Urge Support for the SCHIP Unborn Child Amendment
January 29, 2009
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Call your senators and urge them to support the SCHIP Unborn Child Amendment.
WHY IS THIS ACTION IMPORTANT NOW?
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has introduced an amendment to the SCHIP authorization bill that would codify in the law provisions currently included in regulations that allow states to interpret the word "child" to include the period from conception to birth. This move would allow states to retain choice and flexibility in how best to provide essential health services to pregnant women and children. Access to prenatal care will allow more children to be born in good health, without a need for more extensive and expensive medical intervention.
WHAT DOES THIS ISSUE HAVE TO DO WITH MY FAITH?
Catholic teaching tells us that everyone has “the right to live” as well as “the right to bodily integrity and to the means necessary for the proper development of life, particularly food, clothing, shelter, medical care, rest, and, finally, the necessary social services” (Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris, #11).
The SCHIP Unborn Child Amendment ensures that pregnant women and their unborn children will also benefit from the SCHIP program. Catholic teaching affirms the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death and the inherent dignity of every human being. We insist that access to adequate health care is a basic human right, necessary for the development and maintenance of life and for the ability of human beings to realize the fullness of their dignity. A just society protects and promotes fundamental human rights and dignity, with special attention to the basic needs of children and the vulnerable, including the need for safe and affordable health care for all.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Contact Senator Hutchison and Senator Cornyn now to urge support for the SCHIP Unborn Child Amendment.
Click here to for information on how to contact Senator Hutchison by phone or on the web.
Click here to contact Senator Cornyn on the web.
Sample Message:
Dear Senator, I am contacting you to urge your support for the SCHIP Unborn Child Amendment, which will extend SCHIP coverage to pregnant women and their unborn children.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joan Rosenhaur, USCCB Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development, JPHDmail@usccb.org.
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The Texas Catholic Conference (TCC) is the association of the 15 Roman Catholic dioceses of the State of Texas, and is the Official Public Policy Voice of the Catholic Bishops of Texas. For more information on the TCC, visit
www.TXcatholic.org.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
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