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Federal Issues, 3/24/18 update
The USCCB bemoaned that the Omnibus (subsequently signed into law by the president)
failed to incorporate the Conscience Protection Act, while LifeSiteNews went on to tell us that it also funds Planned Parenthood and fails to repeal DC's
assisted suicide act. Isn't it appalling that National Right to Life (of which NJ Right to Life and Pa Pro Life are part) will likely NOT count this vote, when they give out pro
life voting scores? Let us not be so naive!
- Pa Representatives Brady, Evans, Thompson, Costello, Meehan, Fitzpatrick, Shuster, Marino, Barletta, Doyle, Dent and Cartwright shamefully
voted FOR the Omnibus. Kudos to Representatives Rothfus, Smucker,
Kelly, and Perry for voting no (Though seemingly not pro life, Rep Boyle
also voted no.).
- Pa Senators Casey shamefully voted FOR the Omnibus, while Toomey did not vote (Why???)
- NJ Representatives LoBiondo, MacArthur, Smith (Sadly, you read that
correctly), Gottheimer, Lance, Sires, Pascrell, Payne, and Frelinghuysen
shamefully voted for Omnibus. While not pro life, Representatives Norcross,
Pallone, and Watson Coleman voted against Omnibus.
- NJ Senators Menendez shamefully voted FOR the Omnibus, while Booker (though not pro life) voted no.
U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference Chairmen Urge Support for the ‘First Amendment Defense Act’ (USCCB, 3/14/18)
USCCB's and CRS' Catholics Confront Global Poverty / Action Center
USCCB's Justice for Immigrants' Action Alerts
[We
can ensure safety for impoverished people and 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."]
Pa Catholic Conference's Current Alerts
(one federal)
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
- "Within 48 hours of
the U.S. Senate’s passage of legislation combating online sex
trafficking, several websites have shuttered their prostitution ads. The
historic legislation passed the Senate in a landslide 97-2 vote on Wednesday. H.R. 1865 was a legislative package that combined the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), sponsored by Rep. Ann Wagner, with an amendment incorporating reforms contained in S. 1693 the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA),
sponsored by Senators Portman and Blumenthal. The legislative duo takes
direct aim at websites that facilitate and profit from prostitution and
sex trafficking by amending both the Communications Decency Act and
Mann Act....'Now, even before the bill has been signed into law, we can see that
the era of tolerance and immunity for online sexual exploitation and sex
trafficking coming to a close. This is as great a moment in the fight
to free our country from sexual exploitation, as the Emancipation
Proclamation was in ending the scourge of slavery'” (NCOSE, 3/23/18).
Previous Action Alerts....
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