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Benjamin Parviz: "Physician-assisted su***de (PAS) is now legally available in 13 U.S. states and Washington, DC, and to...
09/30/2026

Benjamin Parviz: "Physician-assisted su***de (PAS) is now legally available in 13 U.S. states and Washington, DC, and to the more than 100 million residents of those jurisdictions. ... More pointedly, all of your parishioners or fellow congregation members who could qualify can now receive PAS, regardless of which state your church is in." (Benjamin Parviz, "Making Physician-Assisted Su***de Unthinkable," Intersections, May 12, 2026, www.cbhd.org/intersections/making-physician-assisted-su***de-unthinkable.)
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"If, by the grace of God, congregations succeed in establishing a culture and a congregational life that values and incorporates the participation of those who are sick, disabled, aging, and dying, then such people will be given a why by which they will know how to endure the very real challenges th...

"'I appeal to the entire healthcare community to remember the profound meaning of your vocation, which is to care for a ...
09/30/2026

"'I appeal to the entire healthcare community to remember the profound meaning of your vocation, which is to care for a suffering person, not to eliminate that person. Yes, dear friends, be passionate servants of life. No one ever has the right on the basis of laboratory algorithms, to decide the life of a given embryo or elderly person! Medicine must never become the servant of programmed death!' Meeting France’s bishops Sunday morning, he said the Church must speak in public 'even if it is not always understood.'

“'Even when her teaching (the Church) is not followed, particularly on essential questions touching the foundations of civilisation, it remains necessary.'”

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday condemned assisted dying as immoral and calling it “false compassion.” He told sick and disabled pilgrims at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes that causing death must never be treated as normal and that what a legislature permits is not therefore moral. “No human law ...

"Gordon Macdonald, chief executive of campaign group Care Not Killing, welcomed the result, saying lawmakers had recogni...
09/17/2026

"Gordon Macdonald, chief executive of campaign group Care Not Killing, welcomed the result, saying lawmakers had recognised concerns that changing the law could put pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives prematurely.
'Our current laws protect vulnerable people and (members of parliament) have rightly said they do not need changing; it's time to move beyond this debate and fix palliative care,' Macdonald added."

British lawmakers ​rejected on Friday a proposal to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people, dealing a major setback to campaigners and bringing the latest effort ‌to change the law to an end.

"Whenever the subject of abortions late in pregnancy comes up, supporters of it fall back on the same fictions. It’s sup...
08/15/2026

"Whenever the subject of abortions late in pregnancy comes up, supporters of it fall back on the same fictions. It’s supposedly rare and happens only when the pregnancy poses severe physical risks to the mother or the baby has severe abnormalities incompatible with life." Read for the truth about late-term abortions and what drives them.

What, after all, was the problem the new law was enacted to address?

"Were they offered medical interventions aside from death? What information were they given about the dire medical circu...
08/13/2026

"Were they offered medical interventions aside from death? What information were they given about the dire medical circumstances? Was that information biased in favor of euthanasia? Were the parents bullied into the death decision by ghoulish doctors who enthusiastically cheer on euthanasia for kids? ... Now, a child in dire need of supportive medical care, comfort and love is no more."

New York’s pro-death community must have celebrated Wednesday when the state’s Medical Aid in Dying law kicked in.

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08/13/2026

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The state of Massachusetts has enacted a radical abortion law that allows for a baby to be killed up until the moment of birth. Thanks to the Prioritizing Patient Care Act, medical personnel are legally protected to abort babies beyond 24 weeks gestation upon request.

Governor Maura Healey (D) signed the bill so that every woman in the state can have the “right” to an abortion. “Under prior law, some Massachusetts patients were forced to leave the state to receive care,” according to a press release from Healey’s office.

Healey hosted a press conference on Monday, surrounded by a group of joyful women as she made the announcement that will undoubtedly lead to the death of more children. “Abortion is healthcare” read the sign hung on the podium Healey spoke from. Massachusetts is the tenth state to allow abortion up to birth.

“It’s incomprehensible that even a staunch abortion activist could justify an abortion law as extreme as this one,” Joy Stockbauer, policy analyst for the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand.

Healey vowed that Massachusetts would continue to be a leader in promoting the radical agenda: “And as governor, I promise that no matter what Donald Trump or Republicans in Congress or the Supreme Court does, we’re going to continue to make sure that women and families have access to the health care that they need, right here in Massachusetts,” she pledged.

Stockbauer pointed out that the Bay State already has extremist policies when it comes to abortion.

“Massachusetts already had exceptions on the books to allow abortions based on the physical or mental health of the mother, though there is no situation when an abortion is medically necessary. This new law expands abortion so that a mother doesn’t even need a reason to kill her child — she can have her fully formed, birth-ready child killed in her womb simply because she feels like it. Abortion activists will say that no one has an abortion in the third trimester unless they medically need to. This law exposes that claim for the farce that it is.”

Healey’s press release said that Massachusetts law will reflect the belief that “health care decisions should be made between women and their doctors.”

“That was the argument,” said Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on his podcast, “The Briefing,” referring to Healey’s line of reasoning. “[But] we just need to note that she [Healey] goes on saying that the justification for this is that there are prenatal, pre-birth diagnoses that are medically devastating that should allow women to terminate a pregnancy.”

Mohler continued that the law opens the floodgates for on-demand abortion.

“You have conditions that are diagnosed late after 24 weeks of pregnancy, and women are deciding on the basis of that fetal diagnosis. They want to go and have an abortion now. We have to say, morally, there are some diagnoses that indicate that the pregnancy itself might not end in a live birth. But the point is here that even as Governor Healy and others claim that as the moral justification, the moral effect goes far beyond this.”

Doctors say that babies born as early as 22 weeks have the capacity to survive with proper care.

“By the third trimester, a mother has been feeling her baby kick and squirm for months. If she shined a flashlight at her belly, the baby may poke that spot in response, which is a favorite game I used to play with my little boy before he was born,” Stockbauer shared. “Let’s be clear on what this abortion law means for Massachusetts: children will be killed on what could have been their birthdays.”

The bill is scheduled to take effect in 90 days.

𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑄𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑛 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑.

Pray for our friends in South Carolina who mourn this loss of an honorable national leader for life, and a loving big br...
07/13/2026

Pray for our friends in South Carolina who mourn this loss of an honorable national leader for life, and a loving big brother to a sister bereaved of parents.

National Right to Life mourns the sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham, a steadfast friend of unborn children and their mothers. His leadership on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act gave a voice to children who could not speak for themselves. We honor his years of service and his commitment to protecting innocent human life. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, staff, and the people of South Carolina. May he rest in peace.

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