Recently added articles from National Right to Life News:
Obama and Democratic Leaders in Congress Hoping To Impose Sweeping Abortion Mandates In "Health Care Reform".(Barack Obama)
Jun 01, 2009 ... WASHINGTONCongressional Democratic leaders are currently at work crafting "health care reform" legislation that they, and President Obama, hope to ram through Congress on a fast track this summer. Many details of the legislation have not yet been revealed. But this much is ...
Grassroots Pro-Lifers Keep Autos for Life Going Strong!
Jun 01, 2009 ... June is here already, and all of us at National Right to Life are looking forward to our 37th annual NRL Convention! The Convention always proves to be an ideal format for connecting with and re-energizing pro-life folks from across the country. It's inspiring to meet so many dedicated ...
Pro-Life News in Brief.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Patients' Vision Improved by Adult Stem Cells Three corneal disease patients in Australia gained significant vision improvements after treatment with their own stem cells, according to a report in the journal Transplantation. "This is an important step forward in ...
Obama Proposes Tax-Funded Abortion in Nation's Capital.(Barack Obama)
Jun 01, 2009 ... WASHINGTONPresident Obama has urged Congress to repeal a ban on tax-funded abortion in the nation's capitalthe District of Columbia. The White House submitted the proposal to Congress on May 7, as part of its detailed recommendations for federal spending for the new federal ...
Inadequately Funded Universal Health Care Leads to Rationing: Part 2-Great Britain.
Jun 01, 2009 ... NRLC has long argued that the cost of health care does not require rationing lifesaving treatment (see http://www.nrlc.org/MedEthics/AmericaCanAfford.html). As Congress prepares to pass health care reform intended to have universal coverage, it is critically important to include a means of ...
MCCL Rebuts University Charge, Calls on Stem Cell Institute to Cease Human Cloning.(Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) and the University of Minnesota have exchanged pointed letters over charges made by Wendy Burt, Academic Health Center director of public and community affairs at the university. Burt alleged that recent MCCL news releases were "absolutely ...
Morgan Rose Matthews Was a Life Truly Lived.(In memoriam)
Jun 01, 2009 ... What is the value of a life? And how does one know if a life was lived well? One life I know that was lived far beyond what most of us can achieve was the life of Morgan Rose Matthewsthe beautiful daughter of Joe and Missy. Morgan was a Down syndrome child, a child ...
Nebraska Passes One of Nation's Strongest Ultrasound Laws.
Jun 01, 2009 ... On May 29, Nebraska's unicameral legislature overwhelmingly passed LB 675informally dubbed by its supporters the Mother's Right to See Her Unborn Child Ultrasound billon a vote of 405. Gov. Dave Heineman immediately signed the act into law. "The bill takes us one step closer to ...
New Book Exposes Language Driving Culture of Death: Prophetic Voice of John Paul II Still Speaks to America.(John Paul II: Confronting the Language Empowering the Culture of Death)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009 ... When Notre Dame invited pro-abortion President Barack Obama to speak at its graduation, many Catholics were profoundly disturbed that the prestigious university would not only extend the invitation to give the commencement address but also give him an honorary degree. Others, however, ...
Oklahoma Bans Sex-Selection Abortion as Part of Comprehensive Abortion-Reporting Law.
Jun 01, 2009 ... In spite of having a pro-abortion governor, Oklahoma on May 21 enacted a comprehensive abortion-reporting bill which also prohibits sex-selection abortions. HB 1595, the chief legislative priority of Oklahomans For Life this session, is a multifaceted pro-life measure which was approved ...
PRO-LIFE ACTION.
Jun 01, 2009 ... OVERTURNING ROE v. WADE IS DIFFICULT With Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court did more than merely legalize abortion: it "constitutionalized" it, making the new "right" immune to simple legislative correction. This de facto amendment to the Constitution from the judicial bench created ...
Public Opinion on Abortion Tilting Pro-Life, Obama Impact Hard to Miss.
Jun 01, 2009 ... "With the first pro-choice president in eight years already making changes to the nation's policies on funding abortion overseas, expressing his support for the Freedom of Choice Act, and moving toward rescinding federal job protections for medical workers who refuse to participate in ...
Report Calls for Further Study of Effects of Abortion on Women.
Jun 01, 2009 ... While women are deeply affected any time they lose an unborn child, such a loss is especially damaging if the woman freely chose to abort the baby, according to a report in Current Women's Health Reviews. Priscilla Coleman, associate professor of human development and family ...
"Smart Phone": An Answer for the Internet-Challenged.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Do you know what an "A to Z Guidebook" is? How about Fodor's Travel Guide? Did you grow up with Life magazine or the Encyclopedia Britannica? If you answered yes to any of those, you are my target audience for this article. (Just so you know I grew up with the 1962 version of Encyclopedia ...
Filling in the Blanks on Judge Sotomayor.(Sonia Sotomayor)
Jun 01, 2009 ... By the time you have a chance to read these remarks, we can hope that more details will have been added to fill in what is largely a blank slate. I'm referring, of course, to Judge Sonia Sotomayor, pro-abortion President Barack Obama's nominee to take the place of pro-abortion Justice ...
Senate Should Explore Whether Judge Sotomayor Agrees with Views of Dissenters in Gonzales v. Carhart.(Sonia Sotomayor)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Editor's note. The following is the statement issued by National Right to Life on May 26, 2009, the day that pro-abortion President Barack Obama announced his selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that is being vacated by the impending retirement of ...
An Encouraging Update on State Legislation.
Jun 01, 2009 ... It would be difficult not to be excited when (for starters) Oklahoma has passed a comprehensive abortion-reporting bill which also prohibits sex-selection abortions and Nebraska now has arguably the strongest, most effective ultrasound measure in the nation. But NRLC State Legislative ...
NRLC Unequivocally Condemns Slaying of Abortionist Dr. George Tiller.(National Right to Life Committee)
Jun 01, 2009 ... "Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said the assailant apparently acted alone. The FBI and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are trying to determine whether others were part of the attack and whether the suspect had any connection to antiabortion groups." -- From June 1 Washington ...
NRLC President Wanda Franz to Speak at the World Congress of Families V.(National Right to Life Committee)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... NRLC President Dr. Wanda Franz will speak at the World Congress of Families V in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on August 1012, 2009. Dr. Wanda Franz will speak on the important topics of cloning and stem cell research. Also attending with Dr. Franz will be two members of our ...