A Chapter To-Do List 10 Things You Should Do This Fall To Help Save Lives.(pro-life campaigning United States)(Brief Article)

Fall is usually a busy time for everybody because people are back from vacations, school is back in session, it is election season, and the holidays are fast approaching. Fall can be especially busy for pro-lifers because each of these events affords us opportunities to involve or educate more people on life issues.

More than opportunities to expand membership or raise some money, these are critical occasions that demand our service. Sitting this fall out will be the equivalent of standing by while real people die.

Normally, I do not resort to such dramatic language, and I assure you I am not doing so merely for effect. Through countless encounters with local chapters, I am convinced of what National Right to Life has long maintained, that grassroots pro-life activities are responsible for the success and growth of the right-to-life movement.

We need your conscientious and untiring efforts this fall to advance the lifesaving efforts on behalf of unborn babies, their mothers, the aging, and the medically vulnerable.

Here is a list of 10 things you should do this fall:

1. Collect Petition Signatures: The Ban on Partial-Birth Abortions has passed the House of Representatives and President Bush is waiting to sign it into law, but Majority Leader Tom Daschle is holding up the bill in the Senate. We'll be collecting petition signatures supporting the ban until the end of October, so please continue to have the petitions signed and return them to National Right to Life. To order free petitions, please call 202-626-8800, ext. 143. A copy of the petition can be found on pages 16-17 of this edition. (If you are not subscribing to NRL News or wish to give a gift subscription, please call 202-626-8828.)

2. Activate Phone Trees: Senator Daschle and both your senators need to hear from your community that protecting partially born babies from being brutally killed during delivery is not a political or partisan issue, but a human rights issue. Use the names of petition signers and other lists of pro-life people to develop a phone tree, then activate it to generate as many phone calls as possible to Senator Daschle and your senators.