In the Fight: Mississippi Senate Passes 3 Pro-Life Bills, House Leader Vows to Kill Them

Contact Your State Representative Today!

Dear Matt,

Senate Public Health and Welfare Chairman Alan Nunnelee and the Mississippi State Senate are to be applauded for introducing and passing three excellent pieces of pro-life legislation this week. However, the bills could die as they are headed for the less-than-friendly House Public Health and Human Services Chairman Steve Holland's committee who said emphatically this week that he will kill them. Mr. Holland is vowing not to allow them out of his committee for a full and fair vote by the House of Representatives.

These pieces of legislation passed by the Senate would undoubtedly save lives as empirical data shows. Senate Bill 2795, one of three abortion-related bills the Senate approved prohibits abortions except for victims of rape, incest or for mothers whose lives may be in danger. Senate Bill 2801 would require doctors to offer women considering an abortion the opportunity to listen to their fetal or embryonic heartbeat and view a sonogram. Senate Bill 2391, which states that minors without parental consent, would need a court's permission for an abortion.

In order for these bills to receive a fair and full vote by the House, your help is needed today. As you might expect, the pro-death organization Planned Parenthood has now joined Representative Steve Holland in an all out attack on these three good pieces of legislation. But House Speaker Billy McCoy has the authority to assign these bills to a friendly committee who would allow for a fair up and down vote from the full House. Please urge your state representative to ask House Speaker McCoy to assign these good bills to a friendly committee.

Take Action

Your voice is urgently needed today on behalf of the most defenseless in our sate; the unborn! Send an email to your state representative in support of the three pieces of pro-life legislation. Please call your Mississippi Representative at home over the weekend or the switchboard next week at (601) 359-3770 with a polite but urgent message asking them to make sure the three pro-life bills wind up in a friendly committee in the Mississippi House of Representatives.

Please forward this important alert to all your friends and family in Mississippi. Make copies of this AFA PASS ALONG SHEET and share it with members of your church and Sunday school class this Sunday. It is very important that our state Representatives hear from all pro-life Mississippians on these three important bills.