Statement on USCCB Directive Against Obamacare

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Life League's Judie
Brown, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, issued the following
statement on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' national
campaign mobilizing every parish to oppose abortion in health care reform and
demand conscience protections for health care workers.

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"We applaud the USCCB's unprecedented action in its national campaign to
mobilize parishes against the current versions of the health care bill. It has
taken an important first step in activating Catholics to take back our health
care system and our country from the radical pro-aborts in the legislature and
sometimes even in the pulpits.

We proudly stand with the USCCB in its statement: 'Health care reform should
be about saving lives, not destroying them.'

But we remind the USCCB that Catholics cannot stop at opposing abortion and
demanding conscience protection. Where is the USCCB on the health care reform
bills' potential to fund Planned Parenthood, to use our tax dollars to
indoctrinate children with sex education in schools, to fund euthanasia, in
vitro fertilization, human embryonic stem cell research, contraception and
health care rationing?

All of these things are present in all of the current versions of the health
care bill. None of these are acceptable according to Catholic teaching. All
Catholics are duty bound to reject "health care reform" if it contains any of
the above grievous offenses against human life and personhood.

Catholics need to know why, at every level, these proposals are fraught with
death and destruction of the soul.

Finally, Catholics need to know that the USCCB, acting of itself, carries no
authority to instruct the bishops on the governance of their flocks. It is
imperative that each and every bishop make a public statement condemning these
health care proposals until they exclude any provisions for:

- abortion

- human embryonic stem cell research

- contraceptives

- rationed care

- in vitro fertilization

- euthanasia

- sex education in schools

The God-given personhood of all human beings will be recognized in the United
States the moment the united, individual U.S. Catholic bishops boldly proclaim
and fight for the unchanging doctrines of the Faith."

American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest
grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is
committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of
creation to natural death. For more information or press inquiries, please
contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Catholic Online: Bishops Call for Unprecedented, Massive Catholic Opposition
to Abortion in Current Health Care Reform (29 October 2009)

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=34735

Catholic News Agency: Texas Catholic bishops: Current health care bill fails
to protect all human life (28 October 2009)

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17517

SOURCE American Life League

Katie Walker of American Life League, +1-540-659-4942, kwalker@all.org