Nice graphic here. I copied it from catholicnewsagency.com.
Hoping you can use it in e-mail blitzes or whatever you're doing to get the word out.
Posted on 10/29/2009 10:16:52 AM PDT by tcg
An E-mail directive has been sent from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life Activities Secretariat mobilizing every parish in the United States of America. It contains an urgent message which is to be distributed in every parish this weekend and announced at every single Mass. This massive and urgent appeal may be unprecedented in our history as Catholics in America. It is an effort to mobilize the Catholic faithful on an urgent matter of public policy concerning the fundamental and foundational human right to life.
The E-Mail specifically asks that no parish opt out of this initiative.
We present the E-Mail below for our readers around the globe. We urge that focused prayer be offered for our Bishops in their leadership on this vital effort. We urge all of our readers in the United States to participate fully in the effort.....
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
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I know the feeling... :(
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Tell me about it. We only had 50 people show up for 40 Hours, this week.
I must have sent such a letter 100+ times to my representatives. At least one of them is against the health care bill.
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Not a Catholic but with you in spirit and agree with your position(s) ...
Thanks Mrs. Don-o.
I’m a thorn in his side... and proud of it.
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Nice graphic here. I copied it from catholicnewsagency.com.
Hoping you can use it in e-mail blitzes or whatever you're doing to get the word out.
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Bishops' Conference Blankets Parishes with Inserts Against Expansion of Abortion Through Health Care Reform
Bulletin inserts sent to churches nationwide
Dramatic graphic drives home point that abortion is not health care
Solution: Language to guarantee federal money won't pay for elective abortions
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an extraordinary call to Catholics to prevent health care reform from being derailed by the abortion lobby, the United Sates Conference of Catholic Bishops has sent bulletin inserts to almost 19,000 parishes across the country.
"Health care reform should be about saving lives, not destroying them," the insert states. It urges readers to contact Senate leaders so they support efforts to "incorporate longstanding policies against abortion funding and in favor of conscience rights" in health reform legislation.
"If these serious concerns are not addressed, the final bill should be opposed," it adds.
The insert highlights the Stupak Amendment from Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) that, it states, "addresses essential pro-life concerns on abortion funding and conscience rights."
"Help ensure that the Rule for the bill allows a vote on the amendment," the insert states. "If these serious concerns are not addressed, the final bill should be opposed."
A dramatic ad of a pregnant woman notes that the Hyde Amendment, which passed in 1976, has prevented federal funds from paying for elective abortions, yet healthcare reform bills that are advancing violate this policy. The ad message: "Tell Congress: Remove Abortion Funding and Mandates from Needed Health Care Reform."
The insert also directs readers to www.usccb.org/healthcare.
Bulletin inserts were distributed to dioceses October 29, the day Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the House health care reform bill and in expectation that they will show up in parishes in early November. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the USCCB; Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chair of the bishops' Committee on Pro-life Activities; Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City, chair of the Committee on Migration; and Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, New York, chair of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development urged fellow bishops to promote this campaign in their dioceses.
"The bishops want health care reform, but they recoil at any expansion of abortion," said Helen Osman, USCCB Secretary for Communications, who helped organize the campaign. "Most Americans don't want to pay for other people's abortions via health care either. This impasse on the road to reform of health care can be broken if Congress writes in language that assures that the Hyde Amendment law continues to guide U.S. federal spending policy."
The Catholic bishops have a long history of support for health care reform based on its teaching that health care is essential for human life and dignity and on its experience providing health care and assisting those without coverage.
Keywords: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB, health care reform, health care, abortion, U.S, Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Bart Stupak, Nancy Pelosi
SOURCE U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Sr. Mary Ann Walsh of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, office:
+1-202-541-3200, home: +1-301-587-4762
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Call your congress critter.
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