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1 Right To Life serving Daviess Martin Pike Greene P.O. Box 41, Washington, Indiana Phone: Web Site: Us At Abortion May Be Legal, But It Is Still Morally Wrong! October - November - December Highlights from 2015 Right to Life Banquet Jeanne Mancini and Mike Fitcher Address Right To Life Banquet Pictured above is Jeanne Mancini (center), the Main Speaker at the Right to Life Banquet and Mike Fichter (right) President/CEO of Indiana Right To Life along with Daviess County Right To Life President Louis Kavanaugh Jr. after the Banquet on Thursday evening. Jeanne Mancini who is President of March For Life, which holds the Annual March for Life each year on January 22 in Washington D.C., was the main speaker at the gathering of Right To Life Members from Daviess, Martin and Pike Counties. Mike Fichter who is President/CEO of Indiana Right To Life also spoke on the laws that have been passed this year in the Indiana Legislature and thanked those Legislators in attendance for their support along with Governor Mike Pence who had a recorded message to those assembled. The Derrick and Megan Suheski Family, along with son Cedrick, were honored as the Adoptive Family for 2015 and Terry and Ethna Ohaver were award the Humanitarian Award. A large crowd of over 600 attended the event held at the Simon J. Graber Building. 1

2 Derrick/Megan Suheski Family Honored at Right To Life Banquet Pictured at right is the Suheski Family as they are being honored on stage at the Right to Life Banquet from last Thursday night. Cedrick Drake Suheski (in front) was selected as the Adoptive Child to be honored with his picture on the front cover of the 2015 Right To Life Banquet Book. The rest of the Suheski family is Cedrick s parents Megan (Center) and Derrick (right) and a sister Haileigh Suheski of rural Loogootee. Also pictured is Daviess County Right To Life President Louis Kavanaugh Jr (Left) as he makes the presentation. According to President Louis Kavanaugh, the Right to Life promotes Adoption Not Abortion and each year they honor an adoptive family that keeps with this theme. A large crowd of over 600 attended the event held at the Simon J. Graber Building. Terry and Ethna Ohaver Awarded Humanitarian Award at Right to Life Banquet Pictured at left is President of Daviess County Right To Life Louis Kavanaugh Jr. as he presents the Humanitarian Award to Ethna (center) and Terry (right) Ohaver at the Annual Right to Life Banquet held this past Thursday Night. The Ohaver s have spent many years working in the St. Vincent DePaul Organization and have managed the St. Vincent Store in Washington and have given countless hours to the success of that Organization. The Award came as a total surprise to both of them. According to Louie Kavanaugh who presented the award, I know that you receive this award not only for yourself but for all those individuals who have given many hours of their time to this great organization. The Banquet was held at the Simon J. Graber Building this past Thursday evening and was attended by over 600 Right To Life Members from Daviess, Martin and Pike Counties. Special Thank You from Louis Kavanaugh, Jr., President of Right to Life Banquet Committee I would like to take this opportunity to Thank Everyone who helped to make our Right to Life Banquet another big success. To those who bought ads in our Banquet Book, our Table Hosts who Sold Tickets, those who helped to setup/take down the tables and chairs at the Banquet Hall, and to anyone who helped in any way, We Say Thank You. Special Thanks to those from the Lighthouse and the Powerhouse for their help with the setup and taking the table/chairs down after the Banquet. Also thanks to our Right to Life Board who work with me to put this together. In order for something like to be successful it takes a lot of people doing many different tasks for it all to come together. Finally thank you all to who attended this year s RTL Banquet. By your presence at the Banquet, you give us encouragement to continue in this battle against abortion. I have said many times that by your attendance at the Banquet it gives encouragement to those who have spent many years in the 2 movement and just maybe it will encourage them to keep going. I know there are many different activities going on in the world but for one night a year, please consider putting this as a special event that would take priority. We have heard many good comments on the Banquet this year and we feel the address by the Speaker Jeanne Mancini and the update on the new Indiana laws by Indiana Right to Life President Mike Fichter were very well received. A large share of the profit from the Banquet each year goes to the Pregnancy Care Center and the great work they do. If you were encouraged by this year s Banquet and want to volunteer in some way, contact me at and we will be glad for your assistance. Again thanks to everyone for your help and work is now underway for next year s Banquet set for the first Thursday in October. For additional information or videos on this year s Banquet or information about our Right To Life Organization, go to our web site at

3 In Memory of Dave Abel: Dave passed away on Monday Sept. 14 after a battle with cancer. Dave was a strong supporter of the Daviess County Right To Life financially and also by his vocal support of the organization. We express our condolences to his wife Rosemary and to his family. May God grant him his Eternal Reward. In Memory of Mark Wichman: Mark passed away on Friday September 18 after a battle with cancer. Mark comes from a family that has given much to the Right to Life here in Daviess County. His parents Bernie and Alma were founding members of the organization and He was a strong supporter of Right to Life and his six children have all worked the paper drives and various activities. We express our condolences to his wife Debbie and the Wichman family. May God Grand Him His Eternal Reward. Father Gordon Mann Accepts New Assignment in Evansville Father Mann the Pastor at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church in Washington has accepted a new assignment given to him by Bishop Thompson of the Diocese of Evansville. The new assignment will take place in January of Father Mann has been a strong supporter of the Right to Life by his vocal support from the pulpit and by his actions. So many times we ask Pastors to speak about the evil of abortion because how is the congregation going to know it is wrong if it is never mentioned in church. We all know how most of the major news media sing the praises of abortion and for the pro-life organizations it becomes an uphill battle. That is why Father Mann was such a welcomed pro-life voice. He was also not bashful when he told his congregation that if you vote for a pro-abortion candidate you help to further the abortion cause. This is something few pastors will do as they fear they will lose support from the congregation, but He knew this was the right thing to do. We have been blessed to have several Pastors in our area who will speak up for the unborn and we are thankful for them. If you are against the evil of abortion you must speak to those who are furthering the abortion Father Gordon Mann as he addresses the Right to Life Banquet in October of Father Mann also received the Pro-Life Award that year. cause. We commend Father Gordon Mann for standing up for the unborn and we have a heavy heart to learn that he will be leaving the area. Fr. Mann was our Banquet Speaker in 2009 and had a very good message. We understand there will be a worthy replacement for Fr. Mann in Father Paul Ferguson. We Thank Fr. Mann for the 10 years of service he has given to our community and wish him the very best in his new assignment. Hillary Clinton Celebrates Planned Parenthood s 99th Anniversary: Here s to 99 More by Steve Ertelt Hillary Clinton didn t let a little thing like the sales of aborted babies and their body parts stand in the way of celebrating the Planned Parenthood abortion business 99th birthday. As LifeNews reported, Planned Parenthood, the nation s biggest abortion business, is celebrating its 99th birthday and the abortion giant has done over 7 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, more than any other abortion company.. Planned Parenthood is not only the nation s largest abortion business but it s now known for selling aborted babies and their body parts. The Planned Parenthood abortion business has announced it will stop accepting financial payments for the body parts from aborted babies, though it will continue to harvest body parts from aborted babies and donate them and there is no way of knowing for certain if the sales will truly cease. Congress has had multiple hearings investigating numerous abuses and potential violation of multiple laws to sell aborted baby parts. And a recently-released analysis from Coalfire Systems that stated the videos shot by the CMP are completely 3 authentic and not deceptively edited as Planned Parenthood has tried to claim. Despite all that, Clinton today sent out a congratulatory tweet to the abortion company: Clinton has been perhaps Planned Parenthood s biggest supporter since the aborted baby body parts scandal broke. During the Democratic presidential debate, Clinton defended the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Clinton said she was tired of the attacks on it from pro-life Republicans who have been working overtime to try to de-fund the abortion corporation. They don t mind having big government interfere with a woman s right to choose and to take down Planned Parenthood they re fine with big government when it comes to that, Clinton said. I m sick of it. Clinton, who brought up Planned Parenthood unprompted without any questions on it from debate moderators has been bending over backwards to protect and defend her friends at the abortion company, which will pull out all the stops in the 2016 election to ensure she takes over the White House from pro-abortion President Barack Obama.

4 What Cecile Richards Didn t Say About Donating Aborted Babies for Research by Brad Mattes Not that Planned Parenthood has done anything illegal, says president Cecile Richards,but they re going to stop taking money for baby body parts. So she wrote in a two-page letter to the director of the National Institutes of Health. Let s look at what she says. More important, let s look at what she doesn t say. She extols the virtues of her organization. She even squeezes in a nod to Ronald Reagan. But she downplays the baby body parts business. In fact, she wrote, just 1% of our health centers currently facilitate donation for fetal tissue research. One percent sounds tiny, doesn t it? One percent of nearly 700 Planned Parenthood sites is about seven. But not all Planned Parenthood locations do abortions. Of those that do, some do only chemical abortions, which yield no parts to sell. Planned Parenthood had 668 locations as of November Of those, 173 did surgical abortions. Their glossy annual report doesn t say how many run a body parts business on the side, but if we use Cecile s number of seven, that s not one percent; it s four percent. But one percent or four percent, it doesn t really matter. There s no magic number at which divvying up dead babies becomes OK. Then Cecile channels Chicken Little; women will lose access to basic health care if Planned Parenthood can t pull over half a billion dollars out of your pocket every year. Maybe she s been too busy to hear about the 13,000-plus taxpayer-funded clinics that outnumber Planned Parenthood 20 to 1 and offer far more medical services. She s undaunted, though. To fight categorically false accusations against her abortion chain, she climbs Mount Self-Righteous and declares that now, by refusing payment for abortion leftovers, Planned Parenthood will keep pushing forward with our important work on behalf of millions of women, men, and young people. Well, certainly not for the youngest of young people. She also wants to be completely clear about this: Planned Parenthood s policies on fetal tissue donation already exceed the legal requirements. And what policies would those be, exactly? In the very first exposé video, Senior Medical Director Deb Nucatola specifically said Planned Parenthood had no national policy, and that s by choice. For seven years, 2005 to 2011, the home office didn t even monitor affiliates tissue donation programs. 4 As for that huff-and-puff about legal requirements, in the 10th video Deb Van Derhei, director of Planned Parenthood s Consortium of Abortion Providers, clearly differentiates between affiliates that accept only reimbursement and those that seek remuneration. When an affiliate administrator says a money-for-tissue arrangement is a valuable exchange and wants advice on setting one up, Van Derhei specifically steers her toward three affiliates that run programs for remuneration: Northern California, Mar Monte and Los Angeles. In her letter, Cecile twice uses the phrase going forward. Going forward she s going to have a policy. Going forward all locations will follow that policy even if it means they will not recover reimbursements. Even if? You can bet this letter was vetted six ways to Sunday by a horde of lawyers. The letter mentions not one word about giving up remuneration. But there s that if : two fully loaded little letters. And going forward doesn t erase past illegalities in any case. In the wake of Cecile s announcement, it s not likely that Americans, including Congress, will forget the illegalities her letter doesn t address such as abortionist Nucatola describing how she alters her abortion technique and crushes only specific areas of the baby to secure more intact tissue. And when the head is delivered last it likely results in the banned partial-birth abortion procedure. As for facilitating body part donations, procurement tech Holly O Donnell blew that whistle when she revealed consent wasn t always obtained. Cecile makes a big deal about blowing away what she calls the smokescreen of the exposé. But she can t blow away congressional investigations. She can t blow away what people on the fence about abortion have now seen. She can t blow away your access to social media. And she can t blow away your vote. Right now the most pro-abortion president in history will veto any attempt not to fund his beloved Planned Parenthood. That means you and I have to elect a pro-life president in 2016, so the only thing going forward is the pro-life movement. LifeNews.com Note: Bradley Mattes is the executive director of Life Issues Institute. Please Note: Paper Drive Location for December 5 At this point we do not have a permanent location for our Paper Drives but on December 5th the Paper Drive will be held at the Fastenal Parking lot adjoining the old K-Mart Parking lot where we have held our Paper Drives for many years. Because the old K-Mart Building was sold, we had to move our truck and we are trying our best to obtain a permanent location. Please bear with us. Our October Drive was held at the Free Methodist Church on Troy Road and we hope to have a permanent location by early in We are working on one specific location but have to wait for final approval. Please bear with us and hold your papers until that time. Watch the newspapers and our web site ( for future announcements. Please recycle your newspapers as it not only helps the environment but also the Right to Life. We would like to thank Steve Boyd of Boyd Grain for all their help in getting our Paper Truck moved to a new location.

5 Keeping Aborted Babies in Plastic Containers and Selling Them for Research: When Will it End? By Matthew Clark It s shocking, but only for someone who hasn t been immersed in the diabolical decadence of the Culture of Death. Police just discovered an unbelievably gruesome assortment of human remains in 14 containers in a raid of an abortionist s car. As LifeNews Reports: Local police have raided the upscale West Bloomfield, Michigan home of abortionist Michael Roth after acting on evidence that Roth may be performing illegal abortions doing abortions either out of his home or in the private homes of his customers. In the course of the raid, police found what they believe are 14 containers that possibly contain the bodies of aborted babies along with other human tissue. The trunk of Roth s car also contained medical equipment used for abortion procedures. Investigators confiscated medical materials in bags and boxes at Roth s home. Now, Roth is now under investigation by the Michigan Attorney General. Unbelievably, this abortionist was only caught because he hit and critically injured a special needs child with his car. As local news reports indicate: The case started two weeks ago when the doctor was driving on 14 Mile west of the new roundabout at Orchard Lake. He hit a special needs child who was critically injured.... Then last week, officers executed a search warrant to obtain the black box data recorder from the car and while inside the trunk they found plastic containers and medical equipment. The report also indicates that 14 containers of human tissue, possibly fetuses, medical equipment and large amounts of Fentanyl, a drug used for pain and sedation, was found... It s sickening. Yet, even in the face of sadistic abortionists like this and the horrors of notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell, the pro-abortion Left still insists that abortion remain virtually unregulated. Planned Parenthood and the entire abortion industry fights (and unfortunately often succeeds) to prevent even the most basic of commonsense safety regulations on abortion clinics. Abortionists are left to prey on susceptible women in need and slaughter children unfettered by the burdens of basic safety stands. They commit their deadly craft free from almost any oversight. This particular abortionist has been accused of tax fraud, performing illegal abortions, and had recently been evicted from his office. Now, he s been caught with containers of dead bodies in his car. Gosnell was convicted of murdering babies born alive and found responsible for the death of a woman in his care. Yet in the face of these grotesque atrocities, big abortion continues to attack every attempt at regulating the industry of death. Right now, the abortion industry is challenging commonsense regulations in a number of states at the Supreme Court, including Texas requirements that abortion clinics meet the same basic safety standards as surgery centers, and have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals should something (inevitably) go wrong. These simple commonsense restrictions led to a pro-abortion mob shutting down the state legislature with shouts of Hail Satan. Enough is enough. It s time for the abortion industry to be called to account. The lives of countless women and millions of unborn children depend on it. LifeNews Note: Matthew Clark is an attorney for the ACLJ, residing in northern Virginia. Large Crowd attend the Annual Right to Life Banquet: Pictured above gives you an idea of the large crowd that attended this year s Banquet. Very few empty seats could be found as over 625 attended the Banquet this year. The First Right to Life Banquet held back in 1977 was held at the old Lions Club Building in Plainville for our first year and we had less than 100 people. We commend the pro-life people from our area for their strong support as we now draw from Daviess, Martin, Pike and Greene Counties for this Special Event. 5

6 Man Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Describes Abortionist s Demonic Look: I Was Very Afraid National, by Cheryl Sullenger David Daleiden is the Director of the Center for Medical Progress, an organization that was known only to a handful of people prior to July 14, 2015, when he released the first of 10 summary videos that were part of his jaw-dropping 30-month undercover investigation into Planned Parenthood s participation in the illegal sale of aborted baby body parts that has dramatically changed the abortion debate in America. Recently, David was interviewed on camera by The Blaze s Glen Beck, who posted a fascinating clip from that interview. In that clip, Beck asks David about whether he ever realized the powerful evil that with which he had embedded himself. At some point, you guys had to have walked out of those [meetings] just shaking and thinking, A: I can t believe the evil I just faced, and B: people die for stuff like this. I mean, we re going up against evil, and very powerful evil. Did that ever hit you while you were doing these things? David then related his encounter with late-term abortionist Shelley Sella, an abortionist conducting the latest of abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy who currently works at Southwestern Women s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the time of David s encounter with her, she was a contract abortion provider with Planned Parenthood in Concord, California. David described a meeting where he was laughing and joking with Sella after a showing of the independent film, After Tiller. But for a moment, their eyes locked, and he saw a change come over her. All of a sudden, her eyes looked really hard and mean and aggressive, and for the first time during this entire project, I felt really afraid like an actual fear fight or flight kind of response, David related. I felt very exposed, felt like she knew everything about me. But then her face changed again and she was back to laughing and joking with him. 6 I talked to several people about that afterwards, and some people have kind of a spiritual interpretation of that event and there s a more subtle interpretation. But on some level, we feel like that was the predator the predator look or the predator instinct that you see in someone who is accustomed to killing people. This is a late-term abortion doctor who has terminated many, many, many big babies over the years, Daleiden told Glenn Beck, who sat enthralled by the power of the moment. Pastor Gives Opening Prayer for Kansas Senate: Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard: Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, Woe to those who call evil good, but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. David Daleiden (above) is the Director of the Center for Medical Progress, an organization that was known only to a handful of people prior to July 14, Now, thanks to David Daleiden s brave undercover journalistic study, a new day has dawned in American s abortion wars where the public is finally confronted with the evil of child-killing in a way that has never been done before in a way that could finally, eventually, lead to an end of the evil of abortion. We have coveted our neighbor s possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. ~Amen! The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea. With the Lord s help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called one nation under God. If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends.

7 If you don t stand for something, you will fall for anything. Why Is Abortion Still Legal? We are dealing with Ungodly people who do not believe in a God and we are also dealing with some churches who are afraid or unwilling to speak out of the evil of abortion and what it is doing to our society. When you combine this with a majority of the newsmedia who serve as their mouth piece, what can you expect? Does that mean we give up? Not at all! We must continue to pray and to rededicate our efforts to the protection of the unborn and the elderly. With God on our side, we cannot fail. ~ By Louis Kavanaugh, Jr. To Contact Your Area Legislators: State Representative: Address District 45: Bruce Borders H45@in.gov District 62: Matt Uebehlor H62@in.gov District 63: Mike Braun H63@in.gov District 64: Tom Washburn H64@in.gov State Senate: Eric Bassler S39@in.gov Mark Messmer S48@in.gov INDIANA HOUSE: INDIANA SENATE: =========================================== Senator Joe Donnelly: 720 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC Phone Web Form: Senator Dan Coats: 493 Russell Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C , Phone Fax Web Site: Right To Life Web Sites: Indiana Right To Life Priests For Life: Life Issues: Life News: Abortion Research Indiana State House: Daviess County Right To Life Meetings are the last week of each month at the Right To Life Office at 705 Troy Road (Grace Baptist Church, Lower Level). Phone: Daviess County Right To Life Paper Drive is the first Saturday of February, April, June, August, October, December from 9 AM till 2 PM. Other pick up points around the County are from 9-12 Noon. If you can help call Louis Kavanaugh at It would be greatly appreciated. =========================================== To: Contact Congressman Larry Bucshon 1005 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D. C Phone Fax Web Site: Right To Life of Indy: Christian Coalition: Pro Life Acton League: Susan B. Anthony List: National Right to Life: After Abortion 7

8 Daviess County Right To Life PO BOX 41 WASHINGTON, IN BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID Shoals, IN PERMIT NO. 18 Our Tax Dollars Should Not Fund Planned Parenthood Are You Upset Over What Planned Parenthood is Doing? Then Support the Local Right To Life with your contribution to help in the fight to Defund Planned Parenthood. Use this coupon to mail in your contribution: Mail To: Daviess County Right To Life P. O. Box 41 Washington, Indiana Phone Our Office Location is 705 Troy Road, Washington, Indiana Please Accept My Donation. Please Accept My Membership/Renewal $20 Individual, $25 Family, $50 Supporting Name Street City State Zip Phone: Address: