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Henry Hyde: 1924 - 2007
National Right
to Life Endorses
“The most prominent anti-abortion advocacy group in the country has
picked a candidate in the 2008 presidential race. It’s Fred
Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee.”
Judging by the waves of e-mails and flood of phone calls that came into National Right to Life, the news was out even before NRLC held its November 13 press conference: NRLC had endorsed former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson for President of the United States. This was a carefully thought-out decision, based (as we’ll discuss below) on three criteria. At the heart of the NRLC board’s decision-making was the critically important conclusion that Sen. Thompson was the pro-life Republican candidate most likely to defeat pro-abortion Republican Rudy Giuliani for the party’s presidential nomination and to defeat whichever pro-abortionist the Democrats select.
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From the President
COURT-SPONSORED TERRORISM Editor's note. The following guest column is written Gunter N. Franz, Ph.D. Dr. Franz, associate professor emeritus of Physiology and Pharmacology at West Virginia University School of Medicine, is the husband of NRL President Wanda Franz, Ph.D. Recently, I heard a speaker who sought to “disturb” his captive audience by invoking a long list of instances in which we, individually and collectively, “terrorize” others. Anyone in the audience who did not simply “tune out” the speaker’s obvious (and inappropriate) attempt to make an ill-conceived and ill-concealed political comment would have been astounded to hear that not being nice to those around us was, well, “terrorism.” Of course, to accept such trivializations and redefinitions of the term terrorism—especially in these days—would have required us to suspend our critical faculties and play a silly game of pretend. But, in this case, the speaker actually could have made a convincing case for the existence of a “domestic terror.” During the “Great Terror” (la Grande Terreur) of the French Revolution, perhaps as many as 40,000 people were executed. The blood of the guillotined victims flowed freely and publicly. In our own “domestic terror,” too, blood flows freely—but not publicly. Instead of the openly displayed guillotine, we have other machines, an array of surgical instruments, and even poisonous drugs—hidden away in “clinics.” And the number of victims is vastly larger: about 1.3 million a year. Or, cumulatively, more than 48 million since this “domestic terror” was initiated in our country. I am speaking, of course, of abortion. NRL News Archive2007 2006
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