State Issues, 12/2/17 update

Pa Catholic Conference

• Send a 'thank you' to your local lawmaker for voting 'yes' to EITC

• Support Expanding Educational Opportunity!

• Reauthorize CHIP (Federal)

• Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Religious Liberty
  "Changing the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) will jeopardize many churches and their charitable outreach if they continue to adhere to their religious beliefs....proposals like these expose even more Pennsylvanians to discrimination based solely on their religious beliefs. Simply put, this legislation is intolerant and prejudiced against people of faith." 

• Should Doctors Be Neutral on Suicide?

• Prioritize Funding for Women's Primary Health Care

• Support Positive Reform for Sexual Abuse Statutes of Limitation

• Support a Better Life for Human Trafficking Victims 
  [While the Pa Catholic Conference is supporting SB 554, doesn't the  fact that Senator Daylin Leach is one of its prime sponsors suggest that there should be careful assessment of  whether this legislation and its implications are truly consistent with Catholic teaching?]

• Act Now to Support Increasing Education Tax Credits!

• End Brutal Dismemberment Abortions
  [re: SB 3 and HB 77.]

• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion (Federal)

Pa Family.org Citizen Action Center

• As per the Pa Family Institute, "Funding irreversible sex-change surgery harms children" (11/23/17 update).

Pa Pro Life Federation 

Call Now to Pass Abortion Ban in PA (Pa Pro Life, 11/30/17) - Pass SB 3 in Pa House

As per the 9/29/17 PA Pro-Life Legislative Alert, 

• "Please call and email your state Senators and urge them to support House Bill 1139, which strengthens our Newborn Protection Act."

As per the 9/7/17 PA Pro-Life Legislative Alert,

• Support Senator Scott Martin's resolution to condemn the abortion of babies who have been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
• Support Senate Bill 3.
• Oppose House Bill 111 (also, 11/28/17)
• Oppose Senate Bill 238.

Pro-Life Coalition of Pennsylvania

• S.B.3 to Run Soon in Pa. House; Our Efforts Needed; Dec. 5th Event in Harrisburg (Pro-Life Coalition of Pa, 11/30/17)