- "Broadly defines 'legally protected health care activity' to include both abortion and gender-affirming care (medical, surgical, behavioral, and medication for gender dysphoria/incongruence).
- Explicitly protects the distribution of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones because the definition covers “all supplies, care, and services… including medication.”
- Criminalizes peaceful protest, sidewalk counseling, or any “interference” (obstruction, intimidation, recording) within 100 feet of a facility — turning clinics into no-protest zones with felony-level penalties.
- Bars NJ from honoring out-of-state warrants, extraditions, or civil actions against providers or patients who cross state lines for these services.
- Prohibits licensing boards from disciplining doctors or nurses who prescribe to minors from states that ban these interventions.
- Repeals New Jersey’s parental-notification law for minors’ abortions.
- Declares embryo/fetus rights 'inconsistent' with state policy and cements IVF/abortion as 'fundamental rights.'”
- "Call and email the members of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee by Monday, May 11th at 12:00 pm.
Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee
Joseph F. Vitale, Chair, (732) 855-7441, senvitale@njleg.org
Renee C. Burgess, (862) 231-6577, senburgess@njleg.org
Owen Henry, (732) 607-7580, senhenry@njleg.org
John F. McKeon, (862) 930-7071, senmckeon@njleg.org
Angela V. McKnight, (201) 360-2502, senmcknight@njleg.org
Raj Mukherji, (201) 626-4000, senmukherji@njleg.org
Holly T. Schepisi, (201) 666-0881, senschepisi@njleg.org
Robert W. Singer, (732) 987-5669, sensinger@njleg.org
- "Call and email the members of the Assembly Health Committee by Thursday, May 14th at 9:00 am.
Assembly Health Committee
Carol A. Murphy, Chair, (856) 242-2018, aswmurphy@njleg.org
Margie Donlon M.D., Vice-Chair, (732) 704-3808, aswdonlon@njleg.org
Al Abdelaziz, (862) 264-2540, asmabdelaziz@njleg.org
Anthony Angelozzi, (640) 600-4279, asmangelozzi@njleg.org
John V. Azzariti Jr. M.D., (201) 666-0881, asmazzariti@njleg.org
Erik Peterson, (908) 238-0251, asmpeterson@njleg.org
Gabriel Rodriguez, (201) 223-4247, asmrodriguez@njleg.org
Brian E. Rumpf, (609) 693-6700, asmrumpf@njleg.org
Kenyatta Stewart, (973) 925-7063, asmstewart@njleg.org
Marisa Sweeney, (973) 933-2114, aswsweeney@njleg.org
Chris Tully, (201) 576-9199, asmtully@njleg.org
Anthony S. Verrelli, (609) 292-0500, asmverrelli@njleg.org"
"I am with you always, until the end of the age"
The Ascension (sign/voice)
- One Year On: Leo XIV the Listening Pope
ANALYSIS: The Holy Father has made a point of listening and attempting to bring peace and unity to the Church but his intentions remain difficult to decipher.
(National Catholic Register, 5/8/26)
- Courage International's Response to the Synodal Report (5/8/26)
- Sex and Catholic Social Teaching (Substack, 5/5/26)
- Where Are You Headed (Substack, 5/5/26)
- Human Rights Watch: China ramps up repression of underground Catholics (Zeale, 4/19/26)
- The Forgotten War: Why Global Media Ignores Christian Persecution in Nigeria (Equipping The Persecuted, 4/15/26)
