Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) -- As expected, former Washington Gov. Booth Gardner paved the way for an intense statewide debate over assisted suicide as he filed papers to make it the second state after Oregon to legalize the grisly practice. Pro-life groups will likely rally along with disability advocates and the medical community in opposing the bill.
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Gardner, a Democrat, was Washington's governor from 1985 to 1993, and his measure would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to kill terminally ill patients. Two physicians would have to agree that the patient had fewer than six months to live and was mentally capable of making the decision.
Ironically, just months ago Gardner underwent deep brain surgery for Parkinson's Disease, which could possibly be used to help incapacitated patients like Terri Schiavo....
Washington Begins Assisted Suicide Debate as Former Governor Files Papers
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SPAIN, January 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the face of numerous police raids, arrests, and negative media reports against their abortion facilities, the members of the Spanish Association of Accredited Clinics for the Interruption of Pregnancy (ACAI) began a "strike" yesterday that is scheduled to last until Saturday, January 12.
According to ACAI spokesman Santiago Barambino, the members of the Association will be protesting the fact that they are treated as "monsters, mafiosos, and delinquents" for killing unborn children up to to the sixth month of gestation, a practice they justify on their website for preserving the "psychological and social well-being" of the mothers......
Spanish Abortion Clinics go on "Strike" to Protest "Persecution"
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