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I just read this on my email. I imagine it's almost too late for today but you could also try first thing Tue. morning. Sorry...it's long:
July 24, 2006
Dear Friends,
I'm sending this next column to you early, because the US Senate is voting tomorrow, July 25, on the matter of which the column speaks - a bill that can drastically cut into the abortion business in this country. Please read the column carefully, and then please make two phone calls - one to each of your US Senators, to tell them to vote for this bill.
The bill is the Child Custody Protection Act, Senate bill 403, and it would make it a crime to take a minor to another state's abortion clinic to bypass a parental involvement law in their own state.
The Senators should be urged to vote for the bill as it is, without accepting any amendments. The number is the same: 202-224-3121. Just provide your zip code and the operator will connect you to your Senator's office.
Thank you for doing this. You dont have to get into any discussion or debate when you call - it takes less than a minute. Just say you want your Senators to vote for this bill without any amendments, and then politely say good-bye.
If you could then do one more thing - please let me know that you made the call. Just email me back and tell me you did it. The reason for this is what a wise business owner once told me: "If you can't measure it, you're just practicing." In other words, when we visit the offices of lawmakers, just a block away from our Washington DC office, what makes our visits effective is that we can tell them that we have a big team out there - namely, you - and that when we urge them to act, they act. The problem is that we don't always know who actually takes action and who doesn't. So, I would be very grateful to hear from you in a short email saying that you called your Senators.
Let me also provide you with the upcoming schedules for our own TV shows and Radio programming:
Defending Life (seen on EWTN every Friday at 10pm and Saturday at 2:30am Eastern Time).
July 28-29: Parental Notification Laws - Their Impact in Reducing Abortion and How We Can Help/What You Never Knew About the Inside of the Abortion Mills.
August 4-5: Sidewalk Counseling and the Rights of Activists
Gospel of Life topics (seen on Sky Angel satellite, Angel One, every Monday at 3:30am, Tuesday at 2:00 am, Thursday at 8:30am and Saturday at 7:30pm -- all times Eastern). www.skyangel.com
Week of July 23: What the Nurses Saw! Guests: Pat DeClark and Jill Stanek
Week of July 30: Alternatives to Abortion: Option Line. Guest: Peggy Hartshorn
Life on the Line radio program. Go to www.lifeontheline.com/listen/index.html for stations and airing times.
July 29-30: Speaking for Terri. Fr. Pavone interviews Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler about Terri's life and death and the foundation created in her memory.
August 5-6: Byron Calhoun, M.D., National Institute of Family and Life Advocates.
Please tune in and spread the word! In fact, you can help us - and your whole parish -- by asking your pastor to place in the parish bulletin an announcement about our TV shows. Thanks in advance!
Blessings and prayers,
Fr. Frank Pavone
Keeping Children Safe
Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life
More than half of the states have laws that require a parent of a minor to be notified before that minor can obtain an abortion. Some of these parental involvement laws require the consent of the parent; others only require that a parent be informed. Such commonsense measures enjoy strong public support, and some polls put that support at above 80%.
Most who seek an abortion do not do so because of "freedom of choice," but because they feel they have no freedom and no choice. In so many instances, the pregnant young girl has loving parents, but is afraid of hurting or disappointing them. As a result, the very people who can best help her are the last ones she wants to tell. Parental involvement laws reconnect that frightened young girl with her own parents, enabling her to discover that the fears she had about parental rejection were unfounded, and enabling those parents to give their daughter the help and guidance she needs.
Predictably, as a result, studies have shown that such laws reduce the numbers of abortions in the places where they are in force.
But abortion is a business, and its practitioners act accordingly. Parental involvement laws make for bad business at the clinics, which is why abortion advocacy groups oppose these laws at every chance they get. Moreover, abortion clinics in states that do not have such laws advertise that fact, and people take minors across state lines to circumvent the law that requires parental involvement. Those most likely to transport a minor in this way, of course, are adult men who have committed statutory rape by having sexual activity with a minor. It has been well established, through undercover investigative activity and evidence now available to the public, that abortion clinics routinely assist sexual predators to cover up this activity by refusing to report them to the authorities.
In order to protect the welfare of minor girls and the rights of parents, Congress has a duty to regulate this interstate activity. The House of Representatives already passed, in April of 2005, a bill called he Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) (H.R. 748), which makes it a crime to transport a minor across state lines to circumvent a parental involvement law.
In the Senate, the Child Custody Protection Act (S. 403) is similar. It would make it a federal offense to transport a minor across state lines for an abortion without fulfilling the requirements of a parental involvement law in effect in the home state.
Pro-abortion legislators have introduced amendments to the bill that would grant exceptions for incest, or if a member of the clergy did the transporting. But one can gain "clergy" status in a few minutes on the internet, and the law should be all the more ready to stop those guilty of incest. Of course, the money the clinics make from abortion goes in part to the political campaigns of the legislators who support it. The bottom line again is business.
Remember to support our work at www.priestsforlife.org/donate
This column an be found online at www.priestsforlife.org/columns/columns2006/06-07-31keepingch ildrensafe.htm
Comments on this column? Email us at mail@priestsforlife.org, Priests for Life, PO Box 141172, Staten Island, NY 10314; Tel: 888-PFL-3448, 718-980-4400; Fax: 718-980-6515; web: www.priestsforlife.org
This column can be heard via podcast. See www.priestsforlife.org/podcast for more details.
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Gwen...wife for 30 years, mom of 7, grandma of 3.....
"If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life." JPII
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