NCHLA Action Center

Here you will find information regarding action alerts. Also, you can search and find information pertaining to contacting your congressperson.

We hope that this section will help you plan your pro-life activism, and inform you as to what is currently happening in the legislative community.

Current Action Alerts

Urge Representatives to Support IHS Hyde Amendment Vote (updated on 6/10/2008)

Congress is considering legislation to reauthorize the Indian Health Service (IHS) for 10 years. The IHS was last reauthorized in 1992. On February 26, 2008, the Senate passed its bill, S. 1200, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments. The House bill, H.R. 1328, may be brought to the floor shortly. Prior to final passage the Senate voted to approve an amendment by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to incorporate the policy of the Hyde Amendment into the bill (no federal funds for abortion, with exceptions for danger to the life of the mother or cases of rape or incest). Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA) is prepared to offer the same amendment in the House. Abortion advocates in Congress are opposed to any limits on federal funding of abortions. In an attempt to block the Vitter Amendment they delayed passage of S. 1200 in the Senate. They are now seeking to block a vote on the Pitts amendment in the House.

No Support for Abortion as Litmus Test for Judges (updated on 5/2/2006)

Pro-abortion advocates are demanding that support for the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion abortion must be an absolute qualification - a litmus test - for federal judicial nominees. Scholars agree that Roe is bad constitutional law. It makes no sense that support for bad constitutional law should be a condition for determining a nominee's fitness for judicial office.