National Right to Life News articles from March 2005

National Right to Life News archives from March 2005

UN Committee Endorses Anti-Cloning Resolution.
March 1, 2005... In a major triumph almost completely ignored by the major media, the United Nations' deadlock over cloning was broken February 18 when the UN's Legal Committee voted 71-35 with 43 abstentions to accept a declaration calling on all nations to...

URGENT ALERT! URGE CONGRESS TO ACT TO HELP SAVE TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO AND OTHERS LIKE HER.
March 1, 2005... URGENTLY ask your U.S. senators and representative to support the "Federal Terri's Law," to give the Schindler family access to a federal court to argue for the life of their daughter, Terri Schindler-Schiavo. Representative Dave Weldon,...

Assisted Suicide Proposal Returns to California.
March 1, 2005... Assemblywoman Patty Berg has introduced legislation to legalize assisted suicide in California. If passed, it would make California only the second state to legalize assisted suicide, after Oregon. Meanwhile, the United States Supreme Court...

Risk Factors For Breast Cancer: Abortion, HRT, and the Double Standard.(research methods)
March 1, 2005... With any given disease, the medical research community establishes what are risk factors and what are protective factors through the science known as epidemiology. During the past year, it was big news that the prolonged use of combination...

FEDERAL BILL COULD SAVE TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO, OTHERS, FROM STARVATION AND DEHYDRATION.
March 1, 2005... Despite seemingly final defeat in the Florida courts, the Schindler family could be given another chance to save their daughter, Terri Schindler-Schiavo, from starvation and dehydration through federal court action under a bill announced March...

Throws Back the Curtain; The Human Experiment: Understanding Cloning and Stem Cell Research.
March 1, 2005... As this issue of NRL News illustrates perfectly, there is immense interest in and controversy over human stem cell research and cloning. The battle is being waged in the media, in state legislatures, even in the United Nations. (See story,...

Brain-Injured Woman Regains Power of Speech after 20 Years.
March 1, 2005... A simple, "Hi, Mom" and "Hi, Dad, Happy Valentine's Day" may not seem like much. But after years of communicating only through blinking her eyes, Sarah Scantlin, 38, had just spoken her first words to her parents in 20 years. Sarah's first...

Deadline Looming For Terri Schindler-Schiavo.
March 1, 2005... March 4 - - As NRL News goes to press, there are a host of developments rapidly unfolding in the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case. For up-to-the-moment information, go to www.nrlc.org. At press time, David Gibbs, the lawyer for Terri's parents,...

EDITORIALS; Questioning the Party Line.(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... "Who best to decide? In the murky mess that this case has become, we are left with one unwavering truth: Over the last seven years of fighting, Terri Schiavo's parents have proved themselves nothing if not fiercely loyal, utterly committed...

Join NRLC's e-mail list; Making a Difference.
March 1, 2005... What makes NRLC so effective? Why has it consistently been rated one of the most effective public policy organizations in the nation? It is because of you, "the grassroots"! With voices raised in every state in the country on behalf of the...

Beginning of the End for Embryonic Stem Cell Research?(Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston)
March 1, 2005... Supporters of expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research were disappointed by President Bush's State of the Union Address, which indicated no softening of restrictions. Instead, he said he'd work to "ensure that human...

Death Returns To Our Valley.(Health Committee of the Arizona House of Representatives. Bill 2313)(physician-assisted suicide bill)
March 1, 2005... Two years ago a physician-assisted suicide bill was introduced in the Health Committee of the Arizona House of Repre-sentatives. HB 2454 was heard, but not voted on, which killed the bill for that legislative session. On January 19, 2005,...

Positive Alternatives Act Uniting Minnesota's Lawmakers to Help Women in Need; Innovative Minnesota bill would provide state funds to pregnancy care centers, adoption agencies.
March 1, 2005... Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) made state history last month when the "Positive Alternatives Act" was introduced, cosponsored by majorities in both chambers. This innovative, life-affirming legislation to help pregnant women...

TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO--MYTHS VS. REALITY.(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... Editor's note. Although the court battle to save Terri Schindler-Schiavo's life is now in its eighth year, there are a number of myths about Terri that stubbornly persist. Megan Dillon, NRLC's director of media relations, provides a brief but...

Pro-Life News In Brief.(Baby Survives Abortion Attempt and Premature Birth)(Open-Heart Surgery Saves Tiny Baby)(Villanova University Stirs Controversy with Memorial Plaque)(German Nurse's Death Toll Raised to 29)(New Hampshire Brings Parental Notification Law to Supreme Court)(Tiniest Baby Released from Hospital)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Baby Survives Abortion Attempt and Premature Birth A British baby boy survived an abortion attempt and premature birth at 24 weeks two years ago, according to a report in the January issue of the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. The...

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Oregon Assisted Suicide Case.
March 1, 2005... When the United States Supreme Court hears the case of Gonzales v. Oregon, the justices will review a split decision of a three-judge panel that struck down a directive banning the use of federally controlled drugs in assisted suicides. ...

How to find the pro-life information you need on the web; How Not to Be Lost in a Sea of Information.
March 1, 2005... As the NRLC web site continues to expand its online information base, it is important that pro-lifers be able to successfully navigate www.nrlc.org so that they can take advantage of all the available resources. This article is intended to...

12th Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner to be Held April 20.
March 1, 2005... Check your calendars. If you possibly can make it, the 12th annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner takes place April 20 at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in Washington, D.C. For those new to the Movement, the Proudly Pro-Life Awards...

FROM THE PRESIDENT; MISREPRESENTING ROE vs WADE.(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... The following quotes exemplify duplicitous incompetence (in boldface): In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that state laws which made it illegal to have an abortion up to three months of pregnancy were unconstitutional, and that the...

Questions and Answers on the Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act.
March 1, 2005... What is "habeas corpus"? "Habeas corpus" is the Latin name for a special procedure, dating back to England in the Middle Ages, by which a court can review whether someone is being unlawfully deprived of liberty. It was used by English...

A Fascinating Study With Real Significance for Brain-Injured Patients.
March 1, 2005... What goes on in the mind of a patient who, tragically, has suffered severe brain damage? The answer has eluded doctors and scientists for years, but a new research study may have taken us a small step closer. Its findings may have ramifications...

"Developing and preparing the next generation of pro-choice clergy"; Pro-Abortion Religious Group Promotes Course on "Theology and Reproductive Choice".(Chicago Theological Seminary)
March 1, 2005... You'd think "Thou Shall Not Kill" would pretty much settle the abortion matter for believers, but now from the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) there's a whole new course - -...

Pro-Lifers Sharpening Skills in Battle Against Stem Cell Research and Cloning.(Mary Balch, State Legislative Director, National Right to Life Committee)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... No battle in the fight for life is ever easy, but fewer contests are more difficult than combating proposals to fund embryonic stem cell research and cloning. There are proposals aplenty to explicitly fund human cloning as well as others...

Kansas Attorney General Investigates Young Minors' Abortions.
March 1, 2005... Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has ordered two abortion clinics to provide information about abortions performed after 22 weeks, as he looks for evidence of child abuse "or a clinic who potentially has violated the late-term abortion law,"...

Stealth Cloning in Washington State.
March 1, 2005... Let's call it "stealth human-cloning legalization." It's easy to do: First, write a proposed law that you claim outlaws human cloning. But then, engage in a little sleight of hand here, some redefining of a few crucial terms there, and...

An End to Silence and Passivity on Abortion; Bishop Whitaker is First United Methodist Bishop to Speak at United Methodist Task Force on Abortion and Sexuality.
March 1, 2005... Editor's note. The following is excerpt from a January 24 speech delivered by Bishop Timothy Whitaker, of the United Methodist Church, in Washington, D.C. ... Pope John Paul II has made a powerful Christian witness to God's peaceable...