National Right to Life News articles from May 2006

National Right to Life News archives from May 2006

Pro-Life News in Brief.(Australian doctors approved to prescribe RU486)(10 day old baby receives liver transplant )(Tennesse pro-life license plate stalled)
May 1, 2006... Two Australian Doctors Can Prescribe RU486 Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the government body that regulates medical drugs and devices, announced April 12 that it has approved the applications of two doctors to...

"Your Eloquence and Sheer Good Sense Has Changed the Way; Americans Think About Abortion".(tribute to Henry Hyde)(Speech)
May 1, 2006... Excerpts from a tribute to Rep. Henry Hyde by pro-life Congressman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) I will try to follow President Franklin Roosevelt's suggestion that when speaking to an audience, "one should be sincere, be brief, and be seated." I...

Andrea Clark Will Live!(Texas woman on life support)
May 1, 2006... Just before NRL News went to press, NRLC received word that Andrea Clark's life no longer hangs in the balance. Dr. Matthew Lenz, a physician with privileges at St. Luke's Episcopalian Hospital in Houston, Texas, has transferred Clark's care...

"Our Leader, Henry Hyde".
May 1, 2006... I first met Henry Hyde I believe it was in the late 1970s. The details are foggy, but I remember I was attending a fund-raiser for a pro-lifer running for office from my native Minnesota. Rep. Hyde was the featured speaker and had to leave...

Evidence of Fetal Pain Continues to Accumulate.
May 1, 2006... A new study has put another nail in the coffin of the argument that there is no credible evidence unborn babies experience pain prior to the 29th week of gestation. A team led by Prof Maria Fitzgerald, from the department of anatomy and...

Henry Hyde - A Force of Nature for Good.(Speech)
May 1, 2006... Editor's note. The following are remarks delivered at the Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner. Mr. Goeglein is special assistant to President George W. Bush Thank you. This is always one of the best nights in Washington because you are always...

Henry J. Hyde: One of the Genuine Heroes of This or Any Era.
May 1, 2006... It would be hard to go wrong a pro-life event honoring Rep. Henry Hyde. After all (as Tim Goeglein, special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison, put it), Rep. Hyde is to the pro-life...

Navigating the NRLC Web Page: A Quick Guide for Those in a Hurry.(www.nrlc.org)(Website overview)
May 1, 2006... I always feel guilty when a student asks for help and I can't get them an answer by their deadline. But I feel particularly bad when the information was already somewhere on our web pagewww.nrlc.orgif only they'd known where to look. If you're...

New Poll Probes Citizens' Knowledge of Roe.(US abortion law)
May 1, 2006... Sometimes it seems as if there as are many polls as there are grains of sand on a beach. It is not often that polls, especially on abortion, tell us something new. The poll released by REAL Women's Voices the day before its annual lobbying day...

Polling Results Offer Continuing Signs of Hope in 2006; WHEN JUDICIAL PRECEDENT SUBVERTS THE CONSTITUTION.(American views on abortion law)
May 1, 2006... Let not your hearts be troubled by polls showing support for Roe v. Wade or a "pro-choice" majority of Americans. Results like these are produced by questions that are biased (implying, for example, that Roe legalized only first-trimester...

Danger of RU486 Ignored in Focus on Second Drug.
May 1, 2006... How do you convince customers that a drug that has already been associated with the deaths of at least six healthy American women is safe? How do you keep the government agency responsible for drug safety from pulling your drug off the market...

REAL Women's Voices: Women Lobby in Washington.(Conference news)
May 1, 2006... On April 26, pro-life women from around the country came to Washington, D.C. for this year's REAL Women's Voices Lobby Day. A diverse group of women, eager to lobby their United States Senators about pro-life issues, focused on the Child...

Your Support Made it Possible! Where National Right to Life Works.(appeal for funds)
May 1, 2006... Pro-life icon Rep. Henry Hyde gave National Right to Life a wonderful tribute at the Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner April 25th, when he called NRLC the leader of the pro-life movement in Washington, D.C. Other speakers, including members of...

Surprise Child: Finding Hope in Unexpected Pregnancy By Leslie Leyland Fields Waterbrook Press, 2006, 160 pages (Book Review).(Book review)
May 1, 2006... When I noticed that I had dashed off eight or nine typewritten pages worth of notes about a book that is only 160 pages long, I smiled, realizing this only confirmed what I had known by the time I finished the Introduction to Surprise Child....

Women Who Make the World Worse and How Their Radical Feminist Assault is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports, By Kate O'Beirne, Sentinel (an imprint of Penguin Group) $24.95 (Book Review).(Book review)
May 1, 2006... In her highly readable book, Kate O'Beirne, the Washington editor of National Review magazine, organizes a blistering critique around areas of our culture she believes modern feminists have inflicted grievous damage. We, of course, have only...