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Ellen Moran

Washington D.C., Nov 23, 2008 / 01:50 pm (CNA).- As President-elect Obama builds his new administration, his list of new appointees makes it even more apparent that he is comfortable with the pro-abortion lobby. This became even more clear on Saturday when Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY’s List, was named White House communications director.

Moran currently serves as executive director of EMILY’s List, where she oversees the national staff and charts the overall strategic direction of the organization.

EMILY's List, one of the most important Democratic constituency groups, says it is "dedicated to building a progressive America by electing Democratic pro-choice women to office."

Moran is being tapped during her second stint at EMILY’s List, rejoining the organization from the AFL-CIO, where she coordinated Wal-Mart corporate accountability activities and served in the Political Department. In 2004, she took a leave of absence from the AFL-CIO to direct independent expenditures for the Democratic National Committee, overseeing the allocation of $100 million in presidential advertising and direct mail and phone efforts.

Moran's political experience includes managing campaigns for governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House; working on the national campaign staff of Tom Harkin’s 1992 presidential campaign; helping plan both Clinton inaugurals.

Moran also oversaw EMILY’s List’s first attempts at increasing voter turnout in 1994. Hailing from Amherst, Massachusetts, Moran received her education in political science and English literature from Wheaton College.

EMILY's List - which stands for "Early Money Is Like Yeast" (It makes the dough rise) -was formed more than two decades ago to support pro-choice women candidates. Over the years they'd raised millions for them. They helped, among others, political soldiers like Diane Feinstein, Jennifer Granholm and Clinton (during her Senate run) reach their desired end.

EMILY's List also states being "committed to a three-pronged strategy to elect pro-choice Democratic women: recruiting and funding viable women candidates; helping them build and run effective campaign organizations; and mobilizing women voters to help elect progressive candidates across the nation."

For a candidate to be considered for funding from EMILY’s List there are three requirements: The candidate must be a woman; she must be a Democrat; and she must support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

The List’s support for abortion-on-demand is so strong that it has cut funding from politicians who voted against extreme pro-abortion positions. Two examples of this are Senators Mary Landrieu from Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln from Arkansas who lost funding from EMILY’s List when they voted to ban the gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion.

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Published by: Luis A. Montero
Miami, FL 11/30/2008 01:29 PM EST

We must keep praying the Rosary, as Our Lady of Fatima bid us do. If the prayers of the Rosary could turn back the Muslim invaders during the Battle of Lepanto, then this prayer can also stem the tide of pro-death actions that may be taken by our government. Indeed let us offer our Masses and our labors that God may open the eyes of our elected leaders to embrace the Gospel of Life.

Published by: TLewis
Hollister, CA 11/25/2008 06:26 PM EST

The clarification of what the Marxist intentions are has now come to fruition!

It is not a time to give up and hide, but rather a time to beat our plowshares into swords and meet the enemy face to face.

Sixty bishops stood their ground and represented an everlasting No to the effects of Vatican II and Humane Vitae’s negative acceptance of Birth control

The principal attack on the Church in America can be traced to a press conference in Washington, D.C. on July 30, 1968, led by Fr. Charles Curran of the Catholic University of America’s Theology Department. The purpose of the press conference was to make a public announcement stating that American Catholics need not accept a formal teaching that had just been issued by Pope Paul VI and on July 30, the theologians openly and boldly said that the Catholic laity was free to disregard this teaching. The Catholic Hiroshima September 2001 By Dermott J. Mullan

The secondary attack on the Church in America can be traced to April 1969, when Paul VI approved the "new Order of Mass" (promulgated in 1970). Faced with conflicting interpretations and controversies, he directed the implementation of its reform which was largest revision to the Church's Liturgy since the Council of Trent.

Since 1968 the line drawn in the sand between the Catholicism and Marxism has been blurred. In 2008 the line has become clear some 40 years later, and men of prayer must turn to God, humbly and ask Him to forgive us our sins.

Published by: Joe
San Francisco 11/25/2008 01:01 PM EST

She was appointed WH Communications Director, not head of the Dept. of Health and Human Services. The last I heard, WH Communications Director isn't a policy making job.

Published by: Ginny Anton
Santa Ana,CA, USA 11/24/2008 08:24 PM EST

Life doesn't matter to Obama. If any one had questions where his allegiance lies. Let there be no doubt now. With the appointment of Tom Daschle and now Ellen Moran; both who are pro abortion politicians and will be forcing legislation like FOCA without so much as a peep from PA, pro life, Senator Democrat Bob Casey. The bishops as well as all the laity better get on the same pro life message with dire consequences expected if church teaching is not obeyed. Or we are going to face a murderous time in modern history not seen since Herod killed all The Innocents under two years of age... Obama as well as Biden are falsely leading the POPE and all the hierarchy. They may say they are willing to work with THE CHURCH. BUT THEIR ACTIONS SPEAK DIFFERENTLY. We must pray they will have a conscience awakening.

Published by: Steven Barrett
Hadley, MA 11/24/2008 06:11 PM EST

I'm a former Democrat from no less than Amherst, MA, THE MOST ANTI-LIFE, PRO-ABORTION, LEFTIST, ELITIST COLLEGETOWN IN THE MOST LIBERAL COUNTY IN THE MOST LIBERAL STATE IN THE LAND. ELLEN MORAN WILL FIT IN REAL WELL WITH OBAMA. Change alright, all for the worse!

Published by: Phil
USA 11/24/2008 03:36 PM EST

This country, and this culture, deserves the chastisement that has begun. From our obsession with sex, violence, and materialism, to our toleration of the abominable, we have brought our demise onto ourselves.

Published by: Bryan Dunne
England 11/24/2008 06:31 AM EST

The President-Elect is certainly setting the tome for his Administration. With the conflict in Iraq and Afganistan and nuclear proliferation in Iran and Syria and the various economic issues facing the world is Abortion and free access to it the most important thing on the President-Elect's list of criteria for selecting his officials.

Let us all pray for the President-Elect that his eyes may be opened to the evil of abortion and that converted to the true faith he may work to end the free-access to this state-sponsored evil.

In caritate Xp.,

Bryan Dunne

Published by: Kabel Eme
Nepal 11/24/2008 03:25 AM EST

We pray to her that the H. Spirit may give her a radical transformation to turn her talents for fighting for unborn babies. Remember O most loving V. Mary....

Published by: Jeff Johnson
Collegeville, Mn 11/23/2008 05:46 PM EST

And the nightmare deepens, with politics as usual. Obama got a boat load of money from this dark organization, and he naturally rewarded it by hiring one of its leaders.

This is good news for the pro-abortion faction of our country, and ominous news for all who want to defend the freedom and human rights of the unborn.

Obama is poised to lead this country to its doom, as any nation that kills its own children has no future. To do so, he will need many people like Moran, and sadly, they are ready to be his accomplices.

May God have mercy on all of us.

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