Pro-Life Legislation
The USCC advocates for policies that protect and respect human life and dignity, with special concern for those who are unborn, disabled, or terminally ill; seeks to eliminate legalized abortion, ultimately through a constitutional amendment; opposes legalization of assisted suicide or euthanasia and use of controlled substances to take human life; advocates better pain management and other care for persons with disabilities and terminal illnesses; supports policies encouraging childbirth over abortion and assistance to children and pregnant women; opposes domestic and foreign abortion funding and efforts to force states and health plans to fund abortion and other services to which many have moral and religious objections; and supports medical research that respects human life, while opposing human cloning and harmful experiments on human embryos. We encourage you to visit the web site of the NCCB/USCC department of Pro-Life for more information.
Our Legislative Concerns in the 106th Congress:
Assisted Suicide/Palliative Care: Support legislation to promote palliative care and prevent the use of federally controlled substances for physician assisted suicide.
Child Custody Protection Act: Support legislation to prohibit taking minors across state lines for abortion to avoid parental involvement laws.
Cloning: Support legislation to ban human cloning for research or reproductive purposes.
Conscience Protection: Support legislation to prevent government discrimination against health care entities for refusing to perform abortions.
District of Columbia Funding: Maintain a legislative ban on funding for abortions in the District of Columbia from local tax monies.
Domestic Family Planning Program: Support parental notification amendment for contraceptives and abortion referrals involving minors.
Embryo Research: Support legislation to maintain the Federal ban on funding for destructive experiments on human embryos.
Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program: Support legislation to continue the exclusion of abortion coverage in Federal health insurance and to improve conscience protection in the contraceptive mandate provision.
Federal Prisons: Maintain a legislative ban on Federal funding for abortions in Federal prisons.
Fetal Tissue Transplantation: Support legislation to end federal support for fetal tissue transplants using abortion victims or human embryos destroyed in the laboratory.
Foreign Aid: Support legislation to restore policy of denying U.S. aid to organizations that perform and promote abortion as a family planning method and to strengthen policies against aid to organizations involved in coercive population programs.
Health Care Legislation: Support pro-life safeguards in Patient Bill of Rights and other health care reform bills; i.e., no new abortion mandate for benefits or coverage, and opposing mandating contraceptive coverage in private health plans.
Hyde Amendment: Support the ban on Federal abortion funding in Labor, HHS Appropriations Bill.
Military Abortions: Maintain a current ban on abortions in military hospitals.
Newborn Protection Act/Infanticide: Legislation to protect a child that survives an abortion may be introduced.
Partial-birth Abortion Ban: Support passage and attempt to override veto.
RU-486 (Abortifacient drugs): Support legislation to prevent importation and final FDA approval and funding of RU-486 as an abortion method.
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