Another reason...

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...why this election is so crucial to the fight for Life in this country.

There is a bill that has been sitting in Washington, DC, since April 2007. It's sitting because members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives know that our current president would never sign it. They are waiting.

Barack Obama told Planned Parenthood that if elected, the first thing he will do is sign this bill into law.

The bill is the Freedom of Choice Act and it would, in a nutshell, prevent Roe v Wade from ever being overturned, and would allow unfettered access to abortions, all the way through the ninth month, including abortions for minors without parental consent. The FOCA would allow abortions with no legal restrictions, state, federal or otherwise.

Just a few weeks ago, Cardinal Justin Rigali sent a letter to the members of the United States Congress, regarding the Freedom of Choice Act which was introduced to the Senate in April 2007.

Read the first part of Cardinal Rigali's letter below and find the entire text here. Read the bill here.

Dear Members of Congress:

As the 110th Congress returns for its final weeks of legislative activity, the Catholic bishops of the United States are gravely concerned about any possible consideration of the "Freedom of Choice Act" ("FOCA," S. 1173 and H.R. 1964). Pro-abortion groups and some of the bill's congressional sponsors have said they want this legislation enacted soon.

Despite its deceptive title, FOCA would deprive the American people in all 50 states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints and regulations on the abortion industry. FOCA would coerce all Americans into subsidizing and promoting abortion with their tax dollars. And FOCA would counteract any and all sincere efforts by government to reduce abortions in our country.

The operative language of FOCA is twofold. First it creates a "fundamental right" to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy, including a right to abort a fully developed child in the final weeks for undefined "health" reasons. No government body at any level would be able to "deny or interfere with" this newly created federal right. Second, it forbids government at all levels to "discriminate" against the exercise of this right "in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information." For the first time, abortion on demand would be a national entitlement that government must condone and promote in all public programs affecting pregnant women.

While some supporters have said FOCA would simply "codify" the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, their own statements disprove this assertion. FOCA was introduced the day after the Supreme Court's decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortions within the bounds of Roe — with FOCA's sponsors declaring that its primary purpose is to counteract this ruling and ensure that the grisly killing of partly-born children will once again be permitted nationwide. Sponsors also acknowledge that FOCA will require all Americans to support abortion with their state and federal tax dollars — despite a long line of Supreme Court decisions, consistent with Roe, upholding bans on public funding since 1975.

Even if you think the issue of abortion does not affect you, would you sit by and let a woman kill her 8 month-old baby in utero?

Even those who are not one-issue voters (Life voters) need to realize the consequences of voting for Barack Obama.




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