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NORTH DAKOTA RIGHT TO LIFE ENDORSES
JOE MILLER FOR DISTRICT 10 STATE SENATE
BISMARCK – North Dakota Right to Life Political Action Committee this weekend endorsed Senator Joe Miller of district 10. NDRL PAC has seen that Joe Miller clearly supports Life and has taken the fight to the State Senate and will shake up the legislators in Bismarck, ND.
The following statement may be attributed to North Dakota Right to Life’s Executive Director Paul Maloney
Honesty and integrity are hard qualities to find in some politicians; however Joe Miller of District 10 embodies those qualities. Joe Miller stands up for what he believes in and that is a rare thing these days. Through a tumultuous legislative session, Sen. Miller stood his ground and put his reputation on the line to support good legislation, particularly on the life issue.
This week, NDRL‘s Political Action Committee endorsed their first candidate of this election season. Sen. Miller is young, energized, intelligent, articulate, and rooted in ND values, and NDRL PAC couldn’t be more proud to endorse him. NDRL named Sen. Miller their Legislator of the Year 2011.
North Dakota Right to Life is a non-profit, grassroots organization comprised of 26 chapters statewide. They are an affiliate of National Right to Life, the largest and oldest pro-life organization in the country. NDRL works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 16:16
Written by Paul Maloney
GEORGIA SUPREME COURT STRIKES ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW
WASHINGTON – Citing a violation of First Amendment Rights, the Georgia State Supreme Court today struck the state's 1994 law which classified as a felony anyone who "publicly advertises, offers or holds himself out as offering that he or she will intentionally and actively assist another person in the commission of suicide and commits any overt act to further that purpose." The decision leaves Georgia with no protections against assisting suicide.
"Today's ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court puts the lives of older people and those with disabilities in grave danger because it opens the door for the fringe advocates of doctor-prescribed death to openly advertise the practice in the state of Georgia," said Burke Balch, J.D., director of National Right to Life's Powell Center for Medical Ethics. "This ruling essentially says if you want to advertise helping people jump off a cliff, you can hang out your shingle in Georgia."
At the heart of the ruling was a case involving four members of the Final Exit Network who were charged in February 2009 with the death of a 58-year-old cancer patient. As a result of today's ruling, the four will not face a criminal trial.
At present only Oregon and Washington State have legalized doctor-prescribed death. A Montana Supreme Court ruling in 2010 left the status of assisting suicide in that state ambiguous. Other efforts to legalize the practice, which would put countless patients at risk, have been defeated in Maine, Hawaii, and Michigan among others.
"We call on the Georgia legislature to quickly remedy today's ruling by enacting into statute legal protections against doctor-prescribed death and other forms of assisting suicide," added Balch. "Failure to take swift action could result in the deaths of countless older people and those with disabilities."
Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement, NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Friday, 03 February 2012 19:58
Written by Paul Maloney
A scientific textbook called “Basics of Biology” gives five characteristics of living things; these five criteria are found in all modern elementary scientific textbooks: 1. Living things are highly organized. 2. All living things have an ability to acquire materials and energy. 3. All living things have an ability to respond to their environment. 4. All living things have an ability to reproduce. 5. All living things have an ability to adapt. A “fertilized egg” meets all the criteria above, so why is it not a living thing?
It is rare to have a bill tabled and what has North Dakota Right to Life concerned is that it was tabled on a voice vote; later when a roll call vote was taken the majority was in support of the bill. This article explores how, and possible why a minority might have won the voice vote essentially killing the bill without a true up/down vote.
North Dakota Right to Life is still working with legislators and has not come to any official conclusion, but we encourage our members to know as much as they can and to talk to legislators about the bill and if they supported it and how they voted. After reading this article you might also want to talk to Lieutenant Governor Wrigley, and the carrier of the bill, Senator Olafson.
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