Welcome to the May 26, 2021 edition of Just 3 Things, the weekly social action newsletter of the Office of Human Life & Dignity. If this email was forwarded to you, and you'd like to receive it each week, please click here.

Valerie Schmalz

Director

Office of Human Life & Dignity

Archdiocese of San Francisco

Please contact your state Senator to oppose SB 380. Proponents of doctor-assisted suicide want to remove the few patient protections in the assisted suicide law now in effect in California. The move follows the usual path of physician-assisted suicide laws in other states and nations – promise protections and limits, then gradually strip those away. Specifically, SB 380 (Eggman, D-Stockton) would:

Why, after so many deaths during the pandemic and rates of depression skyrocketing, do we need to encourage more death now?

Please contact your California elected representative and strongly urge a NO vote on SB 380.

STILL TIME TO SIGN UP _ Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will talk about his pastoral letter and the ongoing arguments regarding abortion, the Eucharist and public officials and possibly the upcoming Mississippi Supreme Court case that challenges Roe v. Wade. That's with a topnotch panel moderated by George Mason U. law professor Helen Alvare and panelists Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life of America), Lila Rose (Live Action), Kathy Folan and Nathan Sullivan, prolife speakers with a riveting life story.

A series of homicides over the past few days included the shooting of a 19-year-old in San Mateo. In 2020, Bay Area homicides spiked 35 percent over the year before. The Restorative Justice Ministry of the Archdiocese reaches out to victims, including prayer services, at the site of the deaths. The St. Francis Prayer Service last Friday was led by Father Piers Lahey for Ashly Tianson, or A.T. as he was known. A.T. was killed one week earlier while shielding his girlfriend during an attempted carjacking, according to reports.