| Last Friday, the House Health and Human Services Committee voted on party line to pass the most radical abortion and transgender bill in the nation, the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act, House Bill 7. It now moves to the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing THIS WEDNESDAY AT 1:30 PM.
ACTION ITEMS:
- Contact members of the House Judiciary below and be prepared to testify in person (preferably) or via zoom here. Please note: we ask you use facts provided below in your testimony against the bill and please talk about the bill itself.
“The language of HB 7 is clear, it is a mandate on every public employee’s behavior–including teachers, to participate in elective abortion and/or transgender procedure referrals or face up to $5,000 fines and court costs,” said Elisa Martinez NMAFL Executive Director. Despite initially denying it, sponsors of HB 7 finally admitted in the House Health committee hearing that the scope of their bill applies to every public school district across the state.”
THANK YOU NEW MEXICO: THIS WEEKEND, WE HAVE REACHED OVER 4,000 PETITIONS SIGNED TO STOP HB 7. SIGN AND SHARE WITH 10 PEOPLE YOU KNOW HERE. Keep up the pressure!
Representative Lord and Representative Jones confirmed they heard from thousands of New Mexicans who signed NMAFL’s petition to STOP HB 7 submitted to the committee members. Read more here.
ACTION ITEMS: STOP HB 7 WHAT YOU CAN DO!
- Contact Members of the House Judiciary Committee individually below. Form emails tend to go to spam, individual emails and calls are best. ALL STOP HB 7 PETITION WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE AS WELL.
Rep. Christine Chandler: 505 986-4411, christine.chandler@nmlegis.gov, Los Alamos, Sandoval & Santa Fe
Rep. Andrea Romero: 505 986-4243, andrea@andrearomero.com, Santa Fe
Rep. Bill Rehm: 505 986-4214, bill.rehm@nmlegis.gov, Bernallilo
Rep. Eliseo Alcon: 505 986-4416, eliseo.alcon@nmlegis.gov, Cibola & McKinley
Rep Gail Chasey: 505 986-4777, gail@gailchasey.com, Bernalillo
Rep. Ryan Lane: 986-4758, ryan@laneforliberty.com, San Juan
Rep Javier Martinez: 986-4782, javier.martinez@nmlegis.gov, Bernalillo
Rep Steve McQueen: 986-4423, matthew.mcqueen@nmlegis.gov, Sandoval & Santa Fe
Rep. Greg Nibert: 986-4758, greg.nibert@nmlegis.gov, Chaves
Rep. Andrea Reeb:505 986-4215, Andrea.Reeb@nmlegis.gov, Chaves, Curry & Roosevelt
Rep Reena Szczepanski: 505 986-4777, reena.szczepanski@nmlegis.gov, Santa Fe
WHAT HB 7 DOES:
- HB 7 will force all New Mexico public institutions that receive public funding and employees, such as elementary school teachers to facilitate any request for abortion and “gender-affirming” health care – despite the best interest of the child for an elective procedure: Section 3B.
- HB 7 will penalize anyone who “directly OR indirectly” “deny, restrict or interfere with a person’s ability to access or provide reproductive health care or gender-affirming health care” — despite the best interest of the child or individual: Section 3B.
- HB 7 seeks to ban any effort by all lawmaking bodies at the local and state level from legislating against it, “a public body or agent of a public body shall not impose or continue in effect any law, ordinance, policy or regulation that violates or conflicts with the provisions set forth in this bill:” Section 3D.
- HB 7 violates the constitutional rights of all New Mexicans for due process, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and equal protection. It penalizes New Mexicans under threat of prosecution and civil penalties up to $5K for exercising any of these constitutional rights. Section 5C.
From New Mexico State Senator, Dr. Gregg Schmedes, the only practicing health care professional in the NM Legislature:
“As a parent and practicing physician, I am deeply concerned about HB 7 forcing teachers and public employees to facilitate elective procedures – despite the best interest of our children. There are negative impacts to the mental, physical and emotional health of any elective procedure and HB 7 completely ignores the actual science,” said State Senator, Dr. Gregg Schmedes.
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- PRAY AND FAST FOR NEW MEXICO.
PRAYER REQUEST
Pro-life Senator Bill Sharer asks for 200k prayers for New Mexico during the legislative session. Will you be one of the Prayer Warriors for our state? Don’t forget to share this important email with friends, family and church groups.
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