Yes You can do something about Abortion! A letter from LifeNews.com

Dear Pro-Life Friends,

Thanks to your hard work and strong support, President Bush was re-elected this week with a clear and convincing win over pro-abortion candidate John Kerry. Exit polls show that, like you and me, Americans placed the highest priority on moral issues, such as abortion.

Now that the president has been re-elected, a new battle begins. That's the fight to reform the U.S. Supreme Court by putting new members on it who are pro-life or, at minimum, will not read into the Constitution that a so-called right to abortion exists.

President Bush has promised to appoint such "strict constructionists" to the court, just as he appointed numerous pro-life judges to key federal courts during his first term.

However, on the day President Bush accepted a call from John Kerry conceding the race and hours after tens of millions of Americans celebrated, pro-abortion Republican senator Arlen Specter told a news conference that it was "unlikely" that judicial nominees who oppose the horrendous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision would be approved once he becomes the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

President Bush will have the opportunity to appoint anywhere from one to three new Supreme Court justices during his term. If you want those new judges to be pro-life or favor overturning the Roe v. Wade decision, the time to act is now.

In order to move a pro-life judicial nominee through the Senate confirmation process, we need a Senate Judiciary Committee chairman who is not pro-abortion and who will allow nominees to have a fair hearing and an up or down vote.

That won't happen if Senator Arlen Specter is the chairman.

Very soon, Senate Republicans will vote on new leaders for the next Senate. If a majority of the members of the Judiciary Committee speak up in opposition to Specter leading the committee, the entire Republican caucus may vote on a replacement.

If you're pro-life and care about stopping abortion, please do the following and urge pro-life friends and family to do the same:

1. If either of your senators is a Republican, call or write and urge opposition to Senator Arlen Specter becoming the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. You can reach any senator at 202-224-3121.

2. Contact members of the Senate GOP leadership or the entire 55-person membership of the Senate Republican caucus. We have made it easy for you to send a fax with a short message opposing Specter to either group, by going here.

3. The following are Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is especially important that you contact these senators, all of whom are pro-life, if they represent your state: Orrin Hatch (Utah); Charles Grassley (Iowa), Jon Kyl (Arizona); Mike DeWine (Ohio); Jeff Sessions (Alabama); Lindsey Graham (South Carolina); Larry Craig (Idaho); Saxby Chambliss (Georgia); John Cornyn (Texas).

4. Finally, it is important that pro-life advocates across the country keep up with this and other key pro-life battles. Please send this action alert to pro-life friends and family and encourage them to visit the LifeNews.com web site or to sign up for our free pro-life news by emailing news@LifeNews.com.

Thank you for your dedication to the cause of life!

Sincerely,
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com