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"We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues human life and entrusts it to the judgement of individuals. A consequence deriving therefrom is lessened respect for the human person, a value that lies at the foundation of any form of civil coexistence, over and above the faith a person may profess."
~ Pope Benedict XVI, speaking to the Italian Movement for Life, May 12, 2008 ~
The recipients of the Western Washington Pro-Life Update are familiar with the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide and many of you have made a donation to this organization to help them defeat I-1000. However, many people are still unaware of this deadly initiative and its ramifications.
Please take the time to educate yourself regarding I-1000 by visiting the question and answer section of www.noassistedsuicide.com and then speak to other people about assisted suicide. It is especially important that you advise your teenagers so that they can defend the Church's position. "As you know from the history of abortion, the Church telling Catholics something is forbidden is sadly no longer a good enough reason for them to reject it. Like it says on the website, supporting assisted suicide could be like signing your own death warrant. Particularly disturbing is the scenario of your elderly parents being in a nursing home and being talked into assisted suicide without your knowledge or permission, seeing them one day, coming to visit the next and finding them dead and not even knowing that they committed suicide because the death certificate will say that it was from whatever illness they had. It's like your teenage daughter being coerced into believing that abortion is the best answer. Now you'll have your parents and loved ones being convinced, without your knowledge, that ending their life would be doing you a favor by saving on all of those medical bills. The Culture of Death is on the attack from both ends and wants to meet in the middle where only 'perfect' people are allowed to live and those who 'drain' society of the ability to enjoy a higher standard of living – whether elderly, infirm, handicapped, or unborn, are eliminated. Pray, Pray, Pray and talk, talk, talk to those around you. Once they have the facts, they may be more open to rejecting assisted suicide than you think. God Bless, Peggy"
Let us show our country that we value human life and that killing people (via assisted suicide) because they are elderly, sick, infirm, or disabled is never acceptable. Life is sacred from conception until natural death.
Rita Marker, a well-known national speaker on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, will be here in June for a series of meetings and talks (we are in the process of putting one together for the Seattle area). She will be in Mt. Vernon from June 23-25, if anyone, living in the area, would like to have her speak, even in an informal setting in a home, she is happy to help educate people on this potentially devastating initiative.
Please see www.internationaltaskforce.org for more information.