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Will California attempt to pass assisted suicide legislation this legislative term? By Camille Giglio California, a state with an aging population, falling birth rates, and rising welfare rolls, now has a super majority of Democrats in the state legislature with a Democrat as governor. The legislature has the best opportunity it has ever had to pass whatever legislation it wants. And, what it has wanted since at least 2000 is assisted suicide. The Wolk bill, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, provided The Compassion and Care folks, inspired by Derek Humphrey and his Death with Dignity organization, with permission to establish themselves in California and begin to promote their Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment to California's citizens. It wasn't official state authorization, but pretty close. It has exposed California's senior citizens to some high-pitched sales promotions promising compassion and care and a peaceful, painless "natural" death at the time and place of the patient's choosing. Pro-lifers might, now, want to rethink their statement about supporting life from conception to natural death. The words "choice" and "conception" have been co-opted by the abortionists. Now the phrase natural death is being co-opted by the death and dying crowd. [ Click here to read more. ] | | | |
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 Pro-life med tour counters schools' abortion policies
Christian News Wire
Medical Students for Life of America (MedSFLA) is proud to announce the 2013 Spring Medical Students for Life Tour. The tour will travel to over 25 medical schools across the country with nine pro-life physicians who will provide medically accurate lectures on issues such as perinatal hospice, high-risk pregnancies, sex and public health, embryo adoption, medical ethics, and conscience rights. "All too often, pro-life medical students face discrimination and pressure to conform to pro-abortion policies on their campuses. While Medical Students for Choice works to force all physicians to do abortions as 'a part of standard medical education and residency training,' the pro-life physicians on the 2013 Spring Medical Students for Life Tour will provide a life-affirming alternative perspective that is not often heard at medical schools," said Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America and Medical Students for Life of America. |
|  Widely published webcam abortions study by partner of Planned Parenthood
Caffeinated Thoughts
What looked like a study promoting Planned Parenthood's webcam abortions that was widely published in the media, turns out to be co-authored by a radical abortion group, that not only works closely with Planned Parenthood, but collaborates with Planned Parenthood on dangerous abortion experiments on women in the Third World. The article on the study which ran in The Des Moines Register, 11/16/12, features Daniel Grossman, MD, Vice President for research at Ibis Reproductive Health. Ibis, based in Massachusetts, is an organization that aggressively promotes abortion, especially medication (abortion pill / RU-486) abortions like the ones Planned Parenthood offers by webcam in Iowa. |
|  City of Rockford settles lawsuit for harassing pro-lifers
LifeSiteNews
After more than five years of federal litigation, members of the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative have settled their federal lawsuit against the City of Rockford over the city's alleged harassment of pro-life individuals and other alleged federal civil rights violations. The agreement, reached between attorneys from the Thomas More Society and the city, will result in positive reforms and revisions of city ordinances, payment of attorney's fees, and compensation for losses suffered by the removal of pro-life advertising by members of the Pro-Life Initiative. Tom Brejcha and co-counsel Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society, along with attorney Jason R. Craddock, reached a resolution of the federal lawsuit in a long series of meetings with Rockford officials, going back over several years, even after the city's lone abortion provider, Wayne Webster, was forced to shutter his highly controversial abortion operation. Webster achieved national notoriety for conducting his abortion business in an old abandoned school building, featuring hanging rubber chickens, nun dolls pierced by sewing needles, and other exotic and gruesome displays in his windows. | |
