National Right to Life News articles from September 2005

National Right to Life News archives from September 2005

Pro-Life News in Brief.
September 1, 2005... Fetal Surgery Saves Baby's Life In a remarkable medical procedure, doctors at the Texas Center for Fetal Surgery removed a large tumor from an unborn baby's chest while he was still connected to his mother by his umbilical cord. After the...

Bumper Sticker Inspires Girl to Choose Life.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... When Dave and Mary Labun of Millinocket, Maine, received an "Abortion Stops a Beating Heart" bumper sticker in the mail from a pro-life group, they weren't sure they wanted to put it on their car. "I usually don't like bumper stickers," Labun...

Cord Blood Produces Embryonic-Like Stem Cells.
September 1, 2005... Using umbilical cord blood, researchers in Texas and Britain have produced embryonic-like cells that can transform into cells from different parts of the body. Derived without harming a human being, these versatile cells could potentially be...

As the Hearings Proceed...
September 1, 2005... It is both inescapable and challenging: publishing a few days before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts begin, what can be said that won't run the risk of being hopelessly outdated, largely...

Moving the World.
September 1, 2005... I remember reading an essay once that described a well-known New York Times reporter and author as someone who was "tone deaf and loved her surety." When I first read this I thought he meant that she lacked, as it were, a sense of intellectual...

Washington State Pro-Lifers Hear Author Angela Franks.
September 1, 2005... Pro-lifers in the state of Washington graciously hosted author Angela Franks as she spoke on Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and on the organization's past history and present activities. Franks, author of Margaret...

Pushing Infanticide: From Holland to New Jersey.
September 1, 2005... Bureaucracy has trumped morality in the Netherlands. How else can one explain a country where, when doctors admit publicly that they commit eugenic infanticide, the leaders' response is not to prosecute them for murder, but instead to urge that...

A Big Thank You: 2005 NRLC Interns Complete a Productive and Instructive Summer.
September 1, 2005... Among the college students heading back to campus across the country, a special group of 13 highly motivated and dedicated pro-life students will be with them. Throughout much of the summer, National Right to Life's office was filled with an...

NRLC Memo Critiquing Biased JAMA Paper on Fetal Pain.(Journal of the American Medical Association )(National Right to Life News)
September 1, 2005... The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), in its August 2431, 2005, edition, published a paper titled "Fetal Pain: A Systematic Multidisciplinary Review of the Evidence." This paper was presented as an objective review of existing...

Media Consistently Misses Decline in Number of Abortions.
September 1, 2005... It goes without saying that abortion is one of the most scrutinized issues in American politics. The mainstream media is always eager to detail the positions of various candidates, document platform fights, and analyze the views of prospective...

"MISSION POSSIBLE" AND GRASS ROOTS POWER.
September 1, 2005... On January 22, 1973, I was manning a pro-life information table in the student union building of West Virginia University. On my way to the student union building, I had heard on the car radio that the U.S. Supreme Court had issued its Roe v....

Investigating, Issues Public Health Advisory on Abortion Pill: Two More Deaths of RU486 Patients Revealed.
September 1, 2005... Two additional deaths in California, recently reported by the U.S. distributor of RU486, brings to 10 the number of known deaths associated with use of the drug worldwide. According to a Los Angeles Times investigation (8/15/05), the...

Pro-Abortion Fetal Pain Study: An Overplayed Hand.
September 1, 2005... It has generally been assumed... that neonates [newborns] may not perceive pain or may perceive it only minimally. Assumed by whom? Certainly not by those of us at the bedside of critically ill infants, who see them flinch from procedures,...

No human embryos created or destroyed: Embryonic Stem Cells Created from Skin Cell.
September 1, 2005... The latest chapter in the stem cell saga comes from researchers Chad A. Cowan, Kevin Eggan, Douglas Melton, and Jocelyn Atienza at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. They have created embryonic stem cells without using human ova or creating new...

Pro-Lifers Intently Watching Confirmation Hearings.
September 1, 2005... As NRL News went to press, we were only days away from the start of confirmation hearings on the nomination of Judge John Roberts to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is retiring after 24 years on the Supreme Court. Although the...

The Investment of a Lifetime!
September 1, 2005... We can't win without them! The role of youth in the pro-life movement is as simple as that. The time to train and equip the next generation of pro-life leaders is right now. Not two or ten or twenty years from now, but today, tomorrow, and...

Political Director Carol Tobias Retires, Lauded for Her Contributions to Pro-Life Movement.
September 1, 2005... National Right to Life is losing an invaluable employee and a dear colleague. Political Director Carol Tobias and her husband, Damon, are retiring and will move to New Mexico. Mrs. Tobias has been Political Director since 1991. That's the...

Brain-Dead Mother Gives Her Baby the Gift of Life.
September 1, 2005... Susan Michelle Rollin Torres gave birth to her second child August 2, but the premature delivery was anything but typical. Declared brain dead after an undiagnosed melanoma caused a stroke, Mrs. Torres spent 12 weeks on life support until her...

New Web Site to Collect Data on Abortion Reactions.
September 1, 2005... A new web site, www.abortionresearch.net, will gather data from post-abortive women, men, and grandparents, as well as former and current abortionists, in an attempt to learn more about the impact that abortion has on all the people involved....