Obama Administration Poised to Silence Political Opponents

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The IRS is proposing new regulations giving themselves more authority to restrict nonprofit groups.

For the first time, the IRS wants to define “candidate-related political activity” to include projects such as voter guides, legislative scorecards or reporting voting records of elected officials, get-out-the-vote campaigns, promotion of voter registration, or even mentioning the names of candidates who are running for office. Any “candidate-related political activity” could jeopardize a group’s nonprofit status.

These new proposed rules are significant, because they affect organizations’ ability to engage in issue advocacy and basic political speech.

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Abortion Advocates Fail to Mention Consequences for the Mothers

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Abortion not only takes the life of a baby; it can negatively impact the life of the mother.

The Elliot Institute is a nonprofit organization that studies the effects abortion has on women.  These are some of the repercussion of abortion indicated by their research:

  • 31% of women having abortions report suffering physical health complications;
  • 10% of women having abortions suffer immediate, potentially life-threatening complications;
  • Women have a 65% higher risk of clinical depression following abortion vs. childbirth;
  • 65% of women suffer symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after abortion;
  • Women’s death rates from various causes after abortion are 3.5 times higher than after giving birth ;
  • Many women describe their experience as ‘a nightmare,’ which can hardly be equated with ‘choice;’
  • 60% of women surveyed after abortion responded that, ‘Part of me died;’
  • Suicide rates among women who have abortions are six times higher than those who give birth;
  • Abortion increases a woman’s risk of future miscarriages by 60%.

More information is available on the Elliot Institute’s website.

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