New Jersey Legislative Update - Please Take Action Immediately!

 

Marie Tasy, Executive Director
New Jersey Right to Life


The 218th NJ Legislature was sworn into office on Tuesday, January 9th and the new Governor will be sworn in on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. The Democrats now control all three branches of NJ Government, with huge majorities in both the Assembly and Senate.

First, the good news.

A1686/S537, the NJ Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was reintroduced in both Houses of the Legislature. The prime sponsors of the Assembly bill (A1686) are Asm. Ronald Dancer and Asm. Tony Bucco. The bill is co-sponsored by Asm. Bob Auth, Erik Peterson, Parker Space, John DiMaio, Sean Kean, Michael Carroll and Asw. Betty LouDeCroce.

The prime sponsors of the Senate bill (S537) are Senator Steve Oroho and Senator Joe Pennacchio. Co-sponsors are Senator Tony Bucco and Senator Mike Doherty.
 

   

Please contact your Two Members of the State Assembly and State Senate and urge them to co-sponsor and support A1686/S537.

On the negative side, several other bills were reintroduced which should be opposed immediately. Please contact your two State Assembly Members and State Senator and urge them to Vote No on these bills:

A1656/S105, Provides taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood through medicaid funds. (This bill was consistently vetoed by Governor Christie during his time in office)

A2134/S120, Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 in taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood (This bill was consistently vetoed by Governor Christie during his time in office)

A1704/S482, Gestational Carrier Agreement (This bill was twice vetoed by Governor Christie)

A1504, the Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act - This bill will legalize Physician Assisted Suicide in NJ. This bill previously passed the Assembly twice, but the Senate did not vote on it due to a lack of a few votes. A Senate version has not yet been filed, but is expected to be filed shortly.

A1734/S708, Requires all NJ Health insurance plans to cover abortion.

You can find your State Legislators Here

You can also call the Office of Legislative Services during regular business hours at 1-800-792-8630 to obtain your legislators' contact information.

Thank you for for taking action on these important pro-life matters that affect the smallest and most vulnerable members of our society.

 

New Jersey Right to Life is the state’s largest and most active pro-life, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting and fostering the most basic value of our society – human life. As the premier pro-life organization in NJ, we continue to lead the effort on all public policy matters concerning the sanctity of human life at the state and federal level. We promote, uphold, and support reverence and respect for all innocent human life from conception to natural death, without regard to condition, or circumstances of conception, quality, age, race, religion, creed, or color, whether born or pre-born.  For more information or to make a donation to help them with their work, please use this link.