The political tide is reportedly turning throughout the nation.  The party that is no friend of preborn human life is poised to make gains on the the state and federal level.  It is possible that said party will come out of 2008 with more political power than said party has enjoyed since 1993. 

This could portend difficult times for pro-family activists.  Even more troubling, it could portend difficulties for the thousands of crisis pregnancy centers across our land.

That is because state and federal bureaucrats have wide latitude (or at least assume that they have wide latitude) to investigate allegations of deceptive solicitations affecting commerce. 

That is exactly what the abortion industry accuses our CPC’s of doing on a daily basis.

This concept came to the fore in an Institute press interview in the Journal Gazette on May 27, 2007:

Brown says he sees one battle looming as crisis pregnancy centers – founded and run by abortion-rights opponents – face deception and fraud charges filed by state attorneys general, based on consumer protection law. “I believe I’m uniquely qualified to defend them, given [four] years in the state of Kansas attorney general’s [office] and 25 years in the movement,” he says. Vicki Saporta, head of the National Abortion Federation, says she knows of no such action in Indiana. She says the federation compiled a report on alleged misrepresentations at centers about two years ago and a bill was reintroduced in Congress last week to give the Federal Trade Commission the authority to proceed against such centers on those grounds.

This idea is also set out in great detail in the Heartbeat International letter that opens this post.  In that letter Peggy Harshorn quotes the President of Planned Parenthood as mailing this to her base:  “I’ve written to you about so-called ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ – the fake ‘clinics’ set up by anti-choice groups …. [They] are dispensing misinformation and outright falsehoods … Sound the alarm to your friends and family and ask them to take action.”  

While this may sound like mere fund raising rhetoric on the part of Planned Parenthood, consider this shot across the bow from one of the most powerful Democrats on the Hill:

“Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) — a staunch abortion advocate — released a bogus ‘report’ that repeated the lie that ‘federally funded pregnancy resource centers often mislead pregnant teens about the medical risks of abortion.’  Congressman Waxman chairs [a House Committee] with subpoena power.”

Peggy Hartshorn included Waxman’s ominous intonation in her letter of six months ago.   One year before the political seas will likely turn a decidedly pro-abortion blue in the wake of a receding red tide, Hartshorn noted that she “fully expects [Waxman] to use his power to press the attack on the pro-life pregnancy centers and harass them.”

Anyone have to wonder how Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi thinks on this issue?  Or Ms. Clinton?  Or Mr. Obama’s advisers?

If such was the outlook last Fall, then how much more so if the “Party that is no friend of pre-born human life” takes over the Presidency and much more of Congress on November 3, 2008?

The handwriting may soon appear on the wall.   If the Executive falls into the hands of pro-abortion politicians in the Fall of 2008 then pro-abortion appointments will be the rule across the federal bureaucracy, including in the powerful agency (the Federal Trade Commission) investigating consumer protection claims affecting interstate commerce. 

The harassment will then be upon us by Spring, 2009, starting first in locations that serve clients crossing state lines.

The ArchAngel Michael Division of the Institute is prepared for this battle.   Your support of our mission will ensure that a robust defense to any such investigations can be mounted from 827 Webster Street — located in Indiana, a mere thirty miles from the Ohio line and only sixty miles from the Michigan line.

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