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USCCB Provides Information about "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA) |
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has provided information about the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA), a major piece of legislation which in the words of Cardinal Rigali, Chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the USCCB, "would counteract any and all sincere effots by government to reduce abortions in our country" (Letter to Congress). It is expected to be taken up by the new Congress once it has opened its session in January.
CULTURE OF LIFE
We must work together in Christ so that our culture will not continue to become a culture of death! A new, very serious threat to human life has arisen: The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).
- FOCA eliminates regulations that protect women from unsafe abortion clinics.
- FOCA forces taxpayers to fund abortions.
- FOCA requires: all states to allow ‘partial birth’ and other late-term abortions.- FOCA subjects women to abortions by non-physicians.
- FOCA violates the conscience rights of nurses, doctors, and hospitals.
- FOCA strips parents of their right to be involved in their minor daughters’ abortion decision.
Those who have NO VOICE need your help! Why? Abortion rights groups and their allies in Congress are promoting a radical bill called the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA). If this extreme measure is enacted, widely supported and constitutionally sound abortion regulations will be knocked down nationwide. If passed into law, FOCA will impose upon the entire country an abortion regime far worse than anything brought on by Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. And the current level of 1.1 million abortions a year will go up, not down. WHAT CAN YOU DO? Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard to contact the offices of your Representative and two Senators. Urge them to oppose FOCA!Tell CONGRESS;
Please PRAY
and PLEDGE now to oppose FOCA!
Cardinal George's remarks (President of USCCB)