Join us in prayer for the sanctity of life…..California Gov. Jerry Brown has until midnight Oct. 7 to sign or veto a controversial bill that would legalize physician-assisted dying in the nation’s most populous state.
Disability rights activist and evangelical author Joni Eareckson Tada is fervently praying for a veto but she, too, said, “I think Brown is struggling with the issue and listening to both sides.” urges calls to the governor’s office
Tada blogged at “Joni & Friends” that the bill undermines compassion and would be “very bad news for the elderly, the disabled, and the medically fragile.”
The End of Life Option Act (the bill’s formal name) passed in legislative special session in mid-September and reached Brown’s desk Sept. 25. But few expected the former Jesuit seminarian would sign it during Pope Francis’ U.S. visit.
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