The Pulse
Newsletter of Georgia Right to Life
Wanted Dead or Alive! Part 2: Essential Medical Terminology
Dealing with end of life situations and the issue of organ donation are emotionally and spiritually challenging. How are these cases to be evaluated? What’s best for the individual? Should there ever be a time to consider harvesting a person’s organs? Imagine sitting by a loved one’s bedside, faced with the tremendous weight and responsibility of trying to answer those questions!
Wanted Dead Or Alive! Part 1 – Overview
For centuries there was little debate about when a person had actually passed away. Not so today. Advances in modern medicine are truly marvelous—saving the lives of people who would have faced certain death just a few decades ago. At the same time, however, those...
Advance Directives: Patient Beware
Most people think advance health care directives and living wills are understandable, ironclad and followed to the letter. Many believe the purpose is simply to help health care providers carry out a patient’s wishes of how they want to be treated if they become...
Futile Care Vs Palliative Care
Ethics Committees and Futile Care Futile Care Theory: Bioethicists Should Stop Pretending They Are Doing Patients a Favor Sunday, May 30, 2010, 5:49 PM Wesley J. Smith Allowing people to make their own informed decisions regarding the extent of end-of-life medical...
Rationing Healthcare
The New York Times begins to soften us for health care rationing. "Eventually, we may well have to decide against paying for expensive treatments with only modest benefits. But given how difficult that would be for this country, it makes sense to start with the easier...
Assisted Suicide
Assisted suicide and euthanasia is a confusing subject. However, this subject will greatly affect future generations as we continue the slide down the slippery slope. Please carefully consider all factors before making a judgment. The following are a list of questions...
When Love Wins…
When Janet Sheikhan first discovered she was pregnant, she and her husband were thrilled. But then, Janet received terrible news: A test showed the baby was severely deformed. On the advice of her doctor, Janet regretfully decided to have an abortion. But when she asked to see her tiny aborted child, Janet was shocked to discover it was a perfectly-formed baby boy. Later she read the autopsy report, which confirmed the baby had not been deformed but was perfectly healthy.
If They Say, You Say
Georgia Right to Life has compiled this Talking Points resource to help pro-life advocates provide informed responses in important conversations.
When Does Life Begin?
The life of a baby begins long before he or she is born. A new individual human being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell. If the baby's life is not interrupted, he or she will someday become an adult man or woman. Worldwide,...
Is Life A Right?
Is human life sacred? From the very beginning the Bible reveals that it is because human beings are created in God's image (Genesis 1:27). The Bible portrays God's personal involvement in humankind's creation, and the emphasis throughout is on man's divinely imparted...
Abortion in the Black Community
Black babies are aborted up to 6 times the rate of the majority population while the NAACP, the Urban League and the Congressional Black Caucus enable Planned Parenthood to destroy beautiful possibility. Learn more about the horrendous impact of abortion on the...
Post Abortion Syndrome
Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PAS) affects everyone and is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. The process of making an abortion choice, experiencing the procedure and living with the grief, pain and regret is certainly, at it’s very core, traumatic. As with any trauma, individuals often try to “forget” the ordeal and deny or ignore any pain that may result.