Category Archives: Legislation

This Is 20 Weeks

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Slide1You have to see this! This Is 20 Weeks is a creative, new media campaign, a plan to marshal pro-life America to build momentum for legislation passed in Congress last spring to ban abortions after 20 weeks. It’s non-confrontational and elegant.

To find out more about it how it works and how you can be part of it, click here (and, don’t worry, they’re not asking for money. What they’d like you to share with them is your baby’s 5-month anonymous sonogram to be part of the most beautiful and moving baby album ever). The link to the actual site is here.

Late-Term Abortion: Do You Know Where They Stand?

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candidatesgraphicMost interesting article!  A round-up of where all announced and likely-to-announce 2016 presidential candidates stand on late-term abortion legislation like the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. National Right to Life News Today puts it all together for you here, in the candidates’ own words whenever possible.

Wednesday: Historic Vote to Ban Painful, Late Abortions

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UnbornPain050815On Wednesday, May 13, the U.S. House of Representatives will take up a landmark pro-life bill that, if enacted, will save thousands of unborn children each year from a painful death.

The bill, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, would protect unborn children from abortion, beginning at 20 weeks – nationwide.   By this point in development (and indeed even earlier), the unborn child is capable of experiencing great pain during an abortion.  This federal bill was developed on the basis of model legislation developed by National Right to Life, which has been enacted so far in 11 states.

Please email, call, or write to Nita Lowey, who represents Rockland in the House of Representatives. Ask her to please vote for H.R36, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

You can briefly cite one of the reasons from “Fetal Pain: The Evidence,” from the Doctors on Fetal Pain website.

To send an email to Rep. Lowey click here. 

Phone:  202-225-6506

Address:
Rep. Nita Lowey
2365 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

“Anti-Discrimination” Means RTL Must Hire Abortion Advocates??

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Late on April 30, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.J. Res. 43, a resolution to overturn the “Reproductive Health Nondiscrimination Amendment Act (RHNDA), a local law passed by the District of Columbia’s city council.

The National Right to Life Committee strongly supported the resolution to stop the RHNDA Act. The vote was 228-192.

Unfortunately, the Senate chose not to vote on the resolution, so the RHNDA took effect over the weekend in D.C.

Under RHNDA, prolife Washington, DC,-based employers (like the National Right to Life Committee) could be forced to hire people who advocate for abortion because not to do so would be “discrimination.”

Under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress has the right to review and overturn laws created by the city council.

Rep. Nita Lowy, who represents Rockland County in the House of Representatives, voted to uphold the RHNDA Act.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), announced candidate for the presidency in 2016, released a statement urging his colleages in the Senate to strike down the RHNDA, and a spokesperson for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky), also a candidate, wrote in an email to CQ Roll Call on Monday that “Sen. Paul has always been strongly opposed to the government usurping the constitutional rights of American citizens, and will continue to fight to preserve our nation’s religious freedom.”

Senate Dems Stop Vote on Bill to Help Sex Trafficking Victims

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Senate sealA bill to strengthen laws against sex trafficking passed the NY State Assembly unanimously yesterday.

UPDATE: APRIL 22 The U.S. Senate Bill to provide justice for victims of sex trafficking passed today (99-0) with a compromise to divide the victims’ compensation fund into two separate parts: one part would pay for law enforcement services and shelters, but not medical services; money for medical services for the victims would be segregated into another fund furnished by taxpayer money. This fund would be subject to the Hyde Amendment federal restrictions on abortion funding. Sens. Schumer and Gillebrand voted for the bill.

But things did not go so well for sex trafficking legislation on the federal level in Washington, D.C.

Today Senate Democrats blocked a vote on a bill to help victims of sex trafficking because it would not allow a proposed victims’ compensation fund to be used to pay for abortions.

The vote was 55-43, with both senators from New York, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillebrand voting to block debate on the bill.

Further votes to break the Democratic filibuster are expected this week.

Read more about it here.