National Right to Life News Today 8/7/2013

Topics for August 7, 2013

Your legacy – an enormous difference for Life! By Don Parker, NRLC Development Director The other day, a long-time member of National Right to Life called with some questions. He and a relative both wanted to re-do their wills and designate National Right to Life   Love is the River That Flows Through By Carol Tobias, NRLC President Love is not proud. Love does not boast. Love, after all, Matters the most. Love does not run. Love does not hide. Love does not keep Locked inside. Love is the river that flows through. The District of Columbia: for pro-abortionists never enough abortions in our nation’s capital By Luis Zaffirini Earlier this week, online magazine The Nation published a story blissfully anticipating (on the basis of some highly questionable premises) a time when the District of Columbia would be allowed to fund abortions for low-income women.   No euphemisms need apply when telling the story of the deaths of mother and her unborn baby By Dave Andrusko On Tuesday we talked about the New York Times’ schizophrenic “fetus/baby” usage in the same story. (“Fetus/Baby”–Another Schizophrenic New York Times news story”) A Second look at State Sen. Wendy Davis’ remark about Kermit Gosnell By Dave Andrusko Thanks for those who took the time to write about our story yesterday on pro-abortion “icon” Texas state Senator Wendy Davis (“Pro-abortion Texas State Senator says ‘I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case’”)   Maryland Limit on What People are Allowed to Spend on Their Health Care Drive Major Insurer Out of State Health Exchange By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics This week the Aetna insurance company announced that it will not offer a health insurance policy in Maryland’s state Obamacare “exchange” because state regulators have placed such severe limits Prepare to Win in 2014: Register to Vote By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director One of the most important ways anyone can help save unborn babies is with their vote. The impact pro-life voters make in sending pro-life candidates to Congress and to their state   But for the Grace…” Editor’s note. This story from the March 2002, edition of National Right to Life News is the latest in our year-long “Roe at 40,” where we reprint some of the best that has appeared in NRL News Croatian midwife sacked for refusing to participate in abortion sues hospital By Peter Baklinski Editor’s note. This appeared at lifesitenews.com. KNIN, Croatia, August 6, 2013 – A Croatian midwife is fighting back after she was fired in June for refusing to participate in the deliberate killing of an unborn child   Detroit Abortion Rate at 37.9 as City Files Bankruptcy Editor’s note. This appeared on the blog of Ohio Right to Life, NRLC’s state affiliate. A recurring image in stories about Detroit’s bankruptcy is darkness, loss of light: 40 percent of the city’s streetlights do not work. Most Canada Docs Would Refuse Assisted Suicide By Wesley J. Smith Canada faces an assisted suicide/euthanasia legalization crisis, with lawsuits, advocacy for legalization, and Quebec poised to pass a law that not only legalizes wide-open euthanasia, but requires doctors to do the killing   Pro-Lifers: Targets of Intolerance, Violence and Harassment Editor’s note. This comes from PNCI—the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues A troubling trend of pro-abortion violence and harassment toward pro-life advocates is taking place around the world and includes actions directed at medical doctors, clergy, and peaceful pro-life demonstrators     Check out the full stories and more at: nationalrighttolifenews.org

 

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