Arkansas A.G. Keeps Up Fight for Good, Pro-Life Law

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Last week Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office appealed a federal court order blocking a good, pro-life law the Arkansas Legislature passed last year.

The law was set to go into effect on January 1, but Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the state last December to block its enforcement.

The law requires doctors performing abortions with drugs like RU-486 to follow FDA protocols.

It also requires abortion clinics performing drug-induced abortions to contract with a local physician who has admitting privileges at a local hospital to handle any complications arising from the abortion.

As we have written time and again, this is a good, commonsense, pro-life law that protects women and unborn children from dangerous abortion practices.

We hope to see this pro-life law upheld as this case progresses.

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Europeans Euthanizing Children

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The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview is highlighting some startling information out of Europe.

For some time, now, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed euthanasia and assisted suicide for conditions ranging from terminal illness to emotional distress.

Now Europeans are calling for expanded euthanasia for children.

John Stonestreet writes,

Belgium has already deemed children over twelve “mature enough” to decide to die. Now the Dutch Pediatric Association wants both countries to open up euthanasia to children under twelve, at the discretion of doctors and parents.

Click here to read Stonestreet’s short commentary or listen to it below.

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New York Court: No Right to Assisted Suicide

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Last week a court in New York issued a good ruling finding no “right” to assisted suicide.

The court wrote in part,

“While suicide is no longer prohibited or penalized, the ban against assisted suicide and euthanasia shores up the notion of limits in human relationships. It reflects the gravity with which we view the decision to take one’s own life or the life of another, and our reluctance to encourage or promote these decisions.”

Being pro-life means believing human life is sacred from conception until natural death, and it means opposing the taking of human life without just cause. While the term “pro-life” is often applied to work related to abortion, opposition to suicide and euthanasia falls under the purview of pro-life work as well.

In recent years suicide and euthanasia activists have worked to make gains in state legislatures and in the courts. This ruling from New York is welcomed, because there simply is no constitutional right to take human life at will, plain and simple.

You can read more here.

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