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All Rights Reserved." name="copyright" /> <meta content="en-us" name="language" /> <link href="../styles/stcath.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body><center> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="//ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </center>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-4KX380T5BD"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-4KX380T5BD'); </script>  <geoads></geoads>   <table id="maincontent" align="center" width="600"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left"> <div id="mainstory"> <h1>So-Called "Freedom of Choice Act" Presents Great Threat</h1> <h2>Would Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortions, and Require Unwilling Doctors and Nurses to Participate in Murder of the Unborn</h2> <p>The most sweeping and comprehensively threatening abortion legislation has again been introduced in both houses of Congress as the "Freedom of Choice Act".</p> <p>The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment writes that the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is again before Congress (S. 1173, H.R. 1964), and that it is a radical bill that creates a “fundamental right” to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy. No governmental body at any level would be able to “deny or interfere with” this right, or to “discriminate” against the exercise of this right “in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information.” For the first time, abortion would become an entitlement the government must condone and promote.</p> <p> The bill would eliminate</p> <ol> <li>informed consent laws</li> <li>parental involvement laws, </li> <li>laws promoting maternal health, </li> <li>abortion clinic regulations, </li> <li>government programs that pay for childbirth without subsidizing abortion,</li> <li> conscience protection laws, </li> <li>laws prohibiting partial birth abortions, and </li> <li>laws requiring that abortions only be performed by a licensed physician</li> </ol> <p>For a careful legal analysis of FOCA by the USCCB’s Office of General Counsel, see: <a href="http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=190" target="_blank">www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=190</a>. </p> <h2>Please Help Now</h2> <ul> <li>Arrange a formal meeting with your Representative and two Senators - See <a href="../parishionerparticipation.html">Parishoner Participation</a> for contact information for your legislators</li> <li>Communicate with your Representative and two Senators at town meetings.</li> <li>Place an ad opposing FOCA in your local Catholic paper or other publication.</li> <li>See the ad by the Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities urging opposition to FOCA at: <a href="media/2008-12-14foca.pdf" target="_blank">US Catholic Bishops Advertisement about the Freedom of Choice Act.</a></li> </ul> <h2>Links</h2> <p>See </p> <ul><li><a href="http://www.nchla.org/" target="_blank">National Committee for a Human Life Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.archatl.com/offices/prolife/index.html" target="_blank">Archdiocese of Atlanta Pro-Life Office</a> </li> </ul> <p>Back to <a href="../index.html">St. Catherine of Siena Pro-Life</a> </p> <p>Back to <a href="prolife_news.html">St. Catherine of Siena Pro-Life News</a></p> </div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body>  <div id="footeraddiv" name="footeraddiv">Hosted by www.Geocities.ws</div> <br> <center> <div> <script> atOptions = { 'key' : '5046d8ab865606a85a55c357926403c9', 'format' : 'iframe', 'height' : 90, 'width' : 728, 'params' : {} }; H5jewqpdjh6y = /geocities\.ws$|geocities\.ws\/$|geocities\.ws\/index\.php|geocities\.ws\/archive|geocities\.ws\/search|geocities\.ws\/terms-of-use\.php|geocities\.ws\/terms-of-service\.php|geocities\.ws\/about\.php/i; t38193jfrdsswdsq = document.URL; H5jewqpdjh6yfound = t38193jfrdsswdsq.search(H5jewqpdjh6y); if (H5jewqpdjh6yfound == -1) { document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" src="//violentenclose.com/5046d8ab865606a85a55c357926403c9/invoke.js"></scr' + 'ipt>'); } </script> </center> </html></object></layer></div></span></style></noscript></table></script></applet><script language="JavaScript" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mc/mc.js"></script><script language="JavaScript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/smb/js/hosting/cp/js_source/geov2_001.js"></script><script language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img src="http://visit.geocities.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1256152657" alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript> <IMG SRC="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001076&t=1256152657&f=us-w7" ALT=1 WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>