California ProLife Council

Life. It's Worth the Effort.

(Ira Byock, MD, advocate of terminal sedation, advances his cause under the aegis of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Feb 7.)

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The California ProLife Council opposes ‘terminal sedation’ or the opiated dehydration of vulnerable patients. “This is the intentional, medical killing of a patient in one’s care,” said Brian Johnston, spokesman.

The practice of intentional medical dehydration was spelled out and condemned by the Nuremberg Medical Trials https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/NT_war-criminals_Vol-II.pdf , HLSL SEQ. NO. 8900 – 09 JUNE 1947 – PAGE 8,753.

The California Conference of Catholic Bishops, under its recently ‘retired’ Director, had errantly supported this form of euthanasia in the case of Robert Wendland, filing an amicus brief with the California Courts supporting intentional dehydration. The California Supreme Court ruled against them, finding such practices to be unethical.

Pope John Paul II issued an ad limina rebuke of the Conference’s support of dehydration, and of the religious body’s approval of killing Robert Wendland. “…the omission of nutrition and hydration intended to cause a patient’s death must be rejected and that, while giving careful consideration to all the factors involved, the presumption should be in favor of providing medically assisted nutrition and hydration to all patients who need them.”
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/1998/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19981002_ad-limina-usa.html

The retired Director of the California Catholic Conference suppressed public knowledge of the ad limina rebuke, and continues to work ‘advising’ the quasi-catholic, billion-dollar health industry in the Western states. The former “Catholic Healthcare West” has actually been instructed by the Bishop of Phoenix to no longer use the term “Catholic” due to their unethical medical procedures. https://www.ncronline.org/news/phoenix-bishop-removes-hospitals-catholic-status

Few Catholics seeking medical care in these facilities are aware of this dramatic departure from the ethics of the faith, mistakenly assuming the hospital system continues under its initial moral code and Catholic guidance.
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Abortion regulations in California? None. Though unregulated, it’s government funded

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Special Report – Abortion in California
This report includes extensive documentation via electronic links
For Release January 20 More info 800 924-2490
CALIFORNIA LAW: ABORTION ON DEMAND AND ABORTION WITHOUT LIMITS–WHAT THE CURRENT LAW REALLY SAYS
FEDERAL ABORTION LAW — AUTHORIZES ABORTION ON DEMANDThe expansive definition of health given in Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179, 192 (1973) as including “all factors – physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age” controls the extent of the abortion right announced in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 153 (1973) and affirmed in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 871 (1992). In effect, since any prohibition on late-term abortions must include an exception for the life and health of the mother, the exception eviscerates any ban a state may want to impose and results in abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
The official report of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee issued in 1983 confirmed this: “‘As a result of the Roe decision, a right to abortion was effectively established for the entire term of pregnancy for virtually any reason, whether for the sake of personal finances, social convenience, or individual lifestyle … Thus, the Committee observes that no significant legal barriers of any kind whatsoever exist today in the United States for a woman to obtain an abortion for any reason during any stage of her pregnancy.’” (Report, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, on Senate Joint Resolution 3, 98th Congress, 98-149, June 7, 1983, p. 6)
CALIFORNIA ABORTION LAW — GOVERNMENT FUNDED ABORTION ON DEMAND THROUGHOUT ALL NINE MONTHS OF PREGNANCY
The language of California’s Abortion Statute CA Health and Safety Code Sec. 123468 follows the ruling of Casey in including the life and health exception to authorize abortions on viable babies. This means abortion on demand throughout all nine months, whenever the paid abortionist chooses to do it, as he can apply psychological, emotional and ‘age ‘ considerations in any way he wishes.
The Medi-Cal Provider Manual published by the CA Department of Health Care Services states on page one that abortion is a covered benefit regardless of the gestational age of the fetus, and that medical justification and authorization for abortion are not required.
True to the real meaning of Roe/Doe/Casey, California allows state-funded abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
CA BORN ALIVE INFANTS’ PROTECTION ACT – unenforced, ignored, and meaningless
CA Health and Safety Code Sec. 123435 states that a child born alive after an abortion has the same rights to medical care as an infant prematurely born spontaneously. This law is ignored.
Because  California does not require abortion providers to report to the state, California is paying for abortions on children up to the point of natural birth, with no oversight or mechanism for enforcement. There is no ability to protect children born alive in the course of abortion despite the compelling state interest to do so.

The Bloomberg Effect

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On October 10, 2018, Mayor Bloomberg, one of the richest men in the world, declared he was now changing parties to ‘Democrat’. But as a Republican, an Independent or a Dem, his ideas have never changed. He has always been a progressive liberal. Bloomberg had spent millions in the spring of 2018 in an open attempt to ensure that there would be no Republican Gubernatorial nominee on the California November ballot.  Although this was publicly stated, many California Republicans were too naive to see Bloomberg’s method of splitting the vote. He subsequently spent 100 million dollars to destroy Republican nominees nationwide in the fall of 2018. Multiple millions were targeted in Orange County, California.
California’s Republican party problems have not been with Republican ideas, but with a confused and compromised Republican “leadership”.  Republican leaders who resent and refuse to support Republican party ideals have been more of its enemy than the Democrat Party and the media combined.  This intentional self-destruction of the party by its own caretakers is their greatest legacy. Through Proposition 14, they initiated and then accommodated continued changes in California’s election law that have robbed the party membership of its own voice. This ‘mob rule’ primary was only the most obvious of politically-suicidal acts.   Though California’s founding party, today’s California’s Republican Party ‘leadership’ gave up long before Nov. 6.
On this Nov. 6 same-day voting took place in every county of the state without requiring any identification. On this and other open-invitations to voter fraud, the Republican Party has been largely silent. How can anyone expect Republican votes to have any meaning when Republican leaders have themselves dismissed and diminished their own voters, intentionally reducing their voice?  Republican leaders who promote their opponent’s ideas and opponents’ party think they are ‘doing the Republican party a favor’ progressing it to a ‘brave new ‘post-partisan world. But like Arnold (the promulgator of Prop 14) and others what they are not seeking to advance the Republican Party or its values, they merely seek personal approval and advantage.
Those familiar with the founding of our nation know that Aaron Burr was widely disdained by the other founders. It was not because Burr shot Hamilton, that merely marked the end of his career. Burr was considered reprehensible for his ‘self-serving’ agenda. He had been widely recognized for making his first principle, “What’s in this for me?”  Today’s Democrat Party has become notorious for marketing goodies to a self-centered society, but the California Republican Party’s loss of vision and purpose to “Burr-like” self-promotion has led to a collapse and surrender to Democrat party assertions and values.
There is a wispy silver lining to this last election. Bloomberg’s millions were targeted at removing Congressional Republicans. He used that wealth to stir the simple-minded into a targeted, class-hatred toward each Republican Congressional member, but there were still many unsung victories in Orange County.   ProLife candidates all down the ballot did very well in Orange County on the local level. In Mayoral, City Council, City Attorney, School Board and other local races, the endorsed pro-life candidates won 2/3 of the races endorsed.
The Republican Party will need to reassess who it is at its next State convention. Will it be led by principles or by Burrs’ and  Bloombergs’?