Action Alert from the NY State Catholic Conference - Stop the Abortion Bill

With less than two weeks left in the state's regular legislative session, the radical abortion bill titled "The Reproductive Health Act" has just been introduced in the Senate as S.5808.  It is critical to communicate your opposition to this bill to your elected representatives in Albany.  Click here to find an editable pre-written message to your lawmakers which you can send with just a few clicks of the mouse.  Please do so as soon as possible.   If that link does not work, please go to www.nyscatholic.org and click "Take Action Now."

 This is from the Center for Life:

 

Please call your State Senator as soon as possible!

 

Message: "Oppose the radical abortion Reproductive Health Act - S5808, currently in the Senate Rules Committee. This bill is not simply an attempt to update New York's abortion laws. It is a broad, unnecessary and dangerous bill that would radically alter New York abortion policy."

 

Governor David A. Paterson          518-474-8390

Sen. Jeffrey Klein                         518-455-3595 (Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, Yonkers)

Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins        518-455-2585 (Greenburgh, Mt. Pleasant, Yonkers)

Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson         518-455-2061 (Mt. Vernon)

Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer                 518-455-2031 (Harrison, Mamaroneck, New Castle, New Rochelle, North White Plains, Ossining, Rye, Scarsdale, White Plains)

Sen. Vincent Leibell                      518-455-3111 or 845-279-3773 (Bedford, Cortlandt, Lewisboro, Mt. Kisco, Peekskill, Pound Ridge, Somers, Yorktown, and all of Putnam County)

 

From the NY State Catholic Conference:

 

The bill contains extraordinarily broad language that would declare a
fundamental 'right of privacy' in state law.  The proposal opens the door
to extreme results.

The bill would:
•Legalize abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, for virtually
any reason;
•Make abortion immune from any reasonable state regulation such as
parental notification or informed consent; and
•Repeal current law that requires licensed doctors to perform abortions
and allow any "health care practitioner" to provide it.
 
While the bill contains limited conscience protection, the language is
ambiguous and inadequate and likely applies only to individuals who do not
wish to provide abortions.  The bill could:

•Force hospitals to allow abortions, including religious hospitals and
others whose mission statements oppose it;
•Force insurance plans, including those of Catholic employers, to cover
abortion;

•Force religious charitable agencies to counsel and refer for
abortion;
•Force all schools, including Catholic schools, to educate children about

 abortion; and
•Force individual doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to promote
abortion.

Because the bill declares that the state "may not discriminate" against
the exercise of abortion in providing "benefits, facilities, services or
information," it could compel every institution licensed or funded by the
state to support, cover and/or allow abortions. 

 

HVCL reminds you that you can use the above bullet points as talking points when you call or email, if you wish. Again, the www.nyscatholic.org website has this as a prewritten message for you to send. The short "message" written at the beginning is to the point when you call Washington or district offices!

 

Thanks for your immediate action!

Comments

[Rosemary Hunt]

I am highly opposed to the extreme abortion bill. I feel it is murder and a violent act against humanity.