National Right to Life News articles from March 2002

National Right to Life News archives from March 2002

Urgent Congressional Alert: U.S. Senate to Debate Human Cloning Ban.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (March 6) -- One of the most important pro-life debates ever will occur in the U.S. Senate in April. The Senate will debate whether to approve legislation to ban the cloning of human embryos. Please urge ALL U.S. senators to...

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.(Review)
March 1, 2002... Reviewed by Laura Echevarria I remember when CBS News yanked Bernard Goldberg off the air for a few months following his 1996 Wall Street Journal opinion piece on media bias. Then-NRLC Communications Director Michele Allen and I discussed...

Bush Administration Proposes Total Ban on Human Cloning.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... By Dave Andrusko Although it was early in discussions that could go on for perhaps years, the United States immediately made clear it desires a "global and comprehensive ban" on human cloning and all experimentation involving human...

Unique Dolls Show Humanity of Unborn Babies.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Pro-lifers have long known that hearts and minds can be changed when people hold models of unborn babies and touch the tiny fingers and toes. A New York artist has now taken that concept a step further--creating poseable, lifelike dolls of...

Historic Senate Debate on Cloned Human Embryos Delayed Until April, As Lobbying Battle On Dueling Bills Heats Up.
March 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (March 6) - - Senator Tom Daschle (SD), the leader of the Senate's one-vote Democratic majority, has postponed until April any Senate action on a bill to ban the cloning of human embryos. Daschle had earlier promised that the...

"But for the Grace...".(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... "The children I aborted will never appear in our family photos or at family gatherings. They will never be there for my son to love, know, play with, call when he needs someone, look to for guidance.... So the faces of my aborted children haunt...

"Human Cloning...Unethical in Itself and Dangerous as a Precedent".(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Editor's note. The following are excerpts from a speech delivered February 26 by Carolyn Willson, the U.S. delegate to the United Nation's Committee on an International Convention Against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings. Mr....

House Approves Bill to Restrict Free Speech About Politicians.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (March 7) - - The U.S. House of Representatives on February 14 passed the Shays-Meehan "campaign finance reform" bill (HR 2356), 240-189. (See roll call, page 24.) NRLC strongly opposes the legislation, because it would place...

Abortion and Breast Cancer: Taking It to Court--and Winning.
March 1, 2002... It's a fact of life these days in the western world--and especially in the U.S.--that sooner or later, serious issues end up in court. After all, Roe v. Wade is not the name of a law, it's the name of a lawsuit. Early this year, in...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2002... Dear Editor, Ernest Ohlhoff's excellent piece in the Jan. 2002 issue of NRL News, dealing with Abortion and the Pulpit, addressed the reluctance of many pastors to preach on abortion. Some time ago a close priest friend of mine told me...

North Carolina Abortion Rate Shows Steady Decline.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2002... Between 1990 and 2000, the number of abortions in North Carolina declined steadily, dropping from 34,565 to 26,612, or 23 percent. Although experts could not point to a specific reason for the decrease, pro-lifers believe the statistics reflect...

PRO-LIFERS WORKING FEVERISHLY IN STATE LEGISLATURES.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Understandably, most people's attention tends to focus on the national stage where pro-lifers do highly publicized battle in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. But grassroots pro-lifers know that there are 50 state...

Brigham Plans to Open New York Clinic.
March 1, 2002... Abortionist Steven Brigham, who has been the subject of investigations for botched abortions and other violations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, and California, bought a building in Tonawanda, New York, and plans to...

S.C. Lt. Governor Bob Peeler Gets Choose Life Tag across Finish Line.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... COLUMBIA, SC - - What do South Carolina's pro-life Lt. Governor Bob Peeler and the National Association of Stock Car Racing have in common? They both were vital to getting the Choose Life License Plate Bill across the finish line on the final...

Pennsylvania Annual Abortion Stats Released Planned Parenthood Increases Abortions, Pro-Life Agencies Provide Real Choices for Women.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Harrisburg, PA -- The state's Department of Health released the latest annual abortion statistics in January, and they showed that the total number of abortions in Pennsylvania increased in the year 2000 by 3.3%. Previous years had seen sharp...

ASK YOUR SENATORS TO BAN HUMAN EMBRYO FARMS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... On July 31, 2001, the House of Representatives passed by a vote of 265-162 the Human Cloning Prohibition Act (H.R. 2505), co-sponsored by Congressmen Dave Welton (R-Fl.) and Bart Stupak (D-Mi.). Senator Sam Brownback (R-Ks.) introduced an...

PROUDLY PRO-LIFE AWARDS DINNER TO HONOR ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO AND DR. JAMES C. DOBSON.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... On April 30, the National Right to Life Education Trust Fund will host the ninth annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner. Always a special night in which the Trust Fund honors leaders in the right to life movement, this year's two honorees are...

Another Abortion Record at Planned Parenthood.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2002... The colors are bright, the layout bold and contemporary. A picture of a mother and baby graces the inside cover of "Taking Charge of Today, Choosing Our Tomorrow." Yet this is hardly some vibrant celebration of life. This is Planned Parenthood...

"Science Fiction" Successes Humanize Unborn Children.(cardian surgery on the fetus)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Two separate but related surgeries are proving once again the power of ultrasound and skilled physicians to illuminate the humanity of unborn children. When doctors operated on Serena Brown in January, she became the smallest baby ever to...

Chapter Profile: HUMAN LIFE of Seattle Being "Counter-Cultural" to Promote a Culture of Life Part 1: Meeting the Challenge of a Challenging Public.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... As a native of the Great Pacific Northwest, I am often asked how I grew up to be prolife when I hail from "such a liberal place." Pro-abortion politics are as synonymous with my hometown of Seattle as coffee, rain, and my Mariners. In fact,...

Positive Alternative to Euthanasia Share the Care Teaches Team Care for Friends In Need.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The 12 women didn't all know each other; in fact, some of them were total strangers. But they did have one thing in common: Susan. Sitting in that room in New York City, each woman's thoughts centered on how she could help this friend, Susan,...

Licenses to Harvest Stem Cells from Unborn Babies Granted by British Government.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The British government granted licenses March 1 to researchers who want to harvest stem cell lines from embryos originally created for in vitro fertilization treatment. The licenses are the first to be granted under a 2001 law that allows...

I Am Nobody's Anything.
March 1, 2002... Even though we have extinguished the lives of over 41 million unborn children in this country alone, surprisingly few people are aware of the extraordinary pain many, many women endure in the aftermath of the decision to take their child's...