"Facts of Life" Email: June 17, 2003

Facts of Life—June 17, 2003—Do Your Part to Recall Gray Davis—See Below

AJR 2—the resolution calling for a “celebration” of the 30^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, authored by Assemblywoman Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) passed the California Senate on June 16.  See how your Senator voted at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ajr_2_vote_20030616_1013AM_sen_floor.html   AJR 2 passed the California Assembly on January 21.   Go to http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm, and insert the bill number to access the resolution language and the Assembly floor vote.  

The pro-abortion American Medical Association (AMA) today approved a resolution, which endorses the cloning of human embryos for the mere purpose of medical research—so-called “therapeutic cloning,” calling it “medically ethical.”  See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,89656,00.html.  The AMA, which is meeting in Chicago this week, may also take up a resolution proposed by the Wisconsin Medical Association to reverse their endorsement of Attorney General John Ashcroft’s November 2001 ruling that federally controlled drugs may not be used to assist suicide.    

Both mom and baby went home in good health on June 10, after a Palmdale woman, who was in a coma, gave birth to a baby boy 15 weeks early on February 26.  Amanda Thomas went to the hospital in mid-February for shortness of breath and other serious flu-like symptoms that turned out to be viral pneumonia.  Thomas passed out when they put her on oxygen, and three days later doctors induced the coma to stabilize her condition, complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome and kidney failure.  Little Charlie is not the first baby to successfully survive birth from a mom in a coma, but it was a miracle, nonetheless.  See the story at
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-comamom11jun11,1,6557028.story?coll=la-home-leftrail  

Bill Pryor, Alabama’s Attorney General, is also President Bush’s appointee to the 11^th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.  And here is one appointee who has no apologies for his pro-life position.  Asked by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) if he still believed that Roe v. Wade is "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law," Pryor said, "I stand by that comment.  I believe that not only is [Roe] unsupported by the text and structure of the Constitution, but it has led to a morally wrong result. It has led to the slaughter of millions of innocent unborn children."   Wow.  See http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york061203.asp  and http://dynamic.washtimes.com/print_story.cfm?StoryID=20030611-113019-8769r  or http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030611-113019-8769r.htm

When the Crossroads pro-lifers were on the floor of the California Assembly on June 2nd, about to be introduced to the Assembly and onlookers by Assemblyman Dave Cogdill (R-Modesto),  suddenly “free-speech” became a problem for pro-abortion Democrats.  The young walkers, who began their annual summer trek across country May 29 in San Francisco were asked to remove themselves to the gallery for the introduction.  Somebody was offended by their pro-life T-shirts, which merely said “Pro-life,” so they dutifully complied.  About 18 walkers, including a Catholic priest, are expected to arrive in Washington, D. C. on August 14, after several months of witnessing to the pro-life message in towns across America with this relay walk.  http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/92003c.asp    

The new government in Belgium will apparently require that all hospitals, including Catholic hospitals, must facilitate euthanasia according to the new law passed there last year.  Each hospital will be expected to have a team of doctors available for physician-assisted suicide.  http://www.expatica.com/index.asp?pad=2,366,&item_id=31998 

Doug Johnson, Legislative Director for National Right to Life Committee, has chronicled the endless distortions of the facts in the media in reporting on partial-birth abortions and the legislation to ban this brutal, inhumane abortion procedure.  He has called some editors to task, and has achieved some modifications in the reporting of at least one newspaper.  Read his paper at http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PBAmythsmemo01303.html and read about it at http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200306/CUL20030616d.shtml.

Do your part to help remove the most pro-abortion Governor in our nation's history!  The recall of pro-abortion Governor Gray Davis is gaining ground, despite the rallying of pro-abortion groups to his side. See the article at http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030610/APN/306101010&cachetime=5 
Whether or not you have already signed a recall petition, please help by doing the following:

1. Go to our website http://www.californiaprolife.org/petitions/petitions.html, and download a petition.
2. If you haven't already done so, sign the petition, circulate it for signatures, complete the verification section and return it to us (CPLC; 2306 J Street #200; Sacramento CA 95816).  (If you've already signed a petition, please circulate for more signatures.)  CPLC PAC will benefit from every petition returned by June 27.
3. Forward this message to your friends-and-family e-mail list--and to any other you have reason to believe may want to help with the effort to recall Gray Davis.

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 society-respect 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)