Governor Brown - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:27:19 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Governor Brown - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 California Catholic governor signs assisted-suicide law https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/10/09/california-catholic-governor-signs-assisted-suicide-law/ Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:11:50 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=77600

Former Jesuit seminarian Governor Jerry Brown of California has signed into law a bill legalising physician-assisted suicide in the state. The new law is modelled on Oregon's statute, passed in 1997, which saw 105 people die by assisted suicide in that state last year. Governor Brown said he had carefully read material opposing the new Read more

California Catholic governor signs assisted-suicide law... Read more]]> Former Jesuit seminarian Governor Jerry Brown of California has signed into law a bill legalising physician-assisted suicide in the state.

The new law is modelled on Oregon's statute, passed in 1997, which saw 105 people die by assisted suicide in that state last year.

Governor Brown said he had carefully read material opposing the new law presented by "numbers of doctors, religious leaders and those who champion disability rights".

"I have considered the theological and religious perspectives that any deliberate shortening of one's life is sinful."

Governor Brown also said he had spoken with a Catholic bishop.

California's Catholic bishops had called on him to veto the bill.

He had also spoken to supporters of the End of Life Option Act including the family of Brittany Maynard and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

"In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death," Governor Brown stated.

"I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain.

"I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill.

"And I wouldn't deny that right to others."

California's End of Life Option Act passed in the state's legislature in mid-September ahead of Pope Francis's trip to the US.

The California law will permit physicians to provide lethal prescriptions to mentally competent adults who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and face the expectation that they will die within six months.

Supporters of the new law say it has sufficient safeguards.

Oregon's law has been criticised for having unintended consequences, for degrading the quality of medical care, and for having inadequate state supervision.

California joins four other US states — Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont — in allowing physician-assisted suicide.

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California Catholic governor signs assisted-suicide law]]> 77600 Why California's three-parent law was inevitable https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/09/18/why-californias-three-parent-law-was-inevitable/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:32:54 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=33605

A California bill allowing children to have three legal parents will not help children, but instead will unnecessarily complicate their lives. The supposed need for California's SB 1476 flowed directly from the drive to normalize same sex parenting and recognize same sex unions. Can a child have three parents? If California State Senator Mark Leno Read more

Why California's three-parent law was inevitable... Read more]]> A California bill allowing children to have three legal parents will not help children, but instead will unnecessarily complicate their lives. The supposed need for California's SB 1476 flowed directly from the drive to normalize same sex parenting and recognize same sex unions.

Can a child have three parents? If California State Senator Mark Leno has his way, children in California will be able to have three legal parents. Before we dismiss SB 1476 as another example of California Weird, we had best look into it more closely. After all, the bill has passed both houses of the California Assembly and is awaiting Governor Brown's signature or veto.

I believe this development was inevitable, more inevitable in fact than the much-vaunted inevitability of gay marriage. Once we started trying to normalize parenting by same-sex couples and redefine marriage to remove the dual-gender requirement, we had to end up with triple-parenting.

A deeper look at the whole picture surrounding SB 1476 reveals that not only should the three-parent law fail, same-sex "marriage" should fail as well. As we will see, embedded in this bill is an appalling power-grab by the state, and a grotesque misrepresentation of the facts by the bill's authors.

Why Normalizing Same-Sex Parenting Inevitably Led to Triple-Parenting

Let us state an obvious fact: a same-sex couple cannot have a child unless someone gives them one, or part of one, namely either an egg or a sperm. If two women, for instance, decide they want to have a baby, they must still involve a man in the process. They can use some form of artificial reproductive technology with sperm from a man who is unknown to them. Or, they can find an accommodating friend to have sex with one of them, or to donate his sperm.

The question is this: how is the same-sex couple going to manage the relationship with this third party? In some cases, the women do not want any relationship with the father. Our government will give them this. Through the legal institution of anonymous sperm donation, the government agrees perpetually to separate a mother and a father from a legal relationship with each other. Read more

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