"Facts of Life" Email: March 24, 2005

CURRENT LIFE ISSUES:

u  Terri Schiavo is slowly dying by being denied food and water.
The media and others have seized on her starvation as a means to promote "living wills" or "advanced medical directives." WARNING! Many of these contain language that once signed will allow you to be starved to death! Food and water is not mandatory medical treatment.  National Right to Life has developed a "Will to Live" that will protect you and your loved ones from starvation and the pressures that surround these types of decisions. You can examine and download a California Version or read about the Will to Live and find other state specific versions at www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/willtolive/StatesList

u The California Supreme Court has directed challengers of the Prop 71 initiative to appeal to the lower courts first.  While at the Supreme Court level, the institute created by the initiative was denied access to its $6 billion in grants; it is yet to be determined whether lawsuits in the California Superior Courts will be able to prevent the institution's distribution and use of the funds. Learn more about stem cell research and the dangers posed to California by Prop 71!

u California legislators are considering a bill to legalize euthanasia throughout the state.  Despite the fact that Oregon's euthanasia law is being challenged before the Supreme Court, California Assembly Member Patty Berg believes she has enough support to pass AB 654, the Levine/Berg bill.  Polls indicate that the majority of informed people oppose euthanasia, while the uninformed are its biggest supporters! Inform your community and urge your legislators to oppose this bill! 

Check out the CPLC website to keep up with the latest in life issues!  www.californiaprolife.org/news/index

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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CPLC:

u Plans are under way for the annual CPLC Youth Oratory Contest!  Representatives all over California are getting ready for their local contests, hoping their region's winner will earn 1st place in the state and be sent to the National Right to Life Convention in June.  The state contest will be held April 30th at the capitol and will be a great opportunity for students speak up for life.  Check out more information on the oratory contest, including how to compete and how to help out! 

U  S  E     Y  O  U  R     V  O  I  C  E !
State legislators are acting on your behalf, help them out! 
CPLC provides information on current legislative proposals and makes it easy for you to communicate with your legislative representatives! 
Send an email to your representatives in the Assembly and Senate whenever a new bill is proposed; remind them that you vote pro-life and they should too!

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"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives." -Kathleen Norris-

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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