National Right to Life News articles from April 2001

National Right to Life News archives from April 2001

ACTION ALERT: United States to Vote on McCain-Feingold Bill.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to take up the McCain-Feingold bill (S. 27) or other legislation to restrict free speech about politicians in July. It is important that all House members - - both pro-life and pro-abortion - -...

Now Featuring: Benton County Right to Life.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... As explained in the March edition, "Chapter Profiles" will now be a regular feature of NRL News. By profiling grassroots chapters of NRLC we hope to achieve two things. First, it is important to share the good news of what our members and...

Prayers requested for both Dutch and Belgian Senate Dutch Legislators: Pause at Brink of Euthanasia Abyss.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Last November, when the lower house of the Dutch parliament voted 104-40 to legalize euthanasia, the Senate's approval was considered a mere formality. [See NRL News, December 2000, page 24.] But the recent conviction of general...

Abortion and Breast Cancer: Bush Election Sparks Media Backlash.(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2001... When it comes to the link between induced abortion and breast cancer (the "ABC link"), it can be argued that the mass media have not deserved - - at least until now - - the brunt of the blame for the failure of the public to know about this...

DISABLED CHILD'S RIGHT TO LIFE UPHELD BY TEXAS COURT.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Parents who wished to deny lifesaving treatment to their newborn child to avoid raising a child with disabilities are not entitled to monetary damages from the hospital that treated her over their objection, a Texas appellate court ruled on...

Woman Awakens From Coma to See Newborn Daughter.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Shannon Kranzberg became the latest woman to successfully deliver a baby while in a coma. The 18-year-old Mrs. Kranzberg delivered her daughter Alexis on January 14, then snapped out of her coma a week later. "I just woke up and the baby...

Thanks, Members, for Your Life-Giving Support!(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... National Right to Life has just successfully completed its membership phoning campaign. Let me thank everyone who renewed NRLC memberships this year. The membership mailing and phoning conducted at the beginning of each year provide a...

Fight Moves to House of Representatives: United States Senate Passes McCain-Feingold Bill to Restrict Free Speech, 59-41.
April 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (April 4) - - A bill to place unprecedented restrictions on free speech has been approved by the U.S. Senate and will be debated this summer in the House of Representatives. The McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" bill (S....

National Right to Life Committee: Letter in Support of Unborn Victims of Violence Act.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The following is excerpted from a letter in support of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act was sent by NRLC to members of the U.S. House of Representatives on March 12, 2001. For more information on the bill, see the article that begins on page...

A Human Rights Bioethics.
April 1, 2001... "There is one view of bioethics which says that it should somehow work to bring social harmony and peace. To that my response is, Who says so? It seems to me that bioethics, to be serious, has to ask hard, even nasty questions. If that leads to...

Student's Pro-Life Campaign Shakes Up Harvard.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... In recent years, college campuses - - where the free exchange of ideas ought to be the coin of the realm - - have instead become places where dissent from the liberal pro-abortion party line is not tolerated. Often no where is that more the...

Perinatal Hospice:.
April 1, 2001... The news devastated B.J., a single mother expecting her fifth child. Prenatal tests showed that her unborn baby had Trisomy 13, a chromosomal disorder that is almost always fatal. In today's increasingly high-tech medical world, such...

Premature Twins Thrive with a "Rescuing Hug".(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Premature babies have a better chance of survival now, due to advances in medical technology and knowledge. But sometimes the best medicine lies not in expensive machines but in the simple touch of another person. The story of twins...

Pro-Life News in Brief.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Huge Decreases In Abortion in Nebraska and Idaho For the year 2000, not only did the number of abortions in Nebraska drop by 8% to the lowest figure in nearly 25 years, when combined with an even larger drop in 1999, it represents a decline...

"Born-Alive" Measure Thwarted in New Hampshire.
April 1, 2001... Pro-abortionists in New Hampshire have for the moment thwarted what ought to have been a non-controversial piece of legislation to recognize that children who are born alive are legal persons. On March 29, the New Hampshire House of...

Suicide: A Contagious Culture.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The bright innocence of youth is disappearing beneath a dark wave of teen suicides on the island of Guam. Early this year a 12-year-old boy hanged himself with his football shoelaces after an argument with his mother. An 18-year-old...

BUSH WELCOMES OPENING OF JOHN PAUL II CULTURAL CENTER.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... When pro-life George W. Bush visited the opening of the new Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., the new President took the opportunity to effusively praise the Pontiff in front of an enthusiastically receptive audience of...

ASK YOUR CONGRESSMAN TO VOTE FOR THE UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Under current federal law, an individual who commits a federal crime of violence against a pregnant woman receives no additional punishment for killing or injuring the woman's unborn child during the commission of that crime. Therefore, except...

Details from Planned Parenthood's Latest Annual Report Telling Stories about Abortion.
April 1, 2001... While, thankfully, the number of abortions has been steadily declining in the U.S., business is thriving at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's largest abortion chain. At Planned Parenthood, a steadily increasing...

Vote Expected April 25 or 26 U.S. House to Vote on Bill to Recognize Unborn Children As Crime Victims.(National Right to Life Committee)
April 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (April 4) - - The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote April 25 or 26 on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, an NRLC-backed bill that would legally recognize unborn children as victims when they are injured or killed...

The good news you never hear The Politics of Stem Cells.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Editor's note. Mr. Smith, an attorney by training, is arguably the finest "popular" critic of euthanasia, including specifically assisted suicide. At the same time he strips away the reassuring rhetoric employed by pro-euthanasia forces, Smith...