Sign the Petition to Fight FOCA. If you don’t understand what FOCA is, see the sidebar, which I’m copying here:

FOCA Would Wipe Away Every Restriction on Abortion Nationwide
This would eradicate state and federal laws [...]]]> Praying is only the first step. Now we focus on what needs to be done. For starters

Sign the Petition to Fight FOCA. If you don’t understand what FOCA is, see the sidebar, which I’m copying here:

FOCA Would Wipe Away Every Restriction on Abortion Nationwide
This would eradicate state and federal laws that the majority of Americans support, such as:

• Bans on Partial Birth Abortion
• Requirements that women be given information about the risks of getting an abortion
• Only licensed physicians can perform abortions
• Parents must be informed and give consent to their minor daughter’s abortion

FOCA would erase these laws and prevent states from enacting similar protective measures in the future.

Fight FOCA is also on Facebook. I promised myself I would be giving up Facebook after the election. I am now reneging on that promise because like many of you I realize that we have done too little, too late, to protect the unborn.

Today is Monthly Call for Life Day. We are called to go to an abortion mill today and pray. You can find a listing by state here, including the names of the centers and the parishes matched with each one. To find the abortion mill matched to your parish: “click on the name of your state. You will see the names of the abortion mills in that state, with a grouping of parishes listed under each one. Use the Search and Find function on your computer to locate, on that page, the name of your parish. (Note: If your parish is in the diocese of Steubenville, OH, you need to click on Pennsylvania, since you have been matched with abortion mills in the Pittsburgh area.)”

Join also Priests for Life on Facebookto find out about other projects in which you can participate.

Why this is critical reading: If you don’t understand how FOCA works/will work, you need to read this. “Freedom of Choice” is such a *NOBLE* phrase — at first glance it may fool anyone into thinking that it’s so magnanimous and helpful [...]]]> Bp. Serratelli: FOCA – an alarm for decent Americans to wake up

Why this is critical reading: If you don’t understand how FOCA works/will work, you need to read this. “Freedom of Choice” is such a *NOBLE* phrase — at first glance it may fool anyone into thinking that it’s so magnanimous and helpful to EVERYONE, but let’s not be fools here. If you are reading this blog, you can understand what FOCA is and what it’s meant to do. It’s time to put on our thinking caps and not be taken in by charisma or personality. To borrow Fr. Z’s phrase, What does FOCA really say? We owe it to the thousands of children being murdered each day to answer that question and answer it truthfully.

Here’s the rest of the “Before You Vote” series of posts.