The American’s United for Life action arm has launched a petition to stop the Freedom of Choice Act which President Elect Obama has promised to sign into law a soon as possible.
Here is Obama’s statements regarding the FOCA
Here is a statement on the FOCA from the Westchester Institute
FOCA would call into question virtually every abortion-related state and federal law currently in force. It would immediately supersede every federal law, such as the partial-birth abortion ban, restrictions on federal funding of abortion through Medicaid, and the ban on abortions in military hospitals. On the authority of FOCA, state laws protecting the lives of unborn children and their mothers could be immediately unenforceable. All the modest and reasonable state laws of the past 35 years (which have also been successful in reducing abortions) would fall to legal challenges based on FOCA. These include the following laws: protecting parental rights to be involved in an abortion decision, ensuring informed consent, regulating abortion clinic “safety,” protecting the conscience rights of doctors, nurses and hospitals to not be involved in abortion, and protecting women from non-physician abortionists among others. Significantly, taxpayers could also be forced to fund abortions for the uninsured.*
Read the full article *emphasis mine
Here is what you can do to help (taken from the Fight FOCA website).
Fight FOCA
The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) endangers women and silences the voices of everyday Americans. Read about it and sign the petition against it at FightFOCA.com
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