Facts of Life Email: July 21, 2005

CURRENT LIFE ISSUES:

u The Parental Notification Initiative will be on November's ballot as Proposition 73. It is crucial that we educate our communities about this initiative and encourage everyone to support it! Passage of Prop. 73 would require abortion doctors to notify a patient's parents 48 hours prior to her scheduled abortion. This significant legislation would not be subject to the state Supreme Court and could reduce the number of California abortions by nearly 20,000! CPLC is working on materials for you to distribute at your church, school, and community organizations. Learn more about Prop. 73 and keep checking in for the latest updates! 

u AB 651, the bill legalizing assisted suicide, has been dropped! Assembly members Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine gave up after realizing the bill did not have enough support to pass in either the Assembly or Senate, but they will likely introduce the legislation again in January.  While Berg claims to have the support of 70% of Californians, voters have been flooding their representatives with calls, emails and postcards to oppose this horrible measure. CPLC will keep you updated on the the status of this issue and will always provide the necessary information and materials to defeat it!

u President Bush has nominated Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Judge Roberts is a former clerk for ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist and was once a legal counsel in the Reagan White House. NRLC warns that liberal pressure groups will insist that Senate Democrats filibuster against Judge Roberts, unless he pledges in advance to vote against allowing elected legislators to place meaningful limits on abortion. CPLC has all the breaking news about the future of the Supreme Court and how you can help make ensure the legal protection of life!  

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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! Learn how you 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 meetings in Culver City, July 26th, at 7pm. and in San Jose, August 8th at 7:30 at the Knights of Columbus Hall. 

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! Also, look for CPLC booths at the National Catholic Family Conference, July 22-24, in Anaheim!

J O I N    T H E    A D V E N T U R E !
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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"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, 
with all one's goodness and righteousness."
 —Albert Einstein—

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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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