Sunday, June 3, 2012

National Right to Life News Today Week-in-Review

 

Week-in-Review Topics for May 29 -- June 1, 2012

 

Follow Breaking Updates on NRL News Today

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By Dave Andrusko In order to bring you breaking news, we are composing new stories and updating old stories during the course of the day for our growing number of readers.  The best way for you to know when these

 

Obama and 168 House Members Defend Sex-Selection Abortion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT For further information: NRLC Media Relations, 202-626-8825mediarelations@nrlc.org or NRLC Federal Legislation, 202-626-8820,federallegislation@nrlc.org Strong U.S. House majority votes to ban sex-selection abortion NRLC says Obama and 168 U.S. House

What’s airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today: “Last Call for NRLC 2012“ Part 2

By Dave Andrusko In this second of a two-part chat about the upcoming June 28th to 30th National Right to Life Convention, National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias talks about two special guests. (By the

 

 

Cardinal Wuerl on why the Archdiocese of Washington, DC went to court to challenge the Obama Mandate

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, DC

By Dave Andrusko We’ve done our best to keep NRL News Today readers current with respect to the clash between the Obama Administration’s mandate that tramples over religious freedoms and the resistance to it by the community of faith,

PPFA Employee Shown on Video instructing a woman how to obtain an abortion if the child is female

By Dave Andrusko Within hours of the posting of a YouTube video in which The Daily Caller says a Planned Parenthood employee is “seen instructing a Live Action investigator how to obtain an abortion if the child is a female,”
 

Thank goodness I can still cringe

By Dave Andrusko When speaking to the broader public—as opposed to what they tell each other—pro-abortionists will often feign an attitude that they, too, understand that abortion is serious business and not to be trivialized. They don’t mean it

Obama’s Snark Offensive

Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

By Dave Andrusko We’re going to end this week’s editions of National Right to Life News Today with a look at pro-abortion President Barack Obama’s problems. They extend beyond some of the ominous polling numbers that have popped up and

 

Author of study showing abortion limits do not increase Maternal Mortality demolishes pro-abortion critique

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By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education and Research When Elard Koch and his colleagues published his study showing that abortion limits do not lead to increases in maternal mortality, they upset more than few apple carts. 

Chen Guangcheng to address Council on Foreign Relations

Pro-Life Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng when Mr. Chen arrived in the United States on Saturday.

By Dave Andrusko Even as he is focuses on the safety of family members who remain in China and his own physical and emotional recovery, pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is preparing to address the prestigious Council on Foreign

 

9-month-pregnant mother and her baby survive horrific attack

By Dave Andrusko Sometimes the savagery of the violence committed against pregnant women is so stunning I am reluctant to write about it. But I felt I ought to talk as briefly as possible about a case described by the

NARAL offers advice how to talk to friends about Obama over the holiday weekend

NARAL President Nancy Keenan and President Obama

By Dave Andrusko Well, if you’re going to endorse Barack Obama for a second term, it only make sense that NARAL should periodically send out explanations both why it loves the President AND (as a recent blog entry puts it)

 

Two Investigations of Media Bias, one from an unexpected source

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By Dave Andrusko Over in “A Tale of Two Planned Parenthood Controversies: Wall-to-Wall Komen vs. Silence for Live Action,” we bring you a devastating critique of media one-sidedness, produced by the Media Research Center (MRC). In a word, four separate stories

The vote on the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act: the Day After, Part One

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) (R) and Chinese dissident and president of ChinaAid Bob Fu (L) listen to Chen Guangcheng on the phone during a hearing before the Global Health, and Human Rights Subcommittee of House Foreign Affairs Committee May 15, 2012

By Dave Andrusko There is a kind of eerie unreality (even by the standards of the abortion controversy) about the debate over sex-selection abortions in general, and the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 3541), in particular. In one sense it’s like

 

   

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