Political Action Committees

The Smith Connally Act of 1943 made it illegal for labor unions to donate money to their favored candidates or political parties. After only a year of this act in place, Political Action Committees (PACs) started to form. PACs are formed mostly by corporations and are used to raise money for a specific candidate of political party. The popularity of PACs grew rapidly and because PACs have a limited amount of money that can be raised, people began to form Super PACs (first showed up in July 2010). Super PACs are unlimited in the amount of money that can be collected but on the other end, can only support issues or causes rather than candidates or political parties. Today it is very easy to find a PAC or Super PAC to support because there are so many of them of so many causes, political candidates, parties and issues. People create these PACs to ultimately get their desired candidate elected to make their believes become realities.

The National Pro-Life Alliance is a Super PAC that believes life begins at conception and that abortion is murder and nothing like this should take place in our country. NPLA is different than many other pro-life PACs because it focuses on passing pro-life legislation rather than research, education, publications, or counseling. NPLA’s goals are not to regulate abortion, but to completely stop it. NPLA realizes that this goal is somewhat far out of reach at this point so they have focused on other legislation to help them get to that point eventually. Some of the legislation they have worked on passing are: to require a pregnant woman to get an sonogram before aborting, to allow parents of the underage pregnant girl to stop the abortion process at any time, to try stopping the supreme court from dealing with anything abortion related and instead leave it to Congress, and also to end medicaid abortion funding through taxpayers. The front page of the NPLA website says "abortion stops a beating heart" which I agree with 100%.

If I were to donate to a PAC, I would choose the National Pro-Life Alliance because I too believe that life starts at conception and that it's impossible for life to start at any other point; not at 3 weeks pregnant, not 16 weeks pregnant, not at 20 weeks pregnant, and not when the baby takes its first breath. I believe that once a woman becomes pregnant, the child has a right to live and its mother should not have a say in that. To me, this is one of those touchy subjects that I normally would not proudly come out and say that I am pro-life because I have so many people around me who have chosen abortion. And while I understand why they did it, I still believe in my heart that those children should have been given the gift of life but instead was murdered. Out of all the pro-life organizations and PACs out there, I love this one because their main goal is to not regulate abortion but to completely end it with a focus on passing important legislation to get closer and closer to that goal. I think it is very important that a women see their unborn baby in an ultrasound because I think sometimes during the early weeks of pregnancy, women don't wrap their minds around the fact that there is a REAL baby inside them; and when given the chance to see their children, I think makes it all real and changes the minds of some who were on the boarder of abortion. I also agree with the legislation to allow parents of underage girls who are pregnant to stop an abortion at any time. I don't believe all pregnant teens have the ability to make a decision that important at such a young age and her parents probably know whether she's capable to be a parent or not. Either way, I believe that child has a right to life and should be given to a family who can love that child if the mother is unable. 

The majority of the National Pro-Life Alliance's donations come from the Republican party, although of course there are some republicans who are pro-choice and some democrats who are pro-life. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks and supports the NPLA by asking the public to donate $50 or more to the PAC. One of NPLA's goals is to get as many pro-life people in the House and Senate which is the majority of republicans.