Anti life, anti religious freedom "Equality Act" expected to receive votes TOMORROW (5/17/19)

• Vote expected this Friday (5/17/19) on the anti life, anti religious freedom and misnamed "Equality Act" (cf, Human Life Action, 5/16/19) - See more below.

• Re: Vote Warren Only on May 21; Down Syndrome Bill; Rep. Sims Reports (Pa Pro Life Coalition, 5/16/19)

• Criminal Probe Of PA Rep. Sims Needed (Wanderer, 5/15/19)

• On 5/14/19 in the Pa House, these representatives from Bucks Cty actually voted AGAINST protections for pre born children with Down Syndrome:
  31) REPWARREN@PAHOUSE.COM;
  141) TDAVIS@PAHOUSE.NET;
  142) FFARRY@PAHOUSEGOP.COM;
  143) WULLMAN@PAHOUSE.NET;
  144) TPOLINCHOCK@PAHOUSEGOP.COM;
  178) WTHOMAS@PAHOUSEGOP.COM
  Kudos to the following representatives for defending those same lives!
  18) GDIGIROL@PAHOUSEGOP.COM;
  29) MSCHROEDER@PAHOUSEGOP.COM;
  140) JGALLOWAY@PAHOUSE.NET;
  145) CSTAATS@PAHOUSEGOP.COM
  (cf,  https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RC/Public/rc_view_action2.cfm?sess_yr=2019&sess_ind=0&rc_body=H&rc_nbr=315&mobile_choice=suppress) 

• Violence Against Christians Continues in West Africa (Zenit, 5/14/19)

• Mainstream press still ignoring church vandalism in France – even after Notre Dame fire (GetReligion, 5/14/19)

• It’s Time to Promote Good Social Science on Same-Sex Parenting (Public Discourse, 5/12/19)

• Need to REFUTE and REMOVE Fake Islamic 'Human Embryology' Teachings (Diane Irving, PhD, 5/9/19)

 

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
  • In the U.S. Senate, Robert Casey is a cosponsor of the so-called Equality Act (S.788), as are Booker and Menendez from New Jersey!
  • "If the [so-called] Equality Act reaches a full vote in either chamber of Congress, it will mark the first time the bill — which has been introduced in various forms since 1974 — has done so. A similar bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, passed the Senate in 2013. Four currently serving Republican senators voted in favor of that bill: Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa." (NBCNews, 3/11/19).  
  • In the U.S. House, Brian Fitzpatrick is one of three Republican co-sponsors of the so-called Equality Act (H.R. 5)., showing that it is not just Democrats who are failing to protect consciences and religious freedom.
    

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB)
  
  

  While Pennsylvania should be proud that Rep Mike Kelly is the primary sponsor of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act in the House (HR 897), only two fellow Pennsylvanians (i.e., Schmucker and Reschenthaler) and one New Jersey representative (i.e., Smith) are joining him! No one from Pa or Jersey is a co-sponsor of S 274 in the Senate!  From both the House and Senate, why is it only ONLY Lloyd Schmucker, Guy Reschenthaler, and Chris Smith who are willing to co-sponsor a bill which "prevents faith-based child welfare service providers from being targeted by government discrimination. The Act would prohibit the federal government and any state that receives certain federal funding from discriminating against child welfare service providers on the basis that they decline to provide a child welfare service that conflicts with their sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions. The Inclusion Act is needed because child welfare service providers are being discriminated against because of their sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions. For example, certain religiously-affiliated charities in Massachusetts, Illinois, California, and the District of Columbia have had to stop adoption and foster care services because of requirements imposed upon them to place children in households headed by two persons of the same sex. Also, women and men who want to place their children for adoption should be free to choose from a diversity of adoption agencies, including those that share the parents' religious beliefs and moral convictions."  It is not just Democrats who are failing to protect consciences and religious freedom.  


• Trump Moves to Protect Conscience Rights of Health Care Workers (Family Policy Alliance, 5/2/19)
• "Ultimately Congress needs to pass permanent laws protecting the conscience claims that are now secured by presidential initiatives or by statutes on a year-by-year basis" (Public Discourse, 5/30/18)
Tell Your Representative to protect conscience rights and to fight against taxpayer-funded abortion [i.e. OPPOSE Medicare for All] (March for Life Action) 


• Born-Alive Legislation Deserves a Vote in the People's House (USCCB) (HLA)
• The Discharge Petition to bring the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act to a vote in the House 
• Further Action Needed to Save Babies Born Alive! (USCCB)

• Save the Hyde Amendment (March for Life Action)


• Life at Conception Act Petition (National Pro Life Alliance)

• "Senator Lindsay Graham...[has] introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a nationwide ban on abortion after 20 weeks....Senator Graham has introduced this bill or one similar every year since 2013. Although it has never received the 60 votes necessary for cloture, there is some hope that if enacted, it could now be upheld in an inevitable legal challenge due to the majority conservative Supreme Court (Live Action News, 4/11/19).
• I Cherish Life: I call on Congress to ban late term abortions when babies feel pain!(Family Policy Alliance)
  

• Tell the Senate to Reject Religion Tests for Judicial Nominees (USCCB)

• Ask the Department of Homeland Security to Rescind the "Remain in Mexico" Policy and Support Asylum Seekers by Following Existing Law (USCCB)  

• Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion (Click for Pa Pro Life Federation petition)

• Sign the Petition to Repeal the Abortion Law (NYS Catholic Conf)

• The New ERA....It Attacks Life and Women's Privacy -- Act Now to Stop It (Family Policy Alliance)

• Pa Family.org, 2019 Election Center

• Call your [Pa State] Senator to oppose assisted suicide (Pa Pro Life Federation, 4/2/19)

• Please Urge Lawmakers to support an increase in the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Please urge your [Pa] Representative or Senator to support or co-sponsor Down Syndrome Protection Legislation (Pa Catholic Conference) 

• Please ask your State Representative to Co-Sponsor the "Heart-Beat Bill" proposed by Stephanie Borowicz (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Urge your State Senator to co-sponsor Sen. Judy Ward's bill on Keystone Scholarship Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Urge your lawmakers to support [Pa] House Bill 51 which helps individuals looking to receive nursing care (Pa Catholic Conference)

• [Pa] Lawmakers want to take away our right to vote for judges (Pa Pro Life Federation)

• NJ Governor Phil Murphy signed assisted suicide into NJ law. To express your outrage, Murphy can be reached at 609-292-6000 or https://www.state.nj.us/governor/contact.

• Ask Legislators to Increase Non Public School Funding (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Protect Viable [New Jersey] Babies in the Womb – Equal rights for children who can survive outside the womb (http://protectviablebabies.com/).

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