PRO-LIFE RESPONSE TO UPCOMING SUPREME COURT CASES
For immediate release: Tuesday, January 7, 1997
"We Face the Decisions that Confronted Nazi Germany"
On Wednesday, January 8, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two circuit court cases regarding assisting suicide. Washington v. Glucksberg, from the Ninth Circuit court, and Quill v. Vacco, from the Second Circuit court, will have far-reaching implications on the U.S. policy on euthanasia.
The National Right to Life Committee, an organization opposing euthanasia, abortion, and infanticide, has filed an amicus brief in the Washington v. Glucksberg case. NRLC will have spokespersons available on the front steps of the Supreme Court before, during, and after oral arguments take place.
Commenting on the cases, West Virginians for Life President Charlotte Snead stated, "The media now glamorizes assisted suicide in their coverage and entertainment, challenging pro-lifers to affirm the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death."
West Virginians for Life is an affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, and the largest single-issue pro-life group in the state. West Virginians for Life and NRLC believe in the protection of innocent human life from the moment of conception until natural death.
Mrs. Snead further commented, "These Supreme Court decisions, as tutors instructing us, will impact the core response of our nation to pressures to exterminate the elderly, handicapped and terminally ill, in order to save health care costs and avoid inconveniences of caring for our most helpless fellow men and women. We face the decisions that confronted Nazi Germany. May it never happen in the United States that only the brightest and best, the 'perfect species,' be allowed to live, while the imperfect and unwanted are carted away from the backs of our hospitals as the refuse of an uncaring and selfish society."