Welcome to the Citizens for Life web page.

Many of the links are to pages of our parent organization, the National Right to Life Committee.  Citizens for Life is the only affiliate in the Granite State of National Right to Life. 

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February 1, 2008. Revised Presidential Candidate Comparison Flyer

Scroll down to see who voted to repeal New Hampshire's Parental Notice Law.

Press Release - March 4, 2008

Worst State Government in the Union

Pew Research Grades New Hampshire

            North Hampton - - - The Pew Charitable Trust has rated the government of New Hampshire as the worst in the United States. Pew’s Government Performance Project gave the Granite State Government the only D+ in its report. Only one state came close to the bottom of the barrel: Rhode Island, C-.

            The Pew Project “evaluates how well states manage employees, budgets and finance, information, and infrastructure.”

            “The Pew metric illuminates consequences that manifest the government’s attitude,” said Roger Stenson, executive director of Citizens for Life. “The way our government treats our families, each individual family, is the most important of the consequences.”

            Indeed, Pew added that, “A focus on these critical areas helps ensure that states’ policy decisions and practices actually deliver their intended outcomes.”

            The policy decision of heaviest consequence is last year’s repeal of the state’s parental notice of abortion law. New Hampshire is the only state in America to do so. Passed in 2003, the law required abortion providers to notify just one parent of a minor girl before doing an abortion on her.

            “That was when we had a Republican majority in the House and the Senate, and a Republican Governor,” Stenson said. “Then, for the first time in over 130 years, all three ended up in the control of Democrats in 2006. One of the first orders of business was to remove parents from influencing their own children, and replacing Moms and Dads with Government. Government as viewed through the prism of the Democrat Party, and deciding that parents do not have the right to be involved in their minor daughters’ lives.”

            Challenged by such interests as Planned Parenthood and Governor Lynch, the law went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Seething with frustration, the high court ruled very quickly and unanimously that the lower courts had made such a messy collection of decisions that they had to do it over and get it right.

            “It must be recalled that the Democrat Party was the party of slavery and is the party of abortion,” Stenson added. “In 2006 the governing of New Hampshire went from control by the party of Lincoln to the party of the Clintons and the Shaheens.”

            “Should we really be surprised that we now have the worst government in the United States?” he concluded.

            Citizens for Life is the affiliate in New Hampshire of the National Right to Life Committee, the nation’s major pro-life organization, and was the principal lobby on passing the parental notice law in 2003.

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Pro-Life Perspective is the official broadcast of the National Right to Life Committee. Hosted by NRLC President Wanda Franz, Ph.D., Pro-Life Perspective has been in continuous broadcast since 1985. Every day, listeners are provided with the latest educational and legislative information, as well as uplifting stories and commentary. Are you getting the right perspective?

Monday, April 28, 2008 - Friday, May, 2, 2008

6101 – Bumper Sticker Saves a Life

Dr. Franz shares the story of a girl who changed her mind about having an abortion after seeing an “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart” bumper sticker on the car of a National Right to Life News reader.

You can order this and other bumper stickers from National Right to Life.  Click here for ordering information:  www.nrlc.org/bsodrfrm/bsorrfrm.htm or contact our State Organizational Development Department at (202) 378-8842. (Shhh . . . or get one free by emailing rjstenson@aol.com right here in New Hampshire.)

Tuesday, April 29 – Friday, May 2, 2008

6102-6105 – Why Women Get Abortions

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Dr. Franz reviews the 2005 study released by the Guttmacher Institute exploring the reasons why women have get abortions.  The study marks the first time since 1987 that the Guttmacher Institute has surveyed the reasons women have abortions.

View the NRL Educational Trust Fund’s factsheets about abortion’s physical and psycho-social consequences:

http://www.nrlc.org/Factsheets/AbtnHurtsFS.pdf

http://www.nrlc.org/Factsheets/FS18_AbtnPsychoSocial.pdf

Read the Guttmacher Study here: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/psrh/full/3711005.pdf

(Last week)  Monday, April 21- Friday, April 25, 2008

6096-6100 - When They Say…You Say…

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Dr. Franz discusses common pro-abortion arguments and the pro-life answers laid out in "When They Say…You Say" presented annually at our NRLC convention by NRLC State Legislative Director Mary Spaulding Balch and American Victims of Abortion Director Olivia Gans.

For more information, see “When They Say…You Say…” on the NRLC website:

www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionresponses.html

For more information about NRLC 2008, see: www.nrlc.org/convention/index.html

SECRET ABORTION ON MINORS IS CHILD ABUSE!

Governor Lynch signed secret abortions on minors into law on June 29, 2007.

These members of the House of Representatives voted to repeal our Parental Notice law.

Alphabetically, by last name: (Below, they are listed again by county. The  Senate is listed below that.) Remember, you probably have more than one representative.

Who are my legislators?  http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/whosmyleg/