National Right to Life News articles from September 2001

National Right to Life News archives from September 2001

ALABAMA HIGH COURT UPHOLDS JUDGE WHO DENIED ABORTION TO TEEN.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld the July 20 decision of a lower court judge who had ruled that "a pregnant teenager and her godmother answered questions so perfunctorily and showed so little emotion that he refused to allow her to get an...

SPECIAL ALERT!(anti-cloning lobbying needed)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Let your elected officials know that human cloning should be banned immediately, and also that you oppose any tax funding of the kind of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos! Remind them that there are alternatives...

SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS UPDATE.(who votes how on abortion)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Because of retirements, appointments, and deaths, several congressional seats have opened up and special elections are being held to fill the vacancies. Earlier this year, special elections were held to replace pro-abortion Congressman...

CDC: Close to Half of All Abortions Repeats.(Centers for Disease Control statistics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... According to the latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), nearly half of the women who had an abortion in 1997 had had at least one previous abortion. Nearly one in five of those women had undergone at least two abortions....

Women Claim They Had Abortions Out of Fear.(Washington, D.C. Fire Department under investigation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... As NRL News goes to press, the D.C. Fire Department is embroiled in a burgeoning controversy over the claims (as the Washington Times reported) that three women "had abortions because they were threatened with [job] termination, in addition to...

Actions Requested.(stem cell and cloning research)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... As discussed in the page one article in this issue, the Senate is being urged to act soon on a bill to ban all human cloning, which has already been passed by the House of Representatives. - Write to your two U.S. senators. Urge them to...

Cloning Ban Not Yet Scheduled Will Senate Democratic Leader Act to Prevent Human Embryo Farms?
September 1, 2001... WASHINGTON (September 11) -- The Democratic senators who now hold majority control of the U.S. Senate will largely decide whether or not human cloning is banned in the United States. On July 31, the House of Representatives passed a bill to...

THANK YOU, SENATOR HELMS.(Jesse Helms leaves at last)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... "With its constant turnover in membership and frequent shifts in party control, there is rarely anything as precise as an end to an era in the Senate. But Sen. Jesse Helms's departure comes about as close as it gets. Friends and foes of the...

"Imagining the Future".(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... (Editor's note. This originally ran in "Today's News & Views," which is found at www.nrlc.org. So many people responded positively that I've decided to make it available to readers of National Right to Life News. I hope you find it of...

Medical Student Publishes Myth of Elder Suicide In Remote Alaskan Village, Rebutted By Superior.(Shetal Shah versus Dr. Michael Swenson)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Judging by his "A Piece of My Mind" account written for the October 18, 2000, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Shetal Shah would not seem likely ever to forget his five-week stint on a tiny, island-tip outpost in...

British Fetal Pain Study Adds Fuel to Late-Term Abortion Debate.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The deeply disturbing concept that an unborn child feels pain while she is being destroyed in an abortion refuses to go away. Not only does the idea of fetal pain make intuitive sense, more and more research clearly suggests that the unborn...

THE SENSITIVITY TO PAIN OF LATE-SECOND-TRIMESTER BABIES.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Editor's note. The following excerpt is from an article written by Dr. Paul Ranalli that appeared in the November 1997 issue of NRL News. As revealed by other work, the late-second-trimester fetus, like the similar-aged premature newborn,...

Phil Gramm to Retire From Senate.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Pro-lifers will lose a strong advocate for life. On September 4 Texas Senator Phil Gramm (R) announced he would finish out his term, but not seek re-election in 2002, ending a 24-year congressional career. While Texas pro-lifers will work...

Back to School for Chapters Too.(pro-life education for students)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... With Labor Day behind us and the school year already underway, this time of year presents many opportunities to educate local students on the life issues. (See stories, pages 12-14.) I draw almost unanimous guffaws whenever I broach the subject...

Indians for Life - - A Success in the Making.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Indians for Life (IFL), a new pro-life outreach to the Native American community, has experienced tremendous success in the last two years. IFL has presented workshops at two Indian conferences; distributed thousands of pro-life brochures,...

A New School Year, A New Opportunity.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... With the new school year now fully in gear, it's time for teachers, home schoolers, parents, and students to begin thinking of ways to communicate the pro-life message in the classroom. For students looking for ideas for science papers, ethical...

NRLC's Educational Tools.(National Right to Life News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... As noted in the story on page 14, National Right to Life has an award-winning web site - - www.nrlc.org - - from which teachers, students, and parents can obtain wonderfully helpful resources. With the new school year already in full gear,...

Pro-Abortionists Continue to Fight "Choose Life" License Plates.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... While counties in Florida are starting to distribute to adoption organizations money collected from the sale of special "Choose Life" license plates, a federal appeals court is deciding whether to allow the plates to be sold in Louisiana and a...

Pro-Life News in Brief Schindler-Schiavo Death Deadline Extended to October.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Terri Schindler-Schiavo's court-ordered starvation and dehydration death will not occur until 3 p.m. October 9, a Florida judge ruled, giving her parents another month to exhaust all appeals, the St. Petersburg Times reported. ...

Pro-Life Nurse Fired from Christ Hospital.(Jill Stanek )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Two years after publicly exposing alleged live-birth abortion procedures at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, nurse Jill Stanek was fired from her job August 31. "The termination was based solely on my taking a stand...

"Loss of Self" Most Important in Considering Physician- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Patients who would choose physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia do not do so because of unbearable pain or because of physical disintegration, according to a new study carried out by the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. ...

THINKING CLEARLY ABOUT STEM CELL RESEARCH.
September 1, 2001... On August 9, 2001, President George W. Bush nullified the Clinton administration's guidelines that would have provided federal funds for stem cell research involving the continual destruction of human embryos. President Bush allowed funding...

Another Major Medical Voice Against Physician-Assisted Suicide.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The American Medical Association has been joined by the nation's second-largest medical organization in formally opposing physician-assisted suicide. The 115,000-member-strong American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal...

Huge Potential from Stem Cells Found in Umbilical Cord Blood.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Although you would never know it by most press accounts, even while there is absolutely no track record of success using stem cells culled from human embryos, there is a lengthening history of extraordinary success using stem cells taken from...

Surrogate Mother Refuses to "Selectively Reduce" Twins.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Twin unborn babies are at the center of a legal battle between their surrogate mother and the couple who paid her to carry the babies. But rather than fighting over which of them should keep the children, the two sides are feuding because the...

Understanding Stem Cell Research.
September 1, 2001... When it comes to discussions of stem cell research, misunderstandings abound. Advocates for research that would require the destruction of human embryos frequently abet public confusion about what this research involves as well as grossly...