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Lifeline Summer 2010 (Vol. XIX, Nº 2)
CONTENTS
This issue is also available as a printable PDF file.
Obamacare: A Pro-Life Law?
Colette Wilson
In the frantic days leading up to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—otherwise known as Obamacare—pro-lifers were dismayed to see the defection of erstwhile allies whose last-minute support for the legislation pushed it over the top.
A Call to Watchfulness
Dana Cody
This year marks 5 years since Terri Schindler Schiavo’s life was ended by dehydration and starvation. Her death came after a relentless legal battle to save her life waged by her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler. They simply wanted care for their disabled daughter until she died a natural death. Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, would not allow that to happen. After years of legal battling, Michael Schiavo’s request was granted and Terri’s feeding tube was removed, resulting in her premature and forced death.
ASK THE ATTORNEY: An Interview with Nikolas Nikas
Anthony Wynne
When Nikolas Nikas joined the Board of Directors of Life Legal Defense Foundation in 2006, he brought with him not only his knowledge, skills and experience as a pro-life attorney, but also the organizational and planning abilities of one who has founded and successfully run his own non-profit pro-life organization.
Servant of Servants: LLDF Supports 40 Days for Life
Six years ago, a pro-life group prayed for guidance in how best to reduce abortion in their area. The fruit of that prayer is 40 Days for Life.
The group was led to focus forty days of prayer, fasting, and repentance for an end to abortion in their community of Bryan/College Station, Texas. A thousand people responded to the call, with dramatic results: a 28% decline in the number of abortions in their area.
PERSONHOOD AND THE LAW
Joanna Galbraith
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Declaration of Independence, 1776. More than 230 years after the Declaration of Independence, a specific “created” class of persons in America is denied the most essential of the guarantees contained in this pronouncement.
Promoting A Culture of Life
Human Life Alliance (HLA) is a non-profit, non-denominational, pro-life organization dedicated to protecting human life from the moment of conception until natural death.
Assisted Suicide: Why Now?
Wesley J. Smith
Since 1988, when euthanasia advocates failed to qualify for a legalization initiative on the California ballot, the assisted suicide movement in the United States has gone from a barely noticed fringe movement to a well-funded political machine that threatens Hippocratic medical values and the sanctity/equality of human life.
Federal Funds Available to Planned Parenthood and Other Pro-abortion Organizations (2002-2009)
On June 16, 2010, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Tex.) announced a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing federal funding levels for pro-abortion organizations, including Planned Parenthood. The report reveals that over the reporting period contained in the report the selected organizations spent roughly a billion dollars in federal taxpayer funds, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America received over half of that billion dollars. Specifically Planned Parenthood Federation of America received $657.1 million dollars over seven years, which averages just under $100 million federal taxpayer dollars each year—and that does not include state and local taxpayer funding. Notably, these funds underwrite abortion promoting organizations, but do not directly pay for abortion due to the Hyde and Helms amendments. However, by providing cash to groups like Planned Parenthood, the federal government offsets the abortion funding of these groups and enables all of their activities.
The Eggsploited: When Two Markets Collide
Jennifer Lahl
Louise Brown was born in the United Kingdom on July 25, 1978, the world’s first test-tube baby, conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF).
