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Related Pages
Ending Abortion
Fight FOCA (The "Freedom of Choice
Act"
Sign the Fight-FOCA
Petition
Contact Your Elected
Officials about FOCA
Contact
Your Elected Officials about the Prevention First Act
How You Can Help in Any of
a Number of Ways
Fight-FOCA Postcard Campaign
All concerned citizens -- regardless of creed -- are invited to join their
voices with churches participating in this postcard campaign. The
postcards, a set of three which you can print yourself
or order in packages of 1,000 sets, are designed for general use from
constituents to their elected representatives. Find your U.S. House
representative and two U.S. senators and how to contact them at www.house.gov
and www.senate.gov
(Contact Info Given the Vacant Senate Seat in
Minnesota).
Please also see
the Prevention
First Act.
Introduction
Order Form and Main Materials (Instructions, Educational
Flier, and Postcards)
Additional Fliers for Local Printing
The USCCB's Web Area Regarding the Postcard Campaign
The Postcard Campaign in the News
Contact Info Given the Vacant Senate Seat in Minnesota
Introduction
Anyone, feel free to order, print, copy, or make your own postcards like
the ones below and mail them to your elected officials at any time. Feel
free to pass on the word about the campaign or any of the materials and to
distribute them in any way.
The "Fight FOCA Postcard Campaign" is sponsored by the U.S. Bishops' Pro-life
Office and its sister organization the National Committee for a Human Life
Amendment. Postcards opposing FOCA will be distributed, signed, and
collected in parishes and churches across the U.S. The target day for this
event is the weekend of January 24-25, 2009, though your diocese or parish
may set a different weekend.
At their November 2008 meeting, the U.S. Bishops voted unanimously to call
us to prayer and action to prevent passage of the "Freedom of Choice Act"
and to oppose other attempts to overturn existing pro-life laws and policies.
Congress could try to dismantle existing pro-life policies and laws wholesale
through FOCA, or it could try to eliminate them one at a time. In any event,
it is critical that pro-life Americans send a strong and immediate message
against such attacks on defenseless human life.
Order Form and Main Materials (Instructions,
Educational Flier, and Postcards)
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Order Form: Fight
FOCA Campaign
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=213
This is a printable form for ordering postcard sets of three (for one's U.S.
House representative and for both of one's U.S. senators), educational fliers,
and parish instruction booklets. You can order materials by phone, FAX, e-mail,
or mail. Find your U.S. House representative and two U.S. senators and how
to contact them at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov
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Instructions: Fight
FOCA Campaign
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=209
This printable (approximately twelve-page), booklet covers the following:
why the Fight FOCA Postcard Campaign is needed; encouragement to pray; planning
steps; coordinating methods; materials; talking points in both English and
Spanish; successfully completing the project; a parish reporting form; and
a sign-up form for those who want to be e-mailed subsequent action alerts.
See the order form.
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Educational Flier
(Spanish): Fight FOCA Campaign
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=210
This printable, Spanish-language, two-page flier (one sheet printed front
and back) does the following: summarizes the need to fight FOCA; gives ways
to contact one's elected officials or speak out otherwise, and provides web
address for NCHLA.org and USCCB.org/prolife/issues/foca See the
order form. Find
your U.S. House representative and two U.S. senators and how to contact them
at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov
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Educational Flier
(English): Fight FOCA Campaign
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=211
This printable, English-language, two-page flier (one sheet printed front
and back) does the following: summarizes the need to fight FOCA; gives ways
to contact one's elected officials or speak out otherwise, and provides web
address for NCHLA.org and USCCB.org/prolife/issues/foca See the
order form. Find
your U.S. House representative and two U.S. senators and how to contact them
at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov
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Postcards (Eng &
Sp): Fight FOCA Campaign
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=212
This printable document comes in both English and Spanish. If printed front
and back on post-card-weight stock, each sheet could be cut into three
recommended postcards -- for one's U.S. House representative and for both
of one's U.S. senators. Postcards are pre-addressed except for the names
of those three officials. See the
order form. Find
your U.S. House representative and two U.S. senators and how to contact them
at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov
Additional Fliers for Local Printing
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Oppose the Freedom
of Choice Act (FOCA) (9/24/2008)
http://www.nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=266
This printable action alert does the following: summarizes the need to fight
FOCA; links to some of the materials below; recommends contacting one's U.S.
House representative and two U.S. senators, as well as the co-sponsors of
FOCA; points to ways to identify all of those individuals; and recommends
a few other actions to take in fighting FOCA. For a printable version, click
on the above link, and scroll down to View printable version. Find
your U.S. House representative and two U.S. senators and how to contact them
at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov
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USCCB FOCA Fact Sheet
(The "Freedom of Choice Act": Most Radical Abortion Legislation in U.S.
History)
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=194
This printable fact sheet, meant for general use, summarizes the main arguments
that demonstrate the radical nature of FOCA. The Secretariat for Pro-life
Activities (of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) dispels
the myth that FOCA basically just codifies the Supreme Court's 1973 decision
in Roe v. Wade.
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USCCB Bulletin Insert/Ad
Opposing FOCA (color)
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=200
Color version. Highlighting the significant dangers of FOCA and available
in color or black and white, this "bell tower" bulletin insert can be placed
in parish bulletins or handed out. It can be printed locally in black and
white or color and adjusted for advertisement size in your Catholic paper.
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USCCB Bulletin Insert/Ad
Opposing FOCA (B&W)
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=201
Black and white version. Highlighting the significant dangers of FOCA and
available in color or black and white, this "bell tower" bulletin insert
can be placed in parish bulletins or handed out. It can be printed locally
in black and white or color and adjusted for advertisement size in your Catholic
paper.
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Freedom of Choice
Act (H.R. 1964, S. 1173): Sponsors and Cosponsors (9/15/2008)
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=191
This printable document names and links to the U.S. House representatives
and senators who sponsor or cosponsor FOCA (along with their contact
information), state by state. Find your U.S. House representative and two
U.S. senators and how to contact them at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov
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Analysis of the Freedom
of Choice Act (FOCA) (8/15/2008)
http://www.nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=190
This is a printable legal memorandum on FOCA by Michael Moses, USCCB Office
of General Counsel.
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USCCB's grassroots
ad presentation opposing FOCA
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/media/docs/foca.pdf
This printable flyer states that you can't reduce abortion by promoting abortion,
simply summarizes why FOCA should be opposed, and asks people to urge Congress
to oppose the "Freedom of Choice Act." Find your U.S. House representative
and two U.S. senators and how to contact them at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov
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Letter from Cardinal
Justin Rigali, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urging
Member of Congress to "pledge their opposition to FOCA", Sept. 19,
2008
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/FOCArigaliltr.pdf
Printable. "... The operative language of FOCA is twofold. First it creates
a 'fundamental right' to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy,
including a right to abort a fully developed child in the final weeks for
undefined 'health' reasons. No government body at any level would be able
to 'deny or interfere with' this newly created federal right. Second, it
forbids government at all levels to 'discriminate' against the exercise of
this right 'in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services,
or information.' For the first time, abortion on demand would be a national
entitlement that government must condone and promote in all public programs
affecting pregnant women. ..."
(This letter in HTML
format.)
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Fight FOCA Postcard
Campaign
http://www.nchla.org/issues.asp?ID=50
This page summarizes FOCA and links to all of the above materials.
The USCCB's Web Area Regarding the Postcard
Campaign
National
Pro-Life Postcard Campaign to Congress
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/FOCA/index.shtml
National
Pro-Life Postcard Campaign to Congress [FAQ's]
http://usccb.org/prolife/issues/FOCA/postcard.shtml
What is the National Postcard Campaign? Who May Participate? ["All concerned
citizens -- regardless of creed -- are invited to join their voices with
ours. The cards, available in packages of 1,000, are designed for general
use from constituents to their elected representatives."] Why January/February
2009? How to Get Started. Additional Campaign Resources.
The Postcard Campaign in the News
Fight FOCA Postcard Campaign
Expected for January 24 to Stop Abortion Bill
http://www.lifenews.com/nb169.html
"... Robert J. Hermann of the Archdiocese of St. Louis talked about the effort
to get members of Congress to oppose the bill. 'FOCA is the most radical
pro-abortion legislation that has ever been promoted, and therefore, it is
very important that every Catholic inform their public representatives that
we cannot tolerate legislation that will intensify the destruction of our
children,' he said. FOCA 'is more radical than Roe vs. Wade because it will
not allow anyone -- the government, doctors, parents -- to interfere with
the so-called 'right' to an abortion,' Christina Heddell, director of the
Respect Life Apostolate, told the St. Louis Review. 'It is imperative that
the Church send a clear message to the elected officials in Washington that
we do not want women and their unborn children to suffer under FOCA or any
related measure that promotes procured abortion.'"
Bishop: Anti-FOCA Postcard
Campaign Fulfills Christian Duty to Oppose Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4751.html
"Congress will soon receive millions of postcards from pro-life Americans
across the country opposed to the FOCA bill. ... 'See your signature on your
postcard as your moral response to the words of Jesus that we will all hear
on the day of our personal judgment, "I assure you, as often as you did it
for one of my least brothers and sisters, you did it for me,"' McManus says.
The bishop tells the Catholic Free Press that FOCA must be strongly opposed
because it would destroy decades of work pro-life advocates have done to
limit abortions until the day comes human life is fully protected. ..."
Contact Info Given the Vacant Senate Seat
in Minnesota
While one of the U.S. Senate seats is in dispute between Al Franken and Norm
Coleman, if you live in Minnesota, please send one of your Fight-FOCA senatorial
postcard to (pro-abortion) Al Franken (since he has a mailing address and
Norm Coleman doesn't).
Al Franken
PO Box 583144
Minneapolis MN 55458-3144
Send your other senatorial postcard to Amy Klobuchar.
The Honorable Amy Klobuchar
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-2305
To find your U.S. House representative for your third postcard, enter your
zip code at www.house.gov or see other
ways at the CatholicAnew
Contact Information
page.
Related Pages
Ending Abortion
Fight FOCA (The "Freedom of Choice
Act"
Sign the Fight-FOCA
Petition
Contact Your Elected
Officials about FOCA
Contact
Your Elected Officials about the Prevention First Act
How You Can Help in Any of
a Number of Ways
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