National Right to Life News articles from July 2003

National Right to Life News archives from July 2003

ACTION ALERT: Focus Public Attention on Obstruction of the Unborn Victims Bill in the U.S. Senate!
July 1, 2003... All NRLC affiliates and other pro-life groups and citizens should promptly call their senators' offices and urge immediate approval of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, or "Laci and Conner's Law" (S. 1019). All senators' offices can be...

Online Suicide Propaganda Blamed in More Deaths.
July 1, 2003... Throughout history when suicide is approved of and promoted for "a few," invariably emotionally vulnerable individuals consider themselves candidates as well. The result is "copy cat" suicides or "suicide clusters." The modern combination of...

Opposition to resisting suicide remains AMA policy.(American Medical Association maintains position on assisting suicide)
July 1, 2003... Still another attempt to reverse the American Medical Associ-ation's (AMA) long-standing position that assisting suicide is not a legitimate medical practice was thwarted last month. The AMA House of Delegates, at its annual meeting in Chicago,...

Building a culture of life.(remarks of President Bush in his video shown at the National Right to Life Convention)(Transcript)
July 1, 2003... Editor's note. The following are the remarks of President Bush in his video shown to the NRLC Convention in St. Louis. Thank you all very much. I am pleased to be included in the National Right to Life annual convention. All of you...

State & Private Sector Too! ATTENTION ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: A "PAIN-FREE" OPPORTUNITY TO HELP EDUCATE A NATION.
July 1, 2003... Opportunity is just around the corner, a chance to help expand vitally important pro-life educational programs through contributions to the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). As the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund has done each...

Brain-injured Arkansas man speaks for first time in 19 years.
July 1, 2003... An Arkansas man regained full consciousness and spoke for the first time since a 1984 car crash left him in a coma-like state. Terry Wallis, now 39, said his first words in 19 years on June 12 - -"Mom," "Pepsi," and "milk." "There's really...

31st annual NRL Convention pro-lifers celebrate 4th of July with "I am an American" .(Aborted mothers: raising the death toll of "therapeutic" cloning.)
July 1, 2003... Proudly declaring that the unborn are Americans too, over 1,000 pro-lifers gathered to-gether the 4th of July weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, in a three-day celebration that blended education, fellowship, with a renewed dedication to the cause...

Senate Republican Leadership Seeks Action on Unborn Victims of Violence Act, But Democrats Resist.(includes list of information resources )
July 1, 2003... WASHINGTON (July 12, 2003) - - Senate Democratic leaders have been obstructing progress of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA, S. 1019) through behind-the-scenes delaying tactics - - even as Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle has been...

A Voice That Will Not Be Silenced.(delgates at a pro-life conference affirm their commitment)
July 1, 2003... "We know that these challenges can be overcome, because history moves in the direction of justice. The evils of slavery were accepted and unchanged for centuries. Yet, eventually, the human heart would not abide them. There is a voice of...

Maryland House of Delegates Hopeful to Head Up Black Americans for Life.(Interview)
July 1, 2003... National Right to Life's new Black Americans for Life (BAL) director, Day Gardner, sees education as BAL's primary objective. "We need to make all African Americans aware of the horrible effect abortion has on the Black community," Ms....

Florida Judge Rules That Baby Should Live.
July 1, 2003... Florida Circuit Judge Lawrence R. Kirkwood has adopted the recommendations of the guardian of a pregnant mentally retarded woman who had been raped that her baby be carried to term. Patti Jarrell was appointed in May to be the guardian for the...

Out of the woodwork college right-to-life movement visible on campuses everywhere.
July 1, 2003... St. Louis - - At the recent National Right to Life Convention held here, dozens of college students and chapter leaders from across the country nestled in for a workshop entitled "Campus Connections." The intent was to drive home the point that...

30 Years Later Southern Baptists and Roe v. Wade.
July 1, 2003... The Southern Baptist Convention, holding its annual meeting in Phoenix in June, passed with virtual unanimity a resolution reaffirming Southern Baptists' deep conviction that the "Bible affirms that the unborn baby is a person bearing the image...

Pro-life news in brief.(Dutch abortion ship visits pro-life Poland )(Court hears appeal of abortion-breast cancer advertising suit)(Appeals court orders judge to set date for Terry Schindler-Schiavo's death)(Australia will soon grant licenses for stem-cell research )(California woman bleeds to death after abortion )
July 1, 2003... Dutch Abortion Ship Visits Pro-Life Poland The abortion ship launched by Dutch pro-abortion group Women on Waves caused a huge controversy in June when it docked in the pro-life country of Poland and brought Polish women into international...

Poll data trending strongly in favor of life.
July 1, 2003... Both too little and too much can be made of polling data. After all, there are polls well constructed and conducted, and polls that are rigged to obtain a preordained result. But when virtually every poll on abortion says the same thing - -...

More signs of a pro-life shift in public opinion.
July 1, 2003... The support for abortion on demand continues to erode. According to data collected by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the number of abortions peaked in 1990 at about 1.6 million. A series of opinion polls by the Gallup Organization shows that...

A renewed sense of urgency.(the Hispanic community is an untapped resource of huge dimensions)
July 1, 2003... On June 18, 2003, the Census Bureau announced that Hispanics are now the United States' largest minority. This demographic milestone happened more quickly than had been previously forecast. As was evidenced at this year's National Right to Life...

Abortion linked to subsequent premature births.
July 1, 2003... Women who are informed know of abortion's link to breast cancer, to infertility, and to future ectopic pregnancy. Now there is strong evidence that an abortion substantially increases the likelihood of subsequent premature births. "Induced...

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2003 "does it show one victim, or two?".
July 1, 2003... Editor's note. The following testimony was presented by Tracy Marciniak before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives on July 8, 2003. The photo referred to by Mrs. Marciniak appears on...

"New Set of Priorities" Includes Lesser Diminishing Support for Abortion.
July 1, 2003... A pro-abortion feminist organization headed by former Planned Parenthood President Faye Wattleton has produced a report that strongly indicates a continuing decline in support among women for abortion. Produced by the Center for the Advancement...