National Right to Life News articles from May 2003

National Right to Life News archives from May 2003

Action Request on Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
May 1, 2003... It will be difficult to pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in the U.S. Senate because of strong opposition from groups like NARAL, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood. These groups insist that crimes like the murder of Laci Peterson and her...

Georgetown's "Life Week" Is A Success RIGHT TO LIFE CAMPAIGN AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY IS A CLASS ACT.
May 1, 2003... Coming to Georgetown University (GU), I knew that I would be a part of a politically vocal campus. I was excited to listen to the differing opinions of my fellow students on a wide range of topics. I knew that I would form many opinions on a...

Annual Association Meeting Open to the Public.(Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change will hold its Annual Meeting on Wednesday evening July 2, 2003, beginning at 8:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency at Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri. The speakers will be...

Black Genocide - June 2003.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The genocide threat to African-Americans continues to be one of the most significant problems facing Black Americans. Tragically, black women have an abortion rate three times higher than white women and many abortion clinics are located in...

ORAL ARGUMENTS HEARD ON WHETHER U.S. MUST FACILITATE SUICIDE WITH FEDERALLY CONTROLLED DRUGS.
May 1, 2003... On May 7, 2003, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument on an appeal from Oregon Federal District Court Judge Robert Jones' April 17, 2002, opinion. Judge Jones overturned Attorney General John...

District Court Makes Vague Campaign Finance Law Vaguer.
May 1, 2003... On Friday, May 2, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declared many key provisions of the federal Bipartisan Campaign Finance Act of 2002 ("BCRA") unconstitutional in the case of McConnell v. FEC. The BCRA, commonly known by...

President Bush Urges Action on NRLC-Backed Bill Murders of Laci and Conner Peterson Focus Attention of Lawmakers on Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
May 1, 2003... WASHINGTON (May 8, 2003) - - Widespread public interest in the California murders of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner, has sparked a new push to win enactment of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in Congress. The bill would allow...

EDITORIAL "Holy Abortion" and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... That pro-abortionists fly under false colors is hardly news. That they have coropted many institutions is not a state secret. But the extent to which they misuse and misrepresent the prestige afforded by their various associations is a much...

More Huge Successes at Unlikely Places!(Pro-life movement at Harvard)
May 1, 2003... Few people would expect Harvard University to be a hotbed of pro-life activism. However, in recent years, thanks to intense pro-abortion opposition, pro-life students at Harvard have made quite a name for themselves. A few years ago, a law...

Bone Fragments Left from Aborted Babies Can Cause Infertility.
May 1, 2003... Bone fragments left in women's uteruses after abortions cause some cases of infertility and should be treated using ultrasound to make sure all the tiny pieces are removed, according to researchers at the University of Ottawa. The...

Conner Peterson, An Unborn Victim of Violence, and the California Law.
May 1, 2003... When, several months after their Christmas Eve disappearance, the bodies of Laci and her unborn son Conner Peterson (who was eight gestational months old) were discovered, Scott Peterson was charged with a double homicide. Prosecutors were able...

Key Facts on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
May 1, 2003... Published by the National Right to Life Committee - Updated May 6, 2003 For more information on unborn victims of violence, visit the NRLC website at http://www. nrlc.org/Unborn_victims/ index.html. * The Unborn Victims of Violence Act...

PRO-LIFE NEWS IN BRIEF.
May 1, 2003... Nurse's Aide Fired for Reporting Neglect Babcock worked at Terrace Heights Care Center in Boulder, where 67-year-old multiple sclerosis patient Barbara Busch-Endres had been residing since February 21. Busch-Endres needed care after...

Planned Parenthood 2001-02 Annual Report Released.
May 1, 2003... Both the front and back covers feature a beautiful child, but the story inside the covers of Planned Parenthood's latest annual report is hardly one suitable for children. America's biggest abortion chain is doing ever more abortions and...

Tenth Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner Provides a Powerful Testimony for Life.
May 1, 2003... The grand ballroom of the historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was filled to capacity as the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund hosted the Tenth Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner on April 29 in New York City. Nearly 700 enthusiastic...

FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THE NEW YORK TIMES SAW "FIT TO PRINT".(reprinted NY Times article about abortion, with commentary and analysis)
May 1, 2003... The procedure at issue--what doctors now call intact dilatation and extraction, or intact D&X--involves pulling the fetus's legs and torso out of the uterus and then crushing its skull before removing it entirely. ? In 2000, the Alan...

South Carolina Abortion Clinic Regulations Upheld.
May 1, 2003... The abortion industry's nearly seven-year legal battle to keep from being regulated in South Carolina is finally ending. On April 28, the U.S. Supreme Court refused for the second time to overturn an appeals court decision upholding the law....

The Celebrate Life Conference The News from California: All Good!
May 1, 2003... The first weekend in April proved to be as bright and sunny as could be hoped for on the San Francisco peninsula in springtime. A very important detail in planning the Celebrate Life Conference at Stanford University, to be sure, and one that...

Out of the Mouths of Babes...(what stem cells in baby teeth can do )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... According to a report that appeared online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the stem cells in baby teeth can transform themselves into nerve and fat cells in laboratory dishes. "Deciduous teeth?may be an ideal resource of...

Unborn Victims of Violence Act: Some Cases of Homicides of Unborn Children under Federal or Military Jurisdiction.
May 1, 2003... Currently, an unborn child is not legally recognized as a crime victim in federal law, including military law. Here are some examples of cases in which unborn children were injured or killed during the commission of federal crimes, in which...

World Abortion Estimates: An Audit Part IV: Piling Error upon Error.
May 1, 2003... In our previous sections, we have seen how biases and inherent weaknesses can corrupt the collection and projection of world abortion data, especially in developing countries lacking national health data collection systems. Hospital studies, we...