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June 27, 2011 Update: The House has accepted the conference committee report to SB 7. Please contact your Texas Senator to ask for his/her support.
The Conference Committee report for SB 7, an omnibus health care bill, includes critical amendments that ban taxpayer funding for abortion. The report has been approved by the Conference committee and will now come before the entire Texas legislature, with the House voting as early as later today. We urge all legislators to accept the conference committee report on SB 7. Please contact your Texas Senator today and ask him/her to accept the conference committee report to SB 7.
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Click here to find out who represents you. Be sure and call your Texas Senator. To receive email action alerts that include your legislators' contact information, sign up for our Texas Catholic Voice e-newsletter here and be sure to fill out your address or district information.
Sample Message: "Hello, my name is Name and I am a Catholic in City, Texas. As a Catholic, I believe that all human life is sacred, from conception until natural death. As a constituent, I am asking that you accept the conference committee report on SB 7, which includes language that ensures that taxpayer dollars do not fund abortion in Texas. Abortion takes the life of an innocent human being, and using public funding for abortion violates the consciences of taxpayers in Texas. For more information you can contact the Texas Catholic Conference at 512-339-9882. Thank you for your time."
Please act by June 24, 2011. If you contact the office and this alert has already expired, you may ask for your legislator's position and thank him or her or express your disappointment accordingly.Please feel free to write to us at
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to let us know about your advocacy experience and about any responses you receive.
Why is this action important now?
SB 7 has already passed with this critical provision to protect life and the Conference Committee has voted to keep this provision in place. There are nearly 1,000 abortion performed every year in Travis county using taxpayer funds through the hospital district and this amendment will save lives. The House and Senate MUST vote to adopt the conference committee report to protect unborn life and the consciences of taxpayers. The vote will be taken in the House as early as today and in the Senate as early as tomorrow, which is why we are asking you to call and email your Texas Representative as soon as possible today.
Our Catholic Faith
"We are not asking that the government adopt a religious creed. We are demanding that it stand in favor of life, not death. It is not humane for a government that claims to protect what is good in human life and society to stand indifferent to the choice between the life and death of an unborn child. At the very least, the government should promote the option for life" - Bishop Daniel Flores, Diocese of Brownsville
The inviolability of the innocent human being's right to life "from the moment of conception until death" is a sign and requirement of the very inviolability of the person to whom the Creator has given the gift of life (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Donum Vitae). Abortion always takes the innocent life of an unborn child and must never be allowed. Learn more here.
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