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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
| | Has assisted suicide been scratched from the
progressive agenda? By Michael Cook One lesson from [last] Tuesday night is that assisted suicide is not necessarily an item on a "progressive" agenda. While voters reelected Barack Obama, added two Democrat senators, elected an openly-lesbian senator in Wisconsin, supported or legalized same-sex marriage in four states, and legalized recreational cannabis in Colorado and Washington, they rejected physician-assisted suicide in the playground of progressive politics, Massachusetts. Question 2 on the ballot asked whether a doctor should be allowed to prescribe a lethal drug to end the life of a terminally ill person. If it had been approved, assisted suicide would have gained a beachhead on the East Coast and might have spread quickly throughout New England. But voters rejected it by 51 percent to 49 percent, even though as recently as mid-September, a Suffolk University poll found that 64 percent of voters favored legalizing assisted suicide. What turned voters around? Four factors seem to have been at work.
[ Click here to read more. ] | | | | | | | HEADLINES |  |  Bards for abortion: Planned Parenthood asks writers, poets to perform at 'celebration' of Roe
LifeSiteNews
Planned Parenthood is recruiting writers and poets to compose short performance pieces celebrating the 40th anniversary of
Roe v. Wade. An announcement on the Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin's Facebook page asks the Badger State's creative forces to write "a story about how access or lack of access to birth control, family planning, safe or unsafe abortion care affected/affects your life. No professional writing or stage experience required or desired." Auditions will be held "BY APPOINTMENT ONLY" (emphasis in original) on Saturday in Madison. The finalists will perform their work at the Majestic Theater on Sunday, January 27 at a "celebration" of the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide. |
|  UN calls contraception access a 'universal human right'
CBS News
Access to contraception is a universal human right that could dramatically improve the lives of women and children in poor countries, the United Nations announced Wednesday in a new report. It is the first time the U.N. Population Fund's annual report explicitly describes family planning as a human right. The report effectively declares that legal, cultural and financial barriers to accessing contraception and other family planning measures are an infringement of women's rights. It is not binding and has no legal effect on national laws. |
|  The erosion of ethics in organ transplantation
Zenit
Organ donation can certainly be a supreme act of generosity. Pope John Paul II endorsed organ transplantation in both his encyclical Evangelium Vitae as well as his 2000 address to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society as a way to build up an "authentic culture of life." However, Pope John Paul II was also careful to insist that this lifesaving technology must be governed by critical ethical principles in order to fulfill its life affirming potential. |
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