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SAN iDlfiGO (A?) Frtrti box- fights iii California for four
to fc^^rifessnierv, foreign And months to protest the measure.
S. groups are threatening to Proposition 187, approved by
ytott California over ils anti-im- the voters last week, would deny
grant Preposition 187. schooling, welfare and non-emer-
The Bep»uBlieans> On the other gency health care to illegal inuni-
fld, have put San Diego at the ' grants. It has been blocked by le-
j df -their list as a pk>sSible site -gal challenges,
ftteir 1996 national convention: Despite the state’s assurances,
And some state officials are • Some California business people
idling the threAtS Ana^ never are jittery because of the boycott
iult in full-scale boycotts. threats.
"The a’rgtimeht .^re make to “If it becomes fashionable,
tino gTofiph is that it harms the- ' which apparently it is, it could
tinos they profess tO Want tb hSVe a tremendous consequence,”
ip. Boycotts don’t help anyone. said Ernesto Grijalva, a trade rela-
ey end up hurting fJeople,” said tions expert for the Greater San
to Walsh, a SbC^ceSmah for Gov. Diego Chamber of Commerce,
tie Wilson, a Republican and Part of his concern is for the
Stig supporter of the hew immi- ^grocery, clothing and electronics
itron law. stores along San Diego’s southern
Sq far, activists in^exasj, Ari- edge and in its malls downtown,
gfoup^s demonstrated against Cali-
ia and Colorado ha^e called for all heavily dependent on middle- fomia’s n'eW law, calling it racist,
^edtts of California. busmdAAes. * class shoppers who cross each day Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, a
id the World Bokihg Cbutncil, from Tijuana, Mexico. critic of the Colorado boycotts, said
!<£& in Mexico City, Ls refusing to ’ “We understand there’s an emo- his office Would support a selective
rfiftpate in any tVoPld tftfe tiOnal Reaction to Proposition 187,
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blit two wrongs don’t make a right
and that’s what’s happening right
now,” Grijalva said.
The National Association of
Hispanic Journalists has
dropped California from consid
eration as host for its 1998 con-
Vention, the first national orga
nization to take such action. The
convention would have brought
about $1. million to the San
Diego region’s economy.
The retaliation recalls a boycott
of the Colorado tourism industry
in 1992 after voters there ap
proved an amendment against gay
rights.- The amendment was later
ruled unconstitutional — after
Colorado reported losing $39 mil
lion in tourism i*0venue.
Last week, Colorado minority
boycott* of California.
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Ballot Measure 16 on physician- that can prolong life.
‘Asia ahd assisted filicide Assisted suicide in Oregon. This “Suicide and euthanasia are
hever be allowed at the week, the bishops’ conference riever morally acceptable op-
(0-Catholic hospitals-and^oth- added $80,000 to the Secretariat tions,” the bishops state. .
es that mak^ Up tlr^ na- for Pro-Life Activities budget to ' They also say a'person may
gest private heplth care ' fund -educational efforts in oppo- forgo extraordinary or dispropor-
rtem, U.S. bishops declared sitiOn to euthanasia. ; tionate means of preserving
(irsday. When the church speaks ott their lives if those means do not
A Week aftdf Oi*egc$i voters .Wealth care, its Size gives it con- offef a reasonable hope of benefit
proved physician-ASSisted' sui* siderable influence. In 1992, or ifthey pose an eXcessive bUr-
e, the bishops said the practice . Catholic hospitals recorded more den. Even giving a patient food
Ihevef be fftorally acceptable than 5 million admissions, ac- and water by medical procedures
j told Catholic institutions' not counting for more than 15 per- is not morally Obligatory if it
tibhor directives that violate cent of all hospital admissions. -would bring ho comfort to a per-
efturch s mbt'al teaching. In their neW “Ethical and Re- son close to‘death:
The bishops said doctOri; fhay Ijgious Directives foP Catholic In ethical issues atthe begin-
lin medication to tdrihihaL. Health Care Services” the bish- fling Of life, the bishop's say abor-
,fefsohs evehif that ihdii'ect- bps say all people have a right to tjOn must never be permitted in
hastens theiritleathsc fhfey r'adequ&te health carte. They also • a Catliolie health care institu-
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d patients haV'O 4$:^ rigfrt to say Catholic institutions should tioh. Nor is prenatal diagnosis
^ax^aprdinaiy''-^iating'iirish thetnselves by'aer- permitted “when undertaken
idlhh life. ' , \ 'vice to and advocacv for the brith the intention of abtirtincr an
^ . ^vipfe to ahd advocacy"fdf' the
^caSas of eohaiffei'fiblemoral poor, uninsured and underin-
fexity^thdi-c^rectiVes je^flect sulfed pet-sons, addicts, mifrori-
•■•tai8ti^iftg“ , %hile*pre- ties, immigrants, refugees and
the legitifnatie ff%edom the disabled:
!th the intention of aborting an
Unborn Child with a serious de
fect.’’
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Alfred G. HughOs, dbafriU? i' of • ilfonal church teachings opposing
Doctrine Committee, told the abortion, euthanasia and artifi-
topsl .-cial contraception, but admit the
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