National Right to Life News articles from February 2003

National Right to Life News archives from February 2003

Action Alert. Urgent Congressional Alert: Pro-Cloning Forces Pushing U.S. Senate to Approve Clone--and--Kill Bill!
February 1, 2003... WASHINGTON (Feb. 3, 2003)--President Bush called on Congress to ban all human cloning during his January 28 State of the Union address. The legislation supported by President Bush and by National Right to Life is the Brownback-Landrieu bill...

Action Alert. Urge your senators to demand that the Senate approve the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act!(www.nrlc.org )
February 1, 2003... WASHINGTON (Feb. 3, 2003)--In his State of the Union message, President Bush urged Congress to send him the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act so that he can sign it into law. (See story, page one.) The House of Representatives is expected to...

Sacramento Catholic Bishop Praises Parish Priest for Barring Gov. Davis from Participating in Parish Function.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Roman Catholic Bishop William K. Weigand of Sacramento recently praised Msgr. Edward J. Kavanagh, pastor of St. Rose Parish and director of St. Patrick's Home, for barring California Governor Gray Davis from distributing Christmas gifts at the...

Abortion Awareness Month in the Black Community.
February 1, 2003... Black Americans for Life (BAL) will join with the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life in proclaiming June Abortion Awareness Month in the Black Community. This marks the second year that these two national groups have joined...

President George W. Bush's Remarks to the March for Life.
February 1, 2003... THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you, Nellie [Gray, president of March for Life]. I want to thank you very much for including me in the celebration of life. I want to thank the good folks there on the Mall today. I'm calling you from St. Louis,...

California Catholic Bishop Says Pro-Abortion Politicians Should Not Receive Communion.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Roman Catholic Bishop William K. Weigand, Sacramento, California, said in a homily on January 22 that any Catholic politician who supports abortion should "abstain from receiving holy Communion until he has a change of heart." Also during...

Appear at NARAL Fundraiser DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SEEK PRO-ABORTION SUPPORT.
February 1, 2003... On January 21, all six candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for President bowed down before the country's largest pro-abortion organization and pledged to support legal abortion on demand. They also harshly attacked pro-life President...

Abortion "Providers" and the Cost of Abortions.
February 1, 2003... Coincident with the drop in abortions, AGI tells us, has been a continuing decline in the number of abortionists, or as AGI puts it, "abortion providers." There were 2,380 abortionists in 1992, 2,042 in 1996, and 1,819 in 2000, according...

A Generation Gets Noticed.(Youth opinions on abortion.)
February 1, 2003... "Our teenagers and youth look at abortion and say, `It could have been me.' Each of them feel fortunate and blessed that their mother did have them." --Washington archdiocesan spokeswoman Susan Gibbs, "Both Sides on Abortion Try a Youthful...

Start Spreading the NewsE Tenth Annual Proudly Pro-Life Dinner to Honor Actors in New York, New York.
February 1, 2003... National Right to Life will celebrate the 10th annual Proudly Pro-Life Dinner by honoring pro-life celebrities April 29, 2003, at the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. Joining our distinguished honorees from years past as recipients of the...

In State of Union Address, Bush Calls for Bans Bans on Partial-Birth Abortion, Human Cloning On Congressional Agenda in Months Ahead.
February 1, 2003... WASHINGTON (Feb. 3, 2003)--In his January 28 State of the Union speech, President Bush set the stage for crucial battles in the U.S. Senate over two top priorities for the pro-life movement--banning partial-birth abortion and banning all human...

A Story of Homecoming .(Editorial)
February 1, 2003... In the second editorial that appears on this page, I'll be discussing the massive March for Life whose gigantic numbers no media outlet did justice to, and the six cap-in-hand Democratic presidential aspirants who dutifully attended NARAL's...

Laughably Out of Touch EDITORIAL.(Editorial)
February 1, 2003... "The Supreme Court overruled today all state laws that prohibit or restrict a woman's right to obtain an abortion during her first three months of pregnancy. The vote was 7-2. In an historic resolution of a fiercely controversial issue...." ...

"This Little Light of Mine, I'm Gonna Let It Shine": Chapter Holds Prayer Vigil to Commemorate 30th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
February 1, 2003... The tens of thousands of pro-lifers who assembled on the National Mall for the 30th annual March for Life were accompanied by the prayers of millions of Americans who share a respect for life but were unable to make the trip or who chose to...

"Silent No More": Regret Over Abortion the Theme of Rallies Across the Nation.
February 1, 2003... Around the nation upwards of 800 women courageously spoke up to say, "I regret my abortion" as part of a nationwide campaign called "Silent No More." The testimonies of these brave women coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade...

Hopeful Pro-Lifers Commemorate 30th Anniversary of Roe with Sadness and Determination.
February 1, 2003... With great sadness for the millions of unborn babies killed in the 30 years since Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers in big cities and small towns marched together in January with the hope for an end to the abortion holocaust. "We are here today to...

Old Myths Resurface About Roe v. Wade and Partial-Birth Abortion.
February 1, 2003... Many media outlets published abortion-related stories in January, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. Many of those stories contained demonstrable errors, some of these apparently adopted...

PRO-LIFE NEWS IN BRIEF.
February 1, 2003... West Virginia Hospital Rejects Widening of Abortion Policy The board of United Hospital Center (UHC) in Clarksburg, West Virginia, rejected a plan to perform abortions for fetal abnormality. By an 8-7 vote December 17, the board listened to...

Women's Lives and Post-Abortion Syndrome, 30 Years Later A Long, Cold Journey to the Truth.(Column)
February 1, 2003... Thirty years ago on a cold wintry day in January 1973, a terrible deception was perpetrated on tens of millions of American women. Slogans replaced truths and over 43 million unborn children paid with their lives. Thirty years after Roe v....

Most Americans Oppose Most Abortion.
February 1, 2003... Editor's Note: An abbreviated version of the following appeared in USA Today on January 22. Some have argued that the majority of Americans want abortions to be as widely available as they are today--as long as they are restricted in some...

THE CHOICE "THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME".
February 1, 2003... NARAL has repackaged itself for the third time. A NARAL press release dated January 6, 2003, announces: "America's Most Recognized Defender Of A Woman's Right To Choose Unveils Massive New Mobilization & Education InitiativeE. On the 30th...

Abortion Totals, Rates, Ratios Drop to Lowest Levels in Decades Number of partial-birth abortions triples.
February 1, 2003... On the heels of encouraging, though somewhat incomplete, abortion data for 1998 and 1999 provided by the federal government, the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) has released data from its own 2000 survey of abortionists confirming the continued...

Vatican Challenges "Catholic" Politicians To Vote Pro-Life.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... In a strongly worded, 17-page document, the Vatican told Catholic politicians they must oppose laws favoring abortion and euthanasia. The document called "Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in...

World Abortion Estimates: An Audit Part I--What are the Numbers, and Where Do They Come From?
February 1, 2003... Editor's note. This important but widely unreported aspect of the abortion debate requires extensive examination and much documentation. This series will run over the next several months and eventually be placed on NRLC's web page at...