Current Actions

• Tell your legislators to protect reproductive healthcare in Iowa

   

  We need you to speak out today. This week, members of the Iowa state legislature will meet to discuss Iowa’s budget for health and human services. The bill passed by the House of Representatives to fund these programs includes unjust restrictions on reproductive healthcare access for all men and women in Iowa—particularly the poorest of the poor.  The senate version does not include these restrictions. Tell your legislators to protect reproductive healthcare in Iowa.

• Thank your senators for supporting abortion access for Peace Corps volunteers

   

  When you called on your senators to act, they listened. Thank your senator for listening to your concerns and supporting abortion access for Peace Corps volunteers.

  As you know, the Peace Corps Equity Act (S.813), a bill introduced in Congress by US Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), would guarantee that all volunteers working around the world in the Peace Corps program will have access to abortion coverage in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment. For decades, Peace Corps volunteers have been excluded from this coverage, which is accessible for most other workers and beneficiaries who receive their health insurance through the federal government. This bill is overdue and would be good news for Peace Corps volunteers facing medical emergencies.

  With your help, this bill has even more support thanks to your senator's co-sponsorship. Send a quick note of thanks to your senator.

• Thank Senator Lautenberg for supporting abortion access for Peace Corps volunteers

  We need you to speak up today. The Peace Corps Equity Act (S.813), a bill introduced in Congress by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), would guarantee that all volunteers working around the world in the Peace Corps program will have access to abortion coverage in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment. For decades, Peace Corps volunteers have been excluded from this coverage, which is accessible for most other workers and beneficiaries who receive their health insurance through the federal government. This bill is overdue and would be good news for Peace Corps volunteers facing medical emergencies, but it will not pass without your help. 

  As a District of Columbia resident, you can still make your voice heard by thanking Senator Lautenberg for his leadership.

• Tell your Senators to support abortion access for Peace Corps volunteers

   

  We need you to speak up today. The Peace Corps Equity Act (S.813), a new bill introduced in Congress by US Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), would guarantee that all volunteers working around the world in the Peace Corps program will have access to abortion coverage in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment. For decades, Peace Corps volunteers have been excluded from this coverage, which is accessible for most other workers and beneficiaries who receive their health insurance through the federal government. This bill is overdue and would be good news for Peace Corps volunteers facing medical emergencies, but it will not pass without your help. 

• Stand up today for women in Pennsylvania.

  Please take a moment today to contact your legislator and tell them to reject all attempts to ban abortion coverage in the new state health insurance exchange.

  Please feel free to edit the letter below to reflect your own story and your own experiences--personalized letters are most effective.

• Take action to protect the consciences of all Michiganders.

   

  We need you to stand with the women of Michigan and their conscience-based decisions on reproductive healthcare.  Legislators in Lansing are trying to allow institutions and individuals to discriminate against patients by denying them healthcare services and information—all under the false guise of protecting “conscience.” SB 136 is a broad proposal that would grant institutions the conscience rights that properly belong to individuals, and it does not contain a balanced respect for the consciences of patients seeking services or doctors who wish to provide services. We know that buildings do not have consciences. Our Catholic tradition compels us to honor the actual consciences of individuals, including those of patients in need of reproductive healthcare and doctors who wish to provide reproductive healthcare services and information to best care for their patients. 

• Stand up today for women in Pennsylvania.

   

  We need your help today to preserve access to abortion care in Pennsylvania. Right now, legislators in Harrisburg have introduced several bills, whose sole purpose is to ban the coverage of abortion services in the new state health insurance exchange. We know that when access to abortion is restricted, those who suffer most are those with the least. Our Catholic tradition of social justice compels us to work to ensure that those with the least are provided with the same access to safe, legal healthcare as everybody else. Please take a moment today to contact your legislator and tell them to reject all attempts to ban abortion coverage in the new state health insurance exchange.

  Please feel free to edit the letter below to reflect your own story and your own experiences--personalized letters are most effective.

• Let your legislators in Albany know: Catholics support the Women’s Equality Agenda.

  Conservative Catholics are in Albany right now, speaking out against the reproductive healthcare provision in the WEA and telling legislators that they are speaking on your behalf. We need you to contact your assembly members and senators in Albany today to let them know that Catholics and non-Catholics alike want New York to be a leader in protecting reproductive healthcare access—not in scaling it back.

  Your Assemblymembers and Senators need to hear from you today.  

• Tell your legislators that Texas taxpayers should not fund discrimination.

   

  Despite claiming that they need to slash the state budget and defund critical programs proven to save the state money, such as the Women’s Health Program, conservative legislators have introduced a bill that would offer an incentive to employers who refuse to provide coverage for certain kinds of contraception to their employees.

  HB 649 would reward employers who refuse to provide EC coverage to employees on the basis of their religious beliefs—and would therefore be subject to a fine for breaking the new federal law—with a tax break and credit from the state of Texas. This would not only allow every business, from a mega-hobby store to an HVAC or lumber company, to impose its owner’s religious beliefs on all employees by denying them the same health coverage as everyone else, but it would also allow business owners to avoid paying the same taxes as every other business as a reward for their discrimination. 

  Please use our action center to contact your representative in Austin. Let him or her know that Catholics in Texas do not support rewarding businesses for disrespecting the consciences of employees who want coverage for emergency contraception.  

  Please include your own personal story, and your own reasons for supporting access to EC.

• Speak out today for women in Texas.

   

  Today at 2:00 pm, the House Insurance Committee will hear testimony on HB 997, a bill that would prevent plans purchased through the health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act from covering abortion. 

  Please take a moment today to call your legislators in Austin to let them know that Catholics in Texas do not support denying women access to comprehensive health care. If your legislator is a member of the House Insurance Committee, it’s critically important that he or shehear from you.Please check this website to see if your legislator is a member of the committee.

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  The Secret History of Sex, Choice, and Catholics

  

  “The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics,” a new documentary-style film produced by Catholic for Choice, sets the record straight about Catholic social teaching on issues related to sex and sexuality.

  
  After watching the film, tell us what you think in the comment box below.

• We the Catholic People

   

  Please join Catholics for Contraception and show your support for family planning. It's time to stand up and say with one voice that the bishops do not speak for us when it comes to contraception.