Lessons Learned in the Oregon Legislature

This summer is a time of transition for our PAC as the legislative session wraps up and Lois Anderson prepares to become Oregon Right to Life’s executive director. I’ve learned that it’s helpful to process what each season teaches us and use that to plan for next time. I want to share some observations about […]

Lessons Learned in the Oregon Legislature

Why We Need You to be a Lobbyist

Lobbyists are not popular in America. If there’s a list of professions that we tend to look down on, they rank somewhere up there with door-to-door salesmen and IRS agents (my apologies to both groups). But when you boil it down, you discover that any politically engaged citizen is no less a lobbyist than the […]

Pro-lifers Make a Difference

The 2017 Oregon legislative session has brought an onslaught of deadly bills such has never been seen before. As chronicled in the Feb/March issue of Life in Oregon, SB 494 allowed for the starvation and dehydration death of dementia patients. The bill was so novel in its deadly plans that it received nationwide attention. Articles […]

RU 486 Abortion Numbers Rise

Oregon a test state for mail-order abortion drugs RU 486 (mifepristone) is a drug used with misoprostol to cause an abortion. The use of RU 486 has risen steadily since it was approved by the Federal Drug Administration in 2000. In its first decade of use, 1.5 million unborn babies lost their lives to this […]