Thank you Representative Fitzpatrick & Senator Toomey

Dear Senator Casey, Congressman Fitzpatrick, & Senator Toomey,

In a 4/13/11 letter, Cardinal DiNardo, chairman of the USCCB's committee on pro life activities, called for defunding Planned Parenthood:

• "In recent weeks the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has written to Congress about the current appropriations process, expressing our conviction that needed reductions in federal spending should not be made to the detriment of the poor and vulnerable....The current and future budget debate will involve hard choices....Whether to fund the largest abortion network in the country is not one of those hard choices."

Thank you Representative Fitzpatrick and thank you Senator Toomey for voting to defund Planned Parenthood. Senator Casey, your vote was indefensible. The fact that you identify yourself as "pro life" and then vote in that manner is incomprehensible.

There are other pieces of pro life legislation, which will urgently need all of your support:

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  Cardinal DiNardo has specifically urged support for the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act. Senator Casey and Toomey, please co-sponsor and support S. 165. Representative Fitzpatrick, please co-sponsor and support HR 361.


• Cardinal DiNardo has specifically urged support for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. "Thank you" to Representative Fitzpatrick, who IS a co-sponsor of H.R.3.


• Cardinal DiNardo has specifically urged support for the Protect Life Act. Representative Fitzpatrick, please co-sponsor and support HR 358.


• Cardinal DiNardo has specifically urged support for the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2011. Representative Fitzpatrick, please co-sponsor and support HR 1179.


• Priests for Life supports the Sanctity of Human Life Act. Representative Fitzpatrick, please co-sponsor and support HR 212.


• Priests for Life supports the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act. Representative Fitzpatrick, please co-sponsor and support HR 217.

Sincerely,