By Colleen Parro
RNC/Life Committee

Former First Lady Barbara Bush, in a December 20, 1999 interview on ABC's This Week, said "I don't think it [abortion] should be in the national platform." She followed up by saying, "There's nothing a president can do about it anyway . . ." For more, click...

The city of Milan will pay $520 each month to women on low incomes who decide to keep their babies rather than have an abortion for financial reasons, Italian newspapers reported on Thursday. For more, click...

Two people, termed as abortion practitioners, were arrested in Poland in their offices just after performing abortions.
Abortions are illegal in Poland unless for rare situations but when the state deems an abortion necessary, law mandates it be done in a hospital. For more, click...

By Steven Ertelt
The remains of 36 unborn children, all aborted during the first trimester of pregnancy, were unearthed from a shallow grave on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Police, acting on a tip, found the childrens' bodies in three large bags behind an Ocean Springs, Misissippi business on Monday. For more, click...

A North Dakota abortuary has been slapped with a lawsuit by a pro-life counselor, Amy Jo Mattson, on grounds the mill, Red River Women's Clinic, deliberately misled women who were having abortions at that site. The abortuary handed out literature to the women stating that there was no medical evidence that an abortion can cause a higher rate of contracting breast cancer. Where that information came from is possibly a larger story in the future. For more, click...

By Sue Widemark
Tipper Gore and Mrs Bradley, in campaigning for husbands Al Gore and Bill Bradley, recently spoke at a National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) dinner. Mrs. Gore reaffirmed her husband's strongly pro-choice position and told the dinner attendees that, if Bill Clinton had not won the election in 1992, then abortion might have been made illegal.
Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Bradley brought taped messages from Al Gore. On the tape, Gore, flanked by an American flag, cautioned that if he and President Clinton hadn't won in 1992, legalized abortion could have been outlawed. "This could very well be the anniversary of Roe's demise," he said. For more, click...

A wonderful idea for our expectant families is to consider naming your baby before birth. We met a beautiful family via the Internet that is expecting a son, which they have already named, Max, for Maximilian Kolbe.
They continually refer to the child in the womb by name. At first I did not realize the power behind this practice. This week we found out that Max was is distress and a Cercerian Section was scheduled two weeks before he was due, and it truly took on a new meaning to pray for this child in the womb whom we felt we had already met!
By naming your child and referring to him or her by name, you will be doing one power pro-life action - reminding people that your Max, or Joe, or Janie is already here! They are not an "it" but a wonderful bundle of personality to whom people can easily relate. - K.S.

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life
It is not likely that those who are pushing the chemical abortion technique RU-486 will be any more eager to fully educate the public about this procedure than they are in regard to surgical abortion. Let's take a moment, then, to pick up the slack. For more, click...

While Nebraska holds the national interest in a United States Supreme Court case involving the banning of partial-birth abortions (PBA), the state is still in the grips of arguments over fetal tissue research. [Cor Newsletter, November, 1999] George Will addressed the issue in his syndicated column, January 20, explaining the difference of "generalized" specialized cells used in scientific research. For more, click...

A January 14 Associated Press story by by Richard Carelli reported that "The justices said they will review a Nebraska law that made it [partial-birth abortion] a crime for doctors to perform such abortions. A federal appeals court has blocked enforcement of that law, calling it unconstitutional. For more, click...

A January 26 Reuters report, concerning McCain, showed that the media does know right from wrong!
The report stated, "McCain, leading Bush narrowly in New Hampshire opinion polls, stepped into the abortion minefield on Wednesday by saying in answer to a reporter's question that if his daughter became pregnant, she would decide whether to have the baby. He later backtracked, saying this would be a family decision.

Thank you so much for publishing the picture of Samuel and the letter from his parents. Sadly, so many times the news covers the sensational, or gives us quick bits of news. We are often left wondering what the end of the story is!
You are providing a wonderful news source for pro-lifers in Arizona!
Mary Ellen Jamison
Tucson, AZ
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We are old customers with Lifeline Long Distance Company, which offers pro-life groups fundraising with no hassles.
Call Lifeline at 1-800-493-2002 if you are interested, and be sure to give them Children of the Rosary's identification number: 45766. They will be happy to answer all your questions.

As we look at the last year's projects and finances, it is amazing what has been accomplished because of your generosity! We had many events, sent out even more Newsletters and began two new projects, namely the bill board and supporting the television commercials for women in crisis pregnancies.
We will continue with all the projects and pray you will be as generous or even more so this year.
Consider sending a donation to CoR to add your friend or family to the mailing list. Your donation goes directly to trying to end abortion and education about the horrors of abortion.

By Sue Widemark
A newswire article announced that our country has 13 times the teen birth rate of the Netherlands, 25 times the gonorrhea rate of Germany, three times the teen abortion rate of France, and U.S. teens begin having sex earlier than European teens.
"How can this be?" asked the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which recently claimed that a survey of theirs showed that at least 33 percent of 'sex education programs' in the US do not mention condoms or abortion. For more, click...

Jesus said to his disciples: "None of those who cry out, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of God but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
"Anyone who hears my words and puts them into practice is like the wise man who built his house on rock. When the rainy season set in, the torrents came and the winds blew and buffeted his house. It did not collapse; it had been solidly set on rock. Anyone who hears my words but does not put them into practice is like the foolish man who built his house on sandy ground. The rains fell, the torrents came, the winds blew and lashed against his house. It collapsed under all this and was completely ruined." - Mt 7, 21. 24-27