"Facts of Life" Email: August 25, 2005

CURRENT LIFE ISSUES:

u CPLC has officially launched the CA Parents' Rights Coalition, a project established to pass Proposition 73 this November. Prop. 73, the Parental Notification and Child Protection Act, requires abortion doctors to notify a minor's parents 48 hours prior to her scheduled abortion. This legislation is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans; we need to make sure people vote for it! Planned Parenthood and NARAL are already pouring money into 'No on 73' campaigns and courting news media. You can distribute educational materials to your church, school, or community group, hold an informational 'coffee-clutch' meeting in your home, or simply donate to the coalition! Learn more about Prop. 73 and how to get it passed!

u Governor Schwarzenegger and Senator Dianne Feinstein joined with advocates of embryonic experimentation at a Los Angeles press conference this week. Senator Feinstein and Governor Schwarzenegger urged Congress to ban human cloning in all 50 states while protecting California's multibillion-dollar stem cell research initiative, which funds an institute dedicated to destructive embryonic experimentation and therapeutic cloning. Feinstein also encouraged voters to contact their U.S. Senate representatives and voice support for S. 471, the bill to provide federal funding for embryonic experimentation. President Bush has vowed to veto this bill if it passes the Senate with less than a two-thirds majority. For a clear explanation of stem cell research, cloning, and the opportunities and dangers they pose, check out CPLC's documentary, The Human Experiment!

u A study has been published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association claiming unborn children don't feel pain from abortions. JAMA's editor says she was "unaware" that the authors of the report include an abortion practitioner and a former NARAL staffer. Acknowledging the bias of the report, Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand of the University of Arkansas Medical Center said he and other specialists in development of unborn children have shown that babies feel pain before birth as early as 20 weeks into the pregnancy. Later-term abortion procedures, such as a partial-birth abortion "would be likely to cause severe pain." Anand says the report will upset other specialists who know more about fetal development than the reports' authors. Read NRLC's response to the JAMA article.

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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CPLC:

u Come join local pro-life individuals and CPLC director Brian Johnston to discuss the history- making events that are immediately ahead for the pro-life movement! There will be a meeting in  San Joaquin County, September 24th. Learn how your local efforts will make a difference this year that will be felt for the rest of California's history. Bring your pro-life friends to these meetings! Contact our office for more details, and let us know if you'd like to host a meeting in your community!

u Mark your calendars! The Annual CPLC Prayer Breakfast and rally at the Capitol will be Tuesday, January 24th. It is always a great opportunity to celebrate life and we look forward to seeing you there. Keep checking in for more details and tell your friends to plan to come! The California Republican Party will be meeting September 16-18, in Anaheim; find out how to make a difference with pro-life legislation! You can also anticipate great pro-life events coming this fall because October is National Respect Life Month. Contact your local pro-life organization to see how you can get involved!

JOIN THE ADVENTURE!
We are able to accomplish a great deal with the help of local chapters and church contacts throughout California. If you are interested in organizing a chapter in your area or would like to be a pro-life representative within your church, we would love to have you join us!
Check out www.californiaprolife.org/volunteers

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"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies
but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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

 

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