By Dave Andrusko We were as surprised as anyone when pro-life Speaker of the House John Boehner announced today that he was resigning from the House at the end of October. He has represented Ohio’s eighth congressional district with distinction since 1990. NRL...
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Democrats retain pro-abortion Nancy Pelosi as House Minority Leader
By Dave Andrusko The headline is that Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives this morning re-elected pro-abortion Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) as minority leader. She was elected without opposition, by voice vote. It’s not quite that simple, however. Previously...
Reflections on House Passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act , Part One
By Dave Andrusko In addition to the usual factual mistakes, the brunt, it seems, of many news accounts of Tuesday’s House vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797) is that (a) the bill is not going anywhere in the Senate, so why bother?; and (b)...
Chen Guangcheng, who exposed China’s policy of forced abortions, meets with Congressional leaders
By Dave Andrusko Chinese pro-life human rights activist Chen Guangcheng met yesterday with Congressional leaders, expressing doubts that the investigation the Chinese government promised into the abuses he and his family had suffered in China had even begun and...
PPFA Inadvertently Exposes Weakness of its Position Among the Public
By Dave Andrusko A brief item as we finish National Right to Life News Today for Thursday. Planned Parenthood is using POLITICO (as it often does) to float a trial balloon: woe to pro-life Republicans running for President who dare to question whether PPFA ought to...
Congratulations to 251 Members of the House of Representatives
By Dave Andrusko “ Opponents of abortion in Congress are nothing if not persistent.” Jessica Arons--director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress (a nonprofit organization with very close ties to the Obama White House)--writing...