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Freedom
Of Choice Act Introduced Into Congress.
Would Invalidate Partial
Birth Abortion And All Other Limits On Abortion Including
Parental Notification, Conscience Laws, Informed
Consent, Taxpayer Funding Bans, Political Speech And More.
The so called "Freedom
of Choice Act" (FOCA,
HR 1964) was introduced into Congress in response to
the Supreme Court decision Gonzales v. Carhart and
Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood which upheld the
constitutionality of the Partial Birth Prohibition Act.
FOCA is being marketed as a bill to “codify Roe,” which is
bad enough, but it would do far more. It would
overturn laws that the Court has approved for over 30
years since Roe, including the partial birth abortion ban,
bans on federal funding of abortion, conscience provisions
for doctors, nurses and other medical personnel as well as
hospitals and insurance carriers, parent right to know
laws, informed consent, waiting periods and more.
(Continue)
It is more accurate to say
that FOCA is the codification of Roe v. Wade and Doe v.
Bolton without all of the limitations that have been
allowed under Roe. Indeed, FOCA would invalidate
“every federal, state, and local statute, ordinance,
regulation, administrative order, decision, policy,
practice, or other action enacted, adopted, or implemented
before, on, or after the date of enactment of this act.”
Leading political supporters and advocates have already
admitted to these effects including the recently upheld
Partial Birth Abortion Ban. (See effects admitted to
below). A vote for HR 1964 is a
vote for partial birth abortion, taxpayer funding of
abortion, forced participation in abortion, and among
others, a vote to keep parents in the dark.
In addition to striking
down these limitations, National Right To
Life’s
Douglas Johnson says "This sweeping mandate means,
among other things, that statement or action by any
government official, including any elected official, and
any government program of any kind, could be legally
attacked if someone thought it discriminated against
abortion... This sweeping mandate would cover everything
from rural health clinics, to health education programs in
public schools, to pro-life speeches by public officials."
Effects Admitted To By
Supporters of FOCA. (Planned
Parenthood et al, US Senator
Barbara Boxer)
FOCA supporters admit
that it would eliminate these limitations regarding
abortion.
·
The Partial
Birth Abortion Ban.
·
Abortion
funding bans like the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits most
federal funding of abortion, abortion counseling or
abortion referrals: and the laws of many states that
restrict state funding of abortion.
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Laws
prohibiting abortions in government-operated hospitals.
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Laws requiring
parental notification or consent, or judicial
authorization, before an abortion can be performed on a
minor daughter. Planned Parenthood calls these a “tool to
deny abortion services to minors.”
·
Laws requiring
that girls and women seeking abortion receive certain
information on matters such as fetal development and
alternatives to abortion (CA Senator Barbara Boxer calls
these “anti-choice propaganda lectures), and then wait a
specified period before the abortion is actually
performed, usually 24 or 48 hours.
Other Effects Would
Include:
·
Conscience"
laws, allowing doctors, nurses, or other state-licensed
professionals, and hospitals or other health-care
providers, to decline to provide or pay for abortions.
·
Laws
prohibiting medical personal other than doctors from
performing abortion.
·
Government
officials could become targets of lawsuits for anything
that anyone thought discriminates against abortion.
HR 1964/FOCA, would
invalidate these sensible regulations which are supported
by vast numbers of Americans. A vote for HR 1964 is a
vote for partial birth abortion, taxpayer funding of
abortion, forced participation in abortion, and among
others, a vote to keep parents in the dark.
What to do:
Pro-life Nevadans need to contact their Nevada
Congressmen and ask them to vote no on HR 1964, The
Freedom of Choice Act. Tell them you oppose HR 1964
not only because it protects Roe v. Wade, but
because it would also overturn laws prohibiting gruesome
partial birth abortions, parental right to know laws,
conscience protections for medical personnel, medical
facilities and insurers, public funding of abortion,
informed consent, waiting periods, clinic regulations and
etc. A vote for HR 1964 is a vote for partial
birth abortion, taxpayer funding of abortion, forced
participation in abortion, and among others, a vote to
keep parents in the dark.
Click here to email Congresswoman Berkley (Other
Contact info for Congressman Berkeley.)
Click Here To Email Congressman Heller (Other
Contact Info for Congressman Heller.)
Click Here To Email Congressman Porter, (Other
Contact Info for Congressman Porter.)
More Information:
The "Freedom for Partial-Birth Abortionists Act"
-- Pro-Abortion Lawmakers Propose "FOCA" to
Invalidate All Limits on Abortion, National Right to
Life
Nevada LIFE Briefing on FOCA
Some history about FOCA:
In the early 1990s
Speaker of the House Tom Foley (D-WA) was concerned that
the Court was going to overthrow Roe. Unfortunately it
did not, but the Speaker said that if the Court did, the
Congress would write it into law with the Freedom of
Choice Act (FOCA). Pro-lifers began an intensive
education campaign about FOCA and it never passed despite
a pro-abortion House and Senate and the most pro-abortion
president in history, President Clinton. And in 1994
Foley became one of the only, if not the only, sitting
speakers who ever lost an election. His party was swept
from power and replaced by a pro-life one which
immediately began presenting pro-life legislation and,
with the election of pro-life president George W. Bush,
began to enact some of these pro-life measures.
FOCA, HR 1964 would wipe out all of those hard fought
gains.
FOCA and Partial Birth
Abortion: Is Partial Birth Abortion The End Of
Abortion Rights?
Abortion leaders are
depicting the Gonzales Partial Birth Abortion
decision as the end of abortion rights. We wish it were
true. This claim has some truth, but would take many more
steps that could take many more years to complete. The
partial birth abortion ban is a ban on a specific abortion
procedure and even has an exception for the life of the
mother. The court decision clearly says that women will
be able to choose other abortion techniques, which
abortion advocates have adamantly declared for over three
decades, to be safe.
Partial Birth
Abortion kills unborn children
inches from birth during the process of delivery by
puncturing the unborn’s in the head and sucking out the
child’s brains. The Partial Birth Abortion
decision is at most a first step in bringing abortion
policy in the United States more in line with the views of
the American people who oppose partial birth abortion and
favor the aforementioned regulations. A vote for HR
1964/FOCA would be a radical step backwards and deepen
hostilities over abortion.
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