From left to right: Honoree Bishop James T. McHugh, NRLC's Vice President Anthony Lauinger, NRLC President Wanda Franz, Ph.D., and honoree Thomas S. Monaghan. Photo Credit: Bill Molitor

Pro-Life Champion John Cardinal O'Connor - Our Good Friend- Is Laid to Rest

By Ernest Ohlhoff
NRLC Director of Outreach

Cardinal John O'Connor, pictured here with NRLC President Wanda Franz, Ph.D., and her husband Gunter Franz, was the honoree at the First Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner in 1994.

A dear friend, counselor, mentor and spiritual advisor to many in the pro-life movement has passed on. But his spirit lives on in each of us as we remember him, imitate him, carry on his work, and seek his prayerful intercession.

New York City (May 8) - - A Mass of Christian Burial was held yesterday for John Cardinal O'Connor, the nation's leading Catholic pro-life spokesman and archbishop of New York. Cardinal O'Connor died May 3 at the age of 80 after suffering eight months of brain cancer.

During his 16 years as spiritual leader of the nation's second-largest diocese, Cardinal O'Connor made the pro-life issue the cornerstone of his archdiocesan public policy. Cardinal O'Connor often lamented that while he could preach on a variety of social issues such as poverty, discrimination, homelessness, and apartheid and be praised to high heavens, it was only when he dared to preach about abortion that he came under unmerciful attacks from the media and other national figures. But the criticism never altered his pro-life message.

Nebraska Defends Partial-Birth Abortion Ban in Supreme Court

Nebraska Attorney General Donald Stenberg	Jim Bopp, Jr. NRLC General Counsel

By Richard E. Coleson, Esq.

On April 25, Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg defended his state's partial-birth abortion ban in oral arguments presented before the U.S. Supreme Court. Simon Heller, of the New York City-based Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, argued for abortionist Leroy Carhart in the case known as Stenberg v. Carhart.

Heller had twice succeeded in getting the ban declared unconstitutional, first in the federal district court and then by the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals. Now, the highest court in the land will determine whether a state can ban a procedure most consider more like infanticide than abortion. (See also page 2.)

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• PPFA Supplies Fetal Body Parts for Experimentation
  
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• "Drawing a Bright Line Between Abortion and Infanticide"
  
• 7th Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner Honors Bishop James McHugh and Thomas Monaghan
  
• Royal College Advises Abortion Practitioners that Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer "Could Not Be Disregarded"
  
• John Cardinal O'Connor's Funeral Inspires Pro-Lifers
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• Samuel's Hand Continues to Reach Out to People Around the World
  
• PRO-LIFE YOUTH SHINE AT "BEIJING+FIVE"
  
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• Job Openings in NRLC Legislative Office
  
• Congressional Scorecards Available
  
• URGENT ACTION ALERT
  H.R. 2260, The Pain Relief Promotion Act
  MAY HAVE A SENATE FLOOR VOTE VERY SOON
  
  
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