National Right to Life News articles from August 2001

National Right to Life News archives from August 2001

Actions Requested.
August 1, 2001... * Write to your two U.S. senators. Urge them to support the Weldon-Stupak Human Cloning Prohibition Act (H.R. 2505), passed by the House July 31, and to cosponsor Senator Brownback's very similar bill, S. 790. Urge them to oppose any substitute...

ACTION ALERT: OPPOSE HEALTH CARE ASSURANCE ACT.
August 1, 2001... * Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has introduced a bill that would open the door to involuntary euthanasia by authorizing health care providers to deny life-sustaining treatment against the express will of the patient or patient's family. ...

SPECIAL ALERT!
August 1, 2001... Let your elected officials know that stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos is wrong! Remind them that there are alternatives to such research that promote life and show as much or more promise in finding possible...

Psychiatric Darwinism SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, EXTINCTION OF THE UNFIT.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Editor's note. Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer-reviewed professional journal published three times a year by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled, Inc. and the Horatio R. Storer Foundation, Inc. Published since...

Bush Blocks Stem Cell Funding That Would Destroy Embryos.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Using his first televised speech to the nation to underscore the importance of the issue, President George W. Bush announced that he would not allow federal funding of stem cell research that would cause human embryos to be destroyed. In a...

Murderous Mayhem in a Chinese County.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... No one who has followed the international abortion scene for very long needs to be reminded that the Communist Chinese government has a record of forced abortion, coerced sterilization, and infanticide second in viciousness to no country on...

Reflections of a College Kid.(Topeka Teens for Life's "Hearts on Fire for Life" event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... I love airports. (Yes, I really mean that.) There's an all-too-familiar sight contained within these massive microcosms of transportation: people bustling around looking for the gates, baggage being carried and dragged hither and yon. Everyone...

Congress May Vote Soon On Creation And Killing Of Human Embryos.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (August 3, 2001) - - As discussed in articles elsewhere in this issue, Congress may decide the fate of many thousands of embryonic human beings by roll call votes that are likely to occur over the weeks and months immediately ahead....

Averting a Catastrophe.(human cloning laws)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... " `Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for medical experimentation,' said House majority whip Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas. Cloning, even for research purposes alone, is `no better than medical strip...

Sifting Fact from Fiction.(human cloning and stem cell research)
August 1, 2001... Demonstrating their agility at the serve and volley game, advocates of stem cell research that would require the destruction of human embryos told reporters that there was a silver lining in the defeat of the Greenwood bill to explicitly allow...

How to Make Those Grassroots Grow.(attracting new members)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... In the past several issues, I have profiled the work of local chapters in your own communities. Hopefully, these articles have given you ideas of projects that work to promote the sanctity of life, educate the community, and raise funds to help...

U.S. HOUSE APPROVES BILL TO BAN HUMAN CLONING.
August 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (August 3, 2001)--By a large margin, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to prohibit the creation of human embryos by cloning. The bill, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act (H.R. 2505), was approved by the House...

UN Committee Voices Grave Concern At Dutch Euthanasia Law.(Human Rights Committee)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The United Nations Human Rights Committee voiced grave concerns about the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands and called for its re-examination in a draft report dated July 20. The report warned darkly of growing routinization and...

LCMS Elects Another Strongly Pro-Life President.(Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod chooses Gerald B. Kieschnick)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... In addition to electing another strongly pro-life president, the 1,200 delegates to the 2001 National Convention of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) affirmed the church's long-held opposition to abortion and, in a separate action on...

Human Services Charities of America Agency #2844 OPPORTUNITY TO HELP NRLC BY CONTRIBUTING THROUGH WORKPLACE CAMPAIGNS.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... One important way you can help educate about the humanity of unborn children - - and therefore ultimately protect them - - is to contribute through your workplace campaign. These resources can be used by the National Right to Life Educational...

Pro-Life News in Brief.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... French Health Minister Admits to Euthanasia The debate in Europe over euthanasia has spread to France, as Health Minister Bernard Kouchner told a Netherlands newspaper that he injected patients with fatal doses of morphine in wartime...

"You Could Hear a Pin Drop".(hearings on stem cell research)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... You could hear a pin drop at a packed hearing held July 17 by the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources. And that hushed reverence wasn't because of the awe-inspiring (and extremely...

ABOUT STEM CELLS AND CLONING.
August 1, 2001... Editor's note: This guest column is by Gunter N. Franz, who has a Ph.D. degree in physiology and biophysics from the University of Washington. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at West Virginia University School of...

New Information on 1997 U.S. Abortions Abortions Down, Especially among Teens.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... A recently released government report examining U.S. abortion data from the year 1997 contains some encouraging news. The report not only confirms that the absolute number of abortions performed annually in the U.S. is down, but also shows that...

Teenage Leukemia Survivor Testifies Against Killing Embryos for Research, Points to Unobjectionable Alternatives.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Proponents of stem cell research that would require the destruction of human embryos insist it is needed to treat otherwise incurable diseases. But 16-year-old Nathan Salley knows the truth: after receiving a transplant of stem cells from an...

Judge Orders Schindler-Schiavo's Feedings Stopped.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Despite evidence from seven prominent physicians who say that a disabled woman is not in a "persistent vegetative state" and may be able to improve with intensive therapy, a Florida judge ruled August 7 that Terri Schindler-Schiavo may be...

The Amazing Vanishing Embryo Trick.(Advanced Cell Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... It was revealed last week that Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) of Worcester, Massachusetts, a prominent privately owned biotechnology firm, has a plan to mass-produce human embryos. The firm also has a plan to render those same embryos...

Robert Wendland Dies of Pneumonia; Court Rejects Wife's Euthanasia Request.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Robert Wendland, the disabled California man at the center of a court case that had the potential to widen the threat of involuntary euthanasia, died July 17 of pneumonia, according to the Los Angeles Times. After his death, the California...

"Futile Care" and Its Friends Hospitals--and Legislators--Want to decide When Your life Is No Longer Worth Living.
August 1, 2001... When John Campbell's teenage son Christopher became comatose after a car accident in 1994, the last problem Campbell expected was obtaining proper medical treatment for his son. Campbell, a corporate executive, had excellent health insurance...