March 12, 2008

URGENT PRO-LIFE ACTION ALERT!

Please stop what you're doing and
CALL your KS STATE REPRESENTATIVE & SENATOR NOW with 2 simple messages:

1. SUPPORT the House Substitute for Senate Bill 389 without amendments 

2. OPPOSE H.B. 2615.

Call your state representaive and senator via the Kansas Legislative Hotline NOW at 1-800-432-3924.  (Hotline operators will help you identify your state rep and senator and take a message for them.) 

If you already know who they are,  call their office direct at 1-785-296-0111.

(Johnson Countians can call free via 913-715-5000).

Further Info: 

CARA--the PRO-LIFE Comprehensive Abortion Reform Act- got a new "routing number" as it passed the Fed State committee today.

Now called "House substitute for Senate Bill 389", the bill passed committe 13-7 and the next move will be an attempt to pass it in the full house and senate.

The bill passed committee with a friendly amendment expertly explained by CARA author Lance Kinzer that:

1) made some minor technical corrections and

2) added a provision to give late-term pregnant women information 30 minutes prior to abortion about FREE perinatal Hospice (like Alexandra's House) and medical resources when the abortioni st gives his determination that the fetus is not viable. (This can lead women shocked by "bad" {or erroneous) fetal diagnosis to seek second opinion and not to abort)

CARA will most likely be debated Friday on the Kansas House floor.

Please encourage every lawmaker to vote for  CARA without amendments.

Also, in committee Tuesday, pro abortion members unsuccessfully tried to "gut" CARA, and replace it with HB 2615, a short bill addressing KDHE late-term abortion reporting. 
 
CARA didn't get replaced with, but HB 2615 is still alive. 

Staunchly pro-abortion Rep. Ann Mah claimed that the Governor and ProKanDo (Tiller's Political Action Committee) supported HB 2615, which shows HB 2615 would be deficient in rectifying enforcement of our state late-term aborti on ban.

Interestingly, Gov Sebelius vetoed a similar proviso toward KDHE last year --when Tiller looked strong and the fix was in from Morrison. Now that things are looking less rosy for Tiller, Sebelius wants to accept a change in KDHE protocol, which Tiller would likely use as a defense for a plea bargain.

Please support CARA (now called House sub/ SB 389) and do not support HB 2615.

Thank you.

Kansans for Life   www.kfl.org