PRO-ABORTS RELEASE PROPAGANDA TOOL TO MOBILIZE ANTI-LIFE FORCES The Center for Women Policy Studies is releasing a survey of pro-abortion state legislators as a tool to raise support against pro-life activity. The pro-abortion organization is highlighting pro-life advances at the state level that will hopefully mobilize pro-abortion forces to combat these advances. https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0807-121.html
STEM CELL TREATMENT OF CROHN’S DISEASE The first stem-cell transplant to treat Crohn’s disease appears to be working, claims a doctor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where the procedure was performed 10 weeks ago, reported the Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday. https://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-stem07.html
CALIFORNIA COURT PROTECTS PATIENT FROM END-OF-LIFE DECISION Yesterday California’s supreme court ruled “that families have no right to stop life support for conscious patients who are not terminally ill, and who have not left explicit instructions allowing them to do so or formally appointed anyone to make health care decisions in the event of incapacity,” reported the New York Times. The case involved a man who was left brain-damaged after an auto accident in 1993. Two years later his wife asked the doctors to remove his feeding tubes. The man’s mother and sister objected and the court ruled in their favour. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/national/10DIE.html?todaysheadlines (free subscription application required)