Schiavo v. Schindler (Florida)—Michael Schiavo seeks court permission to kill his 37-year-old wife, Terri, by withdrawing food. Terri’s parents oppose the motion; several doctors have expressed the opinion that her condition could improve with appropriate treatment, which Michael has refused to allow. After trial court judge ordered her feeding tube removed, Governor Bush and Florida …
Historic Jack London Square in Oakland was recently the site of the LLDF Annual Attorney Banquet. On Saturday, November 6, 2004, approximately 130 guests gathered at the Waterfront Plaza Hotel for an evening of camaraderie, good food, and moving speakers. The evening began with a live auction conducted by The Survivors founder Jeff White. Jeff …
Speaking Up for Terri: The 2004 LLDF Annual Attorney Banquet Read More »
Wesley J. Smith In the Netherlands, 31 percent of pediatricians have killed infants. A fifth of these killings were done without the “consent” of parents. Going Dutch has never been so horrible. First, Dutch euthanasia advocates said that patient killing will be limited to the competent, terminally ill who ask for it. Then, when doctors …
California attorney D. Colette Wilson has been involved with Life Legal Defense Foundation since its founding fifteen years ago. She has contributed countless hours of pro bono work representing pro-life activists, beginning with Operation Rescue cases in the late ’80s and early ’90s. She is also one of several lawyers who worked on the case …
In the last Lifeline [Summer 2004, Vol. XIII, No. 2], we informed you about Proposition 71, euphemistically named “The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act,” which went on to victory in the November 2004 election. This means that starting January 2005, by constitutional amendment, California bureaucracy has expanded to include “The California Institute for …
Coming to the June 2006 ballot: the Parents’ Right to Know initiative, a proposed amendment to the state constitution requiring doctors to give 48-hours’ notice to a parent or guardian before performing an abortion on a minor. Proponents need to gather 598,000 valid signatures from registered California voters by mid-April 2005 in order to qualify …
Attorney Barbara Weller This past Christmas Eve day, 2004, I went to visit Terri Schiavo with her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, her sister, her niece, and Attorney David Gibbs III. The visit took place at the Woodside Hospice for about forty-five minutes just before noon. When I knew I was going to visit Terri …
Schiavo v. Schindler (Florida)—Michael Schiavo seeks court permission to kill his 37-year-old wife, Terri, by withdrawing food. Terri’s parents oppose the motion; several doctors have expressed the opinion that her condition could improve with appropriate treatment, which Michael has refused to allow. After trial court judge ordered her feeding tube removed, Governor Bush and Florida …
Dana Cody The passing of President Reagan has driven the debate over stem cell research to the forefront of national attention. Scarcely had America heard the news of President Reagan’s passing when proponents of embryonic stem cell research launched an all-out media blitz capitalizing on the President’s struggle with Alzheimer’s as reason to support fetal …
From the Executive Director: No Loans for Clones! Read More »
Wesley J Smith Once again the media are trumpeting the call among many in Congress, pushed by millions in Big Biotech lobbying money, for President Bush to reverse his decision to limit federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research (ESCR) to those lines already in existence on August 9, 2001. Fronted this time by the grief-stricken Nancy …
The Wrong Tree: Embryonic Stem Cells are Not All That Read More »