April 8, 1999

Michigan Jury Convicts Jack Kevorkian of Second-degree Murder Sentencing Scheduled for April 14

Jack Kevorkian (left) who represented himself, and prosecutor John Skrzynski, confer with Judge Jessica Cooper during Kevorkian's murder trial in Michigan. On March 26 Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Thomas Youk.

Breaux Proposes "Premium Support" Reform of Medicare

Pro-life Sen. John Breaux (D-La.), chaired the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. His reform proposal would allow older Americans to escape rationing.	Vice President Albert Gore. The Clinton-Gore Administration, which has repeatedly proposed health care plans that would force rationing, opposes Breaux's proposal.

By Dept. of Medical Ethics

On March 16, 1999, a bipartisan majority of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, chaired by pro-life Senator John Breaux (D-La.), voted for a Medicare reform " premium support" proposal that, by permitting older Americans to add their own funds on top of diminishing government payments, would allow them to escape rationing.

STEVE FORBES TO SEEK
WHITE HOUSE

Steve Forbes

By Carol Long Tobias, NRL PAC Director

Pro-life Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes, Inc. and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, has announced that he will seek the 2000 Republican nomination for president of the United States. This increases to 10 the number of Republicans seeking their party's nomination.

• Harvest Time
  
• Child Custody Protection Act to Move Soon
  
• CAUTION!
  "American Right to Life"
  
• The Difference That YOU and NRLC Are Making
  
• Paul Greenberg
  Let Them Stop, Listen and Look
  
• Kevorkian's Nine-Year Euthanasia Crusade Leads to Murder Conviction
  
• An Easy Way To Help Your Pro-life Friends and NRL News
  
• Report Data Suggest
  Elderly Could Afford Unrationed Care
  
• Pro-Life Banner Stirs Controversy In Moorestown, New Jersey
  
• 1997-98 Planned Parenthood Annual Report Released
  New Rhetoric, Same Old Sad Story at Nation's Top Abortion Chain
  
• Much Stronger Pro-Life Sentiment
  Big Changes In Nurses' Attitudes on Abortion
  
• Ads Warning of Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Must Be Allowed, Court Says
  
• RU 486 Proponents Step Up Efforts
  
• Should We Accept Denial of Our Right to Informed Consent about Abortion?
  
• Be A Friend for Life
  
• The New Counter-Culture
  
• Will Clinton's support for partial-birth abortion spur an overdue moral awakening?
  A Line In The Sand
  
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POPULAR MOVEMENTS, PUBLIC POLICY, AND PATIENCE

For the pro-life movement to be successful it must be a popular movement. Beyond strongly committed pro-lifers, it must attract enough support from the middle of the popular spectrum so that the legal protection of human life becomes national policy once again. To build as large a base of support as possible the movement must focus on the right to life as a single issue and be nonpartisan and ecumenical. (A diffuse, multi-issue "focus" invites disagreement and in-fighting, etc.) To make the movement effective, individual action and energy at the grassroots level must be coordinated and amplified with a national strategy. For the strategy to succeed in the face of determined and powerful opposition, it must include carefully designed intermediate steps that overcome and outflank the opposition on the way toward the ultimate goal. Adhering to these very principles has made NRLC successful in the service of the right to life cause.