Act now: contact your representative to vote NO on HB 1283.
HB 1283, relative to end of life options, would provide the mechanism for state-sanctioned suicide, initially focusing on those facing an illness which a physician has predicted would be terminal within 6 months.
HB 1283 had an executive session Wednesday, March 6th, during which the bill was amended and given an OTP (ought to pass) recommendation. Let us be clear; state-sanctioned suicide is unacceptable and deeply harmful in any form.
State-sanctioned suicide will now be going to the full House for a vote on Thursday, March 21. We need your help in ensuring its defeat.
Assisted suicide should never be a course of action the state should support. Caring, not killing, is the right approach when we’re faced with a physician’s prognosis or any distressing life situation.
Canadian culture has been in a downward spiral since legalizing state-sanctioned suicide in 2016. 1,500+ “death cafes” have sprung up around the country where people celebrate “MAID,” a euphemism for prescribing lethal drugs with the intention of ending a patients’ life. In 2022, over 4% of the country’s population died by utilizing the state-sanctioned suicide law.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
We ask you to contact your representative and urge them to vote NO on state-sanctioned suicide. As personal conversations carry greater impact, we encourage you to call your representative. However, if you are unable to call, an email is still an influential means of communication.
Additionally, we urge you to consider attending the House session and rally in opposition to the bill and the grave risks it poses. A group of individuals, including veterans and members of the disability community, will be gathering to oppose the bill, display signs, and hand out flyers. We encourage you to join them at 8:15am outside the State House. Signs will be provided, but feel free to bring your own as well.
Watch the 2 minute video below to learn more about the consequences of state-sanctioned suicide in Canada and share it on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to help stop the culture of death from taking root in the Granite State!
Act now: contact the HHS committee to support HB 1607 in its current form.
New Hampshire’s “Safe Haven Law,” sometimes called the “baby drop-off law,” is a critical protection that has already saved the lives of unwanted newborns. Yet the current law faces grave threats, endangering the infants who rely on these “safe havens” to protect them from starvation, exposure, abuse, or even violent death.
HB 1607, relative to expanded safe haven protections, is a bipartisan bill that will address these threats and expand the current law in the following ways:
- Expand the age range of drop off from 7 days to 61 days.
- Provide an exclusionary rule to prevent mothers from being prosecuted for crimes discovered as a result of their abandonment of a baby under 61 days. This section would rectify the current use of a vulnerable baby as “bait” to catch a mother for unrelated crimes and encourage, rather than discourage, use of this surrender mechanism.
- Provide an opportunity for safe and regulated baby boxes.
To learn more about this crucial legislation and help us advocate for life, read our blog and share it on social media.
HB 1607 will have a continued executive session in the House Health and Human Services Committee Wednesday, March 20th, at 9:30am in the Legislative Office Building, room 203.
UPDATE: There is movement in the committee to remove the exclusionary rule to help enable law enforcement to “catch” mothers in distress for possible criminal charges. We must emphasize that the exclusionary rule will save lives, which is the core purpose of this legislation. We know of instances where mothers have turned away from making use of the safe haven law out of fear of prosecution, leading to an increase in illegal abandonment and chances for infant death through malnourishment, exposure, or overdose.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Please note during an executive session, the committee will vote to recommend the bill as OTP (ought to pass) or ITL (inexpedient to legislate). There is no opportunity for public testimony during this session.
We urge you to contact the House HHS Committee to register your support of the bill, asking the committee for an OTP recommendation vote, and to keep the important exclusionary rule in the bill. You can find the Committee members’ contact info here.
Tell the Senate to Put Students and Teachers First
Act now: ask your senator to support a floor amendment to SB 219
SB 219, The Students First Act, is an important bill that will help crack down on sprawling, expensive school administration in New Hampshire and ensure that our education spending focuses on students and teachers first.
The amended version of SB 219, passed by the NH State Senate at the beginning of the year, would shed light on New Hampshire’s systemic misuse of education spending by requiring school districts to transparently report administrative costs to the public before school district budget meetings.
These reports will prove to voters that they are being duped. Despite decades of ever-rising school budgets and taxes throughout New Hampshire, very little of these school tax increases are actually going to teacher pay. Instead, school districts are creating well-paid, left-wing administrative bureaucracies that prioritize expensive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and staffing over teachers and students.
However, when the Senate Finance Committee took up the bill again to consider the fiscal note, they gutted the bill’s enforcement mechanism. This renders the bill meaningless and without consequences for schools that willfully fail to report these expenditures to the public.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
On Thursday, March 21, the full Senate will vote on the now faulty and meaningless committee bill. Before it’s too late, the State Senate must, in the form of a floor amendment, amend the bill to put the enforcement language back in.
We urge you to contact your senator to ask them to support a floor amendment to SB 219 to restore the penalties and the supporting enforcement mechanism. We must take a firm stand to prevent school administrators from concealing this information while continuing to covertly prioritize “diversity, equity, and inclusion” over the foundational quality of school education.
