APRIL 14, 1998

Senate to Vote Soon on Overseas Abortion Programs

Congressional Action on Major
Pro-Life Issues Update

By NRLC Federal Legislation Office

WASHINGTON (April 14) - - This is a summary of congressional action that has occurred on several major pro-life issues since the update that appeared in the last issue of NRL News ("Pro-Life Issues Brewing in Congress," March 11 edition, page 6).

Democrat and Republican Pro-Lifers
Win Illinois Primaries

By Carol Long
NRL PAC Director

Again demonstrating the bi-partisan nature of the pro-life coalition, pro-life Illinois state Senator Peter Fitzgerald withstood a stiff pro-abortion challenge to win the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by pro-abortion Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun, while pro-life Rep. Glenn Poshard won the Democratic primary for governor March 17. In both primaries abortion was a highly visible and significant issue.

NRLC '98 Rapidly Approaching
Register Today!

Two of the all-time favorites of NRLC convention goers - - editorial cartoonists Chuck Asay and Steve Benson - - will be the featured speakers at the June 18 Thursday night general session.

"Roe v. Wade: Not a Solution Then, Still a Tragedy Today"

NRLC '98 Just Around
the Corner

• That's What It Means to Be Pro-Life
• Two Deaths Publicly Reported
  As Oregon Suicides Begin, Other States Act Against Euthanasia
• Reno Stalls, But States Act To Prevent Suicides
• Kevorkian Escapes Again
• 194 House Members Sign Petition to Advance Bills That Would Restrict Free Speech about Politicians
• 74 House Members Vote For Bill To Place Some Restrictions on Free Speech about Politicians
• New Study Finds
  Abortion Increases Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy by 50%
• A New Debate In The States
  Use Cloning To Create Human Guinea Pigs?
• "When They Say... You Say..."
  Argument 3: "Every child a wanted child," and other social arguments
• VIP + YOU = Successful Team Building
• Crisis Pregnancy Centers:
  Help and Hope for Women and Their Babies
• Abortion: The Silent Holocaust
• Partial-Birth Abortion Bans Continue To Be Passed
• Doing What You Dread... And Doing Just Fine
• ISSUES IN LAW & MEDICINE
  Ancient Jewish and Christian Attitudes Toward Suicide; The Rise and Fall of Euthanasia in Australia; and the Expansion of Euthanasia in the Netherlands to Include Infants with Disabilities
• Bigotry and Population Control: The Report of the Rockefeller Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
• NRLC Youth Outreach Advertisement
• ACTION REQUEST
  
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Another Step:

THE CHILD CUSTODY PROTECTION ACT (CPPA)

Thousands of children are being taken across state lines by people other than their parents to secure secret abortions. ...[A]bortion providers are taking out large advertisements in the Yellow Pages in cities like Harrisburg and Scranton, Pennsylvania, trumpeting the fact that their clinics, across the Pennsylvania state line, do not require parental consent as Pennsylvania does....
This suggestion is taken up by non-related adults who want to circumvent the law. One example made headlines recently. The case involved an 18-year-old Pennsylvania man had sex with a 12-year-old neighbor girl. The girl became pregnant. Rosa Hartford, mother of the 18-year-old, secretly took the girl to an abortion clinic in New York, a state with no parental involvement requirement. Her actions discovered, Mrs. Hartford, whose son pled guilty to two counts of statutory rape, was later convicted of interfering with the custody of a child.
The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP), a prominent proabortion legal defense organization, defended Mrs. Hartford on the grounds that she merely "assisted a woman to exercise her constitutional rights."...
For the sake of our children and our families, this must stop.
--Sen. Spencer Abraham's (R-Mi.) statement introducing the CCPA (S. 1645) on the U.S. Senate floor, February 12, 1998