Speaking to reporters after 100 days as President yesterday, George Bush said his administration’s priorities on abortion should be on policies that “can actually pass Congress such as banning partial- birth abortion.” He continued, “I think it is unrealistic to assume that America is going to ban abortions at this point in our history because people got to understand the preciousness of life before the politics change.” He added that abortion would not be used as a litmus test for appointing Supreme Court justices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010425/aponline084434_000.htm
Tennessee voters may be able to vote to include the following in the state Constitution in 2006: “There is no fundamental right to an abortion in this state”. https://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04453486.shtml?Element_ID=4453486
Catholic News Service reports that about 100 supporters of the pro-life cause from the Jewish and Christian communities gathered in New York for an April 24 conference on “exploring how Jews and Christians can work together to sanctify human life.” It was sponsored by the Institute for Religious Values, an agency based in Purcellville, Va., and Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Mich., which opened last year with financing from the pizza fortune of Thomas S. Monaghan. With ordained and lay speakers from both the Jewish and Catholic communities, the conference explored the similarities and differences in the two faiths’ approaches to abortion, partial-birth abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, as well as the overall topic of the sanctity of life.