May 2002

NINTH ANNUAL PROUDLY PRO-LIFE AWARDS DINNER HONORS ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO, DR. JAMES DOBSON

 

The NRL Educational Trust Fund awarded its Ninth Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards to Archbishop Renato Martino, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations, and Dr. James Dobson, founder and president of Focus on the Family. Photo Credit: Bill Molitor

Biotech Lobby and Patient Groups Urge Senate to Say Yes to Human Cloning

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Ks.)	Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)

WASHINGTON (May 7, 2002)--Despite the support of President Bush, the Brownback-Landrieu bill to ban the cloning of human embryos has run into a wall of stiff resistance in the U.S. Senate.

The biotechnology industry lobby and patient-advocacy groups are attacking the bill in costly advertising campaigns, including TV ads. The bill, authored by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Ks.), is also under fire from groups of scientists and from editorial boards at various newspapers.

Does "research cloning" create a human embryo?

Last-Minute Vote Switches Keep Assisting Suicide Illegal in Hawaii

By Jenny Nolan, Legislative Assistant
NRLC Department of Medical Ethics

A bill to legalize assisting suicide in Hawaii was defeated 14-11 in the state Senate May 2 when three state senators who had previously voted in favor of it switched their votes. The "Death with Dignity" bill had been passed by Hawaii's House of Representatives, and was strongly supported by Hawaii's outgoing governor, Democrat Ben Cayetano.

 

Wanda Franz, Ph.D., NRLC President, with legendary singer and song writer Pat Boone, Honorary Chairman of the Awards Dinner, and Dr. James Dobson, one of the two recipients of this year's Proudly Pro-Life Award. See stories pages 2 & 4. Photo Credit: Bill Molitor

• Proudly Pro-Life Plus
  
• Must Reading for Pro-Lifers
  
• EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS BRITISH SUICIDE LAW
  
• Assisted Suicide Defeated in Hawaii
  State Legislative Sessions Coming to an End
  
• Be a Friend for Life
  NRLC Convention 2002
  
• Federal Judge Overturns Ashcroft Assisted Suicide Ruling; Appeal Expected
  
• Jettisoned Ultrasound and Training Requirements May Have Prevented Tragedies
  Deaths, Ruptured Tubes, Heart Attacks
  Among RU486 Users, Distributor Reports
  
• Spring Cleaning: Want Not? Waste Not.
  Rummage Sales for the Community, the Chapter, and Unborn Lives
  
• National Right to Life Presents
  The Pro-Life Event of the Year!
  30th Annual Convention
  
• Therapeutic Cloning Ignores Fate of Embryos
  
• "Cloning Human Embryos and Experimenting with Them and Killing Them is Wrong"
  
• Justice Byron White, 1917-2002
  
• Happy Mother's Day From Our Members To These Special Mothers
  
• Abortion and Breast Cancer:
  Truth loses first round in North Dakota
  
• Public Invited to Annual Pro-Life Professionals' Meeting and Paper Session
  
• U.S. House Again Passes Bill to Curb Transporting Minors for Abortions
  
• Fr. Pavone to Receive Special Honorary Degree
  
• Urgent Congressional Alert:
  U.S. Senate to Vote on Human Embryo Cloning Ban At Any Time!
• Dorgan-Johnson Bill Would Allow Implant-and-Abort Cloning
  
  

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From the President

ATTEND NRLC 2002
IN PITTSBURGH, PA

Do you want to make a difference as a pro-lifer? Get started for the first time? Or get re-energized? Meet old friends again? Then it's time to make plans to attend the National Right to Life Convention 2002.

WHERE, WHEN, & WHAT

* The 30th Annual National Right to Life Convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh Airport Hotel. The hotel has a direct connection to the Pittsburgh, PA, International Airport. Hence you do not need to worry about transportation between the airport and the hotel. Our local host will be the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation.

* NRLC 2002 starts with a general session at 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 27 and ends with the popular closing banquet on Saturday evening, June 29.

* The convention is preceded by the Annual Meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change on Wednesday, June 26 (8-10 p.m., in the convention hotel). The meeting is open to registrants for NRLC 2002. Presentations will be made on the following topics: Prenatal Care and Birth Services for Uninsured Poor Pregnant Women (Lawrence D. Jacobs); Perinatal Hospice: Madigan Army Hospital (Byron C. Calhoun, MD, President, Am. Assoc. of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists); Effectiveness of Ultrasound in Pregnancy Decision-Making (Eric Keroack, MD); and Personality Characteristics of Adolescents Which Increase the Risk of Abortion (Wanda Franz, PhD, President, NRLC). After the talks you can meet the presenters and enjoy refreshments.