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From Stephen Ertlet at LifeNews.Com: Leading pro-life advocates have been criticized by the mainstream media for organizing an active opposition to the radical Freedom of Choice Act because the bill has yet to be filed in Congress. However, a leading pro-abortion Congressman calls FOCA a top priority and says the bill is coming soon. A spokesman for Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who is chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee that could consider the bill, says the bill is forthcoming. FOCA "is among the congressman's priorities. We expect to reintroduce it sooner rather than later," Ilan Kayatsky told the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Article.

Mesa, Ariz. - This morning when President Obama arrived in Mesa, Arizona to announce his $75 billion "Homeowner Stability Initiative," a group of about 200 Catholics were holding a prayer vigil across the street. The group was praying that Obama will change his mind about supporting the unpopular Freedom of Choice Act. Fr. Jack Spaulding, the pastor of St. Timothy’s Catholic Church, led a prayer vigil that lasted about 45 minutes. "As Catholics, this is a tremendous opportunity for each one of us to put our faith into action through a peaceful and prayerful acknowledgement that everyone, including our president, must respect the sanctity of all human life, especially the unborn," Fr. Spaulding said. Walter Zorich, 71, told the Arizona Republic that he came to the vigil to "pray for the president and his staff that they make good decisions." Article

The ‘Freedom of Choice’ Act will… • Nullify requirements that abortionists be licensed physicians...WTF?! • Eliminate health and safety regulations for abortion clinics...WTF?! • Nullify parental consent and notification laws...WTF?! • Invalidate laws to inform patients...WTF?! • Repeal the Hyde Amendment: Taxpayers will pay for abortions...WTF?! • Remove waiting periods...WTF?! • Prohibit bans on abortion after viability...WTF?! • Remove protections for physicians and hospitals that refuse to participate in abortions...WTF?! • Repeal the Partial Birth Abortion Ban...WTF?! A recent Harris poll shows that 82% of Americans want abortion to be either illegal under all circumstances or limited in its legality. -- FOCA would effectively remove all limitations on abortion Learn more at What The FOCA? Share the truth about FOCA with everyone today.

Washington DC, Jan 23, 2009 / 05:48 am ( CNA ).- More than 100 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he withdraw his campaign pledge to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) and other pro-abortion rights laws. FOCA is legislation designed to protect abortion rights even if the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade is overturned. It threatens to abolish existing minimal state and federal restrictions on abortion and could even threaten the rights of Catholic hospitals to refuse to perform abortions. Article I find this encouraging and I believe that this is the result of our postcards, emails, and phone calls to our congressmen. It's important that we continue to let them know how we feel about FOCA and Obama's pro-death agenda.

Dear Members of the Marian Catechist Apostolate, Today is the 36th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous decision in the cases Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, by which the highest court of our nation took away the safeguard of the most fundamental of all rights, the right to life, from the most vulnerable members of the human family, the unborn. Rightly, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has, for some time, designated this day as a Day of Penance for Violations to the Dignity of the Human Person, and of Prayer for the Full Restoration of the Legal Guarantee of the Right to Life. January 22nd is to be observed “as a particular day of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion, and of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, no. 373). The legacy of the just-mentioned decisions has been an unconscionable decline in the respect for all ...

Former Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert Bork has predicted that upcoming legal battles will have significant ramifications for religious freedom. He names as issues of major concern the continued freedom of Catholic hospitals to refuse to perform abortions and the likely “terrible conflict” resulting from the advancement of homosexual rights. Speaking in an interview published Tuesday by Cybercast News Service, Judge Bork discussed the contentious nature of modern politics. “Everything is up for debate these days. I can’t think of anything that isn’t,” he said. “You are going to get Catholic hospitals that are going to be required as a matter of law to perform abortions,” he claimed . “We are going to see in the near future a terrible conflict between claimed rights of homosexuals and religious freedom… You are going to get Catholic or other groups’ relief services that are going to be required to allow adoption of a child by homosexual couples. We are going to have a real conflict...

President Barack Obama promised Planned Parenthood that, “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA). If he keeps this promise, American Right To Life president Brian Rohrbough said, “President Obama will press the reset button on the pro-life movement and reverse decades of legislation, regulations not built on the firm foundation of personhood, but misguided laws built on sand shifting in the political wind.” Catholic Bishops are warning that FOCA would regulate even pro-life medical facilities, pushing Catholic hospitals toward aborting children. MORE Image via The Black Cordelias.

On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama, the most pro-death president in our country’s history, will be sworn into office. 2009 will be remembered as one of the most challenging years for the pro-life movement. For, Barack Hussein Obama emphatically promised more than a year ago, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." The Freedom of Choice Act is a sweeping bill that would abolish all pro-life regulations across the nation, from parental notification laws to bans on federal funding of abortions. It would not only make unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy a national law but it would overturn the laws in all 50 states designed to reduce abortions. Today we commemorate Sanctity of life Sunday and this coming Thursday we celebrate the 36th anniversary of Roe V Wade. This is the year that I wanted more than ever to go to Washington DC to participate in the March for Life. This is the year that I wanted to protest the mass slaughter o...

American Life League explains the dangerous consequences the Freedom of Choice Act poses to pre-born babies throughout the country.

Unholy Messaging Obama’s faith-based try vs. his positions. By Douglas Johnson legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee . The Barack Obama “messaging machine” is now in full overdrive mode, seeking to mislead religiously committed Americans into thinking that Obama has a middle-of-the-road position on abortion policy and will promote “abortion reduction.” In late September, the Obama campaign kicked off a “Faith, Family & Values Tour.” A team of Obama surrogates — including Pepperdine University law school professor Douglas Kmiec, evangelical author Donald Miller, and former congressman Tim Roemer of Indiana — will travel from state to state, seeking the votes of religiously committed Americans. According to a report on BeliefNet.com, the surrogates will be “doing grass-roots evangelizing for Obama in community centers (neutral sites — no houses of worship) and homes. The tour will continue for weeks in most of the key battleground states.” Another article, on ...

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Barack Obama is co-sponser to the most draconian pieces of legislation ever put forth in the American debate over abortion, repealing laws passed by voters and state legislatures. In addressing the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (July 17, 2007), he asserted that "the first thing I'd do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. " What is the Freedom of Choice Act?

This video is a part of the "No, We Cannot" Campaign. Last year before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Barack Obama told abortion-on-demand activists: "The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." WHAT IS THE so-called FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT (FOCA)? With a single stroke of the pen, the so-called Freedom of Choice Act would essentially wipe away virtually every state law that limits abortion -- nationwide -- allowing abortion-on-demand in all nine months of pregnancy for any reason and without any restrictions. It would undo decades of legal work, research and educational successes. It would invalidate all of the major types of pro-life laws that have been upheld by the Supreme Court in the decades since Roe versus Wade. Among the types of laws that the Freedom of Choice Act would invalidate are: --- The national ban on partial-birth abortion that the Supreme Court upheld on April 18, in Gonzales versus Carhart. -- The Hyde Amendment...