NCHLA Action Center

Here you will find information regarding action alerts. Also, you can search and find information pertaining to contacting your congressperson.

We hope that this section will help you plan your pro-life activism, and inform you as to what is currently happening in the legislative community.

Current Action Alerts

Restore Ban on Public Funding of Abortion in D.C.! (updated on 6/30/2009)

Every year since 1989 (except for Fiscal Years 1994 to 1996), Congress has approved the Dornan Amendment to prevent the use of all congressionally appropriated funds for elective abortion in the District of Columbia. Under the U.S. Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 8, Congress has responsibility to appropriate all funds for the District. On June 25, the House Appropriations subcommittee with responsibility for D.C. funding reported out a bill that reverses the Dornan Amendment. The restriction on abortion funding would no longer apply to all funds appropriated under the act, but only to the “federal” funds, leaving the “local” funds available to pay for elective abortion. The bill that appropriates funds for the District of Columbia, the Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Services Appropriations Bill (not yet numbered), is scheduled to go before the full House Appropriations Committee on July 7.

Oppose Funding of Destructive Embryonic Stem Cell Research! Support Cures We Can All Live With (updated on 5/27/2009)

On March 9, President Obama issued an Executive Order overturning the limits President Bush had placed on government funding of destructive embryonic stem cell research. On April 23, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published draft guidelines to implement the Obama directive. The public had until May 26 to submit comments. Calling the guidelines "the first step," Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Michael Castle (R-DE) intend to move forward with broader legislation to "promote all forms of ethical stem cell research," which in their view includes cloning and the creation of embryos solely to destroy them. Members of Congress should be urged to oppose funding destructive embryonic stem cell research and to support effective and ethical adult stem cell research.

Oppose Freedom of Choice Act (updated on 1/14/2009)

FOCA is a radical bill. It creates a "fundamental right" to abortion that would go well beyond the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in imposing an extreme abortion regimen on our country. For the first time, abortion would become an entitlement the government must condone and promote. FOCA would eliminate a broad range of laws and would have an unprecedented destructive impact on society's ability to limit or regulate abortion. Members of Congress should be urged to oppose FOCA. Those who cosponsored FOCA in the last Congress should be asked not to cosponsor the bill in the current Congress.