http://www.wrtl.org/blog Life Voice is the blog of Wisconsin Right to Life. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:10:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Faster than a gymnast does a back flip, the Susan G. Komen Foundation performed its own version of the flip by denying grant funds to Planned Parenthood and then reversing its decision.  In the process, Komen got a well-deserved black eye and destroyed whatever credibility it had.   Where is the ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/02/03/the-komen-flip/ This is another abortion clinic horror story with a happy ending.  Following exposure of its sloppy practices, the Rockford, Illinois Women's Aid Clinic voluntarily closed its doors a few weeks ago. The Associated Press (AP) is to be commended.  Following the revelation of the "house of horrors" run by late-term abortionist ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/30/a-rockford-illinois-abortion-clinic-closes-its-doors/ You may wonder why Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) backed by the National Right to Life Committee and Wisconsin Right to Life is introducing H.R. 3803, the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.  Why this bill and why in the District of Columbia? First, Article I of the Constitution established ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/27/latest-of-late-term-abortions-in-the-district-of-columbia/ Today’s scientific understanding of the unborn child is far beyond what it was in 1973 when the United States Supreme Court handed down its infamous Roe v. Wade abortion decision. Thirty-nine years ago, the unborn child virtually did not exist in medicine. But over those decades, medical science has exponentially ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/26/scientific-advances-in-knowing-the-baby-in-the-womb/ On the anniversary of the January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the National Right to Life Committee unveiled a major new piece of legislation. The District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, authored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.),would prohibit abortions after a child has the capability to feel ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/25/national-right-to-life-unveils-major-district-of-columbia-abortion-restriction-bill/ In an audacious assault on revered conscience rights, the Obama Administration stated on January 20 that it would not alter the Obamacare "contraceptive mandate" issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in August to require all insurance providers to cover all FDA-approved drugs and devices.   This ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/24/obamacare-bites-catholic-church-and-conscience-rights/ Every January 22, we stop to ponder the enormous shadow cast on our nation by the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision.  With sheer emotion, we feel depression, anger, a sense of loss, grief, and, most overwhelmingly, a sadness that knows no limit.  How could our great country ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/an-american-tragedy-39-years-of-legal-abortion/ Not coincidentally, the Netherlands Parliament is debating whether to allow senior citizens to have assisted suicide if they are “tired of life,” part of the ever expanding Dutch culture of death. From the Radio Netherlands Worldwide story: The lower house of parliament will debate a controversial bill that expands existing euthanasia ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/17/the-netherlands-debating-tired-of-life-as-reason-for-euthanasia/ Earlier this week, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law which requires that an abortionist display an ultrasound image of a mother's unborn child before she has an abortion.   This decision is being hailed by Wisconsin Right to Life, National Right ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/16/fifth-circuit-upholds-required-ultrasound-display-before-abortion/  This morning's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had a wonderful front-page story about Green Bay Packer Ryan Pickett, wife Jennifer, and their six children (one in utero).  Ryan and Jennifer Pickett serve as Trustees of the Wisconsin Right to Life Veritas Society media campaign.  The Picketts  attended the 2010 and 2011 Green ... http://www.wrtl.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/11/ryan-and-jennifer-pickett-wrtl-veritas-society-trustees-and-right-to-life-heroes/