Over the weekend, the Votes Have Consequences Express hit the Indiana State Fair where the staff enjoyed eating different foods you can only find at a decent state fair:



On Sunday, the bus headed to Toledo, Ohio where it met up with local pro-life activists for a cook-out.

And today, the bus tour hit the Keystone State, making stops in Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper's district. As noted last week, Dahlkemper preempted the bus tour on the very front page of her Congressional website.

Besides her own spin, Dahlkemper supporters organized by Catholics United, a pro-abortion front group funded by pro-abortion billionaire George Soros, who also funds Planned Parenthood, NARAL and NOW, came to our stop in Erie and followed the bus to our additional stops:



More on them later.

Luckily, four times as many local pro-life activists were there to support their local speakers including Tim Broderick, director of People for Life; Abigayle A. Koller, team facilitator of Rachel's Vineyard; Marielle Lafaro, first vice president of People for Life, and Ed Franz, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District:







And here's a great shot from our stop in Meadville:

The Votes Have Consequences Express continued roaring through Indiana today, making stops in New Albany, Seymour, Columbus, Franklin, and in Indianapolis. Tomorrow, it'll head to the Indiana State Fair before heading to Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The most exciting development today was that the Indiana chapter of National Organization for (Pro-Abortion) Women actually showed up! What they failed to bring without a message. When asked by reporters why exactly they were there and why they were protesting us, they couldn't provide an answer.

And that's no surprise to me. They organized to stick up for Reps. Brad Ellsworth and Baron Hill... but Ellsworth and Hill want their constituents to believe that they fought against taxpayer funding of abortion. So I don't see how having pro-abortion supporters bolsters their argument. The logic of NOW is just mind boggling.

Anyway, have a great weekend, SuzyB readers and we'll continue to give you updates from the road.


Great pic from today's stop in New Albany, IN

You can thank Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, a Democratic Congresswoman selling out the 3rd District for making it all possible.

In 2008, Kathy Dahlkemper campaigned for Congress as a pro-lifer and won. But when push came to shove, Dahlkemper caved to Pelosi and Obama and is personally responsible for ushering in the biggest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade by supporting ObamaCare.

Kathy Dahlkemper put politics above principle, sold out Pennslyvania values, and now it's time for her to pay.

The Votes Have Consequences Bus Tour will roll through her district this upcoming Monday, August 16th. Here's a quick rundown of the press conferences and speakers. Local activists are invited to attend and bring homemade signs.


If you're in the area, make sure to bring your friends, co-workers, family, etc. to any of the stops.

We already know that Dahlkemper is a tad bit worried about the bus roaring through her district considering the current splash on the front-page of her Congressional website:



Considering that Dahlkemper's name is spelled wrong -- Dahlkekmper -- and the text contains grammatical errors, I'd say her efforts to spin are off to a bad start.

Why the spin?

Check out our PA-03 polling results here -- 3 out of 4 voters in Pennsylvania's 3rd District oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, and oppose the overall health care bill by a margin of 51% to 39%. Monday should be fun.

From Politico:

 

Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin will headline an anti-abortion fundraising breakfast in Washington this May.

 

Palin will speak to donors to the Susan B. Anthony List — a group that backs candidates who oppose abortion rights.

 

“Gov. Palin sees the value, necessity and joy inherent in every human life,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Gov. Palin is the modern personification of the authentic leadership modeled by early women’s rights trailblazers like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Our nation’s earliest women leaders understood that women’s rights could never be advanced at the expense of the broken rights of innocent unborn children.”

 

The May 14 breakfast will be held at the Ronald Reagan building in downtown Washington.

 

Find out more about Sarah Palin’s DC visit here 

   
    TODAY, July 23, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, Marjorie Dannenfelser, will participate in a live webcast with an all-star lineup of pro-life leaders!

    As you may or may not have been hearing, powerful abortion lobbyists and pro-abortion members of Congress are pushing taxpayer funded abortion as a part of the proposed $1,000,000,000,000.00 health care package. We are already funding abortion providers through the reversal of the Mexico City Policy, but you could be paying for abortions in the United States on a massive scale.

    Last year, Planned Parenthood (the nation’s largest abortion chain) received more than $350 million of taxpayer money. They ended the year with a $112 million surplus. This means that our tax dollars are the only thing keeping Planned Parenthood a profitable operation. And now they want even more!

    In this webcast, you will learn exactly what is at stake, how it is happening, what we are doing about it, and how you can help. This is one of the most crucial battles in the 36 years since Roe v. Wade. Now, pro-life and pro-family organizations are uniting to fight against this massive assault on life and conscience.

    Here is a list (in alphabetical order) of all the pro-life leaders who will be taking part in this 70-minute, live, one-time only webcast. You will even be able to ask questions during the Q&A session!

•    David Bereit, Founder and National Director of 40 Days for Life
•    Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the Susan B. Anthony List
•    Kristen Day, Executive Director of Democrats for Life
•    Melinda Delahoyde, President of CareNet crisis pregnancy centers
•    Day Gardner, Founder and President of the National Black Pro-Life Union
•    Peggy Hartshorn, President of Heartbeat International
•    Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life
•    Mike Huckabee, former governor and presidential candidate; host of the Fox News show Huckabee
•    Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director of the National Right to Life Committee
•    Dr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
•    Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President of Government and Public Policy for Focus on the Family
•    Carmen Pate, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Point of View
•    Fr. Frank Pavone, Founder and National Director of Priests for Life
•    Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council
•    Congressman Joe Pitts, Republican from Pennsylvania’s 16th district
•    Jim Sedlak, Vice President of American Life League and Executive Director of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP)
•    Congressman Chris Smith, Republican from New Jersey’s 4th district
•    Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America
•    Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO of Americans United for Life

    You will need an Internet connection to listen to the webcast and ask questions, and the webcast will work with dial-up connections too. However, you will need to register for the webcast to be able to listen. If you cannot listen at 9 pm Eastern on Thursday, you can register and a full recording will be available shortly after the webcast concludes.

    Please visit www.stoptheabortionmandate.com for more information and to register. It’s going to be a great event!

SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser has a commentary in this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, "The Abortion Administration."  In it she addresses President Obama's support for the abortion agenda and the growing record of anti-life policies pursued by his Administration.  She takes an important look at the upcoming debates on taxpayer funding for abortion in DC and health care reform.

Here's a sneak peek:

In his first week in office, President Obama issued an executive order overturning the Reagan-era Mexico City regulations, which had prohibited American foreign aid from going to organizations that finance overseas abortions. Just a few weeks later, the Gallup organization revealed that the executive order was the single most unpopular action taken by the president during his honeymoon period. At a time when American families had experienced an average 25 percent decline in their net worth, it would appear that increasing the net worth of foreign abortionists was not high on their to-do list.

Their reaction was even less surprising in the light of another recent Gallup finding: For the first time in over 10 years, voters who describe themselves as pro-life have taken the lead (by 51 to 42 percent) over voters who describe themselves as pro-choice. Even this understates antiabortion sentiment, since many people who describe themselves as pro-choice, when probed, favor restrictions on abortion that the present Supreme Court, with its five members who voted for or favor Planned Parenthood v. Casey, would never allow.

Given the breadth of his domestic agenda, the president might want to make a midcourse correction on abortion. Why highlight an issue where the bulk of the American people, including a sizable share of the 52.9 percent of the electorate who voted for him, are either going in the other direction or have severe qualms?

But by now, nearly six months in, the bottom line for Barack Obama is clear. After making a few polite noisesabout finding "common ground" with pro-lifers, his administration has shown zero interest in doing so. Instead, the Obama agenda is to weave government-backed abortion into the fabric of American life and make it a far more integral part of domestic and foreign policy than ever before.

Read the entire piece at The Weekly Standard online, but leave your comments here about what you think!

On June 24^th, the Susan B. Anthony List joined the House Pro-Life Women’s Caucus in a press conference on Capitol Hill, urging Congress to uphold the Dornan Amendment.

Speaking out against taxpayer-funded abortions in the nation’s capital, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) takes a stand for women and the unborn, arguing that abortion is not the answer for women facing unplanned pregnancies.

Take action today to keep your tax dollars from paying for abortion! Contact your Respresentatives and tell them to speak out against the removal of the Dornan Amendment!

The Susan B. Anthony List joined the House Pro-Life Women's Caucus to defend the Dornan Amendment, a measure that keeps your tax dollars from paying for abortions.  Check out our photos from the Press Conference!

These pro-life women leaders came together to call on Congress to keep American taxpayer dollars out of abortionist's coffers in DC, and elsewhere!  Here are Congresswoman Virginia Foxx's strong remarks:

We'll be posting videos soon, so check back!

Pro-Life women are joining together on Capitol Hill to speak out against taxpayer-funded abortion in the District of Columbia. 

Follow all the action on our Twitter feed.  We'll be live-tweeting beginning at 10:00AM EST. Today.  Check out the tweets at http://twitter.com/sbalist. The tweets are also cross-posted on our Facebook profile, www.facebook.com/sbalist.

We'll post videos and photos later this week!

Late-Term Abortionist George Tiller was killed at his church in Wichita, Kansas this morning by an unidentified assailant.  The Susan B. Anthony List swiftly condemned the violence, issuing a statement by President Marjorie Dannenfelser:

George Tiller was shot and killed by an unidentified assailant shortly after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Wichita, Kansas this morning. The 67-year-old was one of the few U.S. physicians who still performed late-term abortions. He had previously survived a 1993 shooting outside his clinic.   

On Thursday, May 14th from 7:00-8:00PM ET, the Susan B. Anthony List will host a live Tele-Townhall to discuss what you can do to help Stop the Abortion Bailout with Marjorie Dannenfelser and former Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave. Special guest to be announced later.

The Abortion Industry has requested over $1.5 billion in taxpayer funding and the budget battles in Congress are approaching. This call is chance for you to learn about how you can get involved and what we can do to stop this effort to fund abortions with our hard-earned dollars.

Here is what you need to do to be on the call:

1. Tonight between 7:00-8:00pm call: 1-877-229-8493.

                   

2. Enter the access code: 14312

                   

3. Once on the call, you will be able to ask Marjorie Dannenfelser and Marilyn Musgrave your questions, just press star three (*3) on your phone.

Its that simple!  Make sure you invite your friends and family to join on this very important Tele-Townhall meeting.  You can also spread the word by joining and inviting friends to our Facebook Event.

 Enter Lia's Challenge today!  Two students will win a $1000 scholarship!  Entry form [pdf], promotional flyer [pdf] and contest rules all at www.sba-list.org/contest

Check out our awesome new video with excerpts from the speech by SBA List Young Leader Award Winner Lia Mills.  Then go to www.stoptheabortionbailout.com!

Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator has a fantastic pieceabout abortion policy today.  He also attended the SBA List Campaign for Life Dinner last week and speaks highly of it in his column:


*snip*

Hillyer goes on to stress the importance of passing laws that protect the most vulnerable among us -- unborn children.

Read Hillyer's entire column at the American Spectator.

In case you missed it, Susan B. Anthony has a Facebook Profile.  She's almost up to 1,000 friends. . . add her today!

Her profile links up with this blog and the SBA List Twitter Feed.  Keep up to date with all the latest pro-life happenings, and let us know what you think.  (Debates are very popular on her profile already.)

We're going to be at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the next few days.  If you're in DC for the conference, stop by and see us! (The photo above is from the Values Voters summit last fall.)

The big three:

1) Stop by our booth in the Exhibition Hall for some great pro-life swag.  (We'll have special CPAC-Only deals on Team Sarah Merchandise!)  We're located directly across from Radio Row.  We have some awesome Stop the Abortion Bailout! lapel stickers this year.

2) Attend Marjorie's Panel, "New Challenges in the Culture Wars," Thursday February 26, 2009 1:50-2:30pm in the Regency Ballroom.  The panel will analyze the cultural and social issues that conservatives will face in the Obama Administration.  Marjorie will be joined by a great line-up of great pro-life warriors like Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Janice Crouse of the Beverly LaHaye Institute, and Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel and Liberty University School of Law.

3) Stop by the SBA List/Team Sarah Reception (Free food!) on Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:30am - 1:30pm, Empire Ballroom.  Special Guest will be former Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, an outstanding pro-life woman leader!

I'll try to get some live-blogging into SuzyB while we're there.  In the meantime, feel free to post what you wish in this thread to keep discussion going!

Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser published a commentary in this week’s Human Events that examines how the pro-abortion actions of the Obama administration may be the tipping point for the pro-life movement.

A few of her more compelling passages that link the pro-life movement to other human rights movements of the past:

"Successful human and civil rights movements share at least one thing in common:  someone on the other side overreached.  Some individual or institution took a step in the wrong direction that public opinion could not sustain.  This is true of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements.  And it appears that it will soon be true for the pro-life movement."

"It is one thing to take a 'pro-choice' position on an issue, allowing others to engage in activity even if one is personally opposed.  It is quite another to be forced to facilitate activity one opposes in conscience.  Actions such as those can galvanize public opinion and result in the changes the public -- not the activists -- really want."

And when it comes the Obama Administration's liberal abortion policies:

 

“President Obama may very well be supplying an ‘overreach’ moment for the right to life movement by attempting to require taxpayers to fully fund abortions in federal programs and the domestic and international abortion industries themselves.  This ‘abortion industry bailout’ during a time of acute economic crisis is a dramatic overreach that far outstrips citizens' public opinion.”

 

“Obama's overreach gives pro-life human rights advocates in the mold of Susan B. Anthony reason to hope. A turning point for protecting the unborn could well be on the horizon.”

Read the full text of her piece on HumanEvents.com

2008 Winners of the Susan B. Anthony Young Leader Award, SBA President Marjorie Dannenfelser, with actress Janine Turner, and Senator Rick Santorum.

The Susan B. Anthony List will once again present our Young Leader Awards at Dinner on March 12^th.   Last year, they were quite the highlight of our Dinner!

 

The awards will be presented to a group of young women who embody the pro-life legacy of Susan B. Anthony.   This year, the young women will be presented their awards by Mary Ellen Bork, the wife of Judge Robert Bork. 

 

Susan B. Anthony was a trailblazer during her time for the rights of women and the unborn, and through these awards, the Susan B. Anthony List honors a new generation of trailblazers.  In the past, award recipients were defending Life on the Hill, in pregnancy centers, and in their own schools as a leader for women and unborn children.

Nomination forms are due by February 17, 2009.  To request a nomination form, please email information@sba-list.org with "Young Leader Award" in the subject line.

Following a brief hiatus over the holidays, SuzyB is back in action.  Welcome to a new year of battles to protect the most innocent.  We've got the most pro-abortion President in history, a pro-abortion Congress, and a lot of pro-life successes to defend.  Hang on, it's going to be a wild ride!