Pro-Life President Bush, Pro-Life Senator McCain Send Powerful Video Messages to NRLC 2008.

When activists from around North America gathered for the 36th annual National Right to Life convention, they knew from pre-convention publicity that the July 35 conclave would inspire, inform, and invigorate them for the battles to come. How could it be otherwise with four general sessions, a prayer breakfast, a closing banquet, and 66 workshops that covered every topic from A to Z? And that doesn't even include the parallel teen convention that was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel or the scholarly Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change meeting that was held the night of July 2.

"Pro-life grassroots America was very well-represented," convention director Jacki Ragan told NRL News. "With the challenges we face as a Movement, I'm delighted so many pro-lifers leaders from across the country were able to carve out time from their hectic schedules to attend." (If you look on pages 22 & 23, you'll find a complete overview of all the available convention CDs and information on how to order them. They are an unparalleled resource.)

Naturally, the networks and C-SPANalong with print journalists from such publications as Politico and the New York Timesgave their main attention to the appearances of former senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson and to Karl Rove, now a Fox News analyst and former White House senior advisor to President George W. Bush. Both men delivered powerful, well-received speeches that drew both laughter and thunderous applause.

Both Thompson and Rove went to the sourcethe voting record, statements to pro-abortion groups, and comments made during debates and town hall meetingsto paint a picture of a militantly pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama.

There is no item on the pro-abortion laundry list that Obama opposes, from unwavering support for Roe v. Wade to the enactment of the hyper-radical "Freedom of Choice Act."

Rove may have put it best when he told the huge crowd, "This is a man who stands up and says he is going to bring Republicans and Democrats together, conservatives and liberals together, to achieve great things for the country. If you want to bring the nation together, how can you claim to do that, if you are at the same time supporting the indefensible practice of using taxpayers' dollars to fund abortion? You can't! You cannot square that circle."

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