National Right to Life News articles from January 2004

National Right to Life News archives from January 2004

ACTION ALERT: Urge the Senate to Pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act NOW!
January 1, 2004... WASHINGTON (January 5, 2004) - - NRLC and other pro-life forces are pushing for action in the U.S. Senate early in 2004 on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (S. 1019). So far, 40 of the 100 senators have cosponsored the bill - - but the...

An Important Letter to Each and Every Member of National Right to Life.
January 1, 2004... This month, every member of National Right to Life will receive not only this newspaper, but a letter with a 2004 National Right to Life membership card. Please know that the card indicates that you are one of the truly special people in the...

PRO-LIFECHALLENGE Campaign Finance "Reform" Complying and Living With McCain-Feingold: The Big Picture.
January 1, 2004... "This is a sad day for the freedom of speech," declared Justice Scalia in his dissent to the December 10 decision of the United States Supreme Court in McConnell v. FEC. The Court had just upheld nearly all of the McCain-Feingold legislation...

PRO-LIFECHALLENGE Federal Legislation EUTHANASIA BATTLES IN 2003 AND 2004.
January 1, 2004... The year 2003 saw a massive victory on the euthanasia front against Medicare rationing and national attention to the averted - - for the present - - starvation of Terri Schindler-Schiavo. 2004 is likely to see battles at least two states over...

Control of House and Senate at Stake As Well THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE IS ON!
January 1, 2004... The race is on! As I write this story, it is only a little over a week before the first caucus in Iowa and two weeks before the first primary in New Hampshire. Collectively, the results of caucuses and primaries over the next couple of...

PRO-LIFECHALLENGE Aftermath of Partial-Birth Abortion Life, Death, and Partial-Birth Abortion.
January 1, 2004... Editor's note: On November 26, 2003, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a "guest editorial" attacking the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and attacking President Bush and the Congress for enacting it. The essay was written by Monica J....

PRO-LIFE RESOURCES College Campuses Pro-life Activism Booming on Nation's Campuses Marginalized Majority Arising.
January 1, 2004... When news seeps out that the median age for a member of the old-line militantly pro-abortion NOW is 61, it shouldn't surprise us that the core components of the pro-abortion coalition are spending a lot more time and effort on recruiting...

31 Years of Hard Work Pays Off.
January 1, 2004... Thirty-one years ago on January 22, 1973, the pro-abortionists celebrated their complete and final victory - - or so they thought. The Supreme Court had settled the abortion question once and for all. It had struck down every protective...

"Meeting the Challenges of 2004 With Determination and Creativity"Life Challenge: Federal Legislatio Senate Remains Major Obstacle Following Pro-Life Win on Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, Other Battles Loom in Congress.
January 1, 2004... Congressional Scorecards The votes of members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on key pro-life issues are collected in "scorecards" that are posted on the NRLC website at www.nrlc.org, in the Legislative Action Center....

PRO-LIFECHALLENGE Federal Legislation Key Facts on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (S. 1019, H.R. 1997).
January 1, 2004... Updated January 5, 2004 For more information on unborn victims of violence (or "fetal homicide" laws), visit the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/ Unborn_victims/index.html. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (also known as "Laci...

EDITORIALS THE TIPPING POINT.
January 1, 2004... Just before I sat down to record these thoughts, I chanced to ask my trusty assistant if she knew how many people had placed orders for the Special January Commemorative Issue. The number she gave me was dramatically higher than what she had...

EDITORIALS A Sad, Sad Day.
January 1, 2004... "This is a sad day for the freedom of speech. Who could have imagined that the same court which, within the past four years, has sternly disapproved of restrictions upon such inconsequential forms of expression as virtual child pornography,...

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Utilizing the Resources Needed to win: Grassroots Strength NRLC's Grassroots Emphasis Is Winning the Day Organizational Development, Outreach Departments Offer Key Resources to Strengthening Movement at Local Level.
January 1, 2004... Although we don't think about it often, all public policy organizations, including NRLC, blend efforts to communicate to larger numbers of people with more focused, one-on-one initiatives. The particular recipe adopted depends on an...

PRO-LIFE RESOURCES NRLC Chapters 10 Things Chapters Should Do Starting Now: The 2004 Countdown.
January 1, 2004... It's 2004 already! No, I can't believe it either. After a break for Christmas, it's back to doing everything we can to help unborn children and their mothers. There is much at stake over the next 11 months. Unlike our opponents, we do not...

Pro-Life News in Brief.
January 1, 2004... Humanity of Unborn Not Part of Informed Consent, Judge Rules A New Jersey judge ruled in November that an abortionist is not required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the unborn child is a human being. The case reached Judge Amy...

PRO-LIFE RESOURCES An Influx of New Members Young Families, African-Americans Swell Pro-Life Ranks.
January 1, 2004... Ernie Ohlhoff is a 30-year veteran of the Pro-Life Movement. In his capacity as NRLC director of outreach, he has his finger on the pulse of the Movement about as well as anyone this side of Jacki Ragan, NRLC director of state organizational...

PRO-LIFE RESOURCES Information Technology The NRLC Website: An Invaluable Asset to the Grassroots.
January 1, 2004... For me, taking up the pen (or, in my case, tapping on the keyboard) is a daunting task. But there are important developments I'd like to share with grassroots pro-lifers. It is no exaggeration to say that 2003 was a historic year for...

Adding One More New Year's Resolution.
January 1, 2004... When the clock struck 12, did you think of New Year's resolutions you may have made? Let me suggest a unique resolution to add a few weeks later to go with the perennials such as losing weight or stopping smoking. Did you know that...

FROM THE PRESIDENT 2004 IS A PIVOTAL YEAR.
January 1, 2004... I will remain in this position [as NARAL president] through the end of April 2004 so that I can work with our members and allies to lead the March for Freedom of Choice that will bring a historic number of pro-choice Americans to Washington,...

PRO-LIFE RESOURCES Alternatives New Publication Tells Women's Stories, Offers Alternatives to Abortion.
January 1, 2004... In the month of December, the 375,000+ subscribers to National Right to Life News received a special pre-Christmas present in their mailboxes. In the middle of the December 2003 edition of the "right to life newspaper of record" was a beautiful...

Appeals Court Panel Upholds Ohio Law.
January 1, 2004... A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has reversed a lower-court decision and upheld Ohio House Bill 351. Ohio abortionist Martin Haskell and his clinic had challenged the state's second attempt at enacting...

PRO-LIFE CHALLENGE Biomedical Ethics The Radical Depth and Scope of the Cloning Agenda.
January 1, 2004... Ever since embryonic stem cells were first extracted from human embryos in 1998, biotechnologists, abetted by a compliant media, have promised they would soon lead to miraculous medical cures for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and...

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