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March 2, 2019
The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a Tuesday, March 5 Hearing
on the Senate counterpart version (2019 - S 152) of the New York / Virginia style abortion expansion bill heard in the House on January 29. The hearing will begin sometime after 4:30 pm and is expected to go into the early morning hours. Parking is available at the Providence Place Mall in addition to ample street side parking in the vicinity of the State House.
EMAIL your state Senator NOW
In order to stop this extreme abortion expansion from making further progress, an IMMEDIATE and MASSIVE pro-life OUTCRY is CRITICAL.
• Please take 30 seconds now to EMAIL your State Senator.
• Please set aside 2 minutes on Monday to CALL the office of the Senate President.
• Please ATTEND Tuesday's hearing, wearing blue and bringing friends and family along with you.
As in New York and Virginia, abortion proponents in Rhode Island are pushing extreme legislation that would strike down a wide range of state restrictions on abortion, including our longstanding post-viability abortion ban, thus allowing abortion up to the moment of birth.
Their proposed “non-interference” statutory framework would prevent meaningful state regulation and protect 2nd and 3rd trimester abortion methods such as partial birth abortions, dismemberment abortions, and abortions performed on pain-capable unborn children.
Neither H5125 (Williams) nor H5127 (Ajello) / S152 (Goldin), even if amended, could plausibly be regarded as merely “codifying” the status quo under Roe v. Wade as proponents and elements of the media deceptively pretend. A summary of the bill is available here and a full analysis here.
The deplorable reality is that thousands of babies are presently being aborted each year in Rhode Island. It is an uncontested fact that even if Roe v Wade were overturned today, nothing whatsoever would automatically change with respect to the legality of abortion in Rhode Island, because what is not forbidden by law is allowed. By sowing false fears, abortion proponents are attempting to massively expand the present abortion license, and to create a first-ever statutory right to abortion in Rhode Island.
