Life Legal Defense Foundation is urging the United States Supreme Court to review a decision of the Oklahoma supreme court striking a ballot initiative that would amend the Oklahoma Constitution to define “person” as “any human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being to natural death.” In a friend of …
Sacramento, Calif.: The California Senate voted Thursday, August 30, to pass a bill allowing non-physicians to perform aspiration abortions. Senate Bill 623, introduced by Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) extends a program run by the University of California, San Francisco, in which nurse practitioners, midwives and physicians assistants are trained to perform abortions. Ms. Kehoe claimed …
In Memoriam: Dorothy “Dot” Connelly 1928 – 2012 “Sometimes you need to go out into deep water for your faith.” After she heard these words in a homily at her parish church in 1989, Dot Connelly made a decision that would change her life and the lives of her family forever. In 1989 …
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Nellie Gray, the “mother of the March for Life”, who died in August 2012, at the age of 86. She was a tireless defender of life and a lifelong Christian and adult convert to Catholicism. Sean Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, once described her as “the …
Wesley J. Smith There is more than one way to skin a cat, the old politically incorrect saying goes. There is also more than one way to euthanize a patient. In England, there is concern that a legitimate pain controlling treatment—known as palliative sedation—is being used inappropriately under what is known as the Liverpool Care …
Nancy De La Zerda “I’m hungry! Pleeeease, get me out of here,” my mother pleaded. “They’re trying to kill me!” But Mother was in a hospital, and hospitals don’t kill patients, we thought. Still, my siblings and I desperately consulted staff hospitalists, nurses, dietitians and even a “floor manager” regarding Mother’s complaints of hunger, despite …
First-Hand Report—Hospital Visit: A Death Sentence? Read More »
One of the joys of being LLDF’s Executive Director is working with pro-life law students who want to use their law degrees to end abortion. I want to introduce you to one law student who intends to do just that; in fact I would say after you read his interview you will agree he is …
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What and where were you before law school? I grew up in Tequesta, Florida, located at the northern end of Palm Beach County. Before law school I was active in politics, a full-time real estate agent and involved with multiple business ventures. I was especially interested in the entertainment business and in the media in …
Katie Short Take this quiz: Planned Parenthood believes abortion should be a matter between a woman and a) her doctor b) her nurse practitioner c) her nurse-midwife d) her physician assistant e) any of the above The correct answer is (e), any of the above. Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and other pro-abortion organizations are currently …
Recap and Update of Current Cases Abortion Is Health Care (Except When It’s Not) Katie Short Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and other pro-abortion organizations are currently pushing legislation in California that would allow non-physicians to perform first trimester surgical abortions. The theory is that California, with one of the highest abortion rates in the …
