Planned Parenthood is on the defensive yet again as the U.S. Supreme Court considers state challenges to Roe v. Wade. In an attempt to protect their public funding, NARAL and Planned Parenthood have lobbied state lawmakers across the country to amend their state constitutions to enshrine abortion-on-demand through birth and with guaranteed public funding.
In Maryland, House of Delegates Speaker, Adrienne Jones has introduced House Bill 0705, to create a state Constitutional right to fully funded abortion-on-demand in the name of “reproductive liberty”.
Maryland law already is extreme on abortion. The Maryland Freedom of Choice Act (1991) allows abortion-on-demand, for any reason and up until birth. Maryland is one of only four states that forces taxpayers to pay for other people’s abortions. Maryland is one of only three states that shield abortionists from liability by refusing to report abortion data to the CDC. As a result, Maryland is failing to address women’s reproductive health and the incidents of abortion-related maternal injury and death or risks of future miscarriage, pre-term birth or loss of fertility.
This amendment is really about abortion coercion. By making abortion a “fundamental right” Maryland taxpayers will be forced to pay for ALL ABORTIONS. The Amendment also would compel physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers to participate in abortion, in violation of their rights of conscience and free exercise of religion. Finally, by passing this bill, the Maryland legislature will be infringing on the Freedom of Speech guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, by baring all future attempts to pass lifesaving legislation such as partial birth abortion or dismemberment bans.
Under Supreme Court precedent, Maryland lawmakers still have the right to pass laws to protect women’s health throughout pregnancy, to restrict abortion after viability, and to ban ALL public funding for abortion. But this proposed Abortion Amendment would take the power to regulate abortion away from our elected representatives and force Maryland taxpayers to fully fund ALL ABORTIONS.
The Abortion Amendment is not yet a reality and we cannot let it become one!
Your elected leaders need to hear from you TODAY.
Tell them this extreme legislation has no place in Maryland.
Write to your state house of delegates via EMAIL and PHONE CALL them to let them know that you OPPOSE this dangerous and extreme legislation.
Then share this with friends, family and pastors to ask them to join you in being a VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS.