Bioethicist Steven Miles - author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror - recently gave a moving talk to St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in which he deals with the moral challenges posed by torture and the ways in which torture affects all of us by destroying community.

On April 21, 2008 the California Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 19 by a vote of 22 to 11. The resolution is authored by Mark Ridley Thomas and co sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles, The American Friends Service Committee, and the Los Angeles and Program for Torture Victims. The resolution sends a strong signal that we must protect California health professionals from complicity in torture by re-establishing ethics within our professional organizations and resolving that the state of California should request that the U.S. government remove California health professionals from settings that do not meet the international standards of moral, humane and legal conduct. We could not have done this without the hundreds of you who sent letters. Thank you and keep engaged. We will be sending letters to members of the Assembly in the next few weeks to encourage them to also pass this resolution. 

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