PROUDLY PRO-LIFE AWARDS DINNER TO HONOR ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO AND DR. JAMES C. DOBSON.(Brief Article)

On April 30, the National Right to Life Education Trust Fund will host the ninth annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner. Always a special night in which the Trust Fund honors leaders in the right to life movement, this year's two honorees are special friends of the unborn and the medically dependent.

General Chairman and Master of Ceremonies Ben Stein will lead attendees in celebrating the lifelong contributions of Archbishop Renato R. Martino, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, and Dr. James C. Dobson, founder and president of Focus on the Family. Guests will pay their respects to these two great pro-life champions at a dinner to be held at the historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Born in Salerno, Italy, Archbishop Martino was appointed Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in 1986. His experience and insight and staunch pro-life convictions have been invaluable in the struggle to keep the promotion of abortion out of UN documents.

Zealous pro-abortion advocates have sought to use the Cairo Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women, among others, as well as the current General Assembly's Special Session on Women to enshrine abortion as a worldwide "right." His work alongside that of non-governmental organizations such as National Right to Life has been instrumental.

Archbishop Martino has received honorary degrees from the governments of Italy, Portugal, Thailand, Argentina, Venezuela, and Lebanon.

Dr. James C. Dobson, Ph.D., is best known as the founder and president of Focus on the Family. Not only does Dr. Dobson appear on a daily radio program, he also finds time for a daily ...