National Right to Life News articles from September 2008

National Right to Life News archives from September 2008

APA's Flawed Report on Mental Health and Abortion.(American Psychological Association)
September 1, 2008... From the earliest days of abortion on demand, the American Psychological Association (APA) has taken a strong position on the question of whether there are mental health consequences from having an abortion. The APA has consistently claimed...

Autos for Life Issues 2008 Challenge.
September 1, 2008... Summer vacations are over, and the kids are back in school. It's starting to feel like fall. Now it's time for all of us in the pro-life movement to focus on the weeks ahead. 2008 will be over before we know it, so don't miss this...

Pro-Life News in Brief.
September 1, 2008... Wisconsin Abortions Drop in 2007 Another terrific piece of good news from the Upper Midwest: Wisconsin Right to Life issued a press release explaining that abortions in Wisconsin dropped 14% in 2007 compared to 2006, according to a report...

Agency #10542 under Human Service Charities of America: Federal Employee Giving Opportunity Provides Pro-Lifers Chance to Help NRL Educational Trust Fund.
September 1, 2008... To their great credit, Right to Life state and local chapters undertake varied and creative outreach efforts to help educate their communities about the plight of the unborn child. Each year since 1982, their projects have been bolstered by the...

Catholic Teaching on Abortion: Unchanged and Unchanging.
September 1, 2008... If "Things the Catholic Church Opposes" were a category on Family Feud, you can bet the Number 1 audience answer would be "Abortion." Consistently, forcefully, and universally, the Catholic Church has condemned killing unborn children for...

Writing Straight with Crooked Lines.
September 1, 2008... I like to say that sometimes God writes straight with crooked lines. As a parish priest, you may imagine I was doing something else on Sunday morning, August 24, when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made her now-infamous remarks on NBC's Meet...

DOs and DON'Ts: Grassroots Involvement and 2008.
September 1, 2008... I don't need to remind you what is at stake come November 4. Sen. John McCain is as solidly pro-life as Sen. Barack Obama is firmly pro-abortion. Not to be forgotten is that it is critical that each and every pro-life citizen across the country...

Fool Me Umpteen Times, Blame on Me.
September 1, 2008... Those who've faithfully read National Right to Life News and its online sister "Today's News & Views" remember that as far back as the immediate aftermath of pro-abortion Sen. John Kerry's 2004 loss to pro-life President George Bush, Democrats...

Face to Face with Our Future.
September 1, 2008... They should be absolutely terrified! I am speaking, of course, of the media elite who are doing everything they can to paint our movement as old, tired, and pretty much dead. Nothing could be further from the truth. The rank and file of the...

A History of the Christian Church's Witness against Abortion.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... A Love for Life, Dennis DiMauro, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, Oregon, 144 pages Reviewed by Laura Echevarria While reading Dennis DiMauro's book, A Love for Life, I kept thinking, "I wish I had this the years I was director of...

McCain Tapped into a Deep Vein of Idealism.(John McCain)
September 1, 2008... Prior to pro-life Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech, I'd called a couple of friends who had been elbow-deep in covering the Republican National Convention. Both were utterly exhausted. Not surprising, for it had been a long week which began...

Meet Pro-Life Gov. Sarah Palin.
September 1, 2008... Within a couple of hours of the surprise selection of pro-life Gov. Sarah Palin to be pro-life Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate, we were asked by The Hill newspaper to post a response on its blog. Here are the first two...

Starting a Serious National Conversation About Barack Obama.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Case against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate, By David Freddoso, Regnery Publishing, 2008, 244 pages If there is an overriding lesson to David Freddoso's meticulous, measured, and...

Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down -- By Kaylene Johnson, Epicenter Press, 2008, 145 pages.(Sarah Palin)
September 1, 2008... This small gem of a book was written well before pro-life Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen by pro-life Sen. John McCain to be his vice presidential running mate. The Barnes & Noble clerk told me the day I purchased the book that they had just gotten...

Sarah Palin: the Perfect Choice for John McCain.
September 1, 2008... "In memos, e-mails and phone calls this week, Obama campaign officials have urged surrogates and allies to mention Republicans who are 'nervous' about the Palin pick and to link those worries to George McGovern's aborted vice presidential pick...

The Importance of Being Registered to Vote.
September 1, 2008... A visitor from Mars could turn on a TV, open a newspaper, or surf the web and immediately discover that 2008 is an election year. But said visitor would be forgiven for some confusion regarding how an election actually works. Unfortunately...

Republican Party Pro-Life Platform Language on Abortion Stronger and More Comprehensive Than Ever.
September 1, 2008... For 35 years National Right to Life has worked unceasingly to reign in the rule of abortion on demand as part of an ongoing strategy that will eventually overturn the monstrous Roe v. Wade decision authored by Justice Harry Blackmun. Operating...

McCain Scores Perfect "10" at Saddleback Forum; Obama Flounders.(John McCain and Barack Obama)
September 1, 2008... "I want people to know me well." -- Pro-abortion Senator Barack Obama, speaking August 16 at Rick Warren's "Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency" Thanks to Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven Life), many people now not only know...

Reporting from St. Paul.
September 1, 2008... Editor's note: Darla St. Martin, NRLC co-executive director, and Karen Cross, NRL political director, were on the ground in the Twin Cities for the GOP Platform Committee hearings and the Republican National Convention. That week produced not...

Study Shows Embryonic Stem Cells Rejected by Immune Systems.
September 1, 2008... Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have failed another test to determine if they could ever be used in medical treatments. The immune systems of mice injected with human ESCs attacked the cells, which died within a matter of days. Even when treated...

Massive Virginian Rally for McCain/Palin.(John McCain and Sarah Palin)
September 1, 2008... When I heard that the McCain campaign was coming to nearby Fairfax, Virginia, yesterday, my first question was, "Will both John McCain and Sarah Palin be there?" The newly formed "dream team" are fast becoming the greatest one-two punch in...

What We Know and Why That Matters.
September 1, 2008... As you read and make use of this edition of National Right to Life News, there will be only a few short weeks before our great nation will go to the polls to elect the next President of the United States. Voting is an enormous privilege, one...

Help for Inquiring Young Minds.
September 1, 2008... As some of you head back to school, or send your kids off to fill their heads with knowledge, we'd like to make mention of the many pro-life materials the NRL Educational Trust Fund has available to help with those reports on government,...