WASHINGTON – By a vote of 417-0, U.S. House of Representatives today approved a bill to prohibit any state from executing a woman who "carries a child in utero," defined as "a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the...
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U.S. Supreme Court: Roe v. Wade = Partial-Birth Abortions
"The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Roe v. Wade equals partial-birth abortions, and Al Gore agrees," said Wanda Franz, Ph.D., president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), in response to today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling which struck down 5 to 4 the...
Lawmakers Back Away From House Vote on Roe v. Wade
House Democrats today backed away from a proposal to force a House vote on an endorsement of Roe v. Wade. If the vote had occurred, it would have been the first-ever House vote on Roe. National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) Legislative Director Douglas Johnson said...