“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Member…?” The New McCarthyism: Alive and Well in California

Katie Short In the last issue of Lifeline, we reported on SB 1945, a bill in the California legislature the sole purpose of which was to demonize pro-lifers by making “antiabortion crimes” the legal equivalent of “hate crimes.” That strategy backfired when LLDF Executive Director Dana Cody and other concerned pro-lifers presented reams of evidence …

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Public Education

Anne Starr Life Legal Defense Foundation’s executive director believes in the First Amendment right to free speech, even when that speech is disturbing. In that cause, Dana Cody defends Life Legal Defense Foundation clients who want to tell high school students facts about abortion that they will not hear in the mass media, in class, …

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“Kill the Bill, Not the Ill”: A Report from the Front Lines of the Assisted Suicide Fight in California

Wesley J Smith It was every liberal’s dream of diverse, grass-roots political activism: more than a hundred people demonstrating angrily in front of the California state capitol against pending legislation that threatened people who are poor, who are disabled, and who are vulnerable. Disability-rights activists in wheel-chairs marched in solidarity with white medical professionals, alongside …

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