Contraception Requirements Impede Pro-Life Health Centers From Accessing Title X (National Catholic Register, 5/30/19)

http://m.ncregister.com/daily-news/contraception-requirements-impede-pro-life-health-centers-from-accessing-ti

Four Catholics die in latest Burkina Faso church attack (CNS, 5/28/19)

https://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/29593-four-catholics-die-in-latest-burkina-faso-church-attack?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCatholicRegister+%28The+Catholic+Register+-+Canada%E2%80%99s+Catholic+news+source+since+1893%29

June 22-29 is Religious Freedom Week! (USCCB, 5/30/19)

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1100920568270&ca=64e154c1-d320-444d-ab99-56a4d42b2384

"that the love with which You loved Me may be in them and I in them"

• Rosary of Reparation in response to an inappropriate event at the Warminster Public Library (6/1/19, 1pm, 1076 Emma Lane)

• The Visitation (5/31/19)

• Ascension Thursday (5/30/19)

• Fwd: FW: Action Needed – AMA Vote on Assisted Suicide (Pa Pro Life)

• Fwd: School Choice Town hall in Philadelphia on May 29th (Pa Catholic Conf)

• "The foundations for legalizing abortion in America were laid during the early 20th-century birth-control movement. That movement developed alongside the American eugenics movement. And significantly, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger recognized the eugenic potential of her cause" (Justice Clarence Thomas, 5/28/19)

• Abortion in the United States 2017: Preliminary Review and a Call for Reform (Charlotte Lozier Institute, 5/22/19)
  PFLI.org estimates 308 MILLION abortions in the US, since Roe v Wade!

• "Heterosexual marriage is, as G.J. McAleer expresses the point, 'inescapably a call to participate in creation, to render the service of being deposed to the beginning of another person’s existence'....[The child is] the supreme gift of marriage and contributes immensely to the good of the parents themselves since their fulfilment in Christ is cultivated and perfected by sacrifice.... Dr. Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg...maintains that 'The less demanding, softer ways of the post-war Church partly explain why relatively many homosexually inclined and otherwise-less-masculine personality types felt attracted to the priesthood and religious life'....It is reasonable to posit some kind of connection between the homosexualization of the priesthood and the failure with respect to the communication of the Church’s teaching on a range of moral issues" (Rev Kevin O'Reilly, O.P., 5/17/19).

 

• "stand against legislation, like Medicare for All and the Equality Act, that force tax-payers to pay for other people’s abortions and that strong arms medical professionals to violate their consciences" (March for Life Action).

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
  • UPDATE: "We are gravely disappointed with the Act’s passage in the U.S. House” (USCCB, 5/17/19).  Republican co-sponsor Brian Fitzpatrick joined Pa Democrats Boyle, Dean, Evans, Scanlon, Houlahan, Wild, Cartwright, Lamb and Doyle in the 236 to 173 betrayal - a vote against pre born children, religious freedom, and parental rights.
  • 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!
  • "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).  

• 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!   


• 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/).

On the right side of the home page, you will find links to email Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC and Central NJ in Trenton.

Fwd: School Choice Town hall in Philadelphia on May 29th (Pa Catholic Conf, 5/24/19)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: PA Catholic Conference <advocate@pacatholic.org>
Date: May 24, 2019 10:51 AM
Subject: School Choice Town hall in Philadelphia on May 29th
To: Joseph Tevington <atptptjt@live.com>
Cc:

We are hoping that as many families as possible can attend an important town hall in Philadelphia which addresses the need for school choice in the city. It is being hosted by a national group on a 10

We are hoping that as many families as possible can attend an important town hall in Philadelphia which addresses the need for school choice in the city. It is being hosted by a national group on a 10-city tour across the U.S. on Wednesday, May 29th, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Mastery Schools' Shoemaker Campus. That's at 5301 Media Street in West Philadelphia. The full press release is attached. Thank you for your consideration!!   Find us on Follow us on Subscribe to To manage your alert preferences including the issues about which you'd like to receive alerts, click here

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Fwd: FW: Action Needed – AMA Vote on Assisted Suicide (Pa Pro Life, 5/28/19)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maria <Gallagher@paprolife.org>
Date: May 28, 2019 7:12 AM
Subject: FW: Action Needed – AMA Vote on Assisted Suicide
To: gallagher@paprolife.org
Cc:

Dear Pro-Life Leaders,

Please share this important information about assisted suicide with any pro-life doctors you know.

Thank you!

Take care,

Maria V. Gallagher
Legislative Director
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation
www.paprolife.org
717-541-0034



From: Jacki Ragan [mailto:jragan1@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2019 12:18 PM
To: JRagan1@aol.com
Subject: Action Needed – AMA Vote on Assisted Suicide

Dear NRLC Affiliate,

At its June 8-12, 2019 annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates will be voting on at least two issues related to assisted suicide.

1.      The AMA will again review the report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) which reaffirms AMA Code of Medical Ethics provisions in opposition to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (report attached).  

2.      There is a resolution by New Mexico to change the AMA position to "engaged neutrality" which must be opposed. 

Last summer, thanks to hard behind-the-scenes work, the anti-assisted suicide CEJA report was sent back to the committee and the current AMA policy in opposition remains in effect.  In state fights, AMA and state affiliate AMA opposition has been critical in fighting the passage of assisted suicide.  It is imperative that the House of Delegates accept the CEJA report and oppose shifting to "engaged neutrality.

Here is how you can help:

1.      Please urge physicians in your state to comment at the Online Forum on the AMA website to express support of the CEJA report.  Physicians need to be AMA members to comment.

The online forum is active now.  Physicians can make a significant impact by posting to that Forum. 

Ask physicians to use the link below (or paste into your browser):  https://www.ama-assn.org/amaone/hod-annual-overview

Scrolling down to "Online Forums" and clicking that takes you to the Online Forum list.  The second box is Committee on Amendments to Constitution and Bylaws.  Click on "CEJA Reports". then the first one on the list will be "Physician-Assisted Suicide".  At this point you'll be prompted to sign in or create an account if you don't have one already.

Once signed in, the physician may put testimony into the online Forum. This testimony is carefully reviewed and compiled by AMA staff and has equal weight to onsite live testimony

2.      Identify physicians from your state and find out if they are a member of the AMA or would be willing to become a member.  Have an influential physician from your state contact each state delegate (a list they can obtain if they are a member) to urge them to speak and vote in favor of the CEJA Report which reaffirms AMA Code of Medical Ethics provisions in opposition to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia at the AMA annual meeting.    

3.   AMA member physicians are needed to testify in favor of the CEJA report on the Sunday, June 9^th from 1:30pm to 5:00pm in Regency Ballroom C.   (Please note that this meeting was moved from morning to afternoon.)   If a physician is not an AMA  member, it is very easy to join at https://member.ama-assn.org/join-renew/.  Testifiers should identify who they represent, thank members of CEJA for the excellent report, and make succinct comments lasting no longer than two minutes.    Physicians who will testify should notify Barb Lyons at barbara@patientsrightsaction.org    

            Your assistance is vital to the outcome of this effort which will benefit every state.   Thank you.

For their lives,

Jacki Ragan, Director

State Organizational Development and NRL Conventions, Inc.

512 10th Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20004-1401

202-626-8827

www.nrlconvention.com

www.nrlc.org

What is behind "the failure with respect to the communication of the Church’s teaching on a range of moral issues"?

• Rosary of Reparation in response to an inappropriate event at the Warminster Public Library (6/1/19, 1pm, 1076 Emma Lane)

• The Visitation (5/31/19)

• Ascension Thursday (5/30/19)

• "His Truth Is Marching On" (5/27/19)

• Abortion in the United States 2017: Preliminary Review and a Call for Reform (Charlotte Lozier Institute, 5/22/19)
  PFLI.org estimates 308 MILLION abortions in the US, since Roe v Wade!

• Vaccines from Abortion - Time to Report the Truth (COG, 5/20/19)

• "My use of the word ‘homosexualization’ ought not moreover be taken to mean that I believe a majority of priests are homosexual. That idea is manifestly false. In the sense intended here, even if only 0.01% of priests were homosexual, one could speak of the ‘homosexualization’ of the priesthood. My reflections in this article simply unfold in the context of an awakening realization that there is a problem that needs to be confronted....
  
  "Conjugal love, John Paul II teaches, 'reaches that fullness to which it is interiorly ordained, conjugal charity, which is the proper and specific way in which the spouses participate in and are called to live the very charity of Christ who gave Himself on the Cross.' These words distill and communicate the essence of St. Paul’s teaching on marriage at Eph. 5:21-33. At vv. 25-27 we read that 'Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.' This teaching is stated in striking terms by Brant Pitre. According to Pitre, Paul describes Christ 'as a bridegroom, the Church as his bride, and the crucifixion of Jesus as the kind of ancient Jewish wedding day on which he “loved” her and “gave himself” for her.' Pitre adds that 'From Paul’s point of view, the torture and crucifixion of Jesus on Calvary was nothing less than an expression of spousal love.'....
  
  "Openness to new life as the fruit of sexual union instantiates one important aspect of marital cruciformity….Heterosexual marriage is, as G.J. McAleer expresses the point, 'inescapably a call to participate in creation, to render the service of being deposed to the beginning of another person’s existence'....This helpless other – who begins perhaps to cause some headaches when he/she becomes not so helpless – is according to the teaching of Gaudium et Spes the supreme gift of marriage and contributes immensely to the good of the parents themselves since their fulfilment in Christ is cultivated and perfected by sacrifice....
  
  "although one cannot doubt that homosexual priests are validly ordained, the fact that they do not experience a natural attraction to members of the opposite sex cannot but obscure the symbolism intrinsic to the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Christ, the Bridegroom, offers his whole being in sacrifice for His Spouse, the Church. The heterosexual ordinand foregoes a wife and children in order to sacrifice His life for the sake of Christ’s Bride. That nuptial relationship is especially pronounced when the priest acts in persona Christi in confecting the Eucharist. The sacramental character proper to Holy Orders is impressed on the soul of the homosexual priest and he validly confects the Eucharist. Yet the nuptial dimension of his priestly being is somewhat lacking and this lack penetrates to the heart of the Church’s worship....
  
  "Dr. Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg...maintains that 'The less demanding, softer ways of the post-war Church partly explain why relatively many homosexually inclined and otherwise-less-masculine personality types felt attracted to the priesthood and religious life'....It is reasonable to posit some kind of connection between the homosexualization of the priesthood and the failure with respect to the communication of the Church’s teaching on a range of moral issues....On the basis of the failure to communicate effectively the Church’s moral teaching in all of its distinctiveness, I would go so far as to say that the homosexualisation of the priesthood has in its own way made a significant contribution to the progress of the culture of death in Western society" (Rev Kevin O'Reilly, 5/17/19).

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

 

• "stand against legislation, like Medicare for All and the Equality Act, that force tax-payers to pay for other people’s abortions and that strong arms medical professionals to violate their consciences" (March for Life Action).

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
  • UPDATE: "We are gravely disappointed with the Act’s passage in the U.S. House” (USCCB, 5/17/19).  Republican co-sponsor Brian Fitzpatrick joined Pa Democrats Boyle, Dean, Evans, Scanlon, Houlahan, Wild, Cartwright, Lamb and Doyle in the 236 to 173 betrayal - a vote against pre born children, religious freedom, and parental rights.
  • 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!
  • "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).  

• 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!   


• 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/).

On the right side of the home page, you will find links to email Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC and Central NJ in Trenton.

"His Truth is Marching On!"

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on, His truth is marching

Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, Hallelujah! His truth is marching on

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on

Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free
While God is marching on

Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, Hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
His truth is marching on! And on and on and on and on and on

Abortion's Real #s, Brain Death Criteria, Emergency So-Called Contraception, Fake Islamic 'Human Embryology' Teachings, Vaccines

Abortion in the United States 2017: Preliminary Review and a Call for Reform (Charlotte Lozier Institute, 5/22/19)

"the most recent estimate from the CDC underestimates the true percentage of abortions that are chemically induced and does not reflect the near doubling of the proportion of chemical abortions after 2016. This underestimation has ramifications for public health. Chemical abortions have a much higher complication rate than surgical abortions performed at the same point in pregnancy and result in more frequent visits to the emergency room." And that is not even accounting for abortions resulting from so-called contraceptives. PFLI.org estimates 308 MILLION abortions in the US, since Roe v Wade!

Prominent medical voices disagree with National Catholic Bioethics Center president and Saint Charles moral theologian John Haas Haas on the legitimacy of brain death criteria (3/24/19). (See also, Is there Moral Certainty that "Brain Dead" Organ Donors are Dead? (Healthcare Advocacy and Leadership Organization, 4/23/19 and Brain Death, Part One, 7/29/19).

Contraceptive use is forbidden by Catholic teaching.  Making matters worse is that while some methods are presented as "contraceptive," they can be abortifacient! For example,

• Hormonal contraceptives cause abortions, researchers find (Martin Barillas, 3/29/17)

• Systematic Review of Ovarian Activity and Potential for Embryo Formation and Loss during the Use of Hormonal Contraception. Donna Harrison, MD, Cara Buskmiller, MD, Monique Chireau, MD, Lester A. Ruppersberger, DO, Patrick P. Yeung, Jr., MD (Linacre Quarterly, January 3, 2019; pp. 453–469)

Though John Haas maintains that there are situations in which it is morally permissible to use Emergency so-called contraception in Catholic hospitals, this position is opposed by the Catholic Medical Association and the Catholic Pharmaceutical Association (3/20/19).  

Need to REFUTE and REMOVE Fake Islamic 'Human Embryology' Teachings (Diane Irving, PhD, 5/9/19/)7

Vaccines from Abortion - Time to Report the Truth (COG, 5/20/19)

308 MILLION abortions in the US, since Roe v Wade!

• Rosary of Reparation in response to an inappropriate event at the Warminster Public Library (6/1/19, 1pm, 1076 Emma Lane )

• Abortion in the United States 2017: Preliminary Review and a Call for Reform (Charlotte Lozier Institute, 5/22/19)
  "the most recent estimate from the CDC underestimates the true percentage of abortions that are chemically induced and does not reflect the near doubling of the proportion of chemical abortions after 2016. This underestimation has ramifications for public health. Chemical abortions have a much higher complication rate than surgical abortions performed at the same point in pregnancy and result in more frequent visits to the emergency room." And that is not even accounting for abortions resulting from so-called contraceptives. PFLI.org estimates 308 MILLION abortions in the US, since Roe v Wade!

(Seen at the 2018 March for Life)

• Vaccines from Abortion - Time to Report the Truth (COG, 5/20/19)

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

• Is Marriage Done For? (Dr Scott Hahn with Patrick Coffin, 4/23/19)

 

• "stand against legislation, like Medicare for All and the Equality Act, that force tax-payers to pay for other people’s abortions and that strong arms medical professionals to violate their consciences" (March for Life Action).

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
  • UPDATE: "We are gravely disappointed with the Act’s passage in the U.S. House” (USCCB, 5/17/19).  Republican co-sponsor Brian Fitzpatrick joined Pa Democrats Boyle, Dean, Evans, Scanlon, Houlahan, Wild, Cartwright, Lamb and Doyle in the 236 to 173 betrayal - a vote against pre born children, religious freedom, and parental rights.
  • 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!
  • "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).  

• 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!   


• 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/).

On the right side of the home page, you will find links to email Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC and Central NJ in Trenton.