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There is a bill currently before the state legislature that would permit abortions for any reason for all nine months of pregnancy, eliminate conscience protections for medical professionals, require taxpayers to pay for the abortions whether or not they have moral objections, and prohibit the adoption of future laws that conflict with any provision of this bill. Please click the article title to find and use the link to make your objection to this bill known to your legislators.

Are you on the fence about assisted suicide? Do you think perhaps it is a considerate and sympathetic choice for those in pain? If so, you might want to rethink when you see the numbers. Click the article title for more information.

The Respect Life group is offering free car magnets. Let all those who follow you know that you respect life—from conception until natural death.

Congress is trying to force Americans to pay for abortion with their taxes by removing the Hyde Amendment from appropriations bills. Historically, the Hyde Amendment and similar laws have protected taxpayers from funding abortions, with bi-partisan support, for many years. Make your voice heard. Sign the petition, call your representative, send email or regular mail--speak up! Now is the time to defend your religious freedom and the right to life.

If you have questions about the Hyde Amendment--what it is, why it's necessary, why it's not "forcing our views on others", check out the materials on the website link you'll find in this article.

Speak up to defend LIFE! Last November, our Bishop warned us of the dangers posed by the “Reproductive Freedom Act.” (S3030 / A4848). NJ Right to Life has indicated that this appalling bill is getting closer to a hearing and vote. Click the article title to find links where you can make your voice heard.

There are three pending bills that are extremely important to defeat: the HR-5 "Equality Act" and the repeal of the Hyde Amendment on the federal level, and the "Reproductive Freedom Act" (S3030/A4848) on the state level. These should rouse us to action, as they are an assault on life, and on our religious freedom. Click the article title for more information.

The NJ Reproductive Freedom Act provides for the killing of babies with no limitations, infancticide, exploitation of women and sex trafficking, as well as organ harvesting. It removes protection of medical personnel on religious grounds, thus bankrupting religious freedom in this state. Please join us for a rally at the War Memorial Building in Trenton on Wednesday, June 9th, from 12 – 2 PM, to protest this travesty of a bill.

The Supreme Court has announced it will hear the case Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health. The case will pose a fundamental question to the court that challenges aspects of Roe v. Wade: “Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” In other words, is it constitutional to have certain legal pro-life protections before the preborn child is able to survive outside the womb? Click the article title for more information.

The UN and the World Health Organization are pushing hormonal contraceptives on nations whose culture doesn't want it, and they are tying contraceptives, abortion, and sex education to aid funding. Find out more about it in this interview with Obianuju Ekeocha, a Nigerian woman who speaks knowledgeably about all the issues surrounding this.

Your voices are being heard! The NJ Reproductive Freedom Act (S3030/A4848), introduced in the Senate and Assembly on October 8, 2020, has stalled, due to reluctance on the part of legislators to pass such an extreme act during an election year. But we can't be complacent! Keep up the storm against this evil act. Click the article title for a link to send an email to your state legislators.

“A just law is a code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.” [Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 4/16/1963]

The New York Times recently criticized pro-life politicians who are taking steps to save lives during the coronavirus outbreak. The newspaper editorial board did not have a problem with states’ bans on most non-essential medical procedures—just those that include abortion, a life-destroying practice that puts both mothers and unborn babies at risk, potentially requiring medical resources better used in saving lives threatened by COVID-19. Click the article title for more information.

Planned Parenthood has publicly stated that their clinics will remain open during the COVID-19 crisis: “It is important that patients do not postpone necessary health care, especially abortion services.” But pregnancy is almost never life-threatening, and in those rare cases when it may be a threat to life, abortion is too slow a solution. So it is never medically necessary for a woman to have an abortion, and abortion can, in fact, seriously harm the woman (not to mention the child). Continuing to perform abortions takes medical resources away from people who truly have life-threatening illnesses.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Louisiana abortion case, June Medical Services v. Russo. Click the article title to see what's at stake.

Click the article title to read an article from the New Jersey Right to Life "NewsAlert" newsletter, on a severe breach of the Constitutionally guaranteed Right to Religious Freedom.

January 2, 2020. Click the article title to see the text of the press release.

On January 24, on the occasion of the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, the Trump Administration announced that it is taking steps to enforce the Weldon Amendment, a federal law that prohibits discrimination by states against health insurance plans that do not cover abortion. Click the article title for more information.

Check out the news article on the Trenton Rally for Life in front of the State House, held on January 22. Click the article title for a link to the article.