June 2000

Bush Does Live Teleconference with Catholic Press Association; Gore Refuses to Be Interviewed

 

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Bush: Keep The Pro-Life Platform Plank

By Carol Tobias
NRL PAC Director

 

Texas Pro-life Gov. George W. Bush wants no changes in the party's pro-life platform plank.	Wisconsin Pro-life Gov. Tommy Thompson will chair the platform committee.

As it does every four years, the major media is again attempting to start a fight within the Republican Party over abortion. With equal fervor, pro-lifers are making sure this media-generated fuss will not result in changes in the party's staunchly pro-life platform plank.

Certainly, pro-abortion groups such as "Republicans for Choice" are doing their best to take advantage of a sympathetic press eager for a battle within the the party. However, this year, both the media and abortion supporters are running into a brick wall, and that wall is pro-life Texas Governor George W. Bush, the likely Republican presidential nominee.

ANTI-EUTHANASIA BILL MOVING, PLACED ON SENATE CALENDAR

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has filed a favorable committee report on the Pain Relief Promotion Act.	Senator Don Nickles (R-Ok.), Senate sponsor of H.R. 2260, the Pain Relief Promotion Act, which would prevent the use of federally controlled drugs for assisting suicide.

By Burke J. Balch, J.D.
Director Department of Medical Ethics

Completing the procedural steps necessary before a floor vote can be taken, on May 23 the critically important Pain Relief Promotion Act was placed on the Senate calendar when the Senate Judiciary Committee filed its report in support of the bill.

Passed by the House 271-156 last October, the bill would prevent the use of federally controlled drugs to kill patients through assisted suicide and euthanasia. There is only one American jurisdictionOregonthat has legalized assisting suicide. To date, all publicly reported deaths from assisted suicide in Oregon have been caused by the use of such federally controlled drugs.

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IT'S TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Elections are always important, but what happens on November 7, 2000, will be especially important. I'm not talking about taxes and budget deficits and surpluses, nor about prosperity and shoring up the defense of this country against enemies from abroad. I am talking about the government ending up on the right or the wrong side of the fundamental moral problem of our time: Will the results of Election Day 2000 support the Declaration of Independence and advance the "unalienable right to life" or will they certify a pro-abortion government bent on promoting the "culture of death"? It is an old cliché that "in a democratic system the country gets the government it deserves." The general point is that with the opportunity to vote comes responsibility for the outcomethough people voting "correctly" might find themselves in the losing minority. It's tempting then to refuse responsibility. But did the "correctly"-voting losers do everything they could and ought to have done? Did they pursue losing strategies that produced the very opposite of what they intended? To avoid that fate, pro- lifers ought to act with determination but think clearly before they act so that they do, in fact, get the government they want and deserve.

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