As I’ve said here and here, 2010 is not only the year of the woman, but the year of the conservative woman.

Gloria Steinem, the well-known feminist and ardent pro-abortion supporter, when asked by CBS News anchor Katie Couric why all these conservative, pro-life women are now coming forward and winning elections, said that she defends “their right to be wrong” and that they are winning because of the success of the women’s movement.

Setting aside her extreme abortion position and supposed revolutionary quote about defending the pro-life woman’s right to be wrong, pro-life and conservative women are winning elections because that’s what Americans want.  More Americans are now pro-life than pro-choice, and they see the harm the feminist movement has done to our country and are looking to strong, traditional women to change it.

Conservative women — moms and wives, sisters and daughters — are standing up because they’ve had enough.  They’ve had enough of the “feminists” telling them pornography is empowering.  They realize the consequences that have come with abortion-on-demand and a complete lack of care and compassion for both the woman and her unborn baby.  They’ve had enough.

Half of the Tea Party movement is made up of women, and women vote.  And now these conservative women are running for office.

Whether or not you agree that the feminist label is even worthy of conservative women (not the other way around), it is clear that the women taking the national stage as our congressional leaders will be more in line with Concerned Women for America than Gloria Steinem.

The vast majority of Americans don’t want their money going to support abortion.  Yet, a just-released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report shows that citizens have paid over a billion dollars in federal funds — ahem, their tax money — to six organizations that promote and even commit abortions.  And that was just between the years 2002 and 2009.

How does this happen?  Taxpayers are funding groups like Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the Population Council for family planning services under Title X.  Abortion advocates say that tax money is not being used for abortions.  But you and I both know that if you’re paying the rent and utility bills for a Planned Parenthood office and providing the funds for pregnancy testing and “counseling,” you are pretty much subsidizing the other activities in that office. 

Even the groups not directly providing abortions, like the Sexuality Information and Education Council for the United States (SIECUS), serve as recruiters, pointing their clients — our children — directly to the doors of the local abortion clinic.  Advocates for Youth, another beneficiary of federal funds, helps minor girls dodge parental notification and consent requirements to avoid the need for “a riskier procedure to end the pregnancy” and “complications from pregnancy.”

PPFA’s own records show that its affiliates committed 305,000 abortions in 2007 (the last reported year), while they reported a scant 4,912 adoption referrals and 10,914 prenatal clients the same year; family planning indeed!

Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America’s president, appeared on CBN News this week on this very issue and reminds us of Planned Parenthood’s recent outrages like failure to report suspected sexual abuse of minors:

These groups are being supported by more than just Title X, though.  Our tax money is being misdirected to abortion groups through the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to States, Social Services Block Grants, and even Temporary Assistance for Needy Families!  Imagine that, money directed to aid families in need — and there are plenty of those these days — is going to abortion providers!

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) has introduced the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, H.R. 614, which would stop government funding of abortion providers.  This bill doesn’t reduce the money available for genuine family planning services; it simply prohibits government funds from going to abortion providers.  Some of our good friends and heroes support this bill, like Reps. Joseph Pitts (R-Pennsylvania), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington), and Trent Franks (R-Arizona).   It’s time for fiscal responsibility, and ending federal subsidies for the abortion industry is a great place to start.

Republican Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana basically raised the white flag on social issues when, in an interview with the Weekly Standard yesterday, he said that the next president “would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues.  We’re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while,” until economic issues are resolved.

So we’re just going to give up the fight on abortion, on euthanasia, on “gay marriage,” on all of our most sacred traditional values and morals that are just “too tough” to focus on right now?  I don’t think so.

Conservatives are more revved up than ever before, having come together to fight the health care reform bill and taxpayer-funded abortion.  Pro-life leaders are rising up out of college campuses and at the ballot box.  Polling shows that more Americans are pro-life than pro-abortion, and pro-lifers are younger and more energetic than the aging pro-abortion feminists.

Why would we ever call a truce now?  Why ever actually?  Life is something we will never compromise and stop fighting for.

Various papers and opinions that Elena Kagan wrote in the past are now surfacing and they shed light on her liberal social views.  That’s alarming to us at Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee.

I’ve just released the following statement on those papers and opinions, and I thought you might like to read it:

“As we suspected, President Obama nominated a far left liberal who supports both abortion and ‘gay marriage.’ Besides her disdain for the military and choosing to adhere to her own views rather than the Constitution and what is best for the security of our country, Elena Kagan has also demonstrated her distain for the unborn, the most vulnerable in our society.

“We believe Americans want a justice who will uphold the rule of law regardless of their personal views or leanings, especially the basic freedom of the right to life and the value of traditional marriage. We urge the Senate to oppose the nomination of Elena Kagan.”

Do you ever wonder WHO those insane judges are that believe sexual predators are only sick and should thus not be given maximum sentences?  I think those judges are unfit to rule.  However, President Obama apparently wants to give one a promotion.

Michael Ross, in a documentary on serial killers, describes how he tied up 14-year-old Leslie Shelley, put her in the trunk of his car, and “took the other girl, April Bernaise [also 14] out and I raped her, and killed her, and I put her in the front seat.”  He said he killed eight girls, ages 14-25, and if he wasn’t caught, he’d still be killing.

It was of this man that Robert Chatigny, a U.S. District Judge in Connecticut, said: “[Michael Ross] never should have been convicted.  Or if convicted, he never should have been sentenced to death.”  Then Chatigny fought to stop Mr. Ross’ execution — twice — and was both times overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Robert Chatigny is President Obama’s latest nominee to the 2^nd Circuit Court of Appeals, a lifetime appointment spot and can be a stepping stone to the Supreme Court (the 3^nd Circuit is where Justice Alito once sat).  If President Obama thinks his nominees are all fine and good, then why shouldn’t the American people?  Obviously for lots of reasons.

To even think of a judge sitting on one of the highest courts in the land who so clearly sides with a serial killer and rapist rather than with the women — or merely the facts of the case — is nauseating.

Chatigny was grilled by Republican Senators recently in his Judiciary Committee hearing.  Only one Democrat Senator showed up, and she asked no hard questions of the rapist defender.  Here’s a shocking video from the hearing, interspersed with an interview from Michael Ross himself on how he killed and raped his victims.

President Obama needs to withdraw Robert Chatigny’s nomination immediately.  I truly hope that the feminist groups join in CWA’s opposition to this nominee.  Anyone who claims to defend women has a responsibility to join us!  Contact your Senators and tell them to vote “NO” on Chatigny’s confirmation.