"Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you shall name Him Jesus."

It is almost 500 years ago that Our Lady appeared to Saint Juan Diego amidst acceptance of infant sacrifice.  We so need her intercession amidst the  devaluing of human life and marriage/family in the North America of our own time.

If you read materials from some "pro life" organizations, it almost seems as if they are saying we should simply be happy with recent votes in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House to defund Planned Parenthood, even though Obama has promised a veto!  Congress has NOT done everything to shut off your $ from Planned Parenthood.  Tell Casey, Fitzpatrick, and Toomey to keep Planned Parenthood out of the budget and to co-sponsor/support pro life and pro marriage/family positions on legislation, advocated by the USCCB/NCHLA (1, 2) and the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference....

• Email Fitzpatrick, Casey, and Toomey, asking for co-sponsorship/support of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940), the Women's Public Health and Safety Act (HR 3495), the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (HR 7), the State Marriage Defense Act (HR 824 / S 435), the First Amendment Defense Act (HR 2802 / S 1598), and the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act  (HR 1299 / S 667), as well as for all federal funding of Planned Parenthood to stop.

• Email all of Bucks County's representatives and senators in Harrisburg, asking for co-sponsorship/ support of the Whole Woman's Health Funding Priorities Act (Pa House Bill 1623), as well as for all state funding of Planned Parenthood to stop.  Ask for opposition to "doctor prescribed suicide" and Pa House Bill 1510/Senate Bill 974, which the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference calls "intolerant and prejudiced against people of faith."

Newsworthy

• Anti-School Choice Religious Bigotry (Wall St Journal, 12/11/15) 
• Famed social conservative professor Robert George hospitalized (LifeSiteNews, 12/10/15)
• NOM Endorses Sen. Ted Cruz for President of the United States (National Organization for Marriage, 12/9/15)
• Cruz: Congress can end abortion without the Supreme Court (LiveActionNews, 12/5/15)
• re: The Atlantic's "The Shutdown Fight Neither Party Wants" (12/9/15)
• GOP Lawmaker's Bill Calls For State To 'Not Recognize Or Enforce' Same-Sex Marriage Decision (The New Civil Rights Movement, 12/4/15)
• Congress Can and Should Still Defund Planned Parenthood (Breitbart, 12/3/15)
• An inherent promise from our bishops, which we should remind them to fulfill....(12/1/15)

 

While the world may try to tell us otherwise, Christ and His Church tell us that human life and marriage/family are of inestimable value!" 

Pro-Life

• Protect Rights of Conscience and Religious Liberty (H.R 940). 
• Urge House Support for Women's Public Health and Safety Act (HR 3495) 

As per the USCCB, "Action alerts for pro-life issues can also be found through our partner organization, the National Committee for the Human Life Amendment."  The NCHLA's "Current Action Alerts" include the following:

• Protect the Rights of Pro-Life Health Care Providers! (updated on 10/23/2015) 
• Please Support the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act! (updated on 1/22/2015)

As per the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference,

• "Use Tax Dollars for Life Not Death" (Pa House Bill 1623)

Marriage and Family

•  State Marriage Defense Act of 2015 (HR 824 / S 435)
• First Amendment Defense Act (HR 2802 / S 1598)
• "Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015 (CWPIA) (HR 1299 / S 667)

 As per the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference,

• "Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Religious Liberty" (Pa House Bill 1510/Senate Bill 974) 

"Alerts" from the following also deserve your consideration:

• Pro Life Coalition of Pennsylvania, "The leaders of the Pa. House Pro-Life Caucus, i.e., Rep. Kathy Rapp, Rep. Bryan Cutler and Rep. Bryan Barbin, have drafted legislation to amend Pa.'s current Abortion Control Act to ban abortions in Pa. after 20 weeks gestation and by dismemberment. This proposed legislation has the same exceptions as Pa.'s current Abortion Control Act....These pro-life leaders have also sent a memo to other Pa. House members that requests they co-sponsor this legislation....If your Pa. House member has a pro-life record and/or position, please encourage him or her to co-sponsor this legislation. The member can do so by contacting Rep. Rapp at 717-787-1367 or klrapp@pahousegop.com"
• Family Reseach Council Action Page
• National Organization for Marriage's Advocacy Center
• National Center on Sexual Exploitation (nee Morality in Media)
• PaFamily.Org

Come 2016, our voices in defense of human life and marriage/family need to be MUCH better heard!