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Lifeline Spring 2009 (Vol. XVIII, Nº 1)

CONTENTS

This issue is also available as a printable PDF file.

GENERAL RECAP AND UPDATE

Pastor Convicted of Violating “Mother May I” Ordinance, Colette Wilson
Walter Hoye is a pro-life Baptist pastor from Berkeley who feels a special calling to reach out to his fellow African-Americans to end the genocide-by-abortion taking place in their communities. As part of his efforts, in 2007 he began going out about once a week to stand in front of Family Planning Specialists, an Oakland abortion clinic where he would offer leaflets about abortion alternatives and hold a sign reading, “Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help.“ By all accounts, his demeanor was unfailingly friendly and low-key. [read article]

From the Executive Director, Dana Cody
Now, after twenty years, the assurance that abortion opponents are able to speak their beliefs without being intimidated by the legal process continues to be a considerable source of motivation for LLDF staff. [read article]

Twenty Years of Defending Life, an interview with John and Mimi Streett
A tiny group banded together around a dining table in 1989, worried about friends who needed lawyers to represent them after arrests outside abortion clinics. As they put together a plan, they could not foresee that over the next 20 years they would be joined by scores of volunteer attorneys and thousands of donors who also believed in the defense of life from conception through natural death. [read article]

Survivors on Trial
In the last issue of Lifeline, we introduced you to Allison Aranda, LLDF’s new staff attorney. This is just one example of what your support is doing to save lives on college campuses, thanks to Ms. Aranda’s fine work. Read what her clients have to say as well as her account of the trial in People v. Lord. [read article]

Fall Banquet, 2008, Tony Wynne
[read article]

In Memoriam: Louie Garibaldi, 2008; Frank Hughes, 2008

Mark Your Calendars: Banking On Life
Cutting edge leaders from around the world, in the field of umbilical cord blood stem cell research and regenerative medicine, will join us to promote, inform and educate attendees on up to the minute successes and advances in cord blood research. These key voices will convene to share information that will shape the future direction of progress in cord blood banking and advances in ethical stem cell patient treatments using cord blood.
Life Legal Defense Foundation joins other organizations to partner with The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, to hold this important one-day conference May 2, 2009 at the Sheraton Gateway San Francisco Airport Hotel. CME and CEU available for physicians and nurses. [more information]

 

 

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