As chairman of the US Bishops’ Pro-Life Activities Committee, Justin Cardinal Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, sent a letter to Congress yesterday urging our nation’s representatives to safeguard in upcoming federal spending bills the protections given to innocent human life.  Over the past thirty years, these protections have been incrementally adopted and widely supported.

These include the Hyde Amendment, which restricts taxpayer money from being used to promote or subsidize abortion in federal programs; the Dickey/Wicker Amendment, which restricts federal dollars from being used in embryonic stem cell research; the Hyde/Weldom Amendment, which protects medical professionals who refuse to participate in abortion; and the Kemp/Kasten Amendment, which channels taxpayer money away from governments and organizations that support or conduct forced sterilization.

Click here to read Cardinal Rigali’s letter.

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