National Right to Life News articles from January 2006

National Right to Life News archives from January 2006

Abortion's Deleterious Effects on Women: Abortion and Breast Cancer.
January 1, 2006... For almost a decade, much of the Medical Establishment has firmly resisted the overwhelming evidence that there is a link between induced abortion and a heightened risk of breast cancer (the ABC link). It has insisted that the worldwide...

A Primer on "Abortion Distortion"-The Myths That Helped Soften Public Opinion and Overturn Protective Abortion Laws.
January 1, 2006... The engine that powers the pro-abortion wrecking machine is a high octane, fuel-injected mythology that is as powerful as it is inaccurate. This faux-history softened public opinion, leveled abortion statutes during the 1960s, and offered...

Pro-Life News in Brief.
January 1, 2006... Adult Stem Cell Treatment Saves Singer Don Ho Hawaiian singer Don Ho announced that his serious heart condition was treated successfully by stem cells derived from his own blood. The 75-year-old performer, best known for his song "Tiny...

Figure is recognized to be hundreds of thousands of abortions too low: CDC Figures Show Slight Abortion Increase for 2002.(Centers for Disease Control)
January 1, 2006... In its annual Abortion Surveillance, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that there were 854,122 legal induced abortions in 2002, an increase of just 637, or 0.1%, over the number reported by the CDC for 2001. The CDC's...

Abortion's Deleterious Effects on Women: Comprehensive Study Provides Convincing Evidence of Psychological Damage.
January 1, 2006... Results of the Canterbury Health and Development Study published in the December edition of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines revealed that young women who aborted were at a significantly higher risk for...

WRONG IN EVERY WAY.
January 1, 2006... "The [abortion] issue was pure poison for the federal judicial system, and especially the Supreme Court. Liberal judges found themselves in the ideologically comfortable but intellectually awkward position of zealously defending Roe, despite...

Cloning Researcher Accused of Falsifying Evidence.(biological research)
January 1, 2006... Embryonic stem cell research proponents are reeling in the wake of allegations that their most prominent and celebrated researcher, South Korea's Hwang Woo-suk, fabricated evidence and violated fundamental scientific procedures, calling into...

Abortion's Deleterious Effects on Women: Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Mortality Rates.
January 1, 2006... As pro-lifers have always said, abortion not only kills an unborn child, it also can, and often does, injure the child's mother in ways that until recently have not been thoroughly explored. That unexamined terrain includes not only depression,...

Refuting the Myths of Abortion History.
January 1, 2006... In a soon to be published book, Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History (Carolina Academic Press, 2006), Villanova Law School Professor Joseph W. Dellapenna convincingly refutes revisionist pseudo-histories of pre-Roe v. Wade abortion law and...

NRLC Affiliate Passed New Hampshire's Law Heard by United States Supreme Court.(National Right to Life Committee )
January 1, 2006... Moving mountains--it was hardly less than that-to pass New Hampshire's parental notice law was just this side of miraculous. You've heard the expression, "I wish I could have been a fly on the wall." I was when the law was enacted against...

Law Will Expand Availability of Umbilical Cord Blood for Treatments.
January 1, 2006... The use of umbilical cord blood stem cells to treat and cure many diseases will be enhanced by the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act, passed by Congress after a seven-month delay and signed by President George W. Bush December 20. ...

Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice by Joan Biskupic (Ecco Books, an imprint of Harper Collins), $26.95.(Review).(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... As a yet-to-be-fully retired Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor's legacy is obviously still up for grabs. But as the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, it seems almost guaranteed that historians will mirror the work of most contemporary...

Over 10,000 more abortions: New Abortion Record at Planned Parenthood in 2004.
January 1, 2006... The full annual report isn't out yet, but an online service report indicates that over a quarter of a million abortions were performed at Planned Parenthood clinics in 2004, a new record for the organization. According to the service...

PUBLIC CONFUSION ABOUT ROE v. WADE AND DOE v. BOLTON.(survey for law for abortion up to three months of pregnancy were illegal)
January 1, 2006... * The 1973 decision [of Roe v. Wade] is so ingrained in public consciousness that most people can recognize the case by its name. [Emphasis added.] Knight Ridder news story, 12/31/05 * Most women in the survey could not name the case that...

Pro-Abortionists Harshly Criticize Roe.
January 1, 2006... It is no surprise that pro-life commentators and legal analysts skewered Roe v. Wade's and Doe v. Bolton's tissue-thin legal analyses. But what is more intriguing is the extent to which "pro-choice" analysts have hammered Justice Harry...

Roe v. Wade: Questions & Answers.(law professors criticisms on abortion case and legal rights of women)
January 1, 2006... Editor's note. Although the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey revised the legal grounding for the "right" to abortion, it remains important to know what Justice Harry Blackmun said in his historic Roe v. Wade decision and its fraternal...

THE ROAD TO ROE AND THE ROOTS OF THE PRO-LIFE AND PRO-CHOICE MOVEMENTS.
January 1, 2006... When abortion emerged as an issue in the 1960s, those who arose to combat the movement that sought first to "reform" and then to repeal the existing abortion laws were struck by two facts. First, that there was controversy over abortion at...

What the Supreme Court Has Said about Abortion.
January 1, 2006... On January 22, 1973, seven of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices turned this country's abortion jurisprudence on its head. In the two court cases decided that day, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, Justices Harry Blackmun, William Brennan,...

WHAT Roe v. Wade SHOULD HAVE SAID (Review); BY Dwight G. Duncan.(What Roe V. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Edited by Professor Jack Balkin of Yale Law School, the book's subtitle is "The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision." Justice Blackmun's 7-2 majority opinion for the United States Supreme Court in Roe...