9/22/18 Federal Update

Heartbeat Protection Act (HR 490)

• Contact Speaker Ryan, Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte, and your own members of Congress

Life at Conception Act

USCCB's Action Center

• Don't Make Us Pay for Purchase of Aborted Fetal Organs

• [As per a 9/17/18 letter to the FDA from 85 members of Congress, including NJ's own Chris Smith (but NOT NJ Reps Frelinghuysen, Gottheimer, Lance, LoBiondo, MacArthur, Norcross, Pallone, Pascrell, Payne, Sires, Watson Coleman): "conducting research using the body parts of children whose lives have been violently ended by abortion is abhorent."  Kudos to Pa's own Reps Barletta, Kelly, Rothfus, Shuster, and Smucker for signing that letter. Failing to sign was Brian Fitzpatrick, as well as Pa Reps Boyle, Brady, Cartwright, Costello, Dent, Doyle, Evans, Lamb, Marino, Meehan, Perry, and Thompson!]
• 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."]  

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

• Tell Congress Dehumanizing Any Person is Wrong
• Filling the Vacancy on Court - Stand Up for Fairness and Life
• Express Disappointment to Congress About Its Failure to Enact the Conscience Protection Act
• Assisted Suicide is Not Healthcare

Report card for the Pa and NJ delegations on select issues, as of 9/4/18 (AM)