The Catholic Church of St Mary - Action Alert

Action Alert

Protect taxpayers and preborn children.
Tell the House to pass No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion!

The House of Representatives is considering whether to bring the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7)
to a vote, and your representative needs to hear from you to help make it happen!

For decades, Americans of both parties have agreed that it is wrong to force taxpayers
to pay for elective abortions. Policies like the Hyde Amendment not only protect taxpayers
from this but have saved over two million preborn lives.

But these protections are now at risk every year. The time has come for a permanent,
across-the-board law to prevent Americans from having to contribute to violence
against our most vulnerable, and for Congress
to work on real solutions for women and children in need.

Please tell your member of Congress to support the
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7)
and to help bring it up for a vote in the House of Representatives.

To read the letter from Bishop Burbidge,
chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Committee, in support of this important bill, click here.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION

Say No to A4350/S2918,
Governor Murphy's Abortion Sanctuary Bill
Click anywhere to sign petition!
Recently updated 10/26/2022

Governor Murphy appears to be implementing much of this bill step by step through
Executive Orders because the legislature has been reluctant to pass it.

On July 11, 2022, Governor Murphy instructed his Acting Attorney General to launch a Strike Force to protect abortion clinics.
The Strike Force will include representatives from the Division of Law, Criminal Justice,
Consumer Affairs, Civil Rights, State Police and Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor. Read the article

Bill A4350/S2918 was written by Planned Parenthood and Governor Murphy. It was introduced on 6/20/22.
This legislation is all part of larger plan to make NJ a sanctuary state for abortion.
The bill expands on components of the Abortion bill Murphy signed on January 13, 2022 (S49/A6260)
and two bills he signed on July 1, 2022 (A3974/A2642 and A3975/S2633) which pro-abortion
supporters say makes New Jersey a Safe Haven for Abortion.

The bill description for A4350/S2918 says the following:

Stengthens access to "reproductive health care"; appropriates $20 million.

The current primary legislative sponsors are Assemblywoman Mila Jasey (D-27),
Assemblywoman Shanique Speight (D-29), Assemblywoman Sadaf Jaffer (D-16),
The current co-sponsors are Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-31) and Assemblyman Raj Mukherji (D-33),
Annette Chaparro (D-33), Sterley Stanley (D-18), Britnee Timberlake (D-34), Anthony Verrelli (D-15),Clinton Calabrese (D-36)
and Ellen Park (D-37). The identical Senate bill, S2918, was introduced by Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-29) and Senator Vin Gopal (D-11)
on 6/23/22 who are prime sponsors. Senator Brian Stack (D-33) and Senator Nia Gill (D-34) are co-sponsors.

A4350/S2918 will include, but is not limited to:

Providing "Free" abortions on demand up until the moment of birth, even if both mother and child are healthy. These abortions will be mandated in all health insurance plans with no co-pays,no deductibles, no co-insurance. This will increase premiums in all health insurance plans and make taxpayers complicit in the performance of, and funding for, all abortions that take place in our state. A religious employer organized as a non-profit entity may request an exclusion to cover abortion if the coverage conflicts with their bona fide religious beliefs and practices. This exclusion will not apply if the abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the covered person.

Mandating in law the new, unsafe rules adopted by the NJ Board of Medical Examiners that advanced practice nurses, certified nurse midwives and certified midwives can perform abortions in the first trimester as well as provide medication abortion. It will also mandate in law that physician assistants can provide medication abortion and counseling.

Also mandating in law the dangerous new rules adopted by the NJ Board of Medical Examiners that abortions can be performed in an office setting regardless of the stage of gestation, as long as the facility has one operating room.

Mandating that a physician or other health care providers (includes nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, midwives, advanced practice nurse, physician assistants) acting within their scope of practice shall be authorized to provide and assist in abortion care in this state. This specifically invalidates NJ's 1974 Conscience Clause law for health care providers.

Expressly allowing minors to have abortions without parental consent or notification.

Prohibits the extradition and surrender of any person found in our state that receives, assists or provides or travels to our state from a state which has life protective laws to obtain abortions that are permitted under NJ law. (This section appears to have been included in Bill A3974.S2642 which previously passed both houses of the legislature on 6/29/22 and was signed into law on 7/1/22 so it will most likely be omitted from the final version of this legislation).

Containing broadly worded language that will encompass and provide immunity from prosecution for sex traffickers, sexual predators of minors, and disreputable and unqualified clinicians and anyone else who comes from a state that has protections for babies in the womb for "receiving or seeking an abortion, performing or inducing a termination of an abortion, or knowingly engaging in conduct that aids or abets the performance, receipt or inducement of an abortion." It will also shield abortion providers in NJ (which now include nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, advance practice nurses and physician assistants) from disciplinary actions for performing an abortion on a patient who travels from another state if that state has laws that protects the life of babies in the womb. (Note: This section appears similar to language contained in Bill A3975/S2633 which previously passed both houses of the legislature on 6/29/22 and was signed into law on 7/1/22 so it will most likely be omitted from the final version of this legislation).

Containing one-sided, extremely biased, and alarmingly broad language that will impose severe penalties and fines against individuals who peacefully exercise their first amendment rights outside abortion clinics. See Sections 18-21 of A4350/S2918. View bill HERE

Providing a recurring $20 million Reproductive Access Fund (paid for with taxpayer funds) to be automatically disbursed annually in the budget as listed below.

$ 5M to Expand training in abortion to increase the number of racial and ethnically diverse abortion providers.

$ 5M Grants to provide security personnel and law enforcement personnel at facilities providing abortions.

$10 M to provide "free" taxpayer-funded abortions for residents and non-residents who don't have insurance.

It also creates multiple layers of abortion bureaucracy in existing cabinets (Sections 22-27) to ensure oversight and continued funding for the above programs.