National Right to Life News articles from April 2004

National Right to Life News archives from April 2004

WHAT CAN NOW BE DONE TO PROTECT AGAINST STARVATION AND DEHYDRATION.
April 1, 2004... For many years, the pro-life movement has emphasized that providing food and fluids is part of the normal care that every human being is entitled to receive. NRLC's Will to Live advance directive proclaims, "Food and water are not medical...

President Bush's Remarks Before Signing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (April 1, 2004).
April 1, 2004... THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for coming. Thank you all. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. Welcome to the people's house, the White House. I'm pleased that you all could be here for the first bill signing ceremony of the year 2004. ...

California Supreme Court Okays Broad Application of Fetal Homicide Law.
April 1, 2004... WASHINGTON (April 5, 2004) - - By a vote of 6-1, the California Supreme Court on April 5 upheld a murder conviction of a man who shot a pregnant woman to death, and then argued that he had not known she was pregnant. Harold Taylor was...

KERRY VOTES AGAINST UNBORN VICTIMS, EARNS NARAL's ENDORSEMENT.
April 1, 2004... In voting against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, Massachusetts pro-abortion Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, continued his unrelenting anti-life record. Small wonder, then, that he was endorsed by NARAL...

Pope John Paul II Affirms Obligation to Feed Patients; in the "Vegetative" State.
April 1, 2004... On March 20, speaking to participants in an international congress on the "vegetative" state, Pope John Paul II profoundly changed the worldwide debate on how to respond to this condition. He issued the first clear and explicit papal statement...

President Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Act Into Law, After Dramatic One-Vote Win in Senate.
April 1, 2004... WASHINGTON (April 6, 2004) - - In a landmark right-to-life victory, President George W. Bush on April 1 signed into law the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, also known as "Laci and Conner's Law." The President's action culminated a five-year...

EDITORIALS; A Badge of Honor.(abortion law)
April 1, 2004... In years to come, I strongly suspect historians will look back on these past few months and conclude that the rancorous debate over abortion, unbeknownst, turned a corner. An overly optimistic, even silly assessment, you ask, an example of the...

EDITORIALS; "Goodbye, Darling Pilgrim".(abortion)
April 1, 2004... Although I have been a small part of this great Movement for more than a quarter of a century, I am humbled by how little I understand about the pain of abortion. The vivid ache of an unexpected stillbirth, yes, but not the torment that so...

I Am Catholic vs. I Live the Teachings of My Faith; Sen. John Kerry vs. Catholic Teaching.
April 1, 2004... John Kerry is coming under increasing criticism from various leaders of the Catholic Church for his public position and voting record on abortion. The controversy has escalated to the point that it was featured in the April 5, 2004 issue of...

HORRIFIC DETAILS COME OUT IN TESTIMONY IN COURT CHALLENGES TO PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT.
April 1, 2004... Editor's note. Thanks go to Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., Director of Planning and Information, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who has assembled testimony from the three lawsuits challenging the...

Family Members of Unborn Victims; Go to Washington to Help Pass Bill.
April 1, 2004... The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997) carried the alternative title of "Laci and Conner's Law," at the request of the family of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner, who were killed together in California in December 2002. The...

Chapter Nuts and Bolts; Keeping Tabs on Local Libraries.
April 1, 2004... Have you been to the library lately? If not, now is a good time to peruse the stacks and comb the collection to see how much up-to-date, accurate pro-life information is available. Libraries are immensely important sources of information...

Students Challenged Lawmakers.(abortiuon law)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Editor's note. The following is excerpted from MCCL President Leo LaLonde's column in the March issue of MCCLNews. These budding citizen lobbyists took full advantage of their meetings with lawmakers. They asked for commitments to support...

Signing of Unborn Victims of Violence Act Receives More Balanced Coverage.
April 1, 2004... The signing of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA) was not only long overdue and exciting for the families of victims, but it also represented clear evidence that our nation is gradually recognizing that when a pregnant mother is brutally...

State Legislation Round-Up.
April 1, 2004... Arizona Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed a women's right to know bill that would have required abortion facilities to provide women contemplating abortion information on its risks, alternatives, and information on the developing...

Hundreds of Young People Lobby, Meet with Gov. Pawlenty, Speaker Sviggum; Students Flock to Capitol for Unmatched Experience.
April 1, 2004... "As the next generation, you need to take the opportunity and pick up the cause as caring, informed, energetic leaders." -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty Editor's note. The following article appeared in the March issue of MCCLNews, the...

Med School 101: You Must Perform or Refer for Abortion.
April 1, 2004... The ominous influence of the abortion establishment has reached down into medical training, with news that a Canadian medical school plans to deny a medical degree to a young student who has refused to perform or refer for any abortive...

More Reason For Optimism at Harvard.(abortion politics)
April 1, 2004... Pro-lifers can sometimes find reason for optimism in the most unusual places. Take, for instance, a forum recently hosted by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government that discussed "The Politics of Abortion." Though the...

MISCONCEPTIONS AND REALITIES REGARDING PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION.
April 1, 2004... WASHINGTON - - On November 5, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, a federal law to ban nationwide the abortion method in which the premature infant is mostly delivered alive before being killed. The new...

PRO-LIFE NEWS IN BRIEF.
April 1, 2004... Euthanasia Supporter Convicted of Attempted Murder A New Zealand jury found euthanasia activist Lesley Martin guilty of attempted murder for injecting her mother with an overdose of morphine in May 1999. The March 31 verdict could carry a...

Finding the Courage to Be Silent No More.
April 1, 2004... Editor's note. Jennifer O'Neill will be the banquet speaker at this year's NRL convention. Please see the ad on page 20 for instructions how to register. Actress and model Jennifer O'Neill is one of the millions of living victims of...

FROM THE PRESIDENT; Wanda Franz, Ph.D.
April 1, 2004... A Great Day for Unborn Children -- Let's Make it a Great Year! On April 1st, I was privileged to attend the President's signing of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in the East Room of the White House. After all the work we've done over...

A Pain Too Awful to Imagine.(abortion)
April 1, 2004... Proponents of unrestrained abortion who have launched a nationwide legal strategy challenging the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act may get far more than they bargained for, following a judge's crucial pre-trial decision to admit evidence on fetal...

Some Reactions to the Enactment of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
April 1, 2004... What follows is a selection of reactions to the final congressional approval of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act ("Laci and Conner's Law") by the U.S. Senate on March 25 and the signing of the bill by President Bush on April 1, 2004. ...

PPFA Tries to Put a Religious Gloss on Abortion.(Planned Parenthood Federation of America )
April 1, 2004... "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs." Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in a 1939 letter. On March 8,...

Will the Law See the Second Victim?(unborn rights)
April 1, 2004... Editor's note. Written by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson, this op-ed appeared in the Florida Baptist Witness. A shorter version ran earlier in the Miami Herald. This op-ed ran prior to Senate approval of the Unborn Victims of...

Excerpts from Senate floor debate on the Feinstein single-victim substitute--March 25, 2004.(Senator Dianne Feinstein debates H.R. 1997, Unborn Victims of Violence Act bill)
April 1, 2004... Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), author of the "single-victim substitute": Everything will be the same [in her bill] except a few simple words that inject the abortion debate into this issue by clearly establishing in criminal law for the...