National Right to Life News articles from October 2002

National Right to Life News archives from October 2002

NARAL's incredible spin Kids' Play.(National Abortion Rights Action League advertisements)
October 1, 2002... Editor's note. This article first appeared on National Review online and is reprinted with permission. NR's web address is www.nationalreview.com. I guess nothing is beneath the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. ...

Senators, NRLC Assail Senate Democratic Leadership for Smothering Bill to Ban Partial-Birth Abortion.(National Right to Life Committee)
October 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (Oct. 3, 2002) -- Sixty-one out of 100 U.S. senators are on record in support of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act -- a bill that has already passed the House of Representatives and that President Bush is eager to sign. ...

Facing "Black Genocide" is Pastor's Challenge to The African American Community.(Pastor Clenard Howard Childress)
October 1, 2002... "African Americans make up 12% of the population and have 35% of the total number of abortions." Whether speaking at right to life conventions, on his regular radio show, or in press interviews, Pastor Clenard Howard Childress continually...

VSHL Anniversary: Virginia Celebrates 35 Years of Pro-Life Advocacy.(Virginia Society for Human Life)
October 1, 2002... Editor's note. This first appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch and is reprinted with permission. The 1960s were tumultuous times. John F. Kennedy assassinated. Martin Luther King assassinated. College kids gunned down on their campus....

We Face Another 2000.(congressional elections, 2002)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... They say it doesn't get any closer than the 2000 presidential election, but the 2002 Senate and House elections promise to be a close second. What pro-lifers do between now and November 5 will be crucial in determining whether the pro-life...

Statement by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson at Press Conference on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Sponsored by U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.).(National Right to Life Committee)(Transcript)
October 1, 2002... Washington, D.C. October 2, 2002 The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act would be law today if Republicans held majority control in the U.S. Senate. That is a simple statement of fact. Congress has approved national bans on...

Never Forget....(role of views on abortion in congressional election, 2002)(Editorial)
October 1, 2002... Depending on the vagaries of the United States Postal System, you'll receive this edition of National Right to Life News very close to the November 5 off-year elections or a couple of weeks out. Either way, I am sure that our Movement, knowing...

Senate Democratic Leaders Likely to Kill Bill: U.S. House Passes Bill to Protect Pro-Life Health Care Providers.(Abortion Non-Discrimination Act)
October 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (Oct. 2, 2002) -- The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill, backed by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), to strengthen protections for health care providers who object to participation in abortions. The...

NRLC's Outreach Department Participates In Its Third Tekakwitha Conference.(National Right to Life's outreach to Native Americans)
October 1, 2002... National Right to Life's Outreach Department and Indians for Life presented two workshops and manned a pro-life booth at the 63th annual Tekakwitha Conference. Over 1,000 Native Americans from almost every state gathered at the University of...

Last-Minute Efforts Will Be Decisive.(congressional elections, 2002)
October 1, 2002... After eight years of the most relentlessly pro-abortion administration our nation has ever known, Americans in 2000 chose a man as firmly pro-life as Bill Clinton (and Al Gore) was pro-abortion. But George W. Bush's triumph, as crucial as it...

HSCA Agency #2844 Workplace Employees Enhance Lifesaving Educational Projects.(donations to National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund)
October 1, 2002... For many years the NRL Educational Trust Fund has participated in the CFC (Combined Federal Campaign) as well as state, local, and a few private-sector campaigns, making important pro-life educational programs around the nation possible. ...

Father Charged with Killing His Disabled Son.
October 1, 2002... Michigan authorities charged Lawrence Beard of Royal Oak with murder for the death of his son Jonathan, 17, who had cerebral palsy and suffered from seizures. The felony charge, filed September 11, could result in a sentence of life in prison....

BEING SMART ABOUT THE ELECTION.(voting for pro-life candidates, 2002 congressional election)
October 1, 2002... The pro-abortion majority on the U.S. Supreme Court detests the relentless activism of the right-to-life movement. In its 1992 decision of Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey, the plurality opinion not only reaffirmed the...

New Study Confirms Abortion Associated with Higher Levels of Psychiatric Problems than Carrying Pregnancy to Term.
October 1, 2002... The question of mental health following abortion has been the source of great controversy and continuing debate. From the beginning, the pro-abortion lobby has been in denial about the mental health effects of abortion on women. Unfortunately,...

Congressional Wrap-up Democrat-Controlled U.S. Senate Kills Pro-Life Bills Favored by President Bush and Passed by U.S. House.
October 1, 2002... WASHINGTON (October 3, 2002) -- The U.S. Senate has become the graveyard for major pro-life legislation. The two-year 107th Congress is likely to end around mid-October, giving lawmakers a few weeks to campaign full-time before the November...