National Right to Life News articles from July 2005

National Right to Life News archives from July 2005

Incidence of Abortion Declines among American Youth.
July 1, 2005... During the 1990s pro-lifers cheered the substantial decline in America's abortion rate. Indeed, among states consistently reporting data, the number of abortions declined by an impressive 18% between 1990 and 1999. However, during this...

Abortion Poll Results Continue to be Encouraging.
July 1, 2005... After more than 32 years of debating Roe v. Wade (and its companion case Doe v. Bolton), you might think by now that the public would understand the 1973 decisions and (if you believe the media) support their radical holdings. In fact, neither...

Urgent Congressional Alert: Urge Senate to Reject Embryo-Killing Research.
July 1, 2005... WASHINGTON (July 5, 2005) The U.S. Senate is expected to vote around mid-July on a bill that would mandate federal funding of research that requires the killing of human embryos. Such legislation has already passed the U.S. House of...

Pro-Life News in Brief.
July 1, 2005... Unborn Baby Fights to Survive after Mother's Brain Death Weeks after cancer caused the brain death of 26-year-old Susan Torres, the pregnant mother is still being maintained by machines as her unborn baby continues to thrive in her womb....

The First New Justice in 11 Years.
July 1, 2005... I was at the printer, about 20 minutes away from seeing the first copy of the July NRL News roll off the presses, when my assistant called to tell me that Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor had announced her retirement. While...

More United and Stronger Than Ever.
July 1, 2005... It's no exaggeration to say that when a local newspaper that would, figuratively speaking, rather have bamboo shoots stuck under its fingernails than say something favorable about pro-lifers runs a series of very even-handed stories, you...

The Forgotten.
July 1, 2005... Quick, what is missing from this statement: "Women in the United States have aborted over 46 million unborn children since 1973"? Stumped? It's any mention of the husbands/boyfriends of these women who are also the fathers of these unborn...

"There's a Lot of Love Out There".
July 1, 2005... It was within an hour after I posted a web column that casually mentioned the appearance of Terri Schindler-Schiavo's family at NRLC's convention that I received the first of what proved to be many inquiries asking "how did pro-lifers respond?"...

Mission Possible Lives On.
July 1, 2005... "For many National Right to Life Committee leaders, the Minnesota convention will be a homecoming." [Minneapolis] Star Tribune, June 15. By any measure, NRLC's 2005 convention was an unqualified success. The four general sessions and...

A Modest Proposal.
July 1, 2005... Did you see Arlen Specter's justification for subsidizing stem cell research on human embryos? The senator from Pennsylvania noted that "there are some 400,000 of these frozen embryos, which were created for in-vitro fertilization, which...

Moving Knowledge of Euthanasia from the Head to the Heart.
July 1, 2005... Have you ever been somewhere when suddenly you're struck by the impression that something of historical and spiritual significance is unfolding before you? The 2005 National Right to Life Convention in Bloomington, Minnesota, left that...

NTL Celebrates 20th Anniversary.(National Teens for Life)
July 1, 2005... What do chickens with large talons, guys with pies in their faces, and Dr. Seuss have in common? Well... unless you were at the 20th annual National Teens for Life (NTL) convention in Bloomington, Minnesota, June 16-18, your answer is...

O'Connor's Retirement Means First Supreme Court Vacancy in Eleven Years.
July 1, 2005... WASHINGTON (July 5)--When Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a 24-year veteran of the High Court, unexpectedly announced her retirement, her impending departure touched off a media frenzy of speculation. Her announcement came...

DEEPER INTO THE DARKNESS OF "PRIVACY".(Terri Schiavo)
July 1, 2005... Discussions following release of the Terri Schiavo autopsy report have been thoughtful, caring and deep, from people on all sides of the issue. That she was irreversibly brain dead and blind, in a "persistent vegetative state," is now beyond...

2006 Races Begin to Take Shape.
July 1, 2005... Congressional primaries will begin in eight months, with the general election still 16 months away. However, several congressional races are already taking shape, with candidates declaring and campaigns well under way. To date, four...

New Rap Video Tells Pro-Life Story.
July 1, 2005... A scared young woman lies on a table in an abortion clinic, waiting as the nurse prepares the instruments that will kill her two-month-old unborn baby. Suddenly she feels a connection to her child and gets to her feet, stumbling out of the...

U.S. House Committee Rejects Amendment To Erect Barrier to Human Cloning in the U.S.
July 1, 2005... WASHINGTON (June 29, 2005) ? An amendment to enact a barrier to human cloning in the United States was rejected by the powerful Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 16. The committee rejected, 29-36, an...

Roe's and Doe's Deadly Impact Explored.
July 1, 2005... Rich in symbolism and substance, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights held a hearing June 23 on the impact of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that deserved far wider attention than...

Silent Hero.(mothers)
July 1, 2005... Jessica Lynch. Pat Tillman. Tommy Hamill. Everyone loves a hero. Nobody knows this more than the media. But there's another hero among us. A silent one. One who won't be grabbing headlines anytime soon. But what she has done deserves the...

But Not Miscarriage or Stillbirth: Study Shows Abortion Increases Risk for Substance Abuse in Future Pregnancy.
July 1, 2005... Are women who have an abortion more likely to abuse substances in a later pregnancy? Yes, according to a study published in the most recent issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology. By including women who have experienced other...

She Didn't Need an Ultrasound...
July 1, 2005... Editor's note. This column, written by Brenda Fastabend, president of Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL), first appeared in the August 2004 edition of Life Saver, VSHL's newsletter. A tiny baby weighing a little more than three pounds...

Virginia AG asks Full Court to Hear Case.
July 1, 2005... Two weeks after a divided three-judge panel upheld a lower court ruling that overturned Virginia's Partial-Birth Abortion Infanticide Act, the state attorney general filed a petition asking all 13 judges from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of...