National Right to Life News articles from December 2004

National Right to Life News archives from December 2004

Arkansas RTL Wins Abortion Awareness Month Challenge.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... For Abortion Awareness Month this year, Black Americans for Life (BAL) issued a challenge for pro-life affiliates and organizations to participate in or organize as many pro-life activities and events as possible throughout the month of June....

Associated Press and other media distort Roe v. Wade and public opinion on abortion policy.
December 1, 2004... WASHINGTON - - Nearly 32 years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand, some major organs of the news media continue to misreport key elements of what the Court has done, with the Associated Press (AP) being the latest offender....

Black Americans for Life Plans Aggressive Educational Campaign for 2005.
December 1, 2004... Black Americans for Life is planning to expand its educational activities to help educate African-Americans on how they can save Black babies from abortion. "African-American women have the highest abortion rate of any ethnic group in the...

British Judge Allows "Suicide Tourist" to Go to Switzerland to Die.
December 1, 2004... A British judge refused to block a couple from traveling to Switzerland so the wife can kill herself. Mr. Justice Headley of the Family Division of the High Court ruled November 30 that the courts cannot abridge the "right" of the woman, known...

BUSH ADMINISTRATION ASKS SUPREME COURT TO PREVENT DRUG USE FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE.
December 1, 2004... The Bush Administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that has prevented implementation of Attorney General John Ashcroft's 2001 directive that federally controlled drugs not be used...

Criticism of California Stem Cell Initiative Growing.
December 1, 2004... As California officials begin the process of spending billions of dollars on embryonic stem cell research and cloning approved by voters in November, the reality of the financial and ethical aspects of the initiative are causing growing...

Congress Approves Broad Shield to Protect Pro-Life Health Care Providers.
December 1, 2004... WASHINGTON (December 6, 2004) - - Both houses of Congress have approved enactment of a new law that will provide broad federal protection for health care providers, including hospitals and insurers, who choose not to participate in abortion....

CALIFORNIA, HAWAII FACE EUTHANASIA LEGALIZATION DRIVES AS DUTCH MOVE TO NONVOLUNTARY KILLING OF NEWBORNS.
December 1, 2004... Major efforts at Oregon-style legalization of assisting suicide are scheduled for the 2005 legislative sessions in Hawaii and California. After the November elections, it is clear that proponents of assisting suicide in Hawaii have over a...

EDITORIALS; Gauging Our Prospects.(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... "Abortion opponents have long considered the Senate to be a daunting roadblock for new abortion restrictions and conservative judicial nominees, halting many of the initiatives of a sympathetic House and a president committed to 'a culture of...

EDITORIALS; Post-Election Moaning and Gnashing of Teeth.(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... Let me utilize this opening paragraph to make a pitch for "Today's News & Views," found on NRLC's web page: www.nrlc.org. A first draft of what I am about to discuss appeared over a period of about six days in this daily web column. Please take...

The Neolib Attack on Adult Stem Cells.
December 1, 2004... Editor's note. This article is reprinted with the author's permission. Among the magazines even die-hard right-wingers should sometimes read are the neo-liberal ones The New Republic and the Washington Monthly. They often contain...

Gov. Bush Appeals Schiavo Decision to United States Supreme Court.
December 1, 2004... Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has asked the United States Supreme Court to intervene in the fight to save the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo. On December 1, attorneys for the governor asked the High Court to overturn the Florida Supreme Court's...

"Who Would Want a Child Like That?" We Would!
December 1, 2004... Editor's note. This first ran in our December 1998 issue and is one of the stories readers have most asked us to reprint. Read it and I think you will see why. There is an update at the end of Jean's wonderful account along with a new photo of...

Pro-Life News In Brief.
December 1, 2004... Court Allows Michigan Woman to Review Her Own Abortion File The Michigan Court of Appeals granted the request of a 23-year-old Michigan woman who asked to see the file created when a judge allowed her to have an abortion in 1996, when she...

FROM THE PRESIDENT; PRO-LIFERS WON ROUND ONE, BUT...(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... Let's remember how things stood before the 2004 election. Activists on both sides of the abortion issue knew that the election would be pivotal to their cause. If John Kerry won, his new appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court would...

676 "adverse events" reported; FDA Heightens Abortion Pill Warning After Latest RU486 Patient Death.
December 1, 2004... On the heels of the revelation of yet another death of a woman who took RU486, the abortion pill's U.S. distributor has sent warnings to emergency rooms and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to beef up the warning label on...

British Doctors Send Women to Spain for Late Abortions.
December 1, 2004... Doctors working with the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the country's largest abortion provider, refer women seeking abortions over the legal limit of 24 weeks to a clinic in Spain, according to the Sunday Telegraph. The...

Remarkable Progress Shown in Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Research.
December 1, 2004... Researchers around the world are reporting remarkable success in using umbilical cord stem cells to treat conditions as varied as spinal cord injury and leukemia. With umbilical cord stem cell treatment, scientists in South Korea repaired...