Category Archives: Archived Posts

Webinar: Fighting Assisted Suicide Coast to Coast, March 11th 2022

Fighting Assisted Suicide Coast to Coast:
The Big Picture in the States, Federal, and Judiciary

Friday, March 11th 2022
4:00pm to 5:30pm EST

The Patients’ Rights Action Fund and their allies, including the USCCB, fight the legalization of assisted suicide public policy, which is dangerous and discriminatory. You are invited to attend a webinar for a complete update on the fight against assisted suicide and euthanasia on all fronts.

State Update – Barbara Lyons, Coalitions Director of Patients’ Rights Action Fund

Assisted Suicide Legalization Bills – States where introduced and provisions
Assisted Suicide Expansion Bills – States where introduced and provisions
How States are Stretching the Oregon Model
Federal Update – Matt Vallière, Executive Director of Patients’ Rights Action Fund

Bi-partisan Congressional Resolution – How to get involved
Federal Regulation – Provisions and action needed
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Push in the Courts – Diane Coleman, CEO & President Not Dead Yet

Overview of how proponents are trying to legalize and expand assisted suicide laws through litigation.

This webinar will include real-time closed captioning and will be signed by an interpreter.
If you have an accommodation request, please email ian@patientsrightsaction.org

To register, please click here: https://patientsrightsaction.org/march-11-webinar-fighting-assisted-suicide-coast-to-coast/

 

Novena to St. Joseph: For Those on the Path of Adoption March 10-18, 2022

Novena to St. Joseph: For Those on the Path of Adoption

March 10-18, 2022

Invoking the intercession of St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, we pray for all whose life stories include adoption. Each day includes short Scriptural passages and prayers and focuses on a different group of people who are involved in the adoption process.

For more information and resources, please visit https://www.respectlife.org/adoption-novena 

January 15, 2022 Catholic Conversations: Death With True Dignity

The Finger Lakes Guild of the Catholic Medical Association invites you to attend "Catholic Conversations: Death with True Dignity" either in-person at St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry or virtually via Zoom. This special event is geared towards community members, health care providers, hospice workers, and ministers and will highlight Catholic teaching on end-of-life care.

To register, click here

Informational flyer:  click here

Topics will include:

Advance directives
Pain control
Ventilators and morphine use
Hospice vs. hospital vs. home care
And more
Break-out discussion groups by topic interest will occur both on site and via Zoom. Registration is free, but advance registration is required. Reserve your space now!

When: Saturday, January 15th, 2022

Where: St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry, 120 French Road, Rochester, NY, 14618, or online via Zoom
Schedule
7:30 AM Mass(in person only)
8:00 AM Registration
8:30 AM Greetings
8:45 AM Catholic Teaching
9:15 AM Advance Directives
9:45 AM Pain/Syx Control
10:15 AM Hospice and CCH
10:45 AM Breakout Session 1
11:45 AM Breakout Session 2
12:45 PM Lunch(in person only)

Statement of the U.S. Bishops’ Pro Life Committee Chairman on Biden Administration’s proposed rule on the Title X program

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule to reverse “The Protect Life Rule,” a regulation issued by the Trump Administration in 2019 to clearly separate abortion from family planning in the federal Title X family planning program. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, issued the following statement expressing profound disappointment over this action:

“This policy change will allow the Title X program to become an indirect funding avenue for abortion providers. In spite of explicit prohibitions in Federal law and clear congressional intent that abortion may not be a part of this program, it has repeatedly been coopted by abortion supporters as a funding stream for organizations, programs, and facilities that directly promote and provide abortions.

“While the USCCB has always had strong objections to government promotion and funding of contraceptives, we have also long supported clear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs and facilities where abortion is a method of family planning. This proposed rule is terrible policy; it would reintegrate abortion into what is supposed to be a pre-pregnancy family planning program. I strongly urge the Biden Administration to suspend this proposed rule and leave the Title X program as it was intended and authorized to be – a program entirely separate from abortion.”

Statement