National Right to Life News articles from October 2003

National Right to Life News archives from October 2003

LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT PREVENT GOVERNMENT RATIONING OF LIFESAVING TREATMENT AND DRUGS UNDER MEDICARE.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... A Senate-House Conference Committee, in the context of a bill to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, is now making decisions that could affect whether older Americans live, or die because they are prevented from using their own money...

Protecting Infants Who Survive Abortion.(Born Alive Infant Protection Act, Wisconsin)(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... Editor's note. Since this op-ed was first written, Wisconsin's "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" passed the state Assembly 95-0. Proponents fully expect the state Senate to take up the measure this fall. What Gov. Jim Doyle will do if the law...

MEDICARE RATIONING AT STAKE IN CONGRESSIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
October 1, 2003... Five years after the pro-life movement won the ability of senior citizens to avoid rationing of lifesaving medical treatment, food, and fluids under Medicare, this right is again at stake in critical negotiations being conducted by a...

CLARK ENTERS DEMOCRATIC FRAY Update on the Presidential Campaign.(Candidate Wesley Clark supports abortion)
October 1, 2003... Retired Army general Wesley Clark has become the 10th candidate to announce he is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for President. Unfortunately, Clark, like all the other nine Democrats, supports abortion. On September 17, the day...

U.S. House Gives Final Approval to Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, But Some Democratic Senators Delay Final Senate Vote.
October 1, 2003... WASHINGTON (Oct. 4, 2003) - - Only a single legislative step - - a final vote in the U.S. Senate - - remains before Congress sends the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S. 3) to President Bush for his signature. The bill represents the...

EDITORIALS THANKS TO YOU!(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." "The purpose of the study...

EDITORIALS "Awakening His Mind's Eye".(Terri Schiavo)(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... "Their evidence suggests that even after an injury that leaves a brain badly damaged, even after months or years with little sign of consciousness, people may still be capable of complex mental activity." New York Times Magazine, September...

"Be Protectors of Life" Pope John Paul II Celebrates 25th Anniversary As Head of the Catholic Church.
October 1, 2003... Despite continuing health problems, Pope John Paul II, who is 83 years old, is maintaining an aggressive schedule as he prepares to celebrate his 25th anniversary as the head of the Roman Catholic Church on October 16. Throughout his...

Gannett News Service again disseminates discredited myths on partial-birth abortion and Roe v. Wade.
October 1, 2003... Legfederal@aol.com The September 2003 edition of National Right to Life News featured a detailed report on a number of recent instances in which journalists have resurrected certain long-discredited myths about partial-birth abortion - -...

College pro-lifers visible on campuses and in print.
October 1, 2003... Gone are the days when "pro-life student" was considered a contradiction in terms. Students who believe in the sanctity of life have always been on campuses, but as their numbers grow, so does their visibility. No longer do pro-life college...

An Update on Samuel Armas A Flash of Life.(results of in-utero surgery for spina bifida)
October 1, 2003... Flashing an impish grin, three-year-old Samuel Armas quickly ducked behind a chair as a photographer tried to capture his picture at a recent Senate hearing in Washington, D.C. Samuel hadn't seemed quite so shy during his first photographic...

Look for HSCA Agency #2844 NOW IS THE TIME FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO BOLSTER PRO-LIFE EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS.
October 1, 2003... The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the workplace campaign for federal employees, has been launched for the year 2003. Pro-lifers are encouraged to take advantage of this easy, convenient way to help local pro-life organizations educate their...

Missouri Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto of Informed Consent Law.
October 1, 2003... Overriding Gov. Bob Holden's veto, the Missouri state legislature overwhelmingly passed a law allowing women to receive detailed medical information and then reflect for 24 hours before having an abortion. >TXThe law is scheduled to go into...

PRO-Life News In Brief.
October 1, 2003... Minnesota Health Insurance to Cover Unborn Babies Unborn babies and their mothers will be able to receive health care coverage in Minnesota under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The coverage, for low-income families,...

Terri Schiavo's case offers a scary lesson to us all.(Reprint)
October 1, 2003... Editor's note. This first appeared in the October 2 Philadelphia Inquirer and is reprinted with the author's permission. In 1990, at 26, Terri Schiavo suffered a heart attack, and her brain was temporarily deprived of oxygen. She survived...

FROM THE PRESIDENT GET READY FOR 2004.(presidential election)(Column)
October 1, 2003... The 2004 presidential election is more than a year away, but pro-lifers better get ready. The September column informed you about elaborate plans by well-funded groups "to defeat Bush and `elect progressive officials at every level in 2004,'...

Officials Work to Prevent Onstage Suicide at Rock Concert.
October 1, 2003... Rock band Hell on Earth shocked the nation when it announced that a fan would commit suicide onstage during a concert in St. Petersburg, Florida, October 4. Authorities, including the St. Petersburg City Council and a circuit court judge,...

Safety of Drug, Process, Protocol Being Publicly Questioned Teen Dead After Taking Abortion Pill at Local Planned Parenthood Clinic.
October 1, 2003... When a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended approval of RU486 in July of 1996, NRL News wrote "Deaths, avoided in these closely monitored small scale trials, are almost certain if RU 486 is widely used" (8/21/96). We hoped this...

Seeing the Truth in an Unborn Baby's Smile.(use of 4-D ultrasound technique to view fetuses, United Kingdom)
October 1, 2003... A new controversy in Britain involves seemingly innocuous images - - babies smiling, yawning, blinking. But these babies are still in their mothers' wombs, shown through a four-dimensional ultrasound procedure developed by Professor Stuart...

Deadline Approaches for Withdrawal of Terri's Feeding Tube.(case of Terri Schiavo)
October 1, 2003... As NRL News goes to press, it is only a few days until an October 15 court order is scheduled to take effect that would remove the feeding tube through which Terri Schindler-Schiavo is fed. If the 39-year-old brain-injured woman is deprived of...

UAW Backs Down AN IMPORTANT VICTORY FOR FAIRNESS AND OPENNESS.(United Auto Workers not to include abortion issue in negotiations)
October 1, 2003... The United Auto Workers (UAW), in the wake of a powerful, spontaneous grassroots rebellion, has publicly backed off of what was supposed to be a behind-the-scenes campaign to secure coverage of "voluntary" abortions in negotiations for a new...

ACTION ALERT: Urge the Senate to Pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act NOW!
October 1, 2003... WASHINGTON (Oct. 3, 2003) - - The U.S. Senate is expected to take up the issue of unborn victims of violence before the end of the year. So far, 40 of the 100 senators have cosponsored the bill - - but the outcome remains in doubt, as senators...

Therapeutic Dreaming: The false promise of experimental cloning.
October 1, 2003... Polls show that most Americans want to ban all human cloning. President Bush is eager to sign such a measure into law. The House has twice enacted a strong legal prohibition with wide, bipartisan votes. But cloning advocates have so far blocked...

World Abortion Estimates: An Audit Part VI: False Notions About So-Called "Safe Abortions".
October 1, 2003... Editor's note: In earlier parts of this series we have seen how estimators with agendas have grossly inflated the number of so-called "unsafe abortions" in the world and then tried to use those numbers to push pro-life countries to legalize...