Protect All Children from Trafficking and Support Survivors
Today, men who buy 16- and 17-year-old girls and boys still can receive a misdemeanor and as little as two days in jail. After some very intense back and forth (removing this provision from the bill, refusing to add it back in and stripping the original author from the...
USCCB Action Alert - It’s Time to Defund Planned Parenthood!
Right now, Congress has a unique opportunity to finally cut off Planned Parenthood and other big abortion businesses from taxpayer dollars. Planned Parenthood is responsible for about 40% of abortions in the U.S. – almost 400,000 per year – and yet receives $700 million per...
Don’t Make Assisted Suicide Permanent in CA
The California Legislature passed the End of Life Option Act in 2015, with promises to revisit the law at its sunset date. Since lawmakers were concerned about the law’s impact on vulnerable patients, this sunset clause was critical to the law’s passage as it would compel a...
Urge Congress to Protect Dreamers and Mixed-Status Families
It is estimated that the number of undocumented persons living in the United States who came to the country as children exceeds three million. For the majority of these Dreamers, the United States is the only country they have ever known, and they are now woven into the...
Urge Congress to Protect the Persecuted
“[I]t is the historic policy of the United States to respond to the urgent needs of persons subject to persecution in their homelands. . . . Congress further declares that it is the policy of the United States to encourage all nations to provide assistance and resettlement...
Urge Your Senator: Abortion is Not Emergency Healthcare
Redefining emergency health services to include abortion will force emergency rooms to prioritize abortion over caring for both mom and baby. Doctors and emergency departments must be allowed to use their best clinical judgment to help their patients. We believe in...