John McCain Campaign Looking at Pro-Life Virginia Congressman for VP
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- John McCain's presidential campaign has reportedly asked for legal papers from pro-life Rep. Eric Cantor, a Virginia congressman to consider him as a potential running mate. Both McCain and pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama are looking at numerous possible vice-presidential picks. Cantor has a strong pro-life voters record, earning a 100% mark from the National Right to Life Committee. Cantor has voted against both abortion as well as making taxpayers fund embryonic stem cell research that destroys human life. Cantor is the chief deputy minority whip in the House, a Republican leadership position, but is otherwise not well known outside of his home state. Cantor is Jewish and, if he becomes McCain's running mate and McCain wins the presidential election, he would be the first Jewish vice-president. Cantor as a running mate would help McCain reach out to Jewish voters -- traditionally a Democratic group -- who aren't supporting Obama at historic levels. As LifeNews.com noted previously, a new survey finds McCain faring better than President Bush did in the 2000 and 2004 elections with Jewish voters. The poll found just 58 percent of Jewish voters said they would definitely vote for Obama and another four percent leaning his direction. Conversely, former candidates Al Gore and Bill Clinton both drew nearly 80 percent of the Jewish vote while John Kerry garnered more than 75 percent in 2004.

Pro-Life Groups in Missouri, Florida, Washington Wyoming Make Endorsements
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life organizations in four states have made their primary election endorsements. Right to Life groups in Missouri, Florida, Washington and Wyoming have relied on candidate surveys and voting records to make the best selections for the primary elections. Missouri Right to Life is backing Blaine Luetkemeyer and Lyndon Bode in primaries in the 9th Congressional district and has made numerous endorsements for the state legislature. The Florida Right to Life PAC is endorsing Congressional candidates Ric Keller in the 8th district, Bill Posey in the 15th and Tom Feeney in the 24th. The group has also made numerous state senate and house endorsements. In Washington state, the pro-life group Human Life is getting behind Congressional candidates Rick Bart, Christine Webb, Doc Hastings, Cathy McMorris Rogers and Steve Beren. The group also says Michael Delavar and Kurt Erickson are pro-life candidates. The group also featured a statement from pro-life candidate Dino Rossi, who is running for governor. Rossi says, "My wife Terry and I are both Catholic, and we believe that every soul has value. I will never change my stance on life issues to be elected to public office." Rossi is facing strongly pro-abortion Gov. Christine Gregoire, who has received the endorsement of key abortion activists. Finally, in Wyoming, Right to Life of Wyoming has endorsed former state treasurer Cynthia Lummis for Congress and notes that candidate Rick Gordon has donated to pro-abortion candidates in the past. The group also backs John McCain for president and incumbent pro-life Senators Mike Enzi and John Barasso for re-election.

Swiss Group Doing Assisted Suicides Wants to Let Elderly be Killed, Too
Geneva, Switzerland (LifeNews.com) -- A group in Switzerland that facilities assisted suicides is no longer reserving them for the terminally ill. At the annual conference and general membership meeting of the group Exit International, the organization overwhelmingly adopted a resolution to that effect. The resolution requires the organization at its 2009 meeting to take a vote on whether their statutes shall be amended to add "being tired of old-age" to the current eligibility criteria for killing people via assisted suicide. American bioethicist Wesley J. Smith isn't surprised. "Once one accepts the premise that suicide is an acceptable answer to the problems of human suffering and ennui, there are no boundaries that will hold for long," he said. "This isn't an outrider." Back in 2001, the Dutch Minster of Health suggested that elderly people who are tired of life be given suicide pills--right after her country formally legalized euthanasia. "I am not against it, as long as it can be carefully enough regulated so that it only concerns very old people who have had enough of living," Els Borst told the NRC Handelsblad newspaper on Saturday.

Maryland Police Arrest Pro-Life Advocates for No Reason, Lawsuit Threatened
Bel Air, MD (LifeNews.com) -- Eighteen pro-lifers participating in a peaceful abortion protest along the streets of Maryland were arrested without warning by Hartford County State Troopers on Friday. The pro-life advocates were participating in a multi-city protest featuring abortions signs and the Bel Air stop was the last of the week. According to participants who informed LifeNews.com, a state trooper approached the group and told them to move and put away their signs or they would be arrested. In an effort to comply, group leader Jack Ames gathered the participants and moved down the road, into the city limits of Bel Air, Maryland. The group stood peacefully on public property and did not "march" into the street as one news organization erroneously reported. Without warning, an estimated twenty patrol cars arrived on the scene and began arresting pro-life participants without a word. Those arrested were not told what they were being charged with, nor were they read their rights. One of the women who participated in the tour overheard a police radio conversation where an unknown person told the troopers to make the arrests and that they would "figure out later" what charges would be filed. The pro-life advocates were held in prison overnight and eventually charged with loitering, failure to obey a lawful order, and disorderly conduct. Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, who had participated in the Maryland tour earlier in the week, told LifeNews.com the city can expect a lawsuit over the incident. "This is an open and shut case of officers who ran amok, and trampled upon the constitutional rights of their victims. Hartford County can expect to have to answer for these civil rights violations in court," he said.

 

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