This morning the Senate Education and Health Committee voted 8-7 in favor of both HB 1 and HB 462, with amendments to both. In response, hundreds of pro-choice protesters rallied outside in a spontaneous protest after the passage of the bills.
After things calmed down and everyone went back home or to work, we got notice that the Republicans were pulling a cheap trick by quietly substituting the day's Senate agenda to include the bills for passage on the Senate floor. We made an emergency attempt to get people mobilized out there, but then the most shocking thing of all happened... it was recommended that HB1 was to be sent back to the Senate Committee for the year, and the motion was approved. Ladies and gentleman, HB 1 is dead. For this year, at least.
But we can not stop here. HB 462 and HB 62 (a truly sick bill) are still alive. WE ARE WINNING THIS FIGHT. This is the time that we need to hit the hardest. The General Assembly has been trying to do this for decades- forcing pro-choice groups to waste millions of dollars in defense of a woman's fundamental right and enabling the harassment of abortion-seeking women. THIS. ENDS. THIS. YEAR.
Join us by the thousands on Saturday, March 3rd, to tell the Governor and the General Assembly that we will NOT forgive them for this. Visit the Thousands Against the Assault on Women's Rights event page, and together we can finish this fight.
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