State Issues, 1/17/18 update

Pa Catholic Conference

• Send a 'thank you' to your local lawmaker for voting 'yes' to EITC

• Support Expanding Educational Opportunity!

• Reauthorize CHIP (Federal)

• Should Doctors Be Neutral on Suicide?

• Prioritize Funding for Women's Primary Health Care

• Support Positive Reform for Sexual Abuse Statutes of Limitation

• Support a Better Life for Human Trafficking Victims 
  [While the Pa Catholic Conference supports SB 554, doesn't the  fact that Daylin Leach is a prime sponsor suggest that there should be careful assessment of  whether this legislation and its implications are truly consistent with Catholic teaching?]

• Act Now to Support Increasing Education Tax Credits!

• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion (Federal)

Pa Family.org Citizen Action Center

• End Payments for Children's "Sex Change" Surgery
• Stop Funding Harmful "Sex Change" Surgery in Pennsylvania
• Help Recognize the Value of Children with Down syndrome in PA
• Tell U.S. Senators Casey and Toomey to End Late-Term Abortions! [i.e., Support the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act]
• Tell Senator Casey and Toomey: Defund Planned Parenthood!

Pa Pro Life Federation 

As per the 9/29/17 PA Pro-Life Legislative Alert, "Please call and email your state Senators and urge them to support House Bill 1139, which strengthens our Newborn Protection Act." (Topper Bill [HB 1139] to Save the Lives of Newborns Heads to Governor’s Desk (PA House Republican Caucus, 12/13/17)).  As per the 9/7/17 PA Pro-Life Legislative Alert,

• Support Senator Scott Martin's resolution to condemn the abortion of babies who have been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
• Oppose House Bill 111
• Oppose Senate Bill 238.

Pro-Life Coalition of Pennsylvania

Pa. House Passes S.B.3; Gov. Wolf Vetos; Other Updates; Requested Actions (Pro Life Coalition of Pa, 12/20/17)