Federal Issues, 1/17/18 update

USCCB's Action Center

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act: Contact your Representative and Senators today!

USCCB's and CRS' Catholics Confront Global Poverty / Action Center 

[We can ensure safety for refugees, as well as their host communities.  As our noble efforts at assistance must not be hijacked, this blogger believes that our communications MUST specifically state that contraceptives/abortifacients MUST be excluded from "assistance."]
• Speak up for the 1% that does a world of good.
• Support Refugee and Migrant Families
• Use Your Voice to Combat Human Trafficking
• Urge Our Nation to Care for our Common Home

USCCB's Justice for Immigrants' Action Alerts 

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USCCB's Marriage Unique for a Reason

• "The USCCB continues to support the First Amendment Defense Act, the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, and the Healthy Relationships Act in Congress" (USCCB, 1/1/18).

Pa Catholic Conference's Current Alerts
(two federal)

• Reauthorize CHIP
• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
  "Urge our Senators to support H.R. 7 to permanently protect our tax dollars from paying for or promoting elective abortions."

National Center on Sexual Exploitation

• On EWTN News Nightly (9/20/17), the National Center on Sexual Exploitation's Haley Halverson explained why Congress must amend Communications Decency Act, Section 230.
  Kudos to Brian Fitzpatrick, who is joined by fellow U.S. Representatives from Pennsylvania Barletta, Brady, Evans, Kelly, Rothus, Shuster, and Smucker as co-sponsors of HR 1865 (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017), while Senators Casey and Toomey are co-sponsors of S 1693 (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act)
• "'Expeditious passage of H.R. 1865 Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (FOSTA) and S. 1693 Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) will move the country closer to striking a blow against the online havens that facilitate sex trafficking'" (National Center on Sexual Exploitation, 9/7/17). 

 Human Life Action Action Alerts

Current Action Alerts

•  Urge House and Senate to Enact Pro-Life Legislation (i.e., the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the Conscience Protection Act, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.)
  
• Urge Congress to Enact the Conscience Protection Act of 2017!
  
• Assisted Suicide is Not Healthcare

Previous Action Alerts....