report as "definitively showing" that the programs don't work.

"As the mother of two teenagers, I want my kids to be taught about abstinence, but I also know that that's not enough," said Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America who is formerly of Austin and the daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.

In the report, which was based on a review of 115 studies of teenager sexual behavior, Dr. Kirby said abstinence-alone instruction is largely unproven, though he shied away from a sweeping denunciation.

Dr. Kirby, who for decades has evaluated sex-education programs for the government and other groups, conducted the review for the nonpartisan National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

He said two studies had found "weak but encouraging results" from abstinence programs in Ohio and Arkansas. However, he said more efforts to duplicate and study them are needed.
In April, Mathematica Policy Research released a report that was nine years and $8 million in the making. Scientists followed middle school children enrolled in four separate abstinence programs for about five years, and found no difference in the age of first intercourse between them and their peers.

In his review, Dr. Kirby said, "Two-thirds of the 48 comprehensive programs that supported both abstinence and the use of condoms and contraceptives for sexually active teens had positive behavioral effects," such as delaying the start of sexual activity and increasing use of condoms or other birth control.

He found no evidence that supplying youngsters with a dual message – explaining details about birth control and urging that they wait to have sex – "hastened the initiation of sex or increased the frequency of sex."

Dr. Janet Realini, a San Antonio public health official who supports more comprehensive instruction, hailed the study's other findings, such as that programs in which teens do community service or get one-on-one counseling can reduce teen pregnancy.
"There are some new, promising results on programs for parents," she said.

Annual Benefit Banquet - Texans for Life

October 20th, 2007

Westin Hotel - Irving, Texas

7:00PM

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