"Facts of Life" Email: June 9, 2005

CURRENT LIFE ISSUES:

u In a maneuver one opponent called “appalling,” Assemblywoman Patty Berg has removed language supporting health care for the chronically ill poor and replaced it with language that would permit doctors to assist their patients to kill themselves. “The authors hijacked a bill that had already passed the Assembly and is in the Senate so they would not have to show how truly weak their support was,” said Tim Rosales, a spokesperson for the anti-suicide coalition. The bill would make CA the second state to legalize assisted suicide. It is very important that your legislators be informed about this issue and about your opposition to it!  CPLC has postcards ready to send to your Assembly and Senate representatives, as well as Governor Schwarzenegger- you just fill in the names! Send us one too and we'll tell you how they voted on this issue! Check it out!

u State lawmakers met Monday with members of the committee charged with spending $3 billion in favor of human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Prop. 71, passed by voters in November, created the committee along with the CA Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The committee had hoped to kill legislation that would hold them accountable on financial and organizational decisions. Sen. Deborah Ortiz, who was formerly a proponent of Prop. 71, sponsored the oversight bill. The measure received approval from a Senate election committee 5-0. If the CA legislature approves the measure, which needs a two-thirds vote, it could go on the ballot this November.

u An initiative that would allow CA parents to be informed when their teenager daughters are considering an abortion will appear on the ballot the next time state voters head to the polls.  The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that parental notification is constitutional as long as teens don't have to tell their parents in abuse situations. Supporters of the initiative believe that such an amendment could mean 20,000 fewer abortions in the state each year. Governor Schwarzenegger has not taken a stance on the parental notification proposal. CPLC will have more information on the initiative as it becomes available! 

The CPLC website has all the breaking news! 
 www.californiaprolife.org

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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CPLC:

u ACSI, the Association of Christian Schools International, is preparing for the 2005 series of conferences and conventions. There will be events in Sacramento, in October and in Anaheim, in November.  If you'd like to go for free, contact us! We are looking for volunteers to help host our booths and we would love to have you on our team. Call 916.442.8315 for more information!

u CPLC staff will head to Minneapolis, Minnesota next week for the annual National Right to Life Convention. The convention is always a great opportunity to meet and share with pro-life people from all over. There will be informational seminars, banquets, a prayer breakfast, and a memorial service for Terri Schindler-Schiavo, given by her brother Bobby. Anyone who believes in the value of life can come! Check it out!

J O I N    T H E    A D V E N T U R E !
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, 
ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, 
add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." 
 —Marian Wright Edelmen—

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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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