Our new President and Congress face serious national challenges at this time, requiring all Americans to unite for the common good of all. This is no time to divide our nation by attacking the weakest and most powerless among us, or ignoring the pro-life values of millions of Catholics and other Americans.

A bill in Congress called the “Freedom of Choice Act,” or FOCA, represents the most serious legislative threat to unborn children ever. FOCA would create a “fundamental right” to abortion that government could not limit but would be required to fund and support. This extreme legislation goes far beyond what the U.S. Supreme Court said in Roe v. Wade in 1973, and would overturn a broad range of pro-life policies currently allowed under the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions: laws protecting parental involvement in an underage daughter’s abortion decision, laws upholding conscience rights, limits on abortion funding, bans on partial-birth abortion, and so on. FOCA is not what the American people want.

FOCA itself may become law, or the harmful policies it embodies may become law one step at a time. In either case, we must oppose FOCA and all that it stands for.

Please participate in your parish Fight FOCA Postcard Campaign.

Please also call to express your opposition.

Maryland Co-Sponsors of FOCA:

Mikulski, Barbara A. - (D - MD)

503 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4654
Web Form: http://mikulski.senate.gov/Contact/contact.cfm

Cardin, Benjamin L. - (D - MD)

509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4524
Web Form: http://cardin.senate.gov/contact/

Rep. C. (Dutch) Ruppersberger (D) (2nd District)

Washington Office
2453 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-2002
phone 202-225-3061
fax 202-225-3094

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D) (8th District)

1707 Longworth H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515
phone 202-225-5341
fax 202-225-0375

If you are not sure who your Representative is, visit http://www.house.gov/zip/ZIP2Rep.html

Let your voice be heard loud and clear: “No to FOCA!”