Federal Issues, 5/26/18 update

"As the respective chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, and the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, we write in strong support of your bill, H.R. 2028, the Healthy Relationships Act of 2017" (Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Conley, 10/4/17).

USCCB's Action Center

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act: Contact your Representative and Senators today!
• First Amendment Defense Act - Support Now!

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

[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."]
• Raise your voice to prevent and end hunger.
• 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

[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."]
• Protect immigrant children and families seeking safety and shelter from violence by keeping these families together
• Ask Representatives to Support HR 4796, the USA Act of 2018, and HR 3440, the DREAM Act of 2017; AND Moving Legislation Forward to a Vote in the House

Pa Catholic Conference's Current Alerts
(one federal)

• Reauthorize CHIP 

NJ Catholic Conference

(one federal)

• Ask Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2017

Human Life Action Action Alerts

Current Action Alerts

•  Express Disappointment to Congress About Its Failure to Enact the Conscience Protection Act
• Assisted Suicide is Not Healthcare

Previous Action Alerts....

HR 490, the Heartbeat Bill