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What is FOCA?

 

Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)

 

On April 19, 2007, a bill entitled the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA)(S. 1173, H.R. 1964) was introduced in Congress.  This act announces that it is the "policy of the United States that every woman has the "fundamental right" to terminate a pregnancy.

 

The act goes on to prohibit governments (including federal, state, and local governments at every level) from "interfering" with a woman's right to choose, and from "discriminating" against the exercise of this right.

 

There have been intermittent attempts to pass a FOCA bill since 1989, when the Supreme Court upheld various state regulations of abortion. Abortion advocates, fearing that the Court was retreating from Roe's broad protection of a right to abortion, sought to establish the right on statutory grounds.

 

FOCA is a radical bill. For the first time, abortion would become an entitlement the government must condone and promote. 

 

FOCA would eliminate a broad range of laws and would have an unprecedented destructive impact on society's ability to limit or regulate abortion.

 

 

What would FOCA mean?

  • Elimination of laws limiting late-term abortions, even in the ninth month of pregnancy
  • Elimination of laws limiting Partial Birth Abortion
  • Elimination of a Parent's Right to be Informed when a Minor receives an abortion
  • Elimination of laws governing taking a minor across state lines for abortions without parental consent
  • Limitations on any Conscience Protections for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists
  • Public hospitals would be compelled to offer abortion services at Taxpayer expense
  • Taxpayer funding for abortion

 

 

Update: As Obama moves forward to control Health Care in the United States, you can bet your last dollar that taxpayer funds will be used to pay for abortion -- disguised under the rubric of "healthcare."

 

The followers of the Obama agenda now know they cannot pass FOCA all at once -- so they will pass it and enact it in pieces.  If not stopped, they will achieve the same results while ruining America's healthcare system and socializing our society.

 

 A Matter of Life and Death

 

Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) to do away with state and federal laws regarding abortion?

 

"Freedom of Choice Act"
FOCA

"The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.  That's the first thing that I'd do."

 -- Senator Barack Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007

 

The "Freedom for Partial-Birth Abortionists Act" --

Pro-Abortion Lawmakers Propose "FOCA" to Invalidate All Limits on Abortion 
 

WASHINGTON (April 25, 2007) – In response to the April 18 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, prominent Democratic members of Congress the next day reintroduced the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA), a proposed federal law to nullify virtually all federal and state limitations on abortion.

 

NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson commented, "In the interests of truth in advertising, the bill should be renamed the ‘Freedom for Partial-Birth Abortionists Act'."

 

The House bill, H.R. 1964, was introduced by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who in the new Democratic-majority Congress is the chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee that has jurisdiction over such legislation.  At NRL News deadline on April 25, his bill had 71 cosponsors  (70 Democrats, one Republican). 

The lawmakers proposing the legislation, and groups endorsing it, repeatedly emphasized that the bill would, among other things, completely nullify the national ban on partial-birth abortion that the Supreme Court upheld on April 18 in Gonzales v. Carhart.

 

Congressman Nadler issued a statement harshly attacking the Supreme Court ruling.  "Overturning a decision only a few years old, the Court has, for the first time since Roe v. Wade, allowed an abortion procedure to be criminalized," Nadler said.  The FOCA, he noted, "would bar government – at any level -- from interfering with a woman's fundamental right to choose to bear a child, or to terminate a pregnancy."

 

"Those promoting this bill intend to use it as a litmus test for those who seek congressional office, or the White House, and as a fund-raising tool," NRLC's Douglas Johnson explained.  "They know they cannot enact anything like this, so long as a pro-life president is in the White House."

 

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If Barack Obama has his way,

He will "protect" the rights of Planned Parenthood to perform abortions in any state, in any circumstances,

without parental cnotification and consent,

with taxpayer funding

in all public hospitals

 

If Mr. Obama is protecting Planned Parenthood, who will protect the victims of FOCA?

Minor girls

Concerned Parents

Expectant mothers and women who don't know what abortion does...

Taxpayers

Near-term babies

 

Who will protect them?  Will you?

 

 

OPPOSE the "Freedom of Choice" Act [FOCA] now.

It may be their last chance.