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[c p moran]

Join the urgent national Grassroots pro-life campaign to Block anti-Life Senator Arlen Specter of PA from the Senate Judiciary Chair through petitions, emails, and faxes at these brand new websites:

Read why at these sites...
www.StopSpecterNow.com
www.Grassroots PA
www.notspecter.com/fax101.php
www.rightmarch.com/specterfax.htm

And join Evangelical, Jewish and Catholic Pro-Life Leaders the Rev. Pat Mahoney, Rabbi Yehuda Levin & Chris Slattery and many others for a "Stop Anti-Life Specter - Pro-Life Pray-In" - Tuesday, November 16th, to cry out: "No Judiciary Committee Chair To Sen. Arlen Specter!"

To join us as the Senate returns from recess assemble at 109 Second St. NE (near U.S. Supreme Court) 12:30PM (then we will process to pray) or arrive at 1PM sharp at 1st St. and Constitution Ave.. Some will attend outside press conference and pray & protest outside Senate Office Building and some will pray inside the office of Senator Bill Frist (461 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC). (Strategy meeting at 2:30 pm at a nearby location.)

Call or email Chris Slattery for Free rides from NY and NJ, details or information: @ SlatteryNY@aol.com or call (914) 224-5773
or Rev. Pat Mahoney at (540) 538-4741

Tell President Bush and Senator Frist that we need a loyal, unbiased Chairman say NO to A. Specter for Judiciary Committee Chairmanship.

Contact Senator Bill First, of TN by email @ Bill Frist, M.D.
http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm
Phone 202-224-3344 or fax to 202-228-1264

Contact Sen. Rick Santorum of PA, who endorses Sen. Specter http://santorum.senate.gov/emailrjs.html
Phone 202-224-6324 or fax 202-228-0604

Contact the White House by phone or email (en Español)
Phone Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414 or FAX: 202-456-2461
E-Mail President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov

[Patti Corbitt]

Comments of Paul Weyrich (a leading conservative voice on Christians and politics, which he wrote at the request of Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life) on Senator Arlen Specter:

November 19, 2004

The agreement Senator Arlen Specter signed is the best we could achieve under the circumstances. The seniority system is so strong in the Senate that only one Senator was willing to advocate his ouster (Inhofe of OK). That being the case, we are better off with Specter now publicly tied down than we would be with an ousted Specter who was obligated to no one.

Specter is smart. He is intimidating. His colleagues are afraid of him. If he had been toppled, he would have worked wit the Democrats to destroy the President’s judicial nominees. This way he had to agree in public that pro-life judges will get fair treatment. Moreover, he agreed to try to implement measures to stop the filibuster of judges. It was good that we advocated the ouster of Sen. Specter. It caused him to be willing to negotiate. It caused his colleagues such as Senator Larry Craig (R.-ID) to push him into the agreement he finally signed.

Will he go back on his word? Perhaps. But he will do so at a price. And since the agreement was public it is far less likely that he can now make a U-turn. If pro-family activists had not been willing to make the calls, e-mails, and faxes, we never would have had this extraordinary victory.