JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

No sooner had the personhood amendment qualified for the ballot in Colorado than the outrageous comments commenced.

The California Assembly recently passed AB2747, a bill that entitles those with less than one year to live or diagnosed with a terminal illness to receive information on end-of-life options from their physician if they request it.

In case you have not been following the latest Planned Parenthood saga, it involves a potential deal between a Christian ministry, Habitat for Humanity, and the world’s leading proponent of abortion, Planned Parenthood.

It came as no surprise when a dear friend, Andy V. of Minnesota, wrote me concerning a comment Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made during an interview with Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes on April 27.

Not too long ago I wrote a blog entitled “A Tale of Two Bishops”. In that commentary I applauded Archbishop Joseph F.

Ever since the famous Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger memo was issued in 2003, debates have raged among well-meaning Catholics regarding precisely what the cardinal (now Pope Benedict XVI) meant by “proportionate reasons”.

The Death with Dignity measure would allow terminally ill adult patients considered mentally competent to request and administer lethal medication prescribed by a physician.

When scientists go to work on a project, one has to assume there is going to be either a good result or a failed attempt.

It has often been said that when a truth is simple enough for even a four-year-old child to understand, most adults will probably not comprehend it. The older we get, the more inclined we are to discuss even the most important matters in a nuanced way, sometimes to the point of obfuscating the actual facts. Such is the case with abortion.

Two recent news reports make it perfectly clear that scientific research into alleged treatments and cures for diseases is either guess work or sadly lacking in conclusive evidence. Either way, let the buyer beware.

What happens in a culture of death when the focus of attention becomes the value of an individual human being? As we have seen in much of the recent news reports, we need not move beyond our own borders to discover the answer. Let’s see why this is so.

A few days ago Pope Benedict XVI, in another of his inspired talks, told Italian pro-lifers, “Continue along the path and do not be afraid, so that the smile of life may triumph on the lips of all children and their mothers.”