Pro-Life Legislative Alert!

West Virginia Bill to Tighten Parental Notification on Abortion Appears Dead

On Tuesday, March 7^th, the House of Delegates defeated a motion supported by West Virginians for Life to bring the Parent’s Right to Know bill to the House floor for a vote. The motion was defeated 38-61. Delegate Ferrell was absent. All 32 Republicans and 6 Democrats (Frederick, Louisos, Miley, Susman, Tucker and Dale Stephens) voted for the pro-life motion.

The bill passed the State Senate 32-2 on March 1. Senators Foster and McCabe voted against passage.

West Virginians for Life will re-double its efforts to pass Parent’s Right to Know next year.

You are invited to read about a recent study at www.LifeNews.com with the headline:

New Study Shows Texas Parental Notification Law Reduced Teen Abortions.

Thanks to all who prayed and made phone calls, sent emails and letters. This update was unable to be sent just days after the defeat due to email problems. Thanks for your patience.

Pro-Life Legislative Alert:

"Parent’s Right to Know" bill (HB 4411, SB 519) has been introduced in the West Virginia Legislature. The bill would require at least one parent to be notified before a minor can have an abortion. Please call or email your Delegates and Senators and ask them to support HB 4411, SB 519, the "Parent’s Right to Know" bill.

Please call the Capitol Switchboard at 1-877-565-3447 and leave messages for your legislators to support the "Parent's Right to Know" bill. Also, you can find the phone number and email address for your House of Delegate members by clicking on the following link http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Districts/hd/hd.cfm

Some people we have been talking to heard the news that our bill passed in the Senate and so they think the fight is over. Not so. We are back in the House where the fight continues to the last day (Mar. 11) if need be. Don't stop the calling and emailing. Hear now the words of Charlotte Snead, West Virginians for Life President:

Paul writes to the Church, "having done all, stand." Melissa and Brian are not quitting, but they have done about all that can be done. Now the Parent's Right to Know Bill is in the hands of God and the grassroots. None of us likes to make phone calls, but if the grassroots--that's us, folks-- don't come through now, our daughters will continue to get secret abortions without our knowledge. I have noticed throughout history that often God waits for a man--He seeks a man to stand in the gap. He says we have been made co-laborers together with Him.

I spoke in a Church on Saturday and a dear elderly lady obviously had made her first call to a politician. She called one guy--Tim Miley, in Harrison Co., and he was so friendly, so happy to receive her call, that she was encouraged. Then she came to another who was not so kind and gracious, in fact, he was a bit uppity, as the old folks used to say. She said he made her feel stupid and like she was bothering him--so she stopped calling before she finished her other two delegates! I said: "Honey, those guys work for you, they are paid with your tax dollars, and they have to listen to you!" (Well, they could slam the phone down, but you get the point, and if they slam the phone down too often on their constituency they won't be reelected, and they know it!)

The point is, if the Parent's Right to Know is going to pass this year, it will take God and the Grassroots. Soldiers of the Lord, arise, get out of the caves and go to battle. Call your delegates in the House, get your friends to call them. Below is a legislative alert from WVFL with all the information. Please make your calls before it is too late.

Blessings,

Charlotte

Call your Democrat Delegates--even the ones we know to have always been pro-life. These calls may be made until we tell you otherwise. We need to contact democrats because some democrats want to take the bill up next year. We don't want to wait a year because babies will die. If you have called or emailed already, don’t be afraid to do it again. These lawmakers need to be bombarded or else Parent’s Right to Know will be lost for another year. The bill will amend current law by removing provisions that allow abortionists to authorize secret abortions on underage girls and by requiring that one parent be notified before an abortion is to be performed on a minor.

Call the Capitol switchboard at 1-877-565-3447. To call Delegate office numbers directly (which I believe to be quicker and more effective) or to email, visit this link http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Districts/hd/hd.cfm and click on your county.

Here is the message you should leave when you call or email:

PLEASE PASS THE PARENT'S RIGHT TO KNOW ACT THIS YEAR.

According to the National Center of Health Statistics, 70% of all teenage pregnancies are attributable to adult men. A true Parent's Right to Know bill will close loopholes allowing for sexual predators to take their victims for secret abortions and then continue the abuse. To hear the tape recording of what happened when a 13-year old impregnated by a 22-year old man called a Planned Parenthood clinic in Vienna, WV, go to www.wvforlife.org and click on the link provided. If you do not have DSL, the download could take 15 minutes or longer.

West Virginians for Life, the state affiliate to the National Right to Life Committee, is the only statewide organization solely dedicated to the protection of human life. WVFL works in educational, legislative, and political activities to ensure the right to life for unborn children, people with disabilities, and older people.