I Hope She is Right about FOCA... but I doubt it...

Interesting article, but it seems like it may be wishful thinking, given Obama's very clear promise to PP...


FOCA's effects seen as dire, but chance of it passing considered slim

By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- About the only thing everyone with a stake in it is likely to agree on about the Freedom of Choice Act is that the legislation has languished in Congress for 20 years, only once rising -- just barely -- above the fate of hundreds of bills that are introduced each session and never heard from again.

What's harder to nail down is whether the bill, known as FOCA, is going anywhere under the 111th Congress that begins in January.

Although there was no effort in the 110th Congress to move the bill along, pro-life organizations have since the summer been sounding the alarm about what would happen to current restrictions on abortion if a Democrat was elected president.

They also voice concerns for possible administrative actions under Democratic President-elect Barack Obama, such as reversing the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research; and repealing the Hyde amendment, which bars federal funding of abortions, and the Mexico City policy, which prohibits foreign aid money from going to family planning programs that promote and offer abortion.

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