"do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord" Josh Shapiro Is NOT a friend to the Culture of Life!

8/19/18, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

(audio of readings)

• Josh Shapiro Is NOT a friend to the Culture of Life!: 
• "A few years ago, the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) attempted to force the Little Sisters and other groups...into providing insurance coverage for contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacients. The Little Sisters objected on the ground that the requirement violates their religious liberty as protected by the First Amendment and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).  In early October, HHS issued a new rule that protects religious non-profits like the Little Sisters, ending their four-year legal ordeal. But shortly after, according to Becket Law, the state of Pennsylvania sued to take away the Little Sisters’ religious exemption.... Today, the Little Sisters  won the right to defend themselves against this new lawsuit by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. The lawsuit, which would take away the nuns’ religious exemption from the HHS rule, would mean they once again face the dilemma of providing services like abortifacients in their health plan against their faith or pay millions....'Women like the Little Sisters of the Poor do not need bureaucrats trying to push them around,' said Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket. 'The appeals court got it right—the Little Sisters should be allowed their day in court to argue for their rights. It is shameful that Josh Shapiro tried to deprive the Sisters of their right to defend themselves'" (Acton Institute, 4/24/18). 
  

• Anniversary of Knock, 8/21/18
  

• End This Horrific Experimentation! (March for Life Action, 8/15/18)
• Catholic Medical Association Condemns the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Use of Aborted Babies’ Tissue in Experiments (Catholic Medical Association, 8/9/18)

• Life at Conception petition
  

• "lucky number eight"!!!! (8/11/18)

• On the right side of the home page are links to email the White House and the Pa Congressional Delegation (or the While House and the NJ Congressional Delegation;  See 8/5/18 issues update and report cards) 

• On the right side of the home page is a link to email the Bucks County delegation in Harrisburg (See 8/5/18 issues update and report card)

• HB 2050 should be up for a vote in the Pa Senate.  Senators Blake, Loughlin, McIlhinney, Tartaglione, and Yudichak should particularly be reminded to stand up for pre-born children with Down Syndrome.

• On the right side of the home page is a link to email the Burlington, Mercer, Monnouth, and Ocean delegations in Trenton (See 7/21/18 issues update).