July 4, 2016, Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Promoting and Defending the Sanctity of Human Life and Marriage/Family
A Harvard law school student has published a provocative piece:
- "This term’s Supreme Court decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt exposes three failures and opportunities for the pro-life movement....
"any significant impediment to abortion will be struck down under the existing judicial regime, even regulations designed to keep abortion 'safe, legal, and rare' (a goal that has been embarrassingly adopted by many pro-life leaders). Such regulations, even if upheld, merely serve to sanitize abortion in the public eye....
"we need to refocus the pro-life message on the inherent dignity of the human person from conception to natural death. We must take active steps to protect preborn children by love and by law, without exception or compromise...."While it’s true that the three justices who would return the question of abortion to the voters have been appointed by Republican presidents, it’s also true that Republicans have appointed even more justices who think the Constitution requires abortion. Think of Stevens, Souter, O’Connor, and Kennedy...."America did not confront the brutality of slavery until abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison made it inescapable...."We must not retreat from voting and politics—far from it. Instead, we should engage with politics in a way that demands principled leadership, especially from Republican politicians...."Last year’s ruling in Obergefell [See Statement Calling for Constitutional Resistance to Obergefell v. Hodges.], as well as so many others, have exposed the Court as nothing more than another political branch—a robed oligarchy that has unconstitutionally aggrandized itself through the false doctrine of judicial supremacy and cloaked its unconstrained willfulness in the language of law...."Just as Lincoln denied the force of the Dred Scott decision to settle the question of black citizenship, so too must state governors and other officials who have sworn oaths to uphold our Constitution deny the force of the Supreme Court opinions to settle the question of preborn humanity. Governors in particular should reassert the rightful status of their states in our federal system and take action to protect every innocent human being in their jurisdictions. We should encourage officials to stand against the judiciary’s unlawful and unjust decrees and rally behind those who do" (Josh Craddock, Public Discourse, 7/1/16).
Legislative advocacy from the USCCB....
- YES to the Russell amendment, HR4828/S2927, HR1299/S667, HR2802/S1598; NO to "the Separation Wall in the Cremisan Valley"; NO to HR 4731:
- Click to Email Pa's Congressional Delegation, asking for support of positions backed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Advocacy in Harrisburg on pro life and pro marriage/family legislation....
- YES to HB1623, HB1948 /SB888; NO to Planned Parenthood, repealing Act 122 of 2011, repealing Act 13 of 2013, HB1336, HB1510/SB 974/SB 1306/SB1307/SB 1316, HB 1947, HB 162, and doctor prescribed suicide.):
- Click to Email the governor, as well as all of Bucks County's representatives and senators in Harrisburg, on pro life and pro marriage / family concerns.
In the news....
- National NFP Awareness Week: July 24 - July 30 (USCCB)
- Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit: Sept 29 - Oct 1 (National Center on Sexual Exploitation)
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