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What's Going On: Your Pro-Life Guide to What's Happening in TN
As always, Tennessee Right to Life is working with you to make a difference. Read about what's going on in Tennessee on the pro-life front lines, both good and bad. Then take the time to get involved. You'll be glad you did!
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Right to Life protects Tennesseans' shared goals

(As published in The Tennessean, Sunday, June 12, 2011, http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110613/OPINION03/306120088/Right-Life-protects-Tennesseans-shared-goals?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|p)

Karen Brukardt / Opinion Tennessee Voices

For more than 35 years, members of Tennessee Right to Life have worked through reasoned and responsible means to promote the protection of human life in our counties and communities.

Our diverse membership has done so through positive public education, advocacy, public policy and direct outreach to women and families facing difficult or unexpected pregnancies. And because Tennessee is a strongly pro-life state, many of the legal protections first introduced and passed here by our state legislators have become inspiration for similar lifesaving efforts in other states.

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JACK KEVORKIAN DEAD AT 83

WASHINGTON – Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist known the world over as "Dr. Death" for his push to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States, died in a Detroit-area hospital at age 83. He readily admitted to assisting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

"Many of the victims on whom Jack Kevorkian preyed were people with disabilities who had no terminal illness; one was simply old. In at least five cases autopsies were unable to confirm any disease at all," observed Burke J. Balch, J.D., director of National Right to Life's Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics.

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Unprecedented Pro-Life Victories as Tennessee's Legislature Adjourns

More than a decade after the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a wrong and radical ruling claiming a 'fundamental' right to abortion in the Tennessee Constitution, bi-partisan super majorities in the General Assembly have sent the matter for Tennesseans to decide in a public vote during the next governor's election in 2014. "At long last the people of Tennessee will have their say in this matter of life and death," said Brian Harris, president of Tennessee Right to Life. "Should a handful of activist judges make Tennessee's laws on abortion or should it be the people acting through their elected representatives in the state Legislature? We are confident that when it's all said and done, the power for deciding such questions will be returned to the people," Harris said.

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NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE RESPONDS TO LATEST GUTTMACHER REPORT

WASHINGTON – Today, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, disputed claims that restrictions on abortion "disproportionately affect" poor women. The assertion was made in, "Changes in Abortion Rates Between 2000 and 2008 and Lifetime Incidence of Abortion, published online yesterday in the June 2011 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by researchers from the Guttmacher Institute (originally founded as a special research affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America).

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Tennessee Right to Life Scorecards for Tennessee Legislature

Click here for the 2008 Tennessee Right to Life Scorecard for the Tennessee House of Representatives.

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Click here for the 2009 Tennessee Right to Life Scorecard for the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Click here for the 2010 Tennessee Right to Life Scorecard for the Tennessee Senate.

Click here for the 2010 Tennessee Right to Life Scorecard for the Tennessee House of Representatives.

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