National Right to Life News articles from December 2002

National Right to Life News archives from December 2002

Did you know? ? ? ? ?
December 1, 2002... Did you know that you can make a lifesaving gift now that can help your family at tax time? Between now and December 31, many of our member families will make contributions to the tax-deductible National Right to Life Educational Trust...

National Poll Shows Substantial Increase In Pro-Life Attitudes.
December 1, 2002... A multi-part series that ran in the Buffalo News in late Novem-ber not only handled abortion in a thoughtful, even-handed manner, but also provided one of the most thorough, encouraging portraits of public opinion in years. On virtually...

CDC releases report for 1999 More Good News: Abortions Continue to Decline.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
December 1, 2002... On the heels of a report issued last summer showing another drop in abortions in 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new report showing a continued decline for 1999. Although the numbers are not as complete...

What's the Future for Citizen Groups?
December 1, 2002... On November 18, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review Beaumont v. FEC, a case vital to citizen groups such as the National Right to Life Committee and its affiliates. The outcome will define what role these advocacy groups will play in public...

Free Speech About Politicians Case Heard by Special Panel.
December 1, 2002... Washington, D.C. (December 5) - - In a courtroom packed with high-powered legal talent, passion, and reporters, a legal showdown that will probably culminate in a decision next year by the Supreme Court began before a special three-judge panel...

NRLC Launches New Ad Campaign: Unborn Children Are Americans Too!(National Right to Life)
December 1, 2002... A number of weeks ago, National Right to Life was approached by Janet Folger, president of Faith2Action, with an idea: unborn children are Americans too. For years, we as a pro-life movement have advanced the idea that unborn children are full...

Good Morality Is Good Medicine Compared to the morally acceptable alternatives, embryonic stem cells aren't making the grade.
December 1, 2002... The recent congressional elections have brought new hope for the passage of pro-life legislation, including a ban on human cloning. Equally important to the cloning debate, however, is a race of a different sort--the race for cures. Four...

Do You See What I See?
December 1, 2002... "Today human relations are irregulars and seconds at the closing days of the warehouse sale of life." From Social Amnesia by Russell Jacoby "O little town of Bethlehem." Traditional Christmas carol Editor's note. This story...

Lessons From 2002.
December 1, 2002... It would be a huge mistake to allow the disappointing loss in Louisiana's December 7 senatorial runoff to in any way take away from or diminish the marvelous November 5 results. As you'll recall pro-lifers worked overtime to increase our...

How Far We've Come.
December 1, 2002... Sometimes kids say the darndest (and most revealing) things. There we were just finishing up supper when out of the blue my youngest daughter begins to tell me about a writing assignment she's just completed for school. It's one of those...

Second Failure May Spell the End for Fetal Tissue Transplants.
December 1, 2002... Hailed for 15 years as a very promising remedy for Parkinson's disease, a second abysmal failure using tissue transplanted from aborted babies (although not yet published in a medical journal) is apparently already being widely discussed in...

The Human Condition.
December 1, 2002... It's only a small, indeed microscopic, matter, but it made the news. It seems the Bush administration has changed the federal regulations governing scientific research in order to classify human embryos as human. Goodness, has somebody in...

PRO-LIFERS CELEBRATE GAINS IN STATE LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS.
December 1, 2002... While the national press has understandably focused almost all its attention on the gains made by pro-lifers in the United States House and Senate, a closer look reveals that the Movement made crucial gains in a number of state legislatures as...

PRO-LIFE NEWS IN BRIEF.(includes multiple articles)
December 1, 2002... Nitschke Plans to Sell Suicide Machine Philip Nitschke, Australia's leading euthanasia practitioner, announced December 2 that a machine that dispenses pure carbon monoxide for use in suicide will be available in Australia in February....

Finding Just the Right Words.(right to life confronted by someone who has had an abortion)
December 1, 2002... Over the last few years I've been asked a question that has become all too common an inquiry for pro-life people everywhere. It can be addressed to us by a complete stranger or by a close friend or family member. Sometimes this question...

Holiday Cards, Poster Contests, and Other Travesties from Planned Parenthood Tis the Season...for Cruelest Irony and Contradiction.
December 1, 2002... Planned Parenthood (PPFA) has long used cutting-edge marketing savvy to try and repackage the most abominable products. That's how killing unborn babies became "choice" and how an organization supposedly devoted to "parenthood" became America's...

ABORTION STATISTICS & POLLS.
December 1, 2002... In 1999, a total of 861,789 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] by 48 reporting areas [excluding Alaska, California, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma]. This represents a 2.5% decrease from 1998....

Schindler-Schiavo Scheduled to Die in January.(Terri Schindler-Schiavo)
December 1, 2002... Terri Schindler-Schiavo will be starved and dehydrated to death beginning January 3 at 3 p.m., Florida Judge George Greer ruled November 22. Greer insisted that Schindler-Schiavo, who has been disabled after suffering brain damage in 1990, has...

Chapter Ideas: Project SOUL Church Liaisons Bringing Churches Into Your Chapter's Fold.(Save Our Unborn Lives or Sustainers of Unborn Life)
December 1, 2002... The best ideas are always the simplest. Several years ago, the Arkansas Right to Life Board of Directors was searching for new and better ways of enlisting financial and other support for its programs. I had long felt that direct pro-life...

Australia's Dr. Death Spreading the assisted-suicide gospel.(Dr. Philip Nitschke)
December 1, 2002... There is an old folk wisdom: "You are known by the company you keep." As is true of most folk wisdom, the saying has much to recommend it. To use an extreme example, if you hung out with and financially supported a known terrorist, most people...