There are many sources of information about pro-life issues. A few Web sites which maintain updated pro-life news are listed below. As you read newspapers, watch television, or listen to radio, be sensitive to messages or programs which glorify pro-choice positions or unfairly criticize pro-life positions.

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
CitizenLink
Life Dynamic News [free subscription]
Life Lines News Center: Tennessee Right to Life
Life News
National Right to Life
UKLL Pro-Life Newsletter [send e-mail request for this pro-life electronic newsletter, sent free by e-mail from the United Kingdom Life League]

FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS REPRESENTING BLOUNT COUNTY

Contact information for federal officials representing Blount County includes:

President George W. Bush
Senator William H. Frist
Senator Lamar Alexander
Representative John J. Duncan, Jr.

OTHER LEGISLATORS IN THE U.S. CONGRESS

You may wish to contact U.S. senators and representatives other than those representing Blount County, Tennessee.

For Tennessee federal legislators, accessed by your ZIP code:

For all federal legislators (including legislators other than Tennessee's delegation):

Go to the Web site of National Right to Life. On the home page in the upper part of the right-hand column is a section labeled “Write to Congress.” Enter the congressional ZIP code in the provided box. Click “GO.”

STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS REPRESENTING BLOUNT COUNTY

Contact information for Tennessee officials representing Blount County includes:

Governor Phil Bredesen
Senator William C. "Bill" Clabough (Senate District 8)
Representative Joe McCord (House District 8)
Representative Doug Overbey (House District 20)

LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

Contact information for newspapers serving Blount County include:

The Daily Times
The Knoxville News-Sentinel (publisher)
The Knoxville News-Sentinel (editor)
The Knoxville News-Sentinel (individual reporters)

LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS

Contact information for television stations serving Blount County includes:

WBIR-TV
WTNZ-TV
WSJK/WKOP-TV
WVLT-TV

NATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORKS

Contact information for television networks serving Blount County includes:

American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) [click “Feedback,” bottom of home page]
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) News [click “Feedback,” bottom of home page]
C-SPAN
Fox Network
Fox News [options for individual program contacts]
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

TELEVISION CARRIERS (SATELLITE AND CABLE), LOCAL AND NATIONAL

Contact information for television networks serving Blount County includes:

Charter Communications [Blount County’s cable television carrier]
DIRECTV
DISH Network
Sky Angel Network

BLOUNT COUNTY RADIO STATIONS

Contact local radio stations as follows:

WBCR-AM
WGAP-AM/FM: 865.983.4310

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

Contact the public radio network as follows:

PROGRAM SPONSOR

If you see an unfair or offensive program, contact the program’s corporate sponsor (advertiser). Since a corporation sponsors a program for the purpose of trying to sell a product or service, it is likely to be sensitive to complaints from dissatisfied viewers.

To contact a corporate sponsor (advertiser):

• Enter the corporation’s name, enclosed in quotation marks, in the search box of a good search engine, such as Google™, and enter (submit) it.
• The corporate sponsor should appear almost immediately.
• Click on the corporation’s underlined Web address. You will be routed to the corporation’s home page.
• Usually on that home page a link for contact information will be listed. This link may be in small type (some searching may be required), under a title such as Contact, Feedback, or About Us.
• There commonly may appear an e-mail form to facilitate your online correspondence. There may also be a toll-free telephone number and a postal mailing address.

Remember:

• Always be polite and courteous. An abusive or threatening message likely will not be read or will be disregarded. Some threatening messages may be illegal.
• Be concise. A brief message may be read. A lengthy message may be ignored by busy staff personnel. Your message may only be kept in a tally format– “for” or “against” an issue– but it is counted.
• Make you point(s) briefly, decisively, and logically. Place your best argument(s) at the beginning of the message.
• Do not be surprised if you do not receive a personal reply. Someone at the company has noted your concern, however. A corporation realizes that only a small fraction of a program’s audience will take the time to write. Therefore, your message has a multiplier effect, because the corporation will feel that your voiced message represents many who feel similarly, but do not take the time to write.
• "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Attributed to Edmund Burke (1729-1797)