Rita Marker
Rita Marker
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Few people realize the vital role private foundations play in promoting societal change. More often than not, major shifts in public attitudes and public policy come not from grassroots clamor but rather from the hard work of a committed few activists with the ideas and the donors who fund them, ... Without the money that is the mother's milk of public advocacy, those inspired to agitate for change would not get very far. The assisted suicide/euthanasia movement typifies this phenomenon.
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Human nature being what it is, we tend to say we're following all the guidelines when in reality we're not.
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There have been attempts ever since in the California Assembly to push a bill through, and they have never made it. It's being tried again, though, in the (Legislature), and there has been some fancy footwork.