Support an Achievable Pro-life Law
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.
Conservatives Must Relentlessly Oppose Judge Daniel Will’s Nomination to the NH Supreme Court
ACT NOW: Contact your Executive Councilor and oppose Will’s nomination HERE.
At Cornerstone, opposing a judicial nominee is not a decision we take lightly. This week’s news that Governor Ayotte has nominated Judge Daniel Will to the New Hampshire Supreme Court leaves us with no choice but to directly and strongly oppose his confirmation.
If the Executive Council confirms Will, New Hampshire conservatives can expect to lose on every major state constitutional issue—from parental rights to free speech and religious liberty—until at least 2031.
With a history of arguing that constitutional rights can be ‘suspended’ during a State of Emergency and repeatedly lying to the Executive Council during his Superior Court confirmation hearing, Judge Will’s tenure would be characterized by a total disinterest in originalism, an automatic deference to government officials, and the cynical dismissal of litigants’ constitutional claims.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
❌ Conservatives have nothing to lose: we must relentlessly oppose Will’s confirmation and strongly call on our Executive Councilors to reject his nomination.
🗣️ Additionally, please contact your representatives and senators and ask them to speak out against Judge Daniel Will’s nomination.
📖 Read more here.
Some Claim Daniel Will is A Conservative: Let Us Set the Record Straight
Allies of the Governor are urging Republicans to support Dan Will, claiming he is a “constitutional conservative.” But why should anyone think he is a constitutional conservative? They never say. This slogan is all the evidence they have.
There is no evidence that Will has ever fought or stood for conservative judicial principles. Nor is Will a ghost candidate whose views are a mystery. Daniel Will has an extensive public record—and his record is terrible. Like other liberal judges nominated by Republicans, Will is simply never going to side with conservatives in constitutional disputes.
When Will’s supporters make this claim, the appropriate response is simple: ask them what Will has ever done to show that he is a conservative. The answer is that they have nothing but hearsay and claims that Will is a nice person. These are the same reasons that Republicans confirmed Souter, Stevens, Blackmun, Brennan, and Warren. Decades of Republican gullibility on judicial nominees is enough.
The establishment has overstepped this time. Will’s extensive record, including both his work and his public statements, show a total disregard for constitutional limits on government power. The facts speak for themselves.
Two Bills to Stay on the Lookout For!
Cornerstone will be supporting the following bills as they move through the New Hampshire legislature:
SB 552: permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.
HB 1195: relative to municipal zoning requirements for child day care providers.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
👀 Keep an eye out for Cornerstone’s weekly emails, where we will provide the next steps for constituent engagement on these bills.