"Remaining True to the Foundation
of Our Creation
and what has always been
in addition to how the world is changing..."
Rep. Porter
April 4, 2024 Hartford
Conference Starts a New Podcast Series:Think Pray VoteClick here to listen |
Stop Constitutional Amendment on Abortion and Gender- Identity |
Legislative Committee Votes to Support Constitutional Amendment on Abortion and to Include Gender-Identity under the Protections for Sex Discrimination
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Protect Religious Freedom of Catholic Hospitals |
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Catholic hospitals and Catholic health care workers are under siege and the consequences couldn’t be greater. The aim, led by abortion extremists, is to create a law that makes it possible for medical providers within a Catholic hospital to violate Catholic healthcare directives with impunity. The Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference stands strongly in opposition to HB 5424. Click here to read more
Update - Public Health Committee Passes BillClick here to see how the members of the committee voted.
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The Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference Opposes
SB 214 “An Act Consolidating Statutory Provisions Relating to Reproductive Health Care Services and Gender-Affirming Health Care Services”
The Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference, in order to protect children, and guarantee their legal rights and those of their parents, urges the Judiciary Committee to modify the language in SB214 to exempt providers of “gender-affirming care services,” when performed on minors.
This proposed change to the current statute would not deny gender-affirming care services to minors. It would remove the barriers to any potential legal actions taken on behalf of a minor, or a person who was a minor when the services were provided, who feels they have been harmed by such services. This committee has continually recognized the differences between the mental capacity of an adult and minor. That difference should be recognized in SB 214.
The existing language in SB 214 relating to gender-affirming care was never been debated in any committee or chamber of the General Assembly
Read the Conference's Testimony on this legislation to learn more.
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Helping Families in Difficult Times
The Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference Supports
S.B. 36 An Act Establishing a Refundable Child Tax Credit
H.B. 5303 An Act Establishing a Child Income Tax Deduction
H.B. 5101 An Act Establishing a Tax Credit for Educational Access & Opportunity Scholarships
Families are facing very challenging financial times in raising their children. The Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference supports reform to the tax code to help families cope with the increasing costs. The family is the basic building block of society and must be supported. Parents should have a true choice in where they send their children to school. Income should not always be the limiting factor.
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Legislative Proposals Threaten to Remove all Limitations on Abortions and Threaten the Religious Freedom of Catholic Hospitals
Abortion extremism at the state capitol quickly unveiled itself over the last several weeks. Abortion minded legislators called for abortion without limits, increased taxpayer funding of abortions, a constitutional amendment enshrining abortion into our state constitution and weakening the ability of Catholic hospitals to not perform abortions.
Although the exact language for these proposals has not been presented yet, the intent to pass the various pieces of legislation has been made very clear by supporters.
Click here for more information on these proposals.
We will need your help to stop these "culture of death" proposals.
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