Commentary and News

True Compassion Advocates 

True Compassion Advocates has produced an excellent new brochure on end-of-life care, written by Elenor Schoen.  It's entitled "A Simple Guide for Medical Care and Decision Making:  How to navigate complex medical situations, ask the right questions, and make the best decisions for you and your loved ones."

Because this brochure offers essential education for people struggling with end-of-life care or the assisted suicide debate, True Compassion Advocates is offering it for FREE, and you can get it on our website in PDF format.  We encourage you to print it out and distribute it to everyone you know.

This excellent short brochure is a must-read for everyone.  It answers tough questions about CPR, medical treatment, food and water, hospice, what to do in an emergency, and much more. 

Click here to access the brochure on our website for FREE (PDF format).

Camille Pauley
July 23, 2009

Appeals Court: WA Pharmacists Must Heed Order to Distribute Abortifacient Plan B Pill

By Kathleen Gilbert

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that Washington pharmacists will likely have to obey a 2007 regulation forcing them to distribute the abortifacient morning-after pill, known as Plan B.

The regulation had been temporarily blocked by a Washington judge in 2007 when pharmacists who refused to distribute the pill launched a suit against the state.  Today's decision overturned that of U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, who agreed with the complainants that there was reason to believe the rules violated the pharmacists' right to the freedom of conscience.

The Board of Pharmacy and the State regulations require pharmacy owners to provide the pill, and require individuals to distribute or refer elsewhere for the drug regardless of personal conviction.

While primarily billed as contraception, Plan B is also widely advertised as an early abortifacient that works by preventing new human life from receiving nourishment from the uterine lining.  Olympia's Family-owned Ralph's Thriftway and two pharmacists employed elsewhere fought the rules out of a conscientious refusal to participate in the abortions. Read more...

July 9, 2009