National Right to Life News articles from May 2007

National Right to Life News archives from May 2007

The Answer Could Be in Your Driveway.( National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund)
May 1, 2007... Now the means to help save unborn lives may be as easy as looking in your driveway, and making a phone call or sending an e-mail. The National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund has launched the "Autos for Life" program. By donating your...

Putting an End to a Barbaric, Infanticidal Practice.
May 1, 2007... "I am pleased that the Supreme Court upheld a law that prohibits the abhorrent procedure of partial-birth abortion. Today's decision affirms that the Constitution does not stand in the way of the people's representatives enacting laws...

Pro-Life News in Brief.
May 1, 2007... Abortion on Demand Legalized in Mexico City Legislators in the federal district of Mexico City voted 4619 April 24 to legalize abortion on demand in the first three months of pregnancy. It will take effect once the city's pro-abortion Mayor...

The Presidential Candidates' Positions on Partial-Birth Abortion.
May 1, 2007... Present and potential Republican presidential candidates who voted for one or more versions of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in Congress include: Sen. Sam Brownback, former Rep. Newt Gingrich, Sen. Chuck Hagel, Rep. Duncan Hunter, Sen....

Mother Refused Partial-Birth Abortion "God Still Has Work for Her to Do".(Lori Vance )
May 1, 2007... Fifteen-year-old Donna Joy could easily have been a victim of partial-birth abortion, if not for her mother's determination to give her life. Now, Donna Joy and Lori Vance are celebrating the Supreme Court's April 18 decision outlawing the...

Partial-Birth Abortion Legislation: An Important Pro-Life Educational Tool.
May 1, 2007... After so many years of hard work, having the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act go into effect is important in many ways. Real lives may be saved, we have seen the first visible cracks in the legal facade built on Roe v. Wade, and our country...

Fight for Emilio Gonzales's Life Continues.(Leigh's disease)
May 1, 2007... Seventeen-month-old Emilio Gonzales received another reprieve April 10 when a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order against Children's Hospital of Austin, preventing doctors from withdrawing his life support until after a May 8...

The "Freedom for Partial-Birth Abortionists Act": Pro-Abortion Lawmakers Propose "FOCA" to Invalidate All Limits on Abortion.
May 1, 2007... WASHINGTON (April 25, 2007)In response to the April 18 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, prominent Democratic members of Congress the next day reintroduced the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA), a...

Fourteen Years of Devotion and Dedication.(partial-birth abortion)
May 1, 2007... "This isn't really an abortion issue," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, as she walked the Capitol on Friday. "That is what really saddens me about what the justices said" [in Gonzales v. Carhart, the decision upholding the...

Selected excerpts from Justice Kennedy's Majority Opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart.(United States Supreme Court; Anthony M. Kennedy)(Excerpt)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... "In a decision so fraught with emotional consequence some doctors may prefer not to disclose precise details of the means that will be used, confining themselves to the required statement of risks the procedure entails....This is likely the...

Former Kansas AG Phill Kline to Speak at NRLC 2007.(attorney general; National Right to Life Committee)
May 1, 2007... Mention the name Phill Kline to any pro-lifer in Kansas or Missouri, and the reaction would likely mirror Mary Kay Culp's. Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, told NRL News that the former Kansas Attorney General "is someone who 'gets...

Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Defeats False Campaign Material Claim.
May 1, 2007... A three-judge panel of the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings has upheld the validity of pro-life organizations holding candidates to their commitment to protect and defend human life. The decision is expected to impact NRLC affiliates...

Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Key McCain-Feingold Provision.
May 1, 2007... When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, and Sen. John McCain, et al., v. Wisconsin Right to Life, it was clear that a number of justices were highly doubtful of a key provision of...

The Supreme Court and Reasonable Hope.(Excerpt)
May 1, 2007... Editor's note. Fr. Richard John Neuhaus will speak at the banquet that closes NRLC 2007, the three-day convention which will take place in Kansas City June 1416. He is president of the Institute on Religion and Public Life and editor-in-chief...

Never Too Young to Make a Difference!(National Right to Life convention; 'tweens')
May 1, 2007... "Tweens." According to spell check, there is no such animal. However, experience tells me differently. In fact, I just spent two days at our Wisconsin Right to Life (WRTL) state convention surrounded by just such little people. Who are...

WAILING FROM THE PRO-ABORTION IVORY TOWERS.
May 1, 2007... By now most pro-lifers will have learned that on April 18, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. In 1992, Dr. Martin Haskell presented this horrific abortion method to a meeting of fellow abortionists....

SENATE TURNS BACK, FOR NOW, DANGER OF DRUG RATIONING UNDER MEDICARE.
May 1, 2007... On April 18, the United States Senate turned back, at least for the present, the looming danger that older Americans will be denied the right, if they choose, to spend their own money to get lifesaving innovative drugs under Medicare. An effort...

National Right to Life Criticizes Senate Passage of Bill to Mandate Funding of Embryo-Killing Research.
May 1, 2007... WASHINGTON (April 25, 2007) The U.S. Senate on April 11 approved legislation (S. 5) that would mandate federal funding of the type of stem cell research that requires the killing of human embryos. President Bush says that he will veto the...

Courts to Reconsider State Partial-Birth Abortion Bans.(Missouri and Virginia)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... In the wake of its decision upholding the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered two appeals courts to reconsider their rulings striking down similar bans in Missouri and Virginia. The High Court's April 23...

Supreme Court Upholds Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
May 1, 2007... Contrary to what had been said in many quarters, not until Justice Anthony Kennedy actually read from the majority opinion upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act could we know for sure that the swing justice on the Supreme Court had, at...

Gonzales v. Carhart: An Important Step Forward.(partial-birth abortion)
May 1, 2007... The April 18 Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart is huge. The new five-justice majority upheld the federal law banning partial-birth abortionsbut, perhaps even more importantly, it adopted a more objective approach to evaluating...

Abortions Continue to Decline in Wisconsin.
May 1, 2007... The number of abortions in Wisconsin continues to decline, according to a report by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Not only did the number drop from 9,817 in 2005 to 9,580 in 2006 (the third year in a row that the...