National Right to Life News articles from December 2001

National Right to Life News archives from December 2001

BROAD-BASED COALITION OPPOSES HUMAN CLONING.
December 1, 2001... Editor's note. The following are excerpts from some of the many groups that held a press conference November 26 in response to the announcement by Advanced Cell Technology that the company had cloned human embryos. Nigel M. de S. Cameron,...

New British Cloning Law Allows "Clone and Kill".(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... A new law rushed through the British Parliament bans the implantation of cloned human embryos into women, but fails to protect these tiny human beings from destructive research, sale, exportation, or implantation into men, artificial wombs, or...

British Law Lords Reject Euthanasia.(Diane Pretty's case)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... A drive to legalize euthanasia in the United Kingdom through the courts failed November 29 when the country's highest tribunal refused Diane Pretty's request that her husband be allowed to kill her. Pretty, a 42-year-old mother of two, has a...

Study Finds More Accurate Down Syndrome Test.
December 1, 2001... A study published in the Lancet November 16 asserts that Down syndrome can be identified in 11- to 14-week-old unborn babies by checking for the absence of the nasal bone. The authors of the study, led by Prof. Kypros Nicolaides of...

Throwing Down the Gauntlet.(media reaction to Advanced Cell Technology Inc. cloning research)
December 1, 2001... "Advanced Cell Technology Inc. of Worcester announced its latest advance in human cloning on Sunday, Nov. 25, a quiet news day at the end of a long weekend and a relative lull in the Afghanistan war." Boston Globe, December 5 ...

"WAKE TURBULENCE" OF A DIFFERENT KIND.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... As if there weren't already enough heartache and misery, just a month after the September 11 terrorist attack, American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into a heavily populated section of the New York City borough of Queens. Investigations are...

American Catholic Bishops' New Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities Calls Abortion a Priority Issue of Justice.
December 1, 2001... ... "Abortion, the direct killing of an innocent human being, is always gravely immoral (The Gospel of Life, no. 57); its victims are the most vulnerable and defenseless members of the human family. It is imperative that those who are called to...

French Court Awards Damages for "Wrongful Birth".(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Controversy continues to swirl over the decision of France's highest court that a child born with severe handicaps can sue for the "damages" he suffered by being born rather than aborted. One critic of the decision said, "This is the first...

"Who Would Want a Child Like That?" We Would!
December 1, 2001... Editor's note. This first ran in our December 1998 issue and is one of the stories readers have most asked to reprint. Read it and I think you will see why. There is an update at the end of Jean's wonderful account. Let me introduce you to...

Pro-Euthanasia Groups Win Temporary Stay On Decision Banning Use of Federally Controlled Drugs for Assisted Suicide.
December 1, 2001... Reacting to a suit filed by the pro-euthanasia group Compassion in Dying, the state of Oregon, and others, Federal District Judge Robert Jones has temporarily ordered Attorney General John Ashcroft not to enforce the Bush Administration's...

Autumn at Planned Parenthood.
December 1, 2001... This fall brings mixed news of Planned Parenthood's moves at the local level. Planned Parenthood of Pasadena has had to delay indefinitely the opening of a facility in Monrovia, California, but Planned Parenthood's relentless expansion of its...

National Lutherans for Life Convention.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... DETROIT, MICHIGAN - - "Living Under the Cross" was the powerful theme of the 19th annual convention of Lutherans for Life (LFL). More than 350 Lutherans gathered from across the United States and Canada. The only inter-Lutheran pro-life...

National Right to Life Committee and Oregon RTL File Brief In Support of Ashcroft Decision on Assisted Suicide.(Oregon Right to Life)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The National Right to Life Committee and Oregon Right to Life (ORTL) have filed an important 32-page "friend-of-the-court" brief in support of Attorney General John Ashcroft's November 6 decision that the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) does...

Pro-Life News In Brief.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Man Allegedly Tries To Force Abortion By Poisoning Police in O'Fallon, Missouri, arrested Michael Travis Bullock, 21, on charges of felony assault for allegedly putting ant killer in his pregnant girlfriend's drinks in an attempt to abort...

"Disenfranchised Grief".(Review)
December 1, 2001... Editor's note. In this column Fr. Frank Pavone writes about Forbidden Grief, a book to be released in 2002, by his friend Dr. Theresa Burke. He begins with a lengthy quote: "There is no social norm for dealing with an abortion. There...

A NEW HOME FOR "THE FLAGSHIP OF THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT".(National Right to Life)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... National Right to Life is the flagship of the pro-life movementE. I think it's invaluable that they have a headquarters that is close to Capitol Hill. --Congressman Henry Hyde National Right to Life is really indispensable E on every...

Bad science revisited.(fetal brain tissue transplantation)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... NRL News readers may recall the startling news account that appeared last March, detailing the complete failure of efforts to transplant fetal brain tissue into patients with Parkinson's disease. Not only were there no improvements, but "in...

Journal Offers Survey Results from 27 Nations.
December 1, 2001... Why do women have abortions? Although abortion has been legal nationwide in the U.S. since 1973 and even earlier in other nations, not a lot is known about the reasons women in some of these other countries have abortions. A report in the...

Brutal Attack Brings Murder Conviction.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Often justice is not swift, but it was sure last month for Erik Bullock. A jury in Little Rock, Arkansas, convicted Bullock of murder for hiring men to beat his pregnant girlfriend and kill her unborn child. The victims were Shiwona Pace...

Texas Abortionists Trying to Expand The Number of State-Funded Abortions.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The right of the state of Texas to limit the number of abortions paid for by taxpayer money is at the heart of a case heard by the Texas Supreme Court November 28. Currently, Texas pays only for those abortions approved by the federal Medicaid...

Saying No to Assisted Suicide.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... When Oregon voters legalized assisted suicide in 1994, state regulators had a problem. They wanted to authorize doctors to prescribe barbiturates as killing agents. But the federal government regulates the use of these drugs under the...