Monday, December 29, 2008

LifeBeat for December 27, 2008

Barbara Listing, president of Right to Life of Michigan, looks back at what has happened with prolife issues in Michigan over the last year and discusses Right to Life of Michigan's prolife work.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

LifeBeat for December 20, 2008

Amanda Fulford, Students for Life Coordinator for Grand Rapids Right to Life, discusses the March for Life and the various bus trips heading to Washington, D.C. from Michigan for this event. To listen, click here.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Abortion advocates give President-Elect Obama their wish list

Change.gov, the web site of President-elect Barack Obama has recently posted a document entitled “Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration.” The document was produced by abortion advocates (including Planned Parenthood and NARAL) who call on Obama to “advance and implement the(ir) agenda.”

That agenda includes, among other things, providing tax-funded abortions, removing a prolife clause which protects prolife health care providers from discrimination, putting forward a health care plan whose “benefits must include access” to “abortion care,” allowing tax dollars to fund organizations who provide and promote abortion overseas, selecting only pro-choice judges and calling on Congress to pass the Freedom of Choice Act (legislation which would dismantle numerous state and federal prolife laws). They want all that within the first 100 days.

You can read this document online and write comments encouraging President-elect Barack Obama to avoid these policies.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

LifeBeat for December 13, 2008

Wesley Smith discusses how assisted suicide and euthanasia are advancing in other countries. In Switzerland, there is something called “suicide tourism” where individuals from other countries travel to Switzerland to commit suicide. To listen, click here.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Focusing on FOCA

We’ve recently posted a LifeNotes fact sheet on the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) in the Hot Topics section of our web site which explains what FOCA is and what it would do, its history, Barack Obama and FOCA, and provides other helpful web sites dealing with FOCA.

LifeBeat for December 6, 2008

Wesley Smith talks about assisted suicide and the problems it has caused in Oregon. Once a lethal assisted suicide prescription is written there are no protections for patients and the guidelines aren’t being followed. To listen, click here.