Good News: U.S. House Resolution to Join the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Back from the Brink offers H. Res. 77 Resources.
The U.N. treaty went into effect on January 22, 2021. That being also the anniversary of the Roe decision, we designated that date ever year as The Day of Horror and Hope.
Good News: US Anti-Discrimination Law
A Bipartisan Win for Life | Compact: “No death panels, no taking ventilators away from sick seniors, no devaluing disabled babies’ lives: A new anti-discrimination rule is a powerful new tool for the pro-life movement. Drafted by the Trump and Biden administrations, this bipartisan success can help protect human life from involuntary euthanasia.”
Bad News: UK Agrees to Consider Pro-Euthanasia Bill
It’s a preliminary vote rather than the final one, but this doesn’t bode well. See the Quote of the Week below, and this commentary.
Cutting the U.S. Budget
There’s a danger that, as in the past, recommendations to cut the federal budget could go after vital programs for the poor and life-affirming services that help prevent abortion and euthanasia. But the “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” will be considering cuts. That’s not actually a “department” and has no authority other than making recommendations – but those recommendations might be powerful when the actual decision-makers consider them.
Here are a couple of petitions to DOGE by other groups for cuts we think ought to be made anyway – spending that shouldn’t be happening in the first place.
World Beyond War – cut military spending
Live Action – defund Planned Parenthood
Reminder: Commuting Death Row
Petition to ask President Biden to commute the sentences of people on federal death row before leaving office: CommuteTheRow
You can also write the White House comment line, or call 202-456-1111.
Our Latest Blog Posts
This week we have a review of a movie currently out in theaters:
The Movie “Wicked”: Making a Real Person of the Witch of the West - https://consistent-life.org/blog/index.php/2024/12/03/wicked/
by Rachel MacNair
Quotation of the Week
Stephen Daisley
The Spectator, November 30, 2024
Parliament has voted to proceed with Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, which will see the NHS offer terminally ill people the opportunity to kill themselves and the lethal drugs with which to do so . . . [but] if the state can help end the lives of terminally ill people, why shouldn’t it end the lives of murderers? . . .
Sixty years on from Britain’s last hangings (thus far), the movement to restore the death penalty appeared to be dead beyond revival. Then along came Kim Leadbeater with her legislative sledgehammer, merrily thumping away at the load-bearing walls of human life ethics . . .
I am heartily opposed to the death penalty . . . because it violates the consistent life ethic . . . Our ideas of human life are a moral fabric and when you tear at one part, you loosen threads of dignity and conscience that you never intended to disturb.