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101 Members of Congress join Smith in petition to HHS Secretary Azar WASHINGTON—Today Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and 101 other Members of Congress sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar requesting new regulations to enforce the...
WASHINGTON, DC—Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) will host a press conference tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. on the Conscience Protection Act of 2017, which would uphold the conscience rights of health care providers, religious charities, and churches who are being forced to...
Marist poll: 83% of Americans oppose using tax dollars to support abortion abroad WASHINGTON, DC—On his first day of his first business week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to re-enact the successful Mexico City Policy. “By redirecting taxpayer...
By Dave Andrusko If there wasn’t already more than enough to make you eager to attend the 2016 National Right to Life Convention July 7-9, pro-life champion Rep. Chris Smith will deliver a legislative update at Saturday’s 8 p.m. closing Banquet, “Building a Pro-Life...
Editor’s note. The following welcome news comes from the office of pro-life Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). WASHINGTON, DC - With a unanimous show of support, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith’s legislation, the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2820), cleared...
By Dave Andrusko Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, needs no introduction to any pro-life audience, let alone the readers of National Right to Life News and National Right to Life News Today. Nor does Planned Parenthood, whose callous...
Editor’s note. These are excerpts from the remarks of Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ during floor debate today on HR 3495, the Women’s Public Health and Safety Act. For more on HR 3495, see here. Mr. Speaker, last week Pope Francis admonished a joint session of Congress to...
By Susan T. Muskett, J.D., Senior Legislative Counsel The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture awarded the prestigious Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and his wife, Marie Smith, at a banquet ceremony on the Notre Dame...
Editor’s note. Elsewhere at NRL News Today, NRLC Senior Legislative Counsel Susan T. Muskett, J.D., writes about the honor bestowed on Pro-life Rep. Chris Smith and his wife, Marie Smith, by The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. The following are...
Editor’s note. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chair of the House Bipartisan ProLife Caucus, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments today in the religious freedom cases of Sebelius, Sec. of H&HS v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and...