Facts of Life

January 10, 2003

The 30th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade is January 22, 2003--Lobbying for Life and Prayer Breakfast and Rally planned in recognition of the horrendous human toll of abortion on demand. If you will be joining us at the Capitol on the 22nd of this month, please put a call in to your legislators to make appointments to talk to them, and please let me know if you get something scheduled.  You can get contact information at www.assembly.ca.gov, and www.sen.ca.gov.  If you have pro-life legislators, consider inviting them to the annual Prayer Breakfast, which is at 8:00 a.m. at The Grand, 1215 J Street, Sacramento.  The Rally for Life is at noon on the west steps of the Capitol building. There will also be workshops before and after the Rally, and the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and Catholics for Life will sponsor a pro-life Mass at 10:30 a.m. A Youth Rally will take place at 10:30 a.m. on the north steps of the Capitol.  Please consider organizing a bus or several vans to get pro-lifers from your area to Sacramento on this important day. 
    If you want to join pro-lifers bussing from the Los Angeles area, call Marcella Melendez at 310-839-4197.  If you can join pro-lifers bussing from the San Francisco/San Jose area, call Cathal Gallagher at 408-257-1149. 

 

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On January 8, Representatives Dave Weldon, M.D. (R-FL) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) re-introduced a bill that would ban human cloning.  All of the pro-life bills that passed the House in the last session must be passed once again before they can go on to the U.S. Senate, where they will finally receive a fair hearing due to pro-life electoral successes of last year.  As their press release states, "The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003 would prohibit any person or entity, in or affecting interstate commerce, from knowingly: (1) performing or attempting to perform human cloning; (2) participating in such an attempt; (3) shipping or receiving an embryo produced from human cloning; or (4) importing such an embryo." Read their entire press release and a statement by Dr. Weldon at http://www.house.gov/weldon/.

 

As the continuing controversy over the lack of reporting of sexual abuse by abortuaries continues, a case is filed against Planned Parenthood in Arizona.  In this case a 13 year-old girl had two abortions in six months and many more months of continuing sexual abuse at the hands of a "foster brother," before Planned Parenthood got around to reporting the abuse.  Read Bill O'Reilly's interview with the minor's attorney on January 9 on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor. 
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Australia's "doctor death," Philip Nitschke, is speaking at the Hemlock Society USA's national conference in San Diego this week.  Nitschke will display his latest killing machine, one with a dual purpose, which is designed to kill a patient with pure carbon monoxide or to provide life-giving oxygen. As Nitschke admits, "It will have a strong warning that if you put in different chemicals it will produce a peaceful death.  So it just becomes a strategy, somewhat cynical, but a strategy nevertheless to frustrate any attempts at legislative control."  Read Michael Perry's account for Reuters at http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030107/80/dhz8v.html.

California ProLife Council (CPLC) (www.californiaprolife.org) is the largest statewide organization in California solely dedicated to pro-life issues. CPLC is a non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization of pro-life groups and individuals in California dedicated to protecting and fostering the most basic value of our societyrespect for LIFE itself. We seek to educate our community in regard to abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide, to identify and organize the pro-life population of the state into an effective team, and to restore respect for human life to public policy. California ProLife Council is the California affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (www.nrlc.org).