Life

... Marcus Oshiro and Eva Andrade go over the session ....

... Constitutional Amendment to Protect Access to Contraceptives Misses Deadline ....

... urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court’s decision recognizing Medicaid recipients’ federally guaranteed right to receive care from Planned Parenthood ....

... 'Electronic Frontier Foundation' targets pro-life crisis pregnancy centers ....

"...a game-changing expansion of our existing telehealth care...."

... Bills Still in Play: Sports Betting & Right to Contraceptives ....

... The wording of SB350 does nothing to protect contraceptive access if federal authorization is withdrawn or denied ....

... The bill was RECOMMITTED to the JDC committee. It is dead for this session ....

... Obtain child custody to provide "Gender Affirming Health Care Services" --SB1150 hearing scheduled for Tuesday, February 11 ....

... a working list of the bills we are tracking ....

... there were 1,970 abortions reported in Hawaii in 2022, a decrease of 11% from 2021 ....

... the woman was starting to choke and motioned for the doctor to stop — but he continued ....

... October 18, 2024 Voters receive their General Election mail ballot packet ....

... Last year, 91 patients received aid-in-dying prescriptions, which is 31 more than the 2022 total ....

... MAY 3 ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE ....

... From this point on, there will be no more public input via hearings. ...

... How Much Pot Does One Person Need? ....

... marijuana, abortion, parental rights ....

... Recreational Marijuana Passes 'Joint' Hearing in House ....

... 197 prescriptions have been written for death-inducing drugs in Hawaii since the passage of the state’s “medical aid in dying” law in 2019 ....

... Leinaala was the very first employee at Hawaii Family Forum ....

... KMCWC will purchase a year’s supply of mifepristone (1,000 doses), and DOH will reimburse KMCWC for any unused doses ....

... The Ninth Circuit ruled that Hawaii doctors may no longer provide the abortion pill to their patients in Guam through telemedicine ....

... Idaho’s law that makes it illegal to either obtain abortion pills for a minor or to help them leave the state for an abortion without their parents' knowledge and consent ....

... “Choose Aloha” Program teaches keiki to choose love not hate, bullying, self-harm or suicidal ideation ....

... MAY 4 – ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE ....

... April 21, 2023 was the deadline for any proposed constitutional amendment’s final form ....

... Upcoming Legislative Deadlines ....

...  The bill will now move to the full Senate for a vote ....

... The bill will now move to the full Senate for a vote for 3rd Reading ....

... abortion and suicide ....

... The state bolstered its already robust abortion laws to better shield abortions seekers and providers from being targeting by states with more hostile abortion restrictions ....

... SB36 amends state law to allow county prosecutors to initiate felony cases by complaints following preliminary hearings and prohibits multiple attempts to initiate a felony prosecution for an offense, except in certain circumstances ....

... SB1SD2 added language (over 40 pages) to protect medical providers that perform abortions ....

... over 220,000 of Hawaii's keiki have been lost to abortion since 1970 ....

... On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, the Senate passed SB1 SD1 by a 22-3 vote ....

... This bill makes permanent the prevent suicide Hawaiʻi task force within the Department of Health ....

... First Lateral Deadline: Bills must be in final committee ....

... Hawaii Legislators' cradle-to-grave plan for your life .... 

... there are no doctors on Guam willing to provide abortion services ....

... Hawaii Legislators have got your life all planned out ....

... This week abortion bill HB1343 and assisted suicide expansion bill SB442 are scheduled ....

... Republican Sen. Brenton Awa and Democratic Sen. Mike Gabbard voted against the bill ....

... there were 1,809 abortions reported in Hawaii in 2020, a decrease of 9.7 percent from 2019 ....

... In 2017, Hawaii became the sixth state to extend pharmacist prescriptive authority to contraception ....

... Hawaii's Senate has decided that abortion expansion bills should take front and center ....

"Republican Candidates who do NOT support all of our Family Values"

... Voting centers will open on October 25 for all of you who want to vote in person ....

“...Effective immediately, departments and agencies under my authority shall not provide any information, including medical records, data, or billing, to another state seeking to impose penalties upon a person or entity related to reproductive health services in Hawaiʻi....”

... The Hawai‘i Regulatory Licensing Reform Act requires that professions should be regulated only when reasonably necessary to protect the health, safety, or welfare of consumers of their services ....