September 28th ACTION ALERT

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ACT Now!

Call 202 226-8467, the Republican Foreign Affairs Office, to reach Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee and known to be pro-life and pro-family.


THE MESSAGE: Ask her to continue working against slipping H.R. 4594 onto the committee’s “consent agenda.”


THE BATTLE: To date, she has heroically resisted feminist demands to support the bill and many Republican members of Congress will follow her lead, if she continues to fight the bill. She must hear from literally thousands of pro-life, pro-family advocates. Since the committee’s markup hearing begins at noon Wednesday, September 29th, the timing of your call is critical.

THE PROBLEM: The House Foreign Affairs Committee markup hearing may be used to slip the deceptively-named International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA), onto the Committee’s “consent agenda.”

I-VAWA (H.R. 4594) promotes the
Pro-Abortion Agenda as follows:

  1. Provide grants to nongovernmental groups like the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) that has a documented record of advocating for reproductive rights.For example, a June 9, 2006 press release from the FVPF bragged that I-VAWA will “include training and sensitization programs for judges and judicial officials…solidifying access to reproductive services.”
  2. Allocates $10 million a year to the United Nations UNIFEM program, a group that bows to feminist ideology and has long advocated for “reproductive rights.”
  3. Defines domestic violence to include “psychological violence perpetrated or condoned by the government of the country in which the victim is a resident.” Exactly, what does that mean? Feminists take it as Revealed Truth that lack of access to abortion services causes women to be mentally distressed, and experiencing “distress” equates to “psychological violence”!
  4. Recognizes UN Security Council Resolution 1325. United Nations agencies commonly view “reproductive rights” as falling within the purview of that loopy resolution – see http://www.unfpa.org/rights/rights.htm