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EMILY's List-Don't Be Fooled.

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EMILY's List. Sounds kind of nice, like, let's have a cup of tea. Don't be fooled.

EMILY's List is a political action committee which raises massive amounts of money for female Democratic candidates who support abortion on demand, including partial-birth abortion, and who want abortion subsidized with your tax dollars.

EMILY's List is currently the best-funded PAC in the country. It has already raised nearly $20 million and spent $17.5 million, as of May 2006. Its candidates can also expect to receive upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars from other groups as a result of an endorsement by EMILY's List.

On May 11, 2006, EMILY's List hosted a luncheon featuring its endorsed candidates for the United States House and Senate. This year, EMILY's List boasts more candidates than it has had in decades. At least a dozen will likely be involved in head-to-head races with our pro-life candidates in the November 7 general elections.

While the mission of EMILY's List is to elect pro-abortion Democratic women to Congress, it was clear during this recent luncheon that it is intentionally steering away from the subject of abortion. If what it said last month holds true, it will attack pro-life candidates less on the issue of abortion than on foreign policy or domestic policy issuesor any other issue. It doesn't matteras long as it is not the issue of abortion, which is a loser for EMILY's List.

Even many pro-abortion candidates recognize that being pro-life gives a candidate a clear advantage among voters who cast their vote based on a candidate's stand on abortion. So ...

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