California ProLife Council

California ProLife Democrats Refuse to Join the Borg

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California ProLife Democrats today repudiated the recent proclamations by DNC chair Tom Perez, who declared last week that only those who unreservedly embrace unlimited abortion-on-demand would be approved by Party leadership.
“The oppressive tenor of the state and national Democrat Party Leadership is now inescapably clear,” said Alice Fahey of California ProLife Democrats.”This is a controlling, Borg-like, unthinking, mob mentality.  They demand our obedience for the sake of their power. They have enjoyed attacking and undercutting dissenters like Bernie Sanders, or pro-life, blue collar, salt of the earth workers, like us, who make up nearly 30% of the Democrat base.” Said Fahey,  “If they don’t want us, they don’t need us.”
Louis Shapiro,  a pro-life political activist who has long remained in the Democrat party was even more vociferous. “This is giving clear instructions to faithful Catholics and evangelicals, as well as conservative Jews that we are no longer welcome if we carry any moral convictions on the sanctity of human life.”
“So they don’t want us around. Well fine. We believe the right to life of the vulnerable is more important than the ‘right to power’ that a corrupt party offers people like Mrs. Clinton or whomsoever the party bosses try to anoint,” said Shapiro. “As far as we can see, you party bosses have ‘lost your anointing.’ If this is growing the base, it’s a strange way to do it.”
Both Shapiro and Fahey said they will work now only for pro-life candidates and do so without regard for party they represent.
“Abortion on demand, at anytime, for any reason or for no reason in particular – just for ‘Choice,’ is reprehensible to us,” said Fahey. “If the Democrat Party machinery insists we simply obey, then they need to understand: you are right, we are not part of a machine.”

Changing Culture through Movies

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What is Life Fest?

Life Film Fest is the unique, world-wide film festival dedicated to showcasing films which affirm the importance of the human experience and the unique value of every life. Life Fest is held in the heart of the entertainment industry, Hollywood, California.

We are a team of individuals from throughout every aspect of the entertainment industry who wish to see life-affirming content once again emanating from this creative business. But we are also helping raise up a whole new generation of filmmakers and giving them entrance into this industry that so impacts the world.

LifeFest organizers offer programming and events for film enthusiasts of every interest and background. With the support of a passionate arts community, LifeFest has attracted worldwide interest from some of the industry’s best filmmakers. We feature opportunities for burgeoning filmmakers and will be entertaining distinguished industry guests and thousands of film enthusiasts from around the world.

When is Life Fest?

May 4th-7th, 2017

How can I contribute?

Come join us as we celebrate films and filmmakers impacting Hollywood with life-affirming content. Buy a daypass or a Weekend pass for all access to screenings and workshops. Get your tickets here.

Can I help even if I can’t come?

Of Course! For volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, visit our site here.

Announcing the annual 5×5 Film Competition

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The 5×5 for Life Filmmakers’ Challenge is part of the annual Life Fest Film Festival, one of the world’s most unique and important film festivals, dedicated to showcasing and honoring films that affirm the significance and intrinsic value of every human life.
The 5×5 is a competition in which contestants from around the world simultaneously make and submit a 3 to 5 minute motion picture over a specified 5-day period, to get a foot in the door to Hollywood, and vie for honors and prizes.

This year’s event kicks off with a Cast and Crew call on April 18th in the heart of Hollywood;

7 p.m., Tues. April 18th, Epiphany Space, Heart of Hollywood
1763 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, CA 90028

The official Competition starts on April 25th and wraps at April 30th – five days of intense collaboration with passionate film makers – all completed entries must be submitted via e-mail, by 11:59pm on April 30th.

When you enter the 5×5 Challenge and complete your film (following the rules) your film willscreen at Life Fest‘s venue, the famous Charlie Chaplin Theater on the lot at Raleigh Studios, one of the first and most iconic of Hollywood’s original studios in the heart of the entertainment industry, gaining exposure to producers, writers, directors and distributors.  Your film will screen if you satisfy all competition criteria. Be part of Life Fest in Hollywood, and you don’t even have to make the film here in LA; you can compete anywhereand still screen in Hollywood!

State Legislature – You Need to Act

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AB 569 – Oppose – by Gonzalez-Fletcher would require churches to fund the abortion of employees.
SB 309 – Oppose – Establishes a specialty license plate, celebrating abortion in California.
SB 481 – Oppose –  by Pan Allows nursing homes to declare patients unfit to make their own decisions, and then implement ‘medical procedures’ which may include assisted suicide.  Senate Committees on Health and Judiciary
SB 743 – Oppose – Ensures government funding of abortion under all medi-cal providers and Planned Parenthood.
SCA 7 – Support – Repeals the failed, multi-billion dollar Embryonic ‘Stem Cell and Cures’ Act.
Be sure to notify your group, church and citizen organization. Act now. Send letters of opposition or support to the Committee in which bill is scheduled.

H.R.7 Passes the House of Representatives!

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The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017” passed the House! 
The House voted to Pass HR7– which would make temporary policies prohibiting federal funding of abortions into permanent ones.
A similar resolution passed last year in the house, but never made it out of the senate.
Please contact YOUR senator and ask them to support this resolution’s passage in the senate!

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Now in Sacramento – 4 abortion bills on desks

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The most radical pro-abortion elements control the current California legislature. What does that mean?
It means YOU should lift your voice and make known the truth about the living child killed in each abortion.
These four bills will be voted on shortly.  Please contact YOUR legislator and ask them to oppose each of these four bills, and to stop the use of death and killing as a government policy.

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Suppressing the evidence for self-evident truths

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“WE hold these truths to be self-evident…”

By Brian Johnston

The Right to Life is asserted as an observable, self-evident fact. “The laws of nature and of nature’s God” are to be seen in the objective reality of unique human lives.

The purpose of the Right to Life movement is to show forth those self-evident facts of human life, and to assure the protections of government for those lives. We do not assert our personal faith or idiosyncratic beliefs regarding those lives, we simply show the self-evident uniqueness of the individual. According to America’s founders, the just powers of all governments is derived from the intrinsic value and worth of the lives governed. The ‘power over lives’ is directly related to recognizing the value and  uniqueness of those lives.

On Nov 10, 2016, the French Supreme Counsel shocked caring people world-wide, when they ruled that the mere image of a downs-boyDown’s syndrome child could not be broadcast on national television. The smiling images were part of a campaign by the Down’s Syndrome Association, ‘Dear Future Mom,’ it showed the hope and joy of Down’s syndrome individuals.

The State Counsel said that allowing people with Down’s syndrome to smile on television was “inappropriate” because it was “likely to disturb the conscience of women who had lawfully made different personal life choices”.   Note that the High Court has ruled ending the life of a Down’s child is not to be considered ‘inappropriate,’ but the true offense against humanity is the showing images of those joyful children.

In our movement the most difficult challenge is not merely the opposition of those who disagree, but the imperious use of government authority to suppress and dismiss the ‘self evident’ nature of the Right to Life, of the value and significance of each life, even the seemingly insignificant life.  For Government to war against ‘self-evident’ truths, it must first commit itself to suppressing the evidence. In France, 96% of Down’s children are ‘eliminated’ via abortion.

Please Join with Citizens Nationwide to Keep Medicine Ethical!

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Below is an urgent memo from the NRLC Medical Ethics Departmentpoison-bottle

Memo

To: State Affiliates and Board members

From: Jennifer Popik, J.D. Director of Medical Ethics at National Right to Life

Re: URGENT emails and phone calls needed to the American Medical Association (AMA) over next several weeks

Date: September 15, 2016

 

Background:

There is an effort currently underway within the American Medical Association (AMA) to abandon its decades-long position opposing assisted suicide and take a neutral stance. At its July 2017 annual meeting, the AMA will consider taking a “neutral” position which essentially sends a green light to the states that legalizing is acceptable. However, we have recently been made aware that the AMA will hold an interim meeting on November 13 and 14 in Orlando where a special breakout session will be held on assisted suicide.  

Both the national and state medical societies’ opposition to doctor-prescribed suicide have been instrumental in stopping the spread of these dangerous laws. In fact, when the Vermont and California medical societies took neutral positions, it was devastating to the efforts in the legislature to block legalization. Assisting suicide is now legal in Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and California, and the practice may have some legal protection in the state of Montana.

Action Needed

We are asking the following things:

1.      Please have your members contact one or both contacts below via phone or email.

2.      Please restrict arguments to the suggested bullet points, in the person’s own words.

3.      Speak with any physicians you know and urge them contact the AMA.

4.      Ask for a written response/ report any information received back to NRLC.

1.      Who to contact:

Dr. Andrew W. Gurman, MD, AMA President, andrew.gurman@ama-assn.org

330 N Wabash, Ste 43482

Chicago IL 60611-5885

312.464.5618 ph

312.464.4094 fx

Bette Crigger, PhD, CEJA’s Secretary, bette.crigger@ama-assn.org

Secretary, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs

American Medical Association

330 N Wabash, Ste 43482

Chicago  IL 60611-5885

 312.464.5223 ph

312.224.6911 fx

Based on both polling and the positive experience of many states fighting these assisted suicide laws, please try and restrict your arguments to one or two of the following:

2.      What to Say:

(Select one or more of the following statements and re-word or add your own thoughts.)

The AMA should retain its longstanding position in opposition to the legalization of assisted suicide because:

·         Medical professionals should focus on providing care and comfort to patients – NOT becoming a source of lethal drugs.  I would not want my doctor to have this power and suggest suicide to me as an “option.”

·         Will the government and insurance companies do the right thing – pay for treatment costing thousands of dollars – or the cheap thing – pay for lethal drugs costing hundreds of dollars?

·         Everyone knows someone who has been misdiagnosed or outlived a terminal diagnosis.

·         Wanting to die because of depression is treatable.  Millions of people are living proof.

·         Everyone agrees that dying in pain is unacceptable, however nearly all pain is now treatable. A patient in pain should find a new doctor.

·         Oregon is proof that general suicides rise dramatically once assisted suicide is promoted as a “good.”

·         My family member could die from taking lethal drugs and I wouldn’t know about it until he/she is dead because no family notification is required in advance.

·         Assisted suicide is a recipe for elder and disability abuse because it can put lethal drugs in the hands of abusers.

·         A relative who is an heir to the patient’s estate or an abusive caregiver can pick up the lethal drugs and administer them without the patient’s knowledge or consent.  There is no oversight and no witnesses are required once the lethal drugs leave the pharmacy

3.      Ask for a response:

Please send any replies to jpopik@nrlc.org

 

Killing the ‘Disabled’ – A mass killing that the American media ignores

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It is strange that there was so little coverage or public discussion.  Mass killings are always headline news.
And after such mass killings there are always calls for gun control or dramatic government intervention. At the end of July, Japan witnessed the largest mass-killing since the atomic bomb. And it was all by one man.
But there was no gun. The government had actually assembled the victims. A government employee was the perpetrator. And if a newsevent appears to challenge the thinking of the popular press, the reaction is usually the same: ‘”Nothing to see here. Just move along. We in the media will determine what should be important to you.”
But there is something particularly important and haunting about what happened in Japan at the end of July.  It is a dramatic commentary on the world-wide push to use medicine as a tool to kill.
 
On July 26th, Satoshi Uematsu, a 26-year-old Japanese man who had worked at a state-sponsored facility for the disabled, broke in through a window early that morning before beginning a methodical, knife-wielding rampage. The attack — in which nineteen, nine men and 10 women were killed, and 26 more people injured — is Japan’s deadliest mass killing since the end of World War II.
The suspect turned himself in at a local police station around an hour after the attack began, carrying a bloodstained knife and cloth, officials said.
In a letter he wrote several months before the incident, and made public to the media, he said he had “the ability to kill 470 disabled people.”
We have plans for you.

We have plans for you.

While that is astounding, it is his reasoning in the letter that is most alarming. It is not the wandering rant of a madman,  it in fact echoes the ‘thinking’ of so many other compassionate “caregivers” around the world who believe they see a better way. And they are acting on it. They have legalized it.
He boasted that he could easily kill 470 disabled people at a go. It would help society. He dreamed, “of a world where disabled people with severe difficulties socializing as well as severe difficulties at home are allowed to be peacefully euthanized.”
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‘Oh, but in California and in Oregon and in Europe,’ you may say, ‘the issue is about voluntarily killing one’s self, its about assisted suicide.’ And that’s where you would be wrong. Once the use of medicine is authorized to kill patients, and done so in the name of kindness, or love or ‘mercy,’ it inevitably cannot be kept from those who are ‘unable’ to make known their desires. The laws have borne this out in each jurisdiction where medically authorized killing is implemented. If this is kindness for those facing suffering, the cruelest unkindness is abandoning those who are unable to make such decisions.
 
The legal concept of ‘substituted judgement’ is well established and inescapable. Both case law and legislation have provided for someone else to make important decisions for individuals in MANY different circumstances  It might be the court, or your next of kin, or a designated power-of-attorney, but third parties routinely make decisions for individuals who may otherwise appear to be quite competent to you or me. I’ve toured dozens of nursing homes; I am quite sure that the majority of those therein are legally dependent on the good wishes of outside agents for their well being. Their ‘decisions’ are not their own.
 
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Mr. Uematsu did something that is regularly being done in the Western world. And he eloquently underscored the ‘compassionate reasoning’ of those who are legally using voluntary euthanasia and non-voluntary euthanasia as a form of medicine.
 
 Though initially legalized as ‘assisted suicide,’ in Belgium thousands have been killed by physicians without ever making a request. The vast majority are elderly in nursing homes, yes, dependent on the care and kindness of others. Dutch law too has upheld the euthanizing of those who ‘couldn’t bring themselves to ask.’    If medical killing is a good tool, why should it be denied to those ‘who need it the most’?
 
In Oregon, those who are ‘non compis mentis’,  ‘not of sound mind,’  have been killed via so-called, ‘assisted suicide.’ There is no requirement for psychological counseling. Alzheimer’s patients, emotionally distraught paraplegics, and others in a questionably emotional or intellectual state, have been legally killed with the “help” of an “assistant.”    But in assisted suicide it is only the “assistant” who is getting freed by such use of medicine. They are free to walk away from the scene without further questioning or investigation, even if they are immediate heirs. The victim is simply dead.
 
In all these jurisdictions, physicians are encouraged to falsify the death certificate, and instead replace the true cause of death with natural causes.  This makes for less scrutiny and need for explanation. But does ‘mercy’ really need an explanation? Apparently not to the contemporary press. ‘Love and Mercy’ seems reason enough.
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This summer Mr. Uematsu took it upon himself  to act on a very common, contemporary idea. Japan’s largest mass-killing since the use of nuclear weapons has much more significance than the popular press has given it. The ‘fallout’ of this news story is the result of decisions made long before Mr. Uematsu decided to lift his blade ‘in compassion.’  It is a deadly fallout that has already settled over and infected much of the medical profession.