GALLATIN, TN – – Tennessee State Senator Diane Black was honored to received the endorsement today from Susan B. Anthony List, the nation's leading advocacy group for pro-life women in politics. They have endorsed Black in Tennessee's Sixth District Congressional Primary.
"I am incredibly honored to receive the endorsement of such a high-profile and influential pro-life organization like the Susan B. Anthony List," Black said. "They have worked tirelessly to protect the unborn, and I will continue to be a voice for the unborn as a Congressman from the Sixth District, just as I have been while serving in the Tennessee General Assembly. As a nurse, a mother and a grandmother, I know how precious life is, and I will continue to value life in all I do."
"Tennessee and all American women deserve the pro-life feminine leadership Diane Black has already evidenced in the state legislature. No one in the nation has done more than she in advancing the true needs of women and their unborn children in the law," said SBA List Candidate Fund President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "Black's commitment to rescind taxpayer funding of abortion in health care and in every aspect of federal spending is urgently needed in the coming Congress. A new women's movement which affirms its original pro-life roots is making its way to the House of Representatives, and Diane Black is one of its brightest new stars."
Black, having served in the Tennessee State Senate since 2004 has worked tirelessly introducing various pro-life bills in the General Assembly. This year, she sponsored a bill in the State Senate that prohibited taxpayer-funded coverage associated with the federal healthcare bill for abortion services in Tennessee. She fought against the Executive Order signed by President Obama as part of an agreement to gain the votes of a key block of anti-abortion Democrats as the price for the massive federal health care law will not stop federal funding of the procedure. Black was opposed to the federal health care law, which allowed for the funding of elective abortions. The bill sponsored by Black prohibited any health care plan established pursuant to federal health care reform legislation enacted by the 111th United States Congress from offering coverage for abortion services.
Currently, the TennCare program in Tennessee reimburses for abortions in cases of rape or incest as required by current federal law. Black was sponsor of a resolution to give Tennesseans the opportunity to determine, by the states, what the law should be regarding common sense protections for abortions. Black also sponsored a new law to defund Planned Parenthood by ensuring that family planning funds go to public women's health service providers first.
The Susan B. Anthony List's stated goals are to increase the percentage of pro-life women in Congress and high public office. They work to increase the representation of pro-life women in national and state politics. They endorse only select pro-life candidates and they must fulfill criteria such as being a pro-life woman running for election to Congress or statewide office and earning the official approval of the Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Selection Committee. Other leaders endorsed by the Susan B. Anthony List include Tennessee Congressman Marsha Blackburn, and Representatives Michelle Bachman (MN) and Kevin McCarthy (CA).
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