National Right to Life News articles from May 2001

National Right to Life News archives from May 2001

Action Request on Unborn Victims of Violence Act.(letter writing to United States Senators)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... - Please write to your two U.S. Senators, and ask them to support the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 503) in the form passed by the House of Representatives on April 26 (see story, page 1). Also urge them to co-sponsor the Senate...

ISSUES IN LAW & MEDICINE.(overview)
May 1, 2001... Editor's note. Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer-reviewed professional journal published three times a year by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. and the Horatio R. Storer Foundation, Inc., Published since...

COMMENTARY: CASE POINTS UP URGENCY OF WILL TO LIVE.(Terri Schindler-Schiavo, health care)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... It is evident from e-mails and other communications coming in to NRLC's Department of Medical Ethics that many grassroots pro-lifers are shocked and appalled by the denial of food and fluids to Terri Schindler-Schiavo. Apparently, they cannot...

Reflections of a College Kid.(National Right to Life Committee member, Derrick Jones)(Brief Article)(Column)
May 1, 2001... Like most college kids, I'm no stranger to the "all-nighter." Those marathon nights are spent agonizing, racing against the sunrise to cram for an exam or write a 10-page paper that's due at 10 a.m. I've spent many nights in the computer lab...

Doctor Receives Two Years for Abortifacient-filled Syringe Attack.(Stephen Pack)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Dr. Stephen Pack, a Bronx physician who attempted to abort his pregnant girlfriend's baby by stabbing her with a drug-filled syringe, was sentenced April 20 to two years in jail for his attack on Joy Schepis. Fortunately, Pack's brutal assault...

Pro-Abortion Groups Vehemently Oppose Bill U.S. House Votes to Recognize Unborn Victims of Violence.(endorsed by National Right to Life Committee and George W. Bush)
May 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (May 3) - - A bill to recognize unborn children as human victims when they are injured or killed during the commission of federal crimes was approved April 26 by the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill was backed by NRLC and by...

Dutch Legalize Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.(Netherlands)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Sixty years ago the footsteps of Nazi soldiers drummed through the streets of the Netherlands and swastikas blazed from windows like furious eyes. Hitler's Aktion T4 program, designed to eliminate "life unworthy of life" through euthanasia, was...

On moral imagination and fear.(human embryo research, ethical aspects)
May 1, 2001... "Stem-cell research is typically done by using frozen embryos left over from in vitro fertilization. If these embryos were placed in the womb, they might eventually implant, become a fetus, then a child. Unused, they are the earliest...

Parents Fight for Daughter Brain-Damaged Woman Faces Threat of Court-Ordered Starvation.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In a dramatic turn of events, after enduring 60 hours of court-ordered starvation and dehydration, a Florida woman with severe brain damage received food and fluids when new evidence emerged contradicting her husband's claims that she would...

On the Road: Reflections from a Field Coordinator at Ground Zero Don't Have Time?(pro-life movement, forming chapters)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." So goes the famous warning by the British statesman Edmund Burke. But my guess is that you good men and women out there may be asking, "When? Where can I find the time to...

Roe v. Wade = Partial-Birth Abortion Putting a Face on Abortion.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... For some, last June's Supreme Court ruling that effectively overturned partial-birth abortion bans in more than two dozen states settled the partial-birth abortion debate once and for all. But not for the pro-life movement. Anyone who has ever...

Jewish and Christian Leaders Seek Joint Witness in Defending the Sanctity of Human Life Ave Maria School of Law and the Institute for Religious Values Co-Sponsor a Day of Pro-Life Exchange.
May 1, 2001... Jews and Christians together are a more powerful witness when they speak with one voice about God as the source of life, asserted Fr. Richard John Neuhaus at a Jewish-Christian conference April 24 in New York. This interfaith collaboration Fr....

Pro-Life News in Brief >BY; Hospital Sued for Woman's Death during Abortion of Down Syndrome Baby >TX; Abortion on Demand May Be Legalized in Switzerland >TX; Abortion Death Ship Comes Closer to Launch.
May 1, 2001... Pennsylvania School District Bans Abortion Referrals by Employees Responding to a lawsuit against a neighboring district, the North Penn School District in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, adopted a new policy April 19 asserting that...

Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner Honors Fr. Pavone and Lawrence Garvey.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The timing could not have been more exquisite. Mere hours after the House of Representatives began debate on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA), pro-lifers honored two great champions at the Eighth Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner:...

HOW TO STAY EFFECTIVE AND INFORMED AND HAVE A GRAND TIME COME TO THE NRL CONVENTION JUNE 28-30 IN CHARLOTTE, NC.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Pro-lifers helped elect a pro-life president, so it's time to relax. Right? Of course not. We all wish it were that easy. In January, when George W. Bush took the oath of office, we could celebrate a little and pat each other on the back for a...

RU486: Not Selling.(Mifepristone, abortifacient)
May 1, 2001... Despite enormous media hype and unending claims by the abortion industry that there is great demand for the drug, all available evidence indicates that the abortifacient RU486 has not been the breakthrough product its supporters dreamed of. ...

"Laissez-faire eugenics" Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Reviewed by Dave Andrusko "...[T]he dignity of life has come under assault in recent years from people who regard the right to life as provisional - - something that withers away when a person falls ill, loses mental faculties or is too...