National Right to Life News articles from June 2001

National Right to Life News archives from June 2001

Actions Requested.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... - Please write to your U.S. House member. Urge him or her to support extension of the 1995 ban on federal funding of any research in which human embryos are harmed (the "Dickey Amendment"). Also, encourage your representative to support The...

Arkansas Supreme Court Declares Unborn Babies "Persons".(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Unborn babies in Arkansas can now be treated as legal "persons" in wrongful-death lawsuits, the state Supreme Court ruled May 10. The decision came in a case in which a mother and her full-term unborn baby died during delivery, but lower...

Pro-Life News in Brief.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... World's Tiniest Premature Baby Born in England The world's smallest surviving premature baby, born in London 16 weeks early and weighing only 21.14 ounces, is now six months old and is a healthy nine pounds. Christopher Williams was born...

Abortion and Breast Cancer Oxford Group Adds New Wrinkle to Disinformation.
June 1, 2001... NRL News readers are likely as familiar with the many and varied forms of public denial of the abortion-breast cancer link (ABC link) as they are with the link itself. As night follows day, knee-jerk reactions follow whenever evidence for the...

Clear Choice in Race for Virginia Governor.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Pro-lifers in Virginia know they have a difficult challenge ahead of them as they get ready to elect a new governor this November. However, they're very excited about the prospects of their pro-life candidate, Mark Earley. Mark Earley...

Congress to Vote This Summer on Killing Human Embryos.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Congress may vote this summer on two issues relating to the protection of human embryos. Many members of Congress are under pressure from powerful special-interest groups, including the biotechnology industry, to allow the creation and killing...

Reflections of a College Kid.(right-to-life activist on preventing burnout)(Brief Article)(Column)
June 1, 2001... Two items of business as I begin this month. First, for those of you wondering about my best friend's term paper on stem cell research and class presentation: we got an "A"!!! Okay, well, maybe not "we," but my best friend did. And the...

U.S. House Upholds Bush Policy Against Aid to Pro-Abort Groups.(United States House of Representatives, no funding to be provided to organizations that perform abortions or work to legalize abortions in foreign countries)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (June 10) - - By a very thin margin, the U.S. House of Representatives on May 16 blocked an attack on a vital pro-life policy adopted by President George W. Bush. By a vote of 218 to 210, the House affirmed the president's...

Another Dimension of Death.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... As fate would have it (and I swear this is true), only moments after I sat down to write on the fateful case of Robert Wendland my son came by to ask me to lend him a hand. David informed me (with a deadline 12 hours away!) that his AP history...

I Will Always Remember.(Tekakwitha Conference)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... There are relatively few events in our lives that have such a profound effect on us that they become part of our daily remembrances. Hardly a day goes by without something happening that reminds me of my recent experiences with our Native...

Chapter Profile Lynchburg Chapter of Virginia Society for Human Life Nation's First Local Chapter Celebrates 30th Anniversary.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Lynchburg, VA - - Thunderstorms lit up the May 22 Lynchburg skies much as they had 30 years before when local pro-lifers held the formational meeting for the first local chapter of the first statewide right-to-life organization, Virginia...

Wendland v. Wendland: Pressing the Euthanasia Envelope.
June 1, 2001... The lives of virtually all the mentally incapacitated adults in California who have not made their wishes clear literally hang in the balance, awaiting the decision of the California Supreme Court in a case that will determine whether Robert...

Abortion Rights by Any Means.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... For many years, a fervent priority of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been to protect and expand abortion rights, thereby leaving defenseless the most vulnerable human beings, the not yet born, each of them with his or her own...

Memories of Nazi Past Stirred by Debates Over Embryo Research and Euthanasia.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The German government is in the midst of a remarkable ongoing public debate over proposals to eliminate prohibitions against lethal research on human embryonic stem cells. A monumentally important debate in any context, the fierce discussion is...

CHANGING THE CULTURE OF DEATH.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... "I would like to buy $3.00 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to buy a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough to love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I...

Priests for Life Coordinates Ad Campaign with Local Dioceses.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Fr. Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, recently announced a new ad campaign designed to reach out to women and men who are suffering because of a personal abortion experience. The ads will utilize TV, radio, billboards, and print...

Spotlight on the Americas Euthanasia in Colombia.
June 1, 2001... Editor's note. Much press coverage has been given to the 1997 decision of Colombia's highest court that seemingly legalized euthanasia in that South American country. NRLC's director of Hispanic Outreach explains that things are not so clear....

Data re-evaluation shows abortion associated with increased murder rate Abortion Link to Crime Decrease Debunked.
June 1, 2001... The May 2001 issue of Harvard University's Quarterly Journal of Economics featured the final version of a controversial paper claiming that legal abortion accounted for as much as half of the reduction in crime during the 1990s. The paper...

National Abortion Federation Launches RU486 Ad Campaign.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Pick up a copy of your favorite women's magazine sometime this summer and you may be surprised at what you find. Starting in July, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) will be running advertisements for RU486 in some of America's most popular...

PLEASE E-MAIL OR WRITE REDBOOK MAGAZINE TO EXPRESS YOUR THANKS.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Feminist Majority, a major player in the effort to bring RU486 to the U.S., has launched an online petition drive against Redbook Magazine for refusing to carry an advertisement by the National Abortion Federation promoting the abortion...

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput Says No to Pro-Abortion Speaker Native American Archbishop Takes Strong Pro-Life Action.(invitation to Congresswoman Diana DeGette cancelled due to her views on abortion)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... DENVER, CO - - An invitation to pro-abortion Congresswoman Diana DeGette to speak at a May 6 awards dinner sponsored by the Denver Archdiocesan Housing Committee caused quite a stir in the archdiocese. So Archbishop Charles Chaput took...

What Do the Abortion Numbers Tell Us?(abortion statistics from the Centers for Disease Control)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Editor's note:Abortion statistics are notoriously slow to come in. But these 1997 numbers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are extremely helpful in telling us who is getting abortions in what setting. - Differential Racial Impact...