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Soon, President-elect Barack Obama will ascend to the highest office in our land. During a 2007 speech then-Senator Obama gave to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, he made the following chilling statement: “The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). That’s the first thing I’d do.”

But what is the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) and what would it do?

FOCA Would Wipe Away Every Restriction on Abortion Nationwide!

It would eradicate state and federal laws that the majority of Americans support, such as:

Bans on partial birth abortion.
Requirements that women be given information about the risks of getting an abortion.
Protections for individual health care workers as well as Catholic and other religiously affiliated hospitals that currently refuse to perform abortions
Requirements that only licensed physicians can perform abortions.
Requirements that parents must be informed and give consent to their minor daughter's abortion.
Full disclosure to the patient including ultrasound images of the unborn child and information on fetal pain as well as other potential long term complications for the mother.
Exclusions for abortion coverage from health care plans of federal employees.

FOCA would erase these laws and prevent states from enacting similar protective measures in the future. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following statement in a Nov. 12 address at the end of the annual fall assembly of the USCCB:

“In the last Congress, a Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) was introduced that would, if brought forward in the same form today, outlaw any "interference" in providing abortion at will. It would deprive the American people in all fifty states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints and regulations on the abortion industry. FOCA would coerce all Americans into subsidizing and promoting abortion with their tax dollars. It would counteract any and all sincere efforts by government and others of good will to reduce the number of abortions in our country.”

“Parental notification and informed consent precautions would be outlawed, as would be laws banning procedures such as partial-birth abortion and protecting infants born alive after a failed abortion. Abortion clinics would be deregulated. The Hyde Amendment restricting the federal funding of abortions would be abrogated. FOCA would have lethal consequences for prenatal human life.”

“FOCA would have an equally destructive effect on the freedom of conscience of doctors, nurses and health care workers whose personal convictions do not permit them to cooperate in the private killing of unborn children. It would threaten Catholic health care institutions and Catholic Charities. It would be an evil law that would further divide our country, and the Church should be intent on opposing evil.”

For the full text of Cardinal George’s address, click on this link: http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-174.shtml.

It is critically important that we take a stand against this evil piece of legislation. Please sign the Fight FOCA Petition via this link >>> http://www.fightfoca.com/. And pass this vital information on to family and friends. We, as defenders of life and loyal Knights of Columbus, cannot allow this to become law. Already nearly 50 million of our unborn have been sacrificed on the abortionists’ altars since 1973. Can we allow millions more to follow them? Thanks again for your commitment to protect the most innocent and defenseless among us-from conception to natural death.

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Monday, December 08, 2008 04:54:39 PM