Center for AZ Policy: Luncheon with Dr. Marvin Olasky, Choose Life license plates, & assisted suicide

Thursday, September 13, 2007

In this issue:

(1) Things that Matter
(2) Choosing Life is "Controversial"
(3) Assisted Suicide Alive and Well in Arizona
(4) Women's Vote Not a Slam Dunk


(1) Things that Matter

Register today for our September 26 luncheon featuring Marvin Olasky. Dr. Olasky, editor of WORLD magazine and the author of a score of books, will talk about "Enduring for Things that Matter." In his book Standing for Christ in a Modern Babylon, Olasky encourages believers to use the rights we have to lead others to the Truth, saying, "Only as we show in both word and deed what a true understanding of liberty looks like, will we help transform a culture." To make your reservations for this event which is less than two weeks away, go online, or call 602-424-2525 today!

(2) Choosing Life is "Controversial"

Last week we told you about our involvement with the Arizona Life Coalition's appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to try to get the Arizona License Plate Commission to produce plates like it has for a number of other non-profit groups as a fund-raising tool. Today, the press picked up on the story. According to an Arizona Business Gazette article, the state's position, as expressed by the state attorney general's office, is that the message of the license plates to "choose life" is too controversial, and that license plates should not be "a billboard for one side of a hotly contested issue." Funny, we've heard that abortion is controversial, but we've yet to hear from anyone credible who asserts that encouraging people to allow the unborn to see the light of day is the least bit contentious! Read the online Gazette story, in which CAP General Counsel Peter Gentala was quoted, on AZ Central.

(3) Assisted Suicide Alive and Well in Arizona

Yes, you read that correctly. The New Times reports on the assisted suicide death of a supposedly depressed, mentally ill 58-year old Phoenix woman, Jana Van Voorhis. Tragically, this woman in need of real help received "help" instead from the "Final Exit Network" also known as the Hemlock Society. Their specialty? Helping people kill themselves. Wesley Smith, author of Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, will be the keynote speaker at CAP's November 3 Bioethics Conference, The Biotech Century: Facing Our Future. Assisted suicide will be just one of many vital topics addressed in this must-attend conference. For more information and to make your reservation today, visit the conference web site at bioethicsconference.com.

(4) Women's Vote Not a Slam Dunk

If you're not familiar with the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, check them out at www.sba-list.org. In late August, the List released a national survey of women voters. Their findings? Sixty-four percent of women voters would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who voted against the partial birth abortion ban. Sixty-eight percent of women are less likely to vote for a presidential candidate if they support taxpayer-funded abortion. As we've argued for years, women by strong majorities support abortion restrictions!

Center for AZ Policy