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New Mexico House Health and Human Services committee, chaired by Albuquerque Progressive, Representative Liz Thompson (D – 24, Bernalillo) tabled House Bill 180, the Parenting and Pregnancy Resource Website and Hotline bill. This important legislation was sponsored by Rep. Jenifer Jones (R – 32, Dona Ana, Hidalgo, Luna) and Rep. Luis Terrazas (R-39, Catron, Grant & Hidalgo) and brought forward by New Mexico Alliance for Life and Concerned Women of America NM.
A BIG THANK YOU to the bill sponsors, our partners, and all who showed up to testify! Canvice Gonzales, a Santa Fe mom who received financial and parenting support from a crisis pregnancy center gave emotional testimony about the great need for parenting support, along with representatives from Desert Rose pregnancy center, New Mexico Alliance for Life, Right to Life of New Mexico, Concerned Women, (pictured L-R above) and other concerned citizens.
HB 180 is a straightforward appropriations bill that would have provided New Mexico mothers and families with information and links to social services, financial assistance, adoption services, pregnancy and parenting information such as OBGYNs, doulas, birthing options, planning guidance, care centers, agencies, and other available public and private resources for expectant families and
new parents.
“I’m saddened that the pregnancy and parenting bill to expand access to much needed resources for New Mexico women and families was tabled on a party-line vote,” said HB 180 sponsor Representative Jenifer Jones (R – 32, Dona Ana, Hidalgo, Luna). “As a 30 year medical professional myself, we know New Mexico is facing a health care access crisis, we should be offering more resources and options to pregnant women and families—not just elective abortions.”
Rather than address New Mexico’s maternal and child health crisis, progressives on the committee displayed their hypocrisy: claiming to support women’s choice, but defending abortion-only, denying New Mexico women and families access to all health care choices. The bill was tabled with no reasonable explanation other than politics, by a party-line vote of 6 (Democrat) – 3 (Republican).
“It’s shocking that the state’s reproductive hotline is promoting abortion only – including Satanic Temple religious abortions to women but we cannot offer them other choices,” said Representative Stefani Lord, (R – 22, Bernalillo, Torrance). “It’s clear that progressive Democrats are only interested in promoting abortion to pregnant women and their families.”
“Today’s vote to table the Parenting and Pregnancy Resource Hotline & Website bill by New Mexico House progressives goes to show they don’t care about choice nor addressing the state’s maternal health crisis–the only choice they care to promote is elective abortion,” said Elisa Martinez, New Mexico Alliance for Life executive director. “Follow the money, New Mexico House progressives like Liz Thompson don’t care about maternal health, nor choice; they care about supporting the abortion lobby who is funding their campaigns.”
The state’s current abortion hotline does not provide referrals for adoption agencies, crisis pregnancy centers, financial assistance, parenting information, OBGYN referrals, doulas, birthing options, care centers, or any public or private resources for expectant families and new parents.
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