National Right to Life News articles from January 2003

National Right to Life News archives from January 2003

In The Beginning.(Column)
January 1, 2003... Two hundred and twenty-seven years ago, at the birth of our nation, a founding father declared, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,...

Roe v. Wade: Its Legal Progeny THIRTY YEARS OF SUPREME COURT ABORTION DECISIONS.
January 1, 2003... In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court decided 7-2 that there was a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution, found within the recently discovered right to privacy. Even the most optimistic supporters of legal...

Communicating the Pro-Life Story to a 21st-Century Audience.
January 1, 2003... "The bottom line is no woman is going to want an abortion after seeing a sonogram." Francesco Angelo, medical director of the Family Planning Center in Mineola, as quoted in the New York Times, February 24, 2002. A few years ago Prof....

The Roe Generation: A New Generation for Life.(Column)
January 1, 2003... For those of us born after 1973, abortion on demand has been a way of life. We have never known a day when unborn children were granted legal protection. Throughout our lives and in every venue - - be it school, television, radio, concerts or...

Against Overwhelming Odds: Congressional Efforts and Gains Since Roe v. Wade.
January 1, 2003... The 30 years following the Supreme Court's tragic Roe v. Wade decision are a story of pro-life achievements accomplished against overwhelming odds. While the New York Times and others hastily announced that Roe had "settled" the abortion debate...

Forging a New Consensus.(Column)
January 1, 2003... "The bottom line is no woman is going to want an abortion after seeing a sonogram." Francesco Angelo, the medical director of Family Planning Center in Mineola, New York, quoted in the February 24, 2002, New York Times "Society is like...

Where We Are After 30 Years.
January 1, 2003... "A nineteenth-century German historian wrote that every moment of history is equally present to God. Every moment is also equally present to great evil. But there are moments in which great evil bestirs itself with intentions that are...

THIRTY YEARS LATER: EVIDENCE THAT ABORTION DOES REAL DAMAGE TO WOMEN.(Column)
January 1, 2003... By Wanda Franz, Ph.D., NRLC President Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, many people, including researchers and psychologists, are still in denial about the negative effects of abortion. Fortunately, there is now a growing body of...

Henry Hyde's Plea to Override President Clinton's Veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.
January 1, 2003... (Taken from the Congressional Record, September 19, 1996) Mr. Speaker, I beg the indulgence of my colleagues not to ask me to yield because I cannot and will not and I would appreciate their courtesy. I also want to say briefly that those...

We Will Never Forget.(Roe V. Wade)(Column)
January 1, 2003... Do you have any of those "I'll never forget where I was" memories? January 22, 1973, is one of those times for me. As I drove to the airport for a meeting at the headquarters of my Lutheran denomination in St. Louis, the car radio was...

Francis Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop's Invaluable Impact on Pro-Life Evangelicalism.
January 1, 2003... It is difficult to overestimate the incredible impact that Francis Schaeffer and Dr. C. Everett Koop made on evangelical Christians in the latter third of the 20th century. First Schaeffer, and then Dr. Koop, helped inform and energize a whole...

Opposition to Abortion Is Strong and Growing.
January 1, 2003... Two things can be said about abortion and public opinion without fear of contradiction. First, Americans increasingly self-identify as pro-life (there is now parity between pro-lifers and "pro-choicers") and not only reject abortion on demand...

ROE v. WADE AFTER 30 YEARS.(Column)
January 1, 2003... On January 22, the infamous Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court will have been in force for thirty years. This is not just thirty years of legal history--this is thirty years of legalized slaughter of innocent...

Roe v. Wade: Questions & Answers.(Interview)
January 1, 2003... Editor's note. We could devote this entire commemorative issue to the historic Roe v. Wade decision itself and still not do it justice. The following is a very brief outline of what Justice Harry Blackmun said in Roe (and its fraternal sister,...

Helping to Change the Climate of Opinion Knowledge of Fetal Development and Fetal Pain Grows Over Last 10 Years.(Column)
January 1, 2003... Question: When does a decade seem like 700 years? Answer: When one considers the evolution of public awareness of life in the womb over the past 10 years. In the 1300s, a new life was judged to have begun when a living, breathing baby...

Abortion Statistics and Trends over the Past Thirty Years Out of the Long Dark Night.
January 1, 2003... While the number of abortions skyrocketed when abortion was legalized in 1973, peaking at 1.6 million in 1990, fortunately the annual totals have since steadily declined. Today, that death toll is believed to be in the neighborhood of 1.3...

THE BATTLE AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE.
January 1, 2003... The struggle to prevent assisted suicide from becoming perceived as a legitimate, not to say legal medical treatment increased in intensity in the year 2002. Like most moral crises facing us, it looks to become even more pronounced in the...