| Pro-Life Friend, Things are looking bleak. When I emailed you on Wednesday, I explained that MCFL needed to raise $10,000 by Mother's Day to effectively continue the fight for life (CLICK HERE to donate). As of today, we've only raised a fraction of that amount with out Mother's Day Funding Bouquet. If you're unsure of what to do, please read the entire letter before deciding. The extremely well-funded radical pro-death lobby has once again turned its attention toward Massachusetts. This time they seek to pass a Doctor-Prescribed Suicide law which would allow doctors to give a lethal dose of poison to sick, depressed, elderly and vulnerable patients (CLICK HERE to help stop them). They are marking our grandparents, aunts, uncles, fathers and even our beloved mothers for death. We have to stop them but we need to raise funds to do it. Please help raise the $10,000 we need by contributing to our Mother's Day Funding Bouquet (CLICK to donate). Your generous gift honoring motherhood of $10, $20, $50 or whatever you can afford will help us keep our effort to educate the voters about this dangerous proposal active through the summer. Your Mother's Day gift could save the lives of elderly mothers and the children of expectant mothers. Let's not forget that even as pro-death forces target the infirm and elderly, they are already assaulting Life and motherhood in another way-by slaughtering thousands of this commonwealth's unborn children each year through legal abortion. The so-called "Death with Dignity" Act, which will be on the ballot in November, is yet another expansion of the death culture which has dominated this country since 1973. As always, like the bullies and cowards they truly are, the pro-death activists are focusing their attack on the most vulnerable. (CLICK HERE to stand up to these bullies) For example, the proposed law does not require mandatory depression screening-despite the fact that severe, but treatable, depression is the most common cause of suicidal ideation. The patients targeted by the law will have just received serious medical news: It is reasonable to assume they might be depressed as a result. Talk of suicide is a cry for help and a compassionate society would offer help-not poison pills. Sadly my friend, it gets worse. WGBH and the Boston Globe recently featured the story of a Massachusetts family that "helped" an ailing parent obtain Doctor-Prescribed Suicide in Oregon where it is legal. The man suffered from a tumor which impaired his brain function. The family and their doctors worked to get him healthy enough so he could kill himself. The perversity of medical professionals healing a seriously ill, potentially confused man so that he can more easily commit suicide is astounding. If the law passes, this could happen to anyone; to our friends, to our mothers, even to you and me one day. That's why it is so important for you to support MCFL's Mother's Day Funding Bouquet. Your gift of $10, $20 or $50 will help make the difference in this fight. It's also a great chance to honor up to five (5) of the best mothers you know by signing them up for a pro-life Mother's Day e-card (CLICK HERE to make a gift). You can also make a gift in honor of a mother who has passed away by including a note to that effect on the donation page (CLICK HERE). Proponents of Doctor-Prescribed Suicide have the gall to portray inveigling an impaired person and his grieving family into ending his life as an act of compassion. We know better. We know that encouraging people at their most vulnerable to kill themselves is as far from compassion as you can get. The word compassion is drawn from the Latin meaning "suffer together" or "suffer with." Suffering people need caring, effective medical treatment--that's compassion. Offering a sick person poison pills is simply medical abandonment. Taking care of vulnerable people can be taxing and "inconvenient". Does that make their lives inconvenient? People deserve proper care not self-imposed death sentences. The arguments change but the reasons never do. The "rights" that pro-death advocates promote are the "right" to total autonomy and the "right" of the strong to prey upon the weak. We can't afford to lose the battle to defend life. That is why I am asking you to dig deep and help us meet our $10,000 funding goal by this Mother's Day. Your gift of $10, $20, $50 or whatever you can afford will fund our critical educational efforts needed to defeat the pro-death initiatives. Please give. We MUST win but can only do it if we work together for Life. It's hard to believe, but the radical pro-death activists behind the Doctor-Prescribed Suicide law actually claim that it would promote the dignity of those suffering from a so-called "terminal" illness. I wonder. Where's the dignity in persuading an elderly patient into killing herself? Where's the dignity in denying a cancer patient life-saving drugs but offering suicide pills (as has been done in Oregon)? Did you know that in Oregon and Washington where Doctor-Prescribed Suicide is legal, radical pro-death activists will throw "death parties" to celebrate individual medical suicides? They pack a supposedly "terminal" patient's house with pro-suicide family, friends and even strangers. They serve refreshments and hand out favors. They claim it is to support the often confused patient in his final hours-but it is really to make sure he takes all of his "medicine." What sort of people would do these things? The law these people are proposing is wrong. It's just that simple. It's our job, yours and mine, to make sure the voters of Massachusetts are educated about the potential consequences of the Doctor-Prescribed Suicide law. That's why I need you to CLICK HERE and participate in the MCFL Mother's Day Funding Bouquet. Let's honor our mothers by standing up for Life. After all, without our mothers who would be here? Your generous contribution of $10, $20, $50 or whatever you can afford will allow our comprehensive efforts to educate the public to continue through at least the first part of the summer (CLICK to contribute). You will also have the opportunity to have a lovely pro-life e-card sent to up to 5 of the best moms you know or make a donation in honor of a departed mother. Your gift to honor motherhood may just save the life of someone's mother when we defeat Doctor-Prescribed Suicide in November. Remember, we need to raise $10,000 by Mother's Day. My friend, things are looking bleak, for now. Together we can change that. I know I can count on you! Yours for Life,  Anne Fox President, Massachusetts Citizens for Life PS-despite the importance of the Doctor-Prescribed Suicide issue, we can't let up for one minute on our efforts to protect the unborn. Funds are scarce and we don't want to have to make any tough choices between these necessary fights. CLICK HERE to make your contribution to the Mother's Day Funding Bouquet and please be as generous as you can. Our mothers chose life. Let's help a generation of expectant mothers make the same choice. PPS- Honor a special mother or many special mothers. Donate to the Mother's Day Funding Bouquet. You may sign up as many as five of the best mothers or honorary mothers you know. Best of all, this gift will save lives, including the lives of many elderly mothers. You can also make a special gift in memory of a departed mother by including a note to that effect on the donations page.
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