From: Maria Sent: 7/29/2016 8:33 AM To: lifelines@paprolife.org Subject: Please make a call to stop a dangerous anti-life bill
Dear Pro-Life Leaders,
Senate Bill 1350, which would repeal our common sense law regulating abortion facilities, has been referred to the Senate Public Health & Welfare Committee. This is a dangerous bill and it must be stopped!
Please call and email the following pro-life members of the Senate Public Health & Welfare Committee with this urgent message: "Please oppose Senate Bill 1350, which would repeal our common sense law regulating abortion facilities. This bill poses a danger to the health and safety of Pennsylvania women."
"More than
two million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the
twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the
margins...where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to
education were perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right
to vote....Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses
in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of
communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms" (p. 58).
"A criminal record authorizes precisely
the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind-discrimination in
employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service.
Those labeled criminals can even be denied the right to vote" (p. 141).
"Together these bills would reduce harsh sentences, incentivize prison rehabilitation, ban shackling of pregnant women in federal custody and expand opportunities for Americans returning home after incarceration.... Inaction will harm children, families and communities across the country. The burden of over-incarceration is felt most intensely by children with parents in prison. Despite their failings, these parents are loved and valued, and are critical to maintaining their children's well-being. The long absence of mothers and fathers has a lasting impact."
Click to Email the
governor, as well as all of Bucks County's representatives and senators
in Harrisburg, on pro life and pro marriage / family concerns.
"Sadly, our society is tainted by the culture of waste, which is the
opposite of the culture of acceptance. And the victims of the culture
of waste are those who are weakest and most frail; and this is indeed
cruel. How beautiful it is instead to see that in this hospital the
smallest and most needy are welcomed and cared for....Sometimes families feel alone in providing this care. What can be
done? From this place, so full of concrete signs of love, I would like
to say: Let us multiply the works of the culture of acceptance, works
inspired by Christian love, love for Jesus crucified, for the flesh of
Christ....I encourage all those who have made the Gospel call to 'visit the
sick' a personal life decision: physicians, nurses, healthcare workers,
chaplains and volunteers. May the Lord help you to do your work well,
here as in every other hospital in the world. May he reward you by
giving you inner peace and a heart always capable of tenderness" (Pope Francis, 7/29/16).
"all those who believe in the sanctity of life, regardless of whether they support or oppose the theoretical validity of brain-death criteria, [should] oppose the use of brain-death criteria to obtain organs for transplantation in clinical practice. We can then, as a single voice, support medical research seeking innovative, morally uncontentious ways to replace failing organs" (National Catholic Register, 10/25/21)
"It is everyone’s hope that rape victims, whether pregnant or not, receive the most compassionate and effective care available. Unfortunately, using Plan B and continuing to cite the faulty Peoria Protocol, based upon what we now know, is simply an immoral compromise—with the unintended consequence of the loss of human life and the abandonment of truly loving and courageous Christian health care" (Dr. Chris Kahlenborn, 4/8/19)
pharmacies
Certain other "contraceptives" can act as abortifacients! For example, it has long been known that other hormonal "contraceptives" can cause early abortions and are deadly dangerous (e.g., 1, 2) and just about every pharmacy (including those in supermarkets and department stores!) provides such. No parish should be allowing advertisements from providers of abortifacients! Please speak with your pastor, to ensure that your parish - be it in a bulletin or a directory - does not have such ads.
Especially with Central Jersey and the Philly suburbs so much being a worldwide capitol for the pharmaceutical industry,
