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U.S. BISHOPS PROVIDE RESOURCES EXPLAINING FLAWS IN SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL
 

WASHINGTON—The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has made available several new resources explaining its calls for essential changes to the Senate health care reform bill. In a March 15 statement, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the USCCB, said that the U.S. bishops would, regretfully, have to oppose the final bill if these changes were not made.

The resources are available at: www.usccb.org/healthcare

Among them is an analysis of the abortion funding provisions of the Senate health care bill that highlights the bishops’ objections (www.usccb.org/healthcare/030410facts.pdf). Two pieces respond to recent criticisms of the bishops’ position on the health care bill, namely criticisms from Timothy Stoltzfus Jost of Washington and Lee University Law School (www.usccb.org/healthcare/jost-response.pdf) and the other regarding the funding of abortion at community health centers (www.usccb.org/healthcare/communityhealthcenters.pdf).

With so much of the health care debate focusing on the nature of the legal “status quo” of federal abortion funding, the page also features a backgrounder on current federal policy on abortion funding (www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/healthcare/abortion_funding_102309.pdf) and an analysis of the House health care bill’s Stupak Amendment (www.usccb.org/healthcare/StupakAmendmentFactsheet.pdf).

 

 


A Pro-Life Prayer For Our President And Public Officials/p>

Baby with TearLord God, Author of Life and Source of Eternal Life,

 

Move the hearts of all our public officials and especially our President, to fulfill their responsibilities worthily and well to all those entrusted to their care.

 

Help them in their special leadership roles, to extend the mantle of protection to the most vulnerable, especially the defenseless unborn, whose lives are threatened with extermination by an indifferent society.

 

Guide all public officials by your wisdom and grace to cease supporting any law that fails to protect the fundamental good that is human life itself, which is a gift from God and parents.

 

You are the Protector and Defender of the lives of the innocent unborn. Change the hearts of those who compromise the call to protect and defend life. Bring our nation to the values that have made us a great nation, a society that upholds the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all.

 

Mary, the Mother of the living, help us to bear witness to the Gospel of Life with our lives and our laws, through Christ, Our Lord.

 

Amen.

 

Imprimatur:

January 22, 2009

Most Reverend Robert J. Baker

Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama

 

Recent Press Release

EWTN To Air 2010’s Historic “March for Life/Walk for Life” Plus Other January Shows Pro-Life Catholics Won’t Want to Miss.

 

Irondale, AL (EWTN) – With Congress now meeting to resolve differences between the Senate and House versions of the health care bill -- which includes the Senate version’s massive funding of abortion -- the 2010 March for Life has become one of the most important in history.

EWTN will offer viewers the most complete coverage available on any platform of both Washington, D.C.’s March for Life and San Francisco’s Walk for Life. Coverage will include live Masses, walking processions, rallies, interviews, panel discussions, and speeches from pro-lifers around the country.

Pro-life people won’t want to miss any of EWTN’s pro-life shows in January. Highlights include:

“March for Life 2010:” On the East Coast, Doug Keck (Host of EWTN’s “Bookmark”) will anchor the Network’s live coverage with Fr. Joseph. They will be joined in studio by EWTN Radio Hosts Jim and Joy Pinto. In Washington, D.C., Teresa Tomeo (host of EWTN’s daily radio news and feature program “Catholic Connection”) and EWTN Series Host Damon Owens will interview the newsmakers and pro-lifers from around the country.

Solemn Vigil Mass for Life airs 6:30 p.m., Jan. 21 (live); Solemn Mass for Life airs 7:30 a.m., Jan. 22 (live); March for Life 2009 airs 11 a.m. Jan. 22 (live) and encores 10 p.m. Jan. 22.

“Walk for Life West Coast 2010:” On the West Coast, Father Mark and Doug Barry, hosts of EWTN’s “Life on the Rock,” will cover the walk whose fabulous speakers include former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director Abby Johnson; UCLA Student Activist and Filmmaker Lila Rose; 40 Days for Life National Director David Bereit; Silent No More Speakers Irene Beltran and Georgette Forney, and Jim Garlow, a San Diego-based evangelical pastor. In addition, Rev. Clenard Childress, director of LEARN and BlackGenocide.org, a speaker since the Walk’s inauguration in 2005, will rally the walkers.
Airs 1 p.m. Jan. 23 (live) and encores at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 24.

“Demographic Winter: The Decline of the Human Family:” In this documentary, experts from around the world discuss the dangers facing society and world economies as a result of declining populations around the globe.
Airs at 10 p.m. ET, Wed., Jan. 20, with an encore at 5 a.m. ET, Sat., Jan. 23.

“Demographic Bomb: Demography is Destiny:” This documentary, a riveting exposé of global coercion, shows how population control programs have violated human rights around the world and created a profound imbalance in the world’s economy.
Airs 10 p.m. ET, Wed., Jan. 27, with an encore at 5 a.m., Sat., Jan. 30.   Read More

Library Highlight

Dignitas Personae, an Instruction on ethical issues arising from biomedical research, was published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 12 December 2008. The Instruction defends the life of unborn human beings, created in the image of God, and provides guidance on how to respect human life and human procreation in our scientific age. View Document

 

Bioethics and the Myth of Relativism
In this interview with ZENIT, Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education at the Philadelphia-based National Catholic Bioethics Center, discusses the need to base bioethics on absolute moral principles. He affirms that even people who profess relativism count on certain absolutes in life.   View Document

 

Religious Catalogue Pro-Life Resources- View More from Religious Catalogue

Pro-Life Reflections For Every Day  PRO-LIFE REFLECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY
 		 Being Human DVD BEING HUMAN: 40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DVD
Fr. Frank Pavone provides a reflection on a passage from Scripture or other Church document and a prayer for each day of the year. This program focuses on the everyday, ordinary people who - by relying on Christ - help save lives from abortion through prayer and activism. Includes interviews with three volunteers: a businessman, a mother and a college student. Features expert commentary. 30 min.

 

Life After Death: David Alton examines the true cost of laws that were heralded as the pathway to the liberation of women and social justice. This book and many other Pro-Life Resources are available in our Religious Catalogue.

 

See Below For More Pro-Life Resources Being Human: 40 days for Life • Defending Life • Ending Abortion

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Prayer for the Unborn

Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life.

 

Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood.

 

Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs - made for eternal life.

 

Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother can give.

 

We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever. Amen.