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Healthcare Update:

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

As we all know, the House may soon consider the Senate Health Care bill that is littered with pro-abortion language that includes federal mandates and subsidies for abortion. Even proponents who once voted for or advocated for passage of the House health care reform bill concede that the abortion language in the Senate bill is a deal-breaker that cannot be reconciled. more

Please see the proposed revision to the NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research Comment form here. The comments deadline is : 11:59pm EST on March 25, 2010. Comments are limited to 6,000 Characters, including spaces. NIH requests public comment on only the following change to the NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research..." but this should still leave open comments directed toward not opening more embryos to risk of harm, or more hESC lines, as well as to technical points.

Catholic Lawmaker Votes on Healthcare

Senate Passes Health Care Overhaul 60-39 on Christmas Eve 17 Catholics vote to support - eight oppose
On the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception 16 Catholic Senators Vote to Kill Pro-Life Amendment view
Eighteen Catholic Senators Vote to Advance Abortion Funding Senate Bill - Eight Oppose - view results

Catholic Lawmakers Threaten Traditional Marriage

UPDATE: Five More Catholic Lawmakers Co-sponsor Repeal of DOMA
Total now at 40: Ask them to withdraw their support

The One Nation Under God WATCH LIST

		NARAL Seeks Pro-Choice License Plate With Proceeds Going to Planned Parenthood Clinics
		Planned Parenthood Looks for Hard Abortion Stories to Promote Health Care Bill
		Catholic lawmaker co-sponsors bill promoting life-destroying research
		D.C. Archdiocese Forced to Drop Coverage for Spouses over Same-Sex “Marriage”
		NH House defeats assisted suicide bill
		"NYCLU settlement ensures that the Salvation Army may not proselytize while performing government-funded social services"

Important Bills Pending Ask your Representatives to co-sponsor
House	H. J. Res. 50 - Marriage Protection Amendment: Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman. Rep. Stupak introduces bill to prohibit human cloning - H.R. 1050 - It has 56 co-sponsors

House	Real "Common Ground" - Ask your members of Congress to support the Pregnant Women Support Act (S. 1032, H.R. 2035) - not the deceptive pregnancy help bill introduced by pro-choice Catholic Reps. Ryan and DeLauro which U.S. bishops opppose.

IN THE NEWS...

			From Our Shepherds
			Catholic Bishops: Politico Wrong on Its Position on Health Care Bill, Abortion Abp Chaput Weighs In Catholic School's Battle with Lesbian Couple Kansas Bishops Oppose Bill Taxing Church Expenses U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference Contradicts Pelosi's Claim That Senate Health Bill Doesn't Fund Abortion Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer: When Bishops Do the Right Thing Archbishop Dolan: No honors for pro-abortion Catholic politicians Maryland Bishops statement on the Attorney General’s opinion on recognition of out-of-state same-sex “marriages” Bishops Call for Bipartisan Action to Advance Health Care Reform That Protects Human Life and Dignity more from our shepherds

			Top Stories from the Hill
			STUPAK: There Is No Deal Top Democrat Contradicts Pelosi on Abortion, White House on March 18 Vote Date Sen. Lieberman Proposes Legalizing Bisexual Behavior in the U.S. Military Catholic Bishops Would Promote Sidebar Abortion Funding Ban Bill in Senate NRLC: Vote for Health Bill 'a Career-Defining Pro-abortion Vote' House Passes $15B Jobs Bill House Republicans Introduce Constitutional Amendment to Limit Spending more from the hill

			Obama Administration
			Cardinal McCarrick part of Obama's "spiritual cabinet" White House Still Checking to See If It Offered Congressman a Job So He Wouldn't Run Against Specter House Bill Would Expand Obama's Promoting Embryonic Stem Cell Research Safe Schools Czar Ducks Questions on Past Statements about Homosexuality, Says Department of Education Won’t Dictate Curriculum Obama, Democrats Make it Official: Reconciliation to Push Pro-Abortion Health Care Obama Pushing for New United Nations Agency Dedicated to Radical Feminism Obama's Changes to Senate Health Care Bill Include Rationing Via Price Controls more news

			Election News and Commentary
			Catholic Bishops Should Change Health Care Strategy Before It’s Too Late Voters: Obama and Democrats Losing Ground on Keeping America Safe The Great Lie: Pope Benedict XVI On Socialism Why There Is No Church Teaching On The Health Care Bill Unless abortion funding is removed, there's no way health care will pass Abortion Rights Under Siege in Healthcare Passage Charmaine Yoest: "Abortion and the health bill: There is no middle ground. Either taxpayers will fund it or they won't"

			Other Social Policy News
			Archbishops Dolan, Listecki reluctant to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians 100,000 Dutch Sign Petitions to Permit Assisted Suicide of the Elderly Poll: By 2-to-1 Margin, Americans Say U.S. Debt Owed to China Now Greater Threat than Terrorism Saving Catholic Schools Kansas weighs bill to tax churches Concerned Women for America files Supreme Court brief to protect privacy of petition signers Virginia Senate Committee Kills Pro-Life Bills Protecting Women From Abortions