National Right to Life News articles from June 2004

National Right to Life News archives from June 2004

NRLC OPPOSES RATIONING, PRICE CONTROLS, FOR LIFESAVING DRUGS.(National Right to Life Committee)
June 1, 2004... Government-imposed drug price controls in Medicare would compel rationing and gravely endanger development of lifesaving drugs. Unfortunately, pressure is now building in Congress to add drug price controls in the name of allowing government...

Police to Investigate Abortion of 28-Week-Old Baby.
June 1, 2004... Under pressure, police in Hertfordshire, England, are reluctantly opening a criminal investigation into the abortion of 28-week-old baby diagnosed with a bilateral cleft lip and palate, brought to light by Church of England curate Joanna...

"You Can Fairly Judge the Character of Society by How It Treats the Weak, the Vulnerable, the Most Easily Forgotten".(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... Editor's note. For the most part, commencement addresses come and go, making nary a ripple. I remember the speech at my own college graduation mostly for the weather: the heavens opened up about two-thirds through a thoroughly arid speech. ...

Bill Highlighting Unborn Child's Pain Introduced by Pro-Life Leaders in Congress.
June 1, 2004... WASHINGTON (May 31, 2004) - - Pro-life leaders in Congress, with the strong backing of National Right to Life, have introduced a major new legislative initiative that throws a spotlight on the pain inflicted on unborn children by abortion. ...

Illustrator Puts a Face on the Unborn.
June 1, 2004... Editor's note. This first appeared in the National Catholic Register and is reprinted with the author's permission. SCRANTON, Pa. - - Illustrator Gary Cangemi is not a cartoon, but he felt like one when he conceived his pro-life comic...

EDITORIALS; "And a Big Smile Could Be Discerned".(fetal rights)
June 1, 2004... Although there will be excellent attendance at NRLC's annual convention July 1-3, naturally with a circulation of 360,000+, most readers of this edition of National Right to Life News will not be at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia....

EDITORIALS; Fooling No One.(John F. Kerry)
June 1, 2004... "Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) has begun targeting swing voters and disaffected Republicans in an effort to expand the election battleground, a strategy that includes emphasizing centrist themes on the campaign trail while privately reassuring...

A Primer on "Abortion Distortion".
June 1, 2004... "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Mark Twain "We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves." Eric Hoffer It may not be particularly generous on my part, but on those rare...

Scholarships Go Long Way in Involving Pro-Life Youth in Movement; Student Scholarships Win Big in Wyoming.
June 1, 2004... Pro-life churches are a great place to raise money for a project like this, because, as Sanchez points out, "each [church-goer] may contribute but a bit and know they have helped in the fight against abortion." Regardless of how you raise the...

Stark Differences Make for Clear Contrast Between Bush and Kerry.(abortion law)
June 1, 2004... In the 2000 presidential election, only 51.2% of the voting-age population in America chose to take a few minutes out of their schedules to vote in an election so close that its final outcome was not determined for 35 days afterwards. This...

The President Understood What John Kerry Did Not -- Our Family Lost Two Victims.
June 1, 2004... On January 7, I was seeing my grandson, Landon, for the very first time. Landon was moving around in an ultrasound image on the TV screen in our home in Stamping Ground, Kentucky. Our 18-year-old daughter, Ashley, was 21 weeks pregnant, and...

Study from Norway finds difficulties two years later; Abortion's Lingering Psychological After-Effects Documented.
June 1, 2004... A Norwegian study that compared the psychological reactions of women who had miscarriages to women who'd had abortions found that the women having abortions had significantly more avoidance issues two years after the event than women having...

Pro-Life News In Brief.
June 1, 2004... Missouri Women's Right to Know Law Enforced Missouri women seeking abortions will have 24 hours to consider their decision after receiving information about their unborn babies and the abortion procedure as a 2003 Women's Right to Know law...

Ninth Circuit Panel Rebuffs Ashcroft.(John Ashcroft; euthanasia)
June 1, 2004... A divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled May 26 that the federal government must facilitate assisted suicide in Oregon by authorizing the use of federally controlled narcotics and other dangerous drugs to kill patients. The 2-1...

A Dose of Sober Realism in Oregon.(euthanasia)
June 1, 2004... Editor's note. The following takes on additional urgency in light of the decision by an appeals court panel that U.S. Attorney General cannot sanction or hold Oregon doctors criminally liable for prescribing lethal dosages of drugs, under...

An Act of Recognition.(abortion law)
June 1, 2004... A newly introduced bill that proposes to inform a woman of the capacity of her unborn child to feel pain during an abortion will help bring American law into the modern era of embryology. Scientists and physicians who have been aware of the...

Two more lawsuits yet to be decided; Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.
June 1, 2004... As expected, a U.S. District judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton struck down the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act signed into law last November by President George W. Bush. Handed down June 1, Judge Phyllis Hamilton's decision...

FROM THE PRESIDENT; A STARK CONTRAST.
June 1, 2004... Lately, the obligations of Catholic legislators with regard to the right to life have become a topic of lively public discussion. Catholics in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives comprise about 28% of the membership: 14...

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON NRLC'S OPPOSITION TO DRUG PRICE CONTROLS.(National Right to Life Committee)
June 1, 2004... Why is a pro-life organization concerned about price controls for drugs? Since its inception, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has been committed to protecting the right to life from conception until natural death, which means...

An Inside View of Catholics for a Free Choice.
June 1, 2004... Catholics for a Free Choice has been much in the news lately - - most of the time defending presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry. We are sure to see more of this group between now and the November election. It is busy,...

Gov. Bush Appeals Latest Schindler-Schiavo Ruling.
June 1, 2004... Editor's note. As NRL News was going to press, the 2nd District Court of Appeals granted a motion from the husband of Terri Schindler-Schiavo to send her case directly to the Florida Supreme Court, bypassing a lower-court review. It is up to...

"Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness - - and Liberalism - - to the Women of America".
June 1, 2004... While it may seem to pro-lifers as if the media elite meet in dark, smoke-filled rooms to plot how best to tilt media coverage as far to the pro-abortion side as possible, if we are to believe some insiders that's simply not the case. What does...