National Right to Life News articles from March 2001

National Right to Life News archives from March 2001

ACTION ALERT: PHONE CALLS, E-MAILS NEEDED IN OPPOSITION TO McCAIN-FEINGOLD.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The U.S. Senate will begin debate on the McCain-Feingold bill on March 19. Please take immediate action to encourage calls and e-mails to all U.S. senators -- and especially, Republican senators -- in opposition to the McCain-Feingold bill. ...

Biskind Convicted of Manslaughter for Botched Abortion.(John Biskind and Carol Stuart-Schadoff guilty in death of LouAnne Herron)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Three years after LouAnne Herron bled to death from a botched abortion, a Phoenix, Arizona, jury convicted abortionist John Biskind of manslaughter February 20. Biskind tore a two-inch gash in Herron's uterus during the April 17, 1998,...

McCain's Book Club: The Arizona Senator Finds Himself in a Pro-Abortion Book.(John McCain and Barbara Boxer's endorsement of Richard North Patterson's novel Protect and Defend)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This commentary appeared in a slightly different form on nationalreview.com, February 7, 2001. Reproduced with permission. John McCain is hawking a book of pro-abortion propaganda to his colleagues. Surprised? Don't be. He's the hero of the...

Protecting Free Speech Against McCain/Feingold-Like Laws.(National Right to Life Committee)
March 1, 2001... "The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow creatures, and of acting in common with them. The right of association therefore appears to me almost as...

TALLY OF DADE COUNTY "UNDERVOTE" SUPPORTS BUSH WIN.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 1, 2001... Depending on where you live and how eager your local paper was to report results the editors may have found displeasing, you perhaps do not know that a study of the notorious "undervotes" in South Florida counties reveals that had they all been...

Why NRLC Strongly Opposes McCain-Feingold and Shays-Meehan Bills.(National Right to Life Committee's Douglas Johnson addresses Coalition Press Conference for Free Speech About Politicians)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Editor's note. The following is a statement delivered by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson at a Coalition Press Conference for Free Speech About Politicians. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is a federation of 50 state...

NRLC and Others Fight McCain-Feingold Restrictions on Free Speech About Politicians.(National Right to Life Committee)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (March 8)--The U.S. Senate will spend the second half of March in a wide-open debate on the McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" bill, which is strongly opposed by NRLC and many other citizen groups. Debate on the measure...

Prenatal Tests Target Unborn Babies with Down Syndrome.(JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association reports on test reliability)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... During pregnancy, women undergo many tests to ensure the health of the baby and mother, screening for problems such as gestational diabetes and high blood pressure. However, unborn children are also tested for nonfatal, less severe problems....

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DEAD [OR MAIMED] WOMAN.(investigations following failed abortions)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 1, 2001... The details were so gruesome, the behavior so bizarre, the indifference to human life so astonishing that it took an entire month to try abortionist John Biskind and his assistant for the 1998 death of LouAnne Herron at the now-closed A-Z...

FAITHFUL AND WORTHY.(Tina Spell)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 1, 2001... If the examination of abortion's brutality and indifference which is the unhappy subject of the second editorial on this page represents one end of the abortion continuum, I hope what is illustrated in the following loving tribute to one brave...

DEVASTATING SIDE EFFECTS ACCOMPANY FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... As NRL News goes to press, a horrific report in the March 8 edition of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) rips to shreds the myth that brain tissue taken from aborted babies possesses almost magical powers to cure an...

Twin Babies Aborted Two Months Apart in "Botched" Abortion.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Suffering from uncontrollable crying and haunting visions, a California woman won a lawsuit against a Planned Parenthood clinic for a 1997 "botched abortion" that left one of her twin unborn children alive. The second baby was aborted more than...

At your service.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... "Hear ye, hear ye! National Right to Life Committee has appointed Holly Miller as Field Coordinator to humbly serve the state and local affiliates of National Right to Life and to assist in establishing new chapters." Well, the...

Ten years minimum.(Robert Latimer 's sentence)
March 1, 2001... Knowing that everything Robert Latimer said about the child he murdered was false, the Supreme Court sent him to jail. Editor's note. This first appeared in Report Magazine, which can be found at www.report.com. It is reprinted with the...

Grandmother Devastated by Death of Makayla Rose.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Editor's note. This first appeared in the March 8, 2000, edition of The Grand Island, Nebraska, Independent. "A cry was heard at Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation: Rachel bewailing her children; no comfort for her; since they are no...

Fear of "Burden" Major Reason for Oregon Assisted Suicides.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Sixty-three percent of the 27 people whose suicides were legally assisted under Oregon law in 2000 said they did so because they feared being a burden to family, friends, and other caregivers, according to the official annual report by the...

"McCAIN-FEINGOLD"--AN ATTACK ON YOUR RIGHTS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The misguided "reformers" have struck again: Senators John McCain (R-Az.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wi.) have introduced the "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001" (S.27). The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law E abridging the...

PROUDLY PRO-LIFE AWARDS DINNER TO HONOR FR. FRANKPAVONE, LAWRENCE GARVEY.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Reverend Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, has been active in the pro-life movement for a quarter of a century. Ordained a priest by John Cardinal O'Connor in 1988, he served as a parish priest and taught theology at St....

Life Issues in the Americas Spotlight on Cuba.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Fidel Castro's dictatorial grip on this island nation has done more than the widely reported devastation of the economy and demoralization of the people. According to the Communist Cuban government's own numbers, an extraordinarily high six out...

Med schools may have been intimidated by survey.(National Abortion Federation)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... After bitterly complaining for years that the number of obstetrics and gynecology residency programs that provide abortion training is declining, abortion industry representatives are now singing a different tune. They are touting the results...

SOUTH CAROLINA ABORTION CLINIC REGULATIONS WILL STAND.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Concluding a fight begun in 1993, the United States Supreme Court without comment has refused to block a set of abortion clinic regulations enacted by the South Carolina legislature. By refusing to hear the complaint filed by four South...

STATE LEGISLATION FUTURE BRIGHT.(interview with director of state legislation resembles Mary Spaulding Balch)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2001... When state legislatures are in session, trying to squeeze a half-hour out of Mary Spaulding Balch's hectic schedule for an interview is a formidable challenge. For during those months, NRLC's director of state legislation resembles a whirling...

"Advise termination of pregnancy".(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Editor's note. This essay first appeared in the January 18 edition of The Times, the daily newspaper of Shreveport, Louisiana. "Advise termination of pregnancy." These words were written on the medical records only a few hours after my wife...

Fordham University Hosts Jewish-Christian Conference On Life Issues April 24 in New York City.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Christian and Jewish scholars, religious leaders, and students will come together April 24 at Fordham University, New York, for what promises to be a lively dialogue to explore how the Jewish community can work with Christians in affirming the...