Stopping FOCA

The good news about the election results is that the threat of losing all of the abortion restrictions so carefully constructed and fought for throughout the states over the past 35 years is energizing people to get involved.

Stopping FOCA will be a major project for Wisconsin Right to Life in the upcoming months. While pundits act as thought FOCA will not be an Obama priority (one even called it a suicide move for Obama), it is important not to give great credence to this rhetoric. To do so would be “suicide” for babies and mothers we have valiantly protected over the years.

Focusing on Obama is not the right strategy, anyway. Even though he promised Planned Parenthood that signing FOCA is the first thing he’d do as President, the bill has to get to his desk. This means the Congress, headed by ardent pro-abortionist Nancy Pelosi and sometimes right-to-life Harry Reid, will be in charge of when FOCA becomes a priority.

Make no mistake. Planned Parenthood and NARAL have fought abortion restrictions like parental involvement before a minor’s abortion and giving women full information prior to an abortion furiously in the legislatures and the courts for the past three decades. They salivate at the new Congress, viewing it as a means to realize their ultimate goal — abortion with no restrictions whatsoever and burying the right-to-life movement.

Stay tuned as efforts develop to make certain that, whatever we do in the next years, stopping FOCA is the ultimate effort to continue reducing abortions in our state and country.

Barbara Lyons