National Right to Life News articles from March 2008

National Right to Life News archives from March 2008

"The Most Persuasive Anti-Abortion Argument" Ever?(4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)(Movie review)
March 1, 2008... Editor's note. When I ran a version of this column at Today's News & Viewswww.nrlc.orgit garnered the most response of any entry in the seven-year history of TN&V. Even in the nation's capital, you wouldn't expect much of a crowd to be...

"Autos for Life" Gears Up for Spring.(National Right to Life Committee's Autos for Life)
March 1, 2008... Winter is finally beginning to draw to a close, and it's time to start thinking about spring cleaning! While you are busy cleaning out your attic and closets, don't forget about what's in your driveway or garage. Maybe you have a "project...

Pro-Life News in Brief.
March 1, 2008... Latimer Is Freed on Appeal The Appeal Division of the National Parole Board in Canada has released convicted murderer Robert Latimer from his sentence of life in prison and will allow him to live in a halfway house with freedom during the...

McCain Clinches GOP Nomination, Democrats Fight On.
March 1, 2008... Capping one of the most incredible comebacks in modern political history, on March 5 Senator John McCain (R-Az.), who has always voted solidly pro-life on abortion, swept primaries in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, and Vermont, placing him over the...

Corrupting Everything It Touches.(sex preselection)
March 1, 2008... "The tests, scientists say, are the latest incarnation of old wives' tales about salty food cravings, hairy legs and belly shapes denoting the sex of the impending baby. This time, the predictions are being sold with the patina of cutting-edge...

20th Debate Offers Another Revealing Glimpse of Senator Obama.(Barack Obama)
March 1, 2008... As NRL News goes to press, the string of primary victories by pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama (Il.) has just ended. Pro-abortion Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) won three out of four March 5 primaries. See story page one for more details. We've...

High School Students Learn How to Speak Up for Life at MCCL Student Day.
March 1, 2008... More than 100 Minnesota young people lobbied their lawmakers to ban cruel saline abortions at the 2008 MCCL Student Day at the state capitol in St. Paul. Their educational experience also included an exclusive meeting with pro-life Gov. Tim...

Merger Mania Continues to Pick Up Momentum.(mergers to increase fundraising to expand Planned Parenthood services )
March 1, 2008... Mergers of Planned Parenthood affiliates have been quite common in recent years. In May 2007, Planned Parenthood affiliates from Tucson and Phoenix agreed to a merger that took place in October. A key reason given for the merger, according...

Another New Mega-Clinic Planned for Massachusetts: Planned Parenthood Remaking Abortion Empire with Openings, Closings, Mergers.
March 1, 2008... The announcement that Planned Parenthood is building yet another mega-clinic, this time a new three-story "reproductive health center" in Worcester, Massachusetts, comes on the heels of similar stories of major building projects by PPFA...

Missouri Judge Rewrites Language of Cloning Ban Amendment.(Patricia S. Joyce)
March 1, 2008... Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia S. Joyce has upheld a challenge to a ballot summary of a proposed constitutional amendment written by Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's office. Judge Joyce ruled that Carnahan's summary of the...

NRLC 2008: Made to Order for Grassroots Pro-Life America.(National Right to Life Committee)
March 1, 2008... Marjorie Higgins is one of Jacki Regan's captains in NRLC's State Organ-izational Development Department, and it takes all of about 90 seconds to figure out why Marji and Jacki work together seamlessly. Both are energetic, passionate,...

Planned Parenthood Employees Accept Money from "Racist" Donor.
March 1, 2008... As part of an investigation conducted by a pro-life student magazine at the University of California at Los Angeles, Planned Parenthood employees agreed to accept money despite the donor's stated request that the funds be used to abort African...

Pikes Peak Citizens for Life: A Well-Oiled Machine.(Organization overview)
March 1, 2008... Colorado Springs, Colorado, is home to many of the best things America has to offer. It has its share of pro-abortion zealots too, so we can be grateful that one of the most organized local pro-life chapters in the country is operating there as...

It's the Economy ... NO, THE SUPREME COURT!(United States Supreme Court and the presidential elections)
March 1, 2008... As Democrats dream about the possibility of retaking the White House in 2008, they are also fantasizing about their first Supreme Court appointments since 1994. But the bench of potential candidates is surprisingly thin.[M]ost of the sitting...

Questioning Abortion: A Revolution in Reverse.
March 1, 2008... "The feminist establishment has tended to dismiss such stories [of women grappling with crisis pregnancies and regretting having had abortions] as evidence of patriarchal brainwashing. That explanation may comfort pro-choice feminists who see...

Pushing Infanticide.
March 1, 2008... Support for infanticide is becoming positively trendy. Where once support for killing babies born with birth defects was a fringe belief, it became respectableeven mainstreamafter doctors from Groningen University Medical Center in the...

Virginia Senate Votes to Cut Off Funding to Planned Parenthood.
March 1, 2008... In a surprising turn of events, on February 27 the Virginia state Senate joined the state House in agreeing to defund Planned Parenthood. The amendment was offered by Republican state Senator Ken Cuccinelli and will deny over $200,000 to...

Senate Adopts NRLC-Backed Vitter Amendment, 52-42.
March 1, 2008... WASHINGTON (March 4, 2008)In an important pro-life victory, the U.S. Senate has adopted an NRLC-backed amendment that would permanently prohibit coverage of abortion in federally funded health programs for American Indians. The win...

The Emerging Face of the Right-to-Life Movement: Wisconsin Right to Life's Teen Leaders Testify for Life.
March 1, 2008... Every single one of them could have been lost to abortion. That reality struck me as I watched one amazing, articulate, beautiful girl after another amazing, beautiful, articulate girl take the chair to address a state senate committee. ...