Rep. Erica Layon’s HB 1292 is a new right-to-try bill that criminalizes using aborted babies’ organs as a source for stem cell lines. After last year’s advancements for the right to try experimental life-saving treatments, biotech companies are now taking interest in New Hampshire. Layon’s bill will help continue to attract innovation to the Granite State while ensuring we stop and criminalize use of abortion byproducts.
Modeled precisely after a working Florida law, the bill lays out specific sectoral protections for regenerative stem cell usage. By prohibiting experimental treatment biotech companies from using stem cells of aborted children, companies can research life-saving treatments without supporting a life-taking industry. Stem cell treatments that do not use abortion will still be strongly protected. Companies in Florida are successfully using these protections, and New Hampshire should do the same.
HB 1292 is a realistic pro-life win in our state. It’s a step forward in restricting abortion that shouldn’t be overlooked. Abolishing fetal stem cell harvesting is your chance to show the legislature and community that the pro-life constituency is still alive and active!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
We urge you to ask the House Judiciary Committee to vote OTP on HB 1292 so we can prohibit abortion byproduct use in our state.
HB 1292 has been scheduled for a public hearing Wednesday, February 11, at 1:00pm in the Judiciary Committee, in the Granite Place, room 230.
Register your support of HB 1292 by signing in. Here are step-by-step instructions on how to sign in.
Submit written testimony. You can do this when you sign in. Simply hit “choose file” under step number four to upload a document with your testimony, or type your testimony into the provided box.
Attend the hearing and testify in person. The hearing will be in the temporary Legislative Office Building at Granite Place, 1 Granite Place, Concord, NH 03301, room 230.
If you experience trouble signing in or submitting testimony, you can email the members here.