The Canadian Supreme Court in Quebec recently made a ruling on euthanasia, effectively making it easy for anyone diagnosed with a medical condition that causes “irremediable suffering” to die by a physicians’ hand. This ruling will extend to patients with mental illnesses like depression and even to children.
West Virginians for Life today released a response to the WV Free press release which made claims that WVFL finds hard to believe. In the words of WVFL President Dr. Wanda Franz, “Given their history of misrepresenting the issue of abortion, it is difficult to take the results of the WV Free poll seriously without seeing the details of the questions asked plus the size and diversity of those sampled.”
Read the WVFL press release in its entirety here.
A doctor in South Africa is facing charges of being “guilty of dissuading his patient from terminating her pregnancy, of disrespecting the dignity of the patient and using emotive language to convey his beliefs to the patient.”
He simply advised a pregnant woman that abortion “kills a human being.”
Click to read more at nationalrighttolifenews.org.
https://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/2019/09/south-african-doctor-faces-charges-for-advising-abortion-kills-a-human-being/
“Friday night when I first saw the story, my whole body went numb from shock. That shock turned into lying in bed, sobbing at the thought of my baby being on his property. I questioned why he had kept their remains and I realized they were probably trophies to him. My child’s dead body was his trophy. The grief was overwhelming.”
Read more at liveaction.org
The preliminary hearings for pro-life heroes David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt concluded this week Wednesday in San Francisco. The pair are hopeful that sworn testimony over the past weeks demonstrates that those who trafficked aborted-baby body parts are guilty of crimes, not the whistleblowers who exposed it. Judge Christopher Hite’s ruling on whether the case will proceed to trial is expected within a month.
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As of Wednesday, September 18, 32 organizations and lawmakers had filed or co-signed briefs to the Supreme Court of Texas, asking the court to intervene on behalf of the Pardo family and send four-year-old Drake Pardo back home.
The case has been pending at the Supreme Court of Texas for the past three weeks. Yesterday was the deadline for Child Protective Services (CPS) to file its response to the family’s request for emergency intervention by the Texas Supreme Court.
Instead, CPS filed a request for a 10-day extension. The Texas Supreme Court has not yet ruled on whether that extension will be granted.
In the agency’s brief at the Fifth Court of Appeals, CPS made a bizarre and jaw-dropping argument: that Ashley and Daniel Pardo have nothing to complain about because CPS is giving Drake the same medical care that Ashley and Daniel would have given him.
CPS bases this argument on the theory that there is no reason for the court to intervene provided that Drake is receiving the medical care everyone agrees that he needs. To support its argument, CPS outlined in extreme detail how Ashley and Daniel were already planning to give Drake the medical care he needs and how the two parents have stated repeatedly that they planned to follow the recommendations of Drake’s doctors.
However, rather than coming to the rather obvious conclusion that Drake should be returned home, CPS argued instead that they might as well be allowed to keep Drake if he is receiving the medical care he needs. A more calloused view of family rights can hardly be imagined.
It is yet to be seen whether CPS will maintain this argument at the Supreme Court of Texas, where a flurry of support for the family has arisen through the filing of the following briefs:
The Supreme Court of Texas has also requested a brief from the Texas solicitor general’s office to explain the opinion of the state of Texas regarding the relevant laws in the Pardo case. This type of invitation is only extended one to five times per year and indicates that the Supreme Court of Texas is taking the issue very seriously (although it does not indicate which direction the court may be leaning). Although CPS is a state agency, they represent themselves in CPS cases and are not represented by the solicitor general. Thus, the solicitor general, who works for the Texas attorney general, will be filing a brief as a third party.
The solicitor general’s office requested and was granted a 30-day extension to file their brief by Oct. 18. In light of the excellent attorney general opinion in defense of parental rights released back in February, we are hopeful that a brief from the solicitor general would be beneficial to the Pardo family. However, the 30-day delay in the case unnecessarily adds to the trauma that the family is already experiencing, requiring them to continue pursuing additional burdensome and costly trial strategies.
Today, the Houston Chronicle released the first in a series of articles detailing how cases similar to the Pardo’s case often lead to the destruction of families based on little to no evidence against the family. The problem has become systematic and statewide.
The Supreme Court of Texas has the chance to set right the severe abuses in this case that no other court or state employee has been willing to correct thus far. We are praying that they will intervene on behalf of the Pardo family and do so quickly.
To date, nearly 40,000 people have signed the petition demanding that Drake be returned home. More than 2.2 million people have viewed the viral video of Drake’s case. Thirty-two state lawmakers and organizations have intervened in the case to defend the family. People around the world have heard about the case and expressed their shock that these abuses could happen in Texas.
Hopefully the Supreme Court of Texas will add their name to that list, end this family’s three-month nightmare, and set a precedent that these abuses are not permitted in the state of Texas.