National Right to Life News articles from May 2002

National Right to Life News archives from May 2002

Urgent Congressional Alert: U.S. Senate to Vote on Human Embryo Cloning Ban At Any Time!(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (May 7, 2002) -- The U.S. Senate is on the verge of voting on one of the most important pro-life issues that it has ever conducted: Whether to ban the cloning of human embryos. For a detailed report on recent developments, see...

Bipartisan Effort Key to Passing Alabama?s Woman?s Right to Know Law.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Ten year?s worth of patient work by Alabama Citizens for Life (ACL) bore fruit last month when the Alabama legislature passed ?The Woman?s Right to Know Act.? ACL Legislative Director Cheryl Ciamarra attributed passage to the bill?s bipartisan...

Federal Judge Overturns Ashcroft Assisted Suicide Ruling; Appeal Expected.(Robert Jones and John Ashcroft)
May 1, 2002... In a 30-page opinion that often read more like a political speech than a legal opinion, Federal District Court Judge Robert Jones criticized Attorney General John Ashcroft for what Judge Jones claimed was Ashcroft?s attempt to ?stifle an...

Public Invited to Annual Pro-Life Professionals? Meeting and Paper Session.(Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change, an association of pro-life professionals, will hold its annual meeting and paper session June 26, the night before the beginning of the annual NRL Convention, at the...

Abortion and Breast Cancer: Truth loses first round in North Dakota.
May 1, 2002... Having originally been set for September 11, 2001, the trial of Amy Jo Kjelsrud v. Red River Women?s Clinic took place the last week of March (see April NRL News, page 30). At issue was the abortion clinic?s advertising brochure--typically...

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNANIMOUSLYUPHOLDS BRITISH SUICIDE LAW.(Diane Pretty cases)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... On April 29, a seven-judge chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously upheld the United Kingdom?s assisting suicide statute against a claim by a woman terminally ill with Lou Gehrig?s disease that it violates numerous provisions...

NINTH ANNUAL PROUDLY PRO-LIFE AWARDS DINNER HONORS ARCHBISHOP MARTINO AND DR. DOBSON.(Renato Martino and James Dobson)
May 1, 2002... Heroes. From the opening color guard presentation, which included heroes from the New York and Port Authority police departments, to praises for pro-life heroes in the keynote speeches, the Ninth Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner in New...

Biotech Lobby and Patient Groups Urge Senate to Say Yes to Human Cloning.
May 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (May 7, 2002)--Despite the support of President Bush, the Brownback-Landrieu bill to ban the cloning of human embryos has run into a wall of stiff resistance in the U.S. Senate. The biotechnology industry lobby and...

Does ?research cloning? create a human embryo?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... In the recent past, some of those who support the cloning of human embryos have sought to persuade the media to stop using the term ?embryo.? This is an intellectually dishonest exercise. Many scientific authorities including the National...

Dorgan-Johnson Bill Would Allow Implant-and-Abort Cloning.(Byron L. Dorgan and Timothy P. Johnson)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... On April 9, 2002, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced S. 2076, which he named the ?Human Cloning Prohibition Act.? Senators Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Mark Dayton (D-Mn.) soon joined as cosponsors. Senator Dorgan and his staff have...

Proudly Pro-Life Plus.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Even though the May issue of National Right to Life News will not be printed until several days after I write these observations, I felt it very important to record my impressions from last night?s superlative Ninth Annual Proudly Pro-Life...

Must Reading for Pro-Lifers.(Women's Health After Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence)
May 1, 2002... Women?s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence is a brand new book published by the non-profit deVeber Institute for Social Research. Unfamiliar to Americans, this Canadian ?think tank? has been open for business since...

?Cloning Human Embryos and Experimenting with Them and Killing Them is Wrong?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Editor?s note. When South Carolina Citizens for Life (SCCL) held a press conference April 4, it?s unlikely many reporters would have expected to hear the father of 11 children oppose human cloning that so-called ?experts? insist may someday...

Last-Minute Vote Switches Keep Assisting Suicide Illegal in Hawaii.
May 1, 2002... A bill to legalize assisting suicide in Hawaii was defeated 14-11 in the state Senate May 2 when three state senators who had previously voted in favor of it switched their votes. The ?Death with Dignity? bill had been passed by Hawaii?s House...

Therapeutic Cloning Ignores Fate of Embryos.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Many of our loved ones, neighbors, and patients suffer from incurable diseases such as Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig?s. One of the next frontiers of medicine will be regenerating damaged organs such as the brain...

Spring Cleaning: Want Not? Waste Not. Rummage Sales for the Community, the Chapter, and Unborn Lives.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... With Mother?s Day, Memorial Day Weekend, and graduations upon us, late spring is in full swing. Everywhere, and every weekend, our neighborhoods seem decked out with brightly colored signs advertising ?Yard Sales,? ?Garage Sales,? and ?Moving...

Justice Byron White, 1917-2002.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... When former Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White died April 15 at age 84, he had been retired from the High Court for nine years. Because he was pigeonholed as a ?conservative,? White never received his proper due. In truth, White not only...

Fr. Pavone to Receive Special Honorary Degree.(Frank Pavone)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Fr. Frank Pavone has been chosen by The Franciscan University of Steubenville to receive the honorary degree, ?Doctor of Christian Letters.? Fr. Frank, co-founder of Priests for Life, will receive the award at a May 11 ceremony at the...

ATTEND NRLC 2002 IN PITTSBURGH, PA.(National Right to Life Committee conference information)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Do you want to make a difference as a pro-lifer? Get started for the first time? Or get re-energized? Meet old friends again? Then it?s time to make plans to attend the National Right to Life Convention 2002. WHERE, WHEN, & WHAT * The...

Jettisoned Ultrasound and Training Requirements May Have Prevented Tragedies Deaths, Ruptured Tubes, Heart Attacks Among RU486 Users, Distributor Reports.
May 1, 2002... For years, pro-lifers have warned that the approval of RU486, the French abortion pill, would mean not only the cruel death of innocent, yet-to-be-born children, but that their mothers could well be endangered. Sadly, on April 18, 2002, the...

Assisted Suicide Defeated in Hawaii State Legislative Sessions Coming to an End.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... An already solid session in state legislatures around the country became a ?10? on May 2 when an Oregon-like assisted suicide proposal was defeated after three Hawaiian state senators switched their votes. The 13-12 vote in favor of the...