Life

... 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 ....

... Unfortunately, in Hawaii, abortion will still be allowed in most circumstances ....

... Session ends and there is some really great news! ....

... HB1823: the conference committee did not deem this issue important enough to have a hearing ....

... Bills Move to Conference Committees ....

... Assisted Suicide Bill Passes Final Reading ....

... To eliminate waiting period physicians need only to "believe" the time period is too long ....

... Assisted Suicide Expansion Makes it through Final Hearing ....

... HB1697 Sex Ed Bill Update and Rally ....

... Hawaii Family Forum, legislative week in review ....

... Barely a year after Hawaii began allowing nurses to abort first-trimester unborn babies, state lawmakers already are moving forward with legislation to allow nurses to do even more dangerous second-trimester abortions ....

... Upcoming Legislative Deadlines ....

... Historically, according the Legislative Reference Bureau, only 10% of bills introduced become law ....  

... life expectancy at birth in Hawaii is 82.3 years, the highest among states and well above the comparable national average of 79.2 years ....

... Since legalization, a total of 59 people have died after taking advantage of the Our Care Our Choice Act ....

... APR 29 - ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE .... 

... Governor Ige Signs Abortion Expansion Bill ....

... House Bill 576, allows advanced practice registered nurses to do first-trimester abortions either with abortion drugs or by the surgical aspiration method ....

... Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act: We Need your Kokua ....

... Abortion Expansion Bill on the Way to Governor ....

... Bullet Dodged on Problematic Bills ....

... Looking for Funds in All the Wrong Places ....

... abortion, drugs, suicide ....

... SB839 Assisted Suicide Expansion Bill NARROWLY Passes Senate Judiciary ....

... drugs, gambling, abortion ....

... Lottery, Casino, Suicide ....

... upcoming hearings ....

... abortion, gambling and suicide on legislative agenda ....

... Bill Tracking at the Legislature Begins ....

...in Hawaii every available Obamacare plan covers elective abortions....

…More than 100 Democratic politicians urge DNC to reform abortion platform….

...The Hawaii Department of Health urges the government to remove safeguards....