You are welcome to copy and mail this open letter to the Senators who are sponsoring FOCA, the Freedom of Choice Act:
As a voter in this great country, I would like to express my profound opposition to the Freedom of Choice Act. I am deeply saddened to see that you are one of the sponsors of this act. Abortion is the greatest injustice of our times, the legalization of which has resulted in an almost inconceivable 50 million deaths of innocent children in the most vulnerable stage of life, and left an equal number of women traumatized. If you truly care about victims of violence, you could not sponsor an act like FOCA, which threatens to wipe out the very modest legal protections that women and children have gained against the ultimate act of violence against them - abortion.
It is appalling that in many states, children of any age can already obtain both surgical and chemical abortions, abortifacient drugs, and the questionable “counsel” of abortion providers without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Parents are their children’s chief advocates and protectors, yet this legislation now threatens to usurp parental authority nationwide and hand it to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. This is all the more disturbing considering the fact that Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers will financially benefit from the enshrinement of unrestricted abortion.
The passage of FOCA will also deny medical personnel and hospital facilities their “freedom of choice” by undermining conscience clauses everywhere, impacting Catholic hospitals, nursing schools, and physicians nationwide. Late term abortions limits will be revoked as well, and grassroots efforts to end abortion will be viewed as interference with the “civil right” to abortion. This is a devastating blow to all people of good faith in this country who have worked to end abortion and provide women and children with support during crisis pregnancies.
I call on all Catholic politicians to either abide by Church teachings on the abortion issue, or to voluntarily stop receiving the Eucharist because you have chosen to leave the communion of the Catholic Church and are creating confusion and scandal by your actions.
As a voter in this great country, I would like to express my profound opposition to the Freedom of Choice Act. I am deeply saddened to see that you are one of the sponsors of this act. Abortion is the greatest injustice of our times, the legalization of which has resulted in an almost inconceivable 50 million deaths of innocent children in the most vulnerable stage of life, and left an equal number of women traumatized. If you truly care about victims of violence, you could not sponsor an act like FOCA, which threatens to wipe out the very modest legal protections that women and children have gained against the ultimate act of violence against them - abortion.
It is appalling that in many states, children of any age can already obtain both surgical and chemical abortions, abortifacient drugs, and the questionable “counsel” of abortion providers without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Parents are their children’s chief advocates and protectors, yet this legislation now threatens to usurp parental authority nationwide and hand it to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. This is all the more disturbing considering the fact that Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers will financially benefit from the enshrinement of unrestricted abortion.
The passage of FOCA will also deny medical personnel and hospital facilities their “freedom of choice” by undermining conscience clauses everywhere, impacting Catholic hospitals, nursing schools, and physicians nationwide. Late term abortions limits will be revoked as well, and grassroots efforts to end abortion will be viewed as interference with the “civil right” to abortion. This is a devastating blow to all people of good faith in this country who have worked to end abortion and provide women and children with support during crisis pregnancies.
I call on all Catholic politicians to either abide by Church teachings on the abortion issue, or to voluntarily stop receiving the Eucharist because you have chosen to leave the communion of the Catholic Church and are creating confusion and scandal by your actions.
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