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Pages tagged "Press Release"


PRESS RELEASE: PRESS RELEASE: NC Values Coalition Statement on HB142 Consent Decree

Posted on Blog by NC Values Coalition · July 23, 2019 4:14 PM · 1 reaction

"Governor Cooper’s fake settlement is actually like the fox watching the hen house. He and Attorney General Stein have never stood in defense of our bathroom privacy and protections and now they are forcing women and girls to lose their right to privacy and safety in public facilities they control. Thank God that public schools are not under the Governor’s control, or every bathroom and locker room in public schools would be open to members of the opposite sex. Women and children have an equal right to safely access public restrooms, showers and changing facilities without risking their safety or seeing men’s genitals on full display. Be assured our coalition will continue to champion privacy protections and advocate for elected officials who will do the same."

-- Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values Coalition Executive Director


PRESS RELEASE: NC Values Coalition Statement on Dr. Greg Murphy Victory in NC 3rd

Posted on Blog by NC Values Coalition · July 10, 2019 4:41 AM

"North Carolina Values Coalition celebrates the primary victory of State Representative Greg Murphy in the 3rd Congressional district runoff election. Today Republican voters selected a true prolife champion and conservative leader to fill the seat of Congressman Walter Jones. Dr. Murphy values religious freedom, faith and family has carried those prolife and family values into General Assembly while representing Pitt County. We are delighted to endorse Dr. Greg Murphy to boldly represent North Carolina in the US House of Representatives."

-- Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values Coalition Executive Director


Roy Cooper Vetoes Baby Bill

Posted on Blog by Jim & Melody Quick · April 18, 2019 11:26 AM

NC Values Coalition Statement on Governor Roy Cooper SB359 Veto

 

"During Easter holy week when Christians around the world pause to remember the birth, sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper instead vetoed the life of innocent babies, created in the image of God, and chose to support infanticide standing side-by-side with New York Governor Cuomo and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL. Roy Cooper didn’t just veto a bill, he vetoed babies—babies who are innocently born alive as the result of a botched abortion. Our coalition of pro-life advocates will gather our supporters in Raleigh and encourage the General Assembly to override this murderous action. "

- Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values Coalition Executive Director

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Background Information: 

The CDC estimates that between 2003 and 2014, at least 143 babies were born alive during abortions and then later passed away – this report does not include babies who survived attempted abortions and are still alive.

  • Today only six states require the reporting of statistics on children marked for abortion who were born alive during abortion procedures, and only five states (Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Oklahoma) have reported at least 25 children were born alive during attempted abortions in 2017.
  • Thirty-one states have laws offering at least some explicit protection to babies who survive abortions. Once signed by Governor Cooper, North Carolina will establish legal protections for born-alive infants.
  • In 2002, the federal Born-Alive Infants Protections Act clarified that if an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States and is entitled to all the protections of such laws. However, it did not create additional, specific protections for children who survive an abortion.
  • SB359 builds on the 2002 federal law by creating specific state requirements for the treatment of abortion survivors.
    • In the case of an attempted abortion that results in a child born alive, the health care practitioner must exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age; and
    • ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.
    • Establishes state penalties for failure to comply with these reasonable requirements. Penalties include fines and/or imprisonment. In addition, a woman on whom an abortion was performed is given the right to sue for civil remedies.

 Documented Examples of Infanticide after an Abortion

According to the Washington Examiner, investigators of Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion clinic described it as a “house of horrors.”2

  • Gosnell severed the spines of hundreds of born alive babies with scissors. – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
  • Gosnell severed the spine of one breathing, moving, born-alive baby and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal. – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
  • One of the babies was reportedly moving and breathing for 20 minutes before an employee cut the spinal cord – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
  • One worker testified that a woman had delivered a large baby into the toilet before Gosnell arrived at work for the night. The baby was moving and looked like it was swimming. – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania

In an undercover video released in April 2013, a D.C. abortionist admitted he would not intervene to save an abortion survivor. When asked about a baby being born alive during an attempted abortion, he said, “usually, at this point in your pregnancy, it’s too early to survive, usually. It will expire shortly after birth…it’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point.” Later he said, “we would not help it [the baby].  Let’s say. We wouldn’t— we wouldn’t—uh, intubate, let’s say.”    

In another undercover video released in March 2017, a former Planned Parenthood medical director said that in order to determine whether to provide medical intervention for these babies, “You need to pay attention to who’s in the room.”

Earlier cases abound. In 2005, a mother delivered her 23-week-old baby in the toilet at EPOC Clinic in Orlando, Florida, and was shocked to see him move. Abortion staff not only refused to help but turned away paramedics, whom her friend had notified by calling 911. Angele could do no more than helplessly sit on the floor rocking and singing to her baby for 11 minutes until he died.

In 2006, Sycloria Williams delivered her 23-week-old baby boy on a recliner at A Gyn Diagnostic Center in Hialeah, Florida. When he began breathing and moving, abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez cut the umbilical cord and zipped him into a biohazard bag, still alive and trashed the newborn in a cardboard. At 23 weeks, an otherwise healthy baby would have a legitimate chance of survival. Quadruplets born at 23 weeks in Nebraska survived.

Jill Stanek testified before the House Judiciary Committee about her experience as a registered nurse in the Labor and Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, where she discovered babies being aborted alive and shelved to die in the department’s soiled utility closet. She said, “I was traumatized and changed forever by my experience of holding a little abortion survivor for 45 minutes until he died, a 21/22-week-old baby who had been aborted because he had Down syndrome."  Jill Stanek provided testimony to the North Carolina Senate Health Committee. In addition letters and testimony from US Senate Judiciary testimony from Melissa Ohden and Gianna Jessen, both abortion survivors, were received by the committee.


NC Statement on General Assembly Passing SB359

Posted on Blog by Jim & Melody Quick · April 16, 2019 5:19 PM · 1 reaction

NC Values Coalition Statement on General Assembly Passing SB359

Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

 

"We are thankful that our General Assembly passed the Born Alive Abortion Survivors’ bill today to make it unambiguous in North Carolina that infanticide is murder! Senate Bill 359 assures that infants, born alive as the result of a failed abortion, are recognized as a person entitled to all the rights, protections, and privileges that any other child born in our State possesses.

If an infant survives an abortion, he or she should be treated with the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve its life and health that any other infant receives after birth. Unfortunately, these babies are sometimes left to die without medical care or, worse, helped to die by the very physicians who deliver them into the world. This is infanticide, not “healthcare”. A so-called “right to abortion” should not translate to a right to a dead child no matter what."

- Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values Coalition Executive Director

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Background Information: 

The CDC estimates that between 2003 and 2014, at least 143 babies were born alive during abortions and then later passed away – this report does not include babies who survived attempted abortions and are still alive.

  • Today only six states require the reporting of statistics on children marked for abortion who were born alive during abortion procedures, and only five states (Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Oklahoma) have reported at least 25 children were born alive during attempted abortions in 2017.
  • Thirty-one states have laws offering at least some explicit protection to babies who survive abortions. Once signed by Governor Cooper, North Carolina will establish legal protections for born-alive infants.
  • In 2002, the federal Born-Alive Infants Protections Act clarified that if an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States and is entitled to all the protections of such laws. However, it did not create additional, specific protections for children who survive an abortion.
  • SB359 builds on the 2002 federal law by creating specific state requirements for the treatment of abortion survivors.
    • In the case of an attempted abortion that results in a child born alive, the health care practitioner must exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age; and
    • ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.
    • Establishes state penalties for failure to comply with these reasonable requirements. Penalties include fines and/or imprisonment. In addition, a woman on whom an abortion was performed is given the right to sue for civil remedies.

 Documented Examples of Infanticide after an Abortion

According to the Washington Examiner, investigators of Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion clinic described it as a “house of horrors.”2

  • Gosnell severed the spines of hundreds of born alive babies with scissors. – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
  • Gosnell severed the spine of one breathing, moving, born-alive baby and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal. – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
  • One of the babies was reportedly moving and breathing for 20 minutes before an employee cut the spinal cord – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
  • One worker testified that a woman had delivered a large baby into the toilet before Gosnell arrived at work for the night. The baby was moving and looked like it was swimming. – Report of the Grand Jury XXIII MISC. NO.0009901-2008 in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania

In an undercover video released in April 2013, a D.C. abortionist admitted he would not intervene to save an abortion survivor. When asked about a baby being born alive during an attempted abortion, he said, “usually, at this point in your pregnancy, it’s too early to survive, usually. It will expire shortly after birth…it’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point.” Later he said, “we would not help it [the baby].  Let’s say. We wouldn’t— we wouldn’t—uh, intubate, let’s say.”    

In another undercover video released in March 2017, a former Planned Parenthood medical director said that in order to determine whether to provide medical intervention for these babies, “You need to pay attention to who’s in the room.”

Earlier cases abound. In 2005, a mother delivered her 23-week-old baby in the toilet at EPOC Clinic in Orlando, Florida, and was shocked to see him move. Abortion staff not only refused to help but turned away paramedics, whom her friend had notified by calling 911. Angele could do no more than helplessly sit on the floor rocking and singing to her baby for 11 minutes until he died.

In 2006, Sycloria Williams delivered her 23-week-old baby boy on a recliner at A Gyn Diagnostic Center in Hialeah, Florida. When he began breathing and moving, abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez cut the umbilical cord and zipped him into a biohazard bag, still alive and trashed the newborn in a cardboard. At 23 weeks, an otherwise healthy baby would have a legitimate chance of survival. Quadruplets born at 23 weeks in Nebraska survived.

Jill Stanek testified before the House Judiciary Committee about her experience as a registered nurse in the Labor and Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, where she discovered babies being aborted alive and shelved to die in the department’s soiled utility closet. She said, “I was traumatized and changed forever by my experience of holding a little abortion survivor for 45 minutes until he died, a 21/22-week-old baby who had been aborted because he had Down syndrome."  Jill Stanek provided testimony to the North Carolina Senate Health Committee. In addition letters and testimony from US Senate Judiciary testimony from Melissa Ohden and Gianna Jessen, both abortion survivors, were received by the committee.


Democratic Lawmakers Seek to Repeal Compromise Bill

Posted on Blog by Jim & Melody Quick · April 04, 2019 10:59 AM · 1 reaction

NC Values Coalition Statement on Democrat-Sponsored Bills to Reintroduce HB2 Debate 

 

"Today’s announcement of a slew of bills that will threaten our most basic rights as Americans—the right to free speech, the right to practice our religious beliefs without fear of government interference or retribution, the right as parents to oversee the upbringing of our own children—shows just how extreme these legislators and their leftist advocacy groups are.

Their ultimate goal is to silence anyone who doesn’t agree with them on marriage being between one man and one woman, keeping men out of women’s bathrooms and showers, and allowing counselors and patients the freedom to determine the kind of psychotherapy they want.

HB142 was a compromise to put these types of divisive issues behind us as North Carolinians. This proposed legislation represents a broken promise that moves us backwards, not forwards. It puts North Carolina right back in the middle of a divisive, destructive debate that is intolerant, hateful and unnecessary. "

- Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values Coalition Executive Director

 

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Background Information: 

HB514 - Seeks to add special protections and rights in the area of housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance and education.

HB515 - Seeks to immediately repeal the HB142 compromise on public accomodations, minimum wage and multi-stall public bathrooms.  

HB516 - Seeks to outlaw state-licensed counselors, social workers and psychiatrists from pursuing Biblical counseling models concerning sexual orientation.


NC Statement on Bryant Ruling Striking Parts of NC Abortion Laws

Posted on Blog by Jim & Melody Quick · March 26, 2019 5:32 PM

NC Values Coalition Statement on Bryant Ruling Striking Down Part of 2015 Law Limiting Abortion at 20 Weeks

 

"Today's federal court ruling confirms North Carolina lawmakers have the constitutional right to restrict abortion when the child in the womb is viable. Our hospitals and physicians are finding viability at points once thought inconceivable just a decade ago. A new England Journal of Medical study confirms that preborn children can now survive outside the womb starting at 22 weeks. I believe one day we all will be held accountable for the actions we take to protect the lives of the innocent. Our coalition will continue to advocate for the preborn and we will seek immediate actions during this legislative session to strengthen our State's laws that protect the unborn. NC Values Coalition is committed to working with our state's prolife lawmakers and advocates until abortion is an unthinkable act."

- Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values Coalition Executive Director

 

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Background Information: 

You can read judge Bryant's ruling handed down today.   
May 6, 2015, near the time NC Lawmakers updated North Carolina's abortion laws, The New York Times reported that babies may survive at 22 weeks if treated according to a New England Journal of Medicine study that looked at 4,987 preterm births at 24 hospitals over a five year period. 

 

In February 2019, Marist polled Americans' attitudes on abortion and for the first time since 2009 as many or more Americans have identified as pro-life as have identified as pro-choice.

By the Numbers: In the poll survey taken Feb.12-17, Americans are now as likely to identify as pro-life (47%) as they are pro-choice (47%). Last month, a similar Marist survey found that Americans were more likely to identify as pro-choice than pro-life 55% to 38%, a 17-point gap. 

Most significant finding in the recent poll was that Democrats, specifically those under the the age of 45, seem to be leading the shift: This month's poll found 34% of Democrats identify as pro-life vs. 61% pro-choice. Last month, those numbers were 20% and 75%, respectively. Among Americans under 45, 47% identify as pro-life vs. 48% pro-choice. In January, those numbers were 28% and 65%, respectively. Poll Methodology: This survey of 1,008 adults was conducted via landline or cell phones, Feb. 12–Feb. 17 by The Marist Poll.


Watchdog Complaint Attacking Prolife Study Program in Raleigh

Posted on Blog by Jim & Melody Quick · March 25, 2019 12:43 PM

NC Values Coalition Statement on Watchdog Complaint Attacking Texas-Based Human Coalition's Prolife Study Program in Raleigh

 

"North Carolinians should be leary of Campaign for Accountability, a Washington, DC-based liberal nonprofit that uses litigation and aggressive communications in an attempt to defund pregnancy centers, at a time when Marist poll finds more Americans are pro-life. North Carolina Values Coalition applauds the innovative Continuum of Care program and work that Human Coalition is accomplishing in North Carolina to coordinate long-term assistance through a network of support services for women choosing to keep their baby."

"It is ironic that pro-abortion enthusiasts who rally for public funding of Planned Parenthood fail to understand how a faith-based, life-affirming nonprofit can practice good samaritan principles without proselytizing. The Campaign for Accountability should review the recent Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer Supreme Court ruling that clearly states government cannot discriminate against religious organizations and exclude them from receiving grant funding simply because they are religious."

- Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values Coalition Executive Director

 

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Background Information: 

Human Coalition operates two pregnancy center & women's clinics in North Carolina and four additional centers in Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Ohio. The two-year North Carolina pilot received state funding to develop and implement continuum of care and support program to assist women experiencing crisis pregnancies to continue their pregnancies
to full term. The funds were to be used for nonsectarian purposes.  Administrators of the program were to submit a report for  reconsideration of additional fundi by April 1, 2019. An overview of the Campaign for Accountability complaint filed with Governor Cooper is available for review.

 

On June 26, 2017, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2, in the Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer case, that religious organizations may not be excluded from state programs if they have a secular intent. The case raised questions over church-state separation without discriminating against those who are religious. Alliance Defending Freedom provided this case overview. 

 

In February 2019, Marist polled Americans' attitudes on abortion and for the first time since 2009 as many or more Americans have identified as pro-life as have identified as pro-choice.

By the Numbers: In the poll survey taken Feb.12-17, Americans are now as likely to identify as pro-life (47%) as they are pro-choice (47%). Last month, a similar Marist survey found that Americans were more likely to identify as pro-choice than pro-life 55% to 38%, a 17-point gap. 

Most significant finding in the recent poll was that Democrats, specifically those under the the age of 45, seem to be leading the shift: This month's poll found 34% of Democrats identify as pro-life vs. 61% pro-choice. Last month, those numbers were 20% and 75%, respectively. Among Americans under 45, 47% identify as pro-life vs. 48% pro-choice. In January, those numbers were 28% and 65%, respectively. Poll Methodology: This survey of 1,008 adults was conducted via landline or cell phones, Feb. 12–Feb. 17 by The Marist Poll.


Founded in 2011, the N.C. Values Coalition is a non-partisan, statewide grassroots network of North Carolinians who support and advocate for pro-family positions. The North Carolina Values Coalition is a non-profit education and lobbying organization that qualifies for tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is based in Raleigh, NC.

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