HB 224 is a bill that would repeal all criminal and civil legal penalties against health care providers for violating the Fetal Life Protection Act. If this bill were to pass, it would strip the law of any enforcement capability, and allow all abortions up to birth.
New Hampshire law currently permits the killing of any healthy, viable child before six months’ gestation, and the Fetal Life Protection Act contains an exception for fatal fetal anomalies. Consequently, the lives this bill jeopardizes are viable pre-born babies six months and older. These children could live and thrive outside the womb if induced and delivered on the day the abortion takes place.
HB 224 stands as a significant threat to pre-born life, as our governor, Chris Sununu, has called to remove the penalties for violating the Fetal Life Protection Act. A pro-choice individual, he is the only Republican governor in America pushing for abortion up to birth, and has pledged to sign the bill if it reaches his desk. Additionally, Chris Sununu personally lobbied for a functionally identical bill in the House just last year.
HB 224 had an executive session in the House Judiciary Committee, which resulted in neither a recommendation of ITL—inexpedient to legislate—nor OTP—ought to pass, as each vote was split 10 /10 along party lines. HB 224 will now go before by the New Hampshire House either Wednesday, March 22 or Thursday, March 23. Because HB 224 came out of the committee with no recommendation, the first floor motion in the house will be OTP.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Time is critical. Call your representatives now, and ask them to oppose this bill. You can find your representative here. For more information on the Fetal Life Protection Act, visit NHabortion.com.
HB 10, establishing the parental bill of rights, is a bill that outlines the rights of parents regarding their children’s education and upbringing within the public school system.
There will be a proposed floor amendment to HB 10 to include language to restrict the covert gender transitioning of children by school staff and employees. Cornerstone supports this amendment and urges you to call your representatives and ask them to pass with bill as amended. However, HB 10, in its current, original form, does not include any such language. HB 10, by omitting these crucial parental rights, would do more harm than good, effectively conferring approval by omission of the ongoing statewide crisis of covert transitioning.
Parental rights in NH are in crisis. Many school districts have enacted nearly-identical policies, based on a model from left-wing advocacy group, GLSEN, promising to engage in the covert social transitioning of children and conceal this process from parents. The most important and indispensable aspect of any parental bill of rights must be to restrict the secret transitioning of children by schools.
Progressives argue, without evidence, that parents can’t be trusted, and open communication with them will cause harm to their children. Such covert practices without the knowledge of the parents essentially gives schools overriding authority to make critical and potentially irreversible health and treatment decisions for children, and may be driven more by ideology than true concern for the individual child. Loving parents can’t be left out of the equation, and schools should not be making these decisions on behalf of the child.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
We urge you to call your representative, and ask them to oppose HB 10 in its current form, and support a floor amendment to the bill that would introduce language to protect children from ideological school administrators. You can find your representative here.
SUMMARY: HB 271 is a bill that would totally repeal the Fetal Life Protection Act, or FLPA. In New Hampshire, pre-born children are protected from abortion after 24 weeks by the FLPA; this bill would eradicate those protections, enabling abortion, under any circumstances, up to birth.
The FLPA is New Hampshire’s only protection for pre-born children, and an historic achievement. New Hampshire is the first state that has gone from allowing abortion for any reason up to birth to protecting pre-born children who are at least 24 weeks old. HB 271, by striking down the Fetal Life Protection Act, would return us to a state with essentially no abortion restrictions.
As New Hampshire’s only restriction on abortion, the FLPA only defends pre-born children who could live outside the womb were they delivered. In order to continue to protect these children in their last months, we need support from our pro-life community to help our lawmakers make the right decision to continue to protect these precious lives.
HB 271 had an executive session in the House Judiciary Committee, which resulted in neither a recommendation of ITL—inexpedient to legislate—nor OTP—ought to pass, as each vote was split 10 /10 along party lines. HB 271 will now go before by the New Hampshire House either Wednesday, March 22, or Thursday, March 23. Because HB 271 came out of the committee with no recommendation, the first floor motion in the House will be OTP.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Time is critical. Call your representatives now, and ask them to oppose this bill. You can find your representative here. For more information on the Fetal Life Protection Act, visit NHabortion.com.
