Education Tax Credit Petition  

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How You Can Help 

You can make sure voters get an opportunity to

consider the Children's Education Initiative at the

November 2014 election. To get on the ballot will

require many voters to sign the official Petition.

Petition Pages are available at your parish or from the

Missouri Catholic Conference (MCC) at (800) 456-

1679 or request them by e-mail.

How You Can Help 

• Sign the Petition in support of the Children's Education Initiative.

• Ask your parish how you can help gather signatures in support of the Children's Education Initiative.

• Copy the educational material on the Initiative from the MCC website and distribute to friends and family.

• Contact the MCC to find out other ways to volunteer.

• Make a contribution to Missourians for Children's Education, PO Box 144, Jefferson City, MO 65102 (this contribution is not tax deductible).

• Keep this effort in your prayers.

Stay Up-to-Date on the Initiative  

Anesthesiologists Oppose Use of Propofol in Upcoming Execution

This week the Missouri Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) issued a statement opposing the Missouri Department of Corrections use of propofol in lethal injections. Missouri is set to use propofol to execute Allen Nicklasson on Oct. 23, making the state the first in the nation to use the anesthetic drug in executions.

The MSA notes that Europe supplies over 89% of the propofol used in the United States. The European Union strongly opposes capital punishment and has strict regulations to require immediate export restrictions of any drug used for lethal injection.

According to MSA President Dr. Larry Peterson, if Missouri uses this anesthetic in a single lethal injection, over 15,000 hospitals, clinics, and health care facilities across the country are at risk of losing their supply of propofol in operating rooms.

St. Louis Post Dispatch Editorial Urges Governor Nixon to Order Return of Propofol

In an editorial this week, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, gives an account of how a shipment of the generic anesthetic drug propofol was sent by mistake last year to the warden at the prison in Bonne Terre.  

When the drug company pleaded for the return of the drug, the Department of Corrections refused, intending to use the drug in lethal executions. According to the editorial, by refusing to order the return of the drug and using it in two upcoming executions, Governor Nixon could be putting the nation's supply of propofol and thousands of lives at risk when people have surgery.  

Annual Assembly a Success 

More than 450 Catholics came to the Missouri State Capitol on Saturday, September 27 for the Missouri Catholic Conference's (MCC) Annual Assembly.

Those attending enjoyed a keynote address by the Most Revered Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa. Bishop Pates, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on International Justice and Peace, spoke on rebuilding the church under Pope Francis, calling the pontiff's elections "an awakening time, one which generates hope and spurred by a renewed vision."

"The coming of Pope Francis on the world stage on March 13, 2013, stirred the embers of faith and generated excitement around the world," Bishop Pates said.

He went onto say that Pope Francis has embraced mercy, peace and a renewed emphasis on the poor in the early days of his papacy, citing the pope's stance on Syria, urging peace and dialogue.

There were 16 workshops at the event covering topics from Saving Catholic Schools, to hot spot policing, St. Francis and the Poor, Meet St. Francis of Assisi and more.

Next year's Annual Assembly is scheduled to be at the Capitol on October 4. See you then!  

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