"Facts of Life" Email: June 16, 2005

CURRENT LIFE ISSUES:

u Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for a special election in November on other political issues, giving pro-life voters the opportunity to pass a measure allowing parental notification on abortion. 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.   While only 600,00 signatures were needed to qualify the initiative for the ballot, pro-life advocates turned in more than one million. CPLC will have more information on the initiative as it becomes available!

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! Some legislators have yet to take a position on this issue, find out which ones need your input!

u A House subcommittee approved a bill which calls on increasing federal funding for abstinence education by $11 million in the 2006 fiscal year. Abstinence-only education has come under increasing debate as abortion advocates seek to reduce state and national support for such programs. Last week, the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies approved the increase, which is smaller than the $39 million increase President Bush requested. The Christian Coalition has pointed out that contraceptive sex education programs receive 12 dollars for every dollar abstinence receives. 

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 heads to Minneapolis, Minnesota this Wednesday 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. Stay tuned for highlights from our trip!

J O I N    T H E    A D V E N T U R E !
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
 —Eleanor Roosevelt—

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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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