Life

...Suicide Prevention and Palliative Care bills still moving....

...An investigation of complaints made against the state of Hawaii came to a close this month after Hawaii Attorney General Clare Connors issued a memorandum stating that her department will not enforce a controversial law....

... We believe these bills are unconstitutional ....

...Hawaii district court strikes down law targeting pro-life pregnancy centers....

...Since its creation in 2009, the TPP Program has provided nearly $1 billion....

... SB415 -- Abortion Expansion Bill Changes Focus ....

...CROSSOVER: Bills alive move to the opposite chamber....

...As of the end of January, two hundred and eighty-three women had received TelAbortions, a hundred and fifty-eight of them in Hawaii....

... Under the new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, providers in any clinic that receives Title X funding will be barred from referring a patient for an abortion ....

...decriminalization of marijuana is not the same as marijuana legalization....

...four bills amend Hawaii's Age of Consent Law to allow minors to 'consent' to sex-change procedures without parental notification....

...Several bills to educate the community on suicide prevention are making their way through the legislative process....

...In the State of Hawaii we protect turtle eggs and other animals, and yet we don’t give the same protections to our young humans....

...Planned Parenthood Has Plans for Hawaii....

... it is the first time in many years that a PRO-LIFE bill was actually heard in a committee ....

...This way of thinking could justify government intervention in nearly all aspects of a person's life....

...Millions in out of state funds will attempt to influence Indiana abortion policies....

...Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review....

...Those who oppose suicide in all its forms are being targeted by powerful liberal groups....

...ACLU would like to remind housing and service providers throughout Hawaii that preventing others from killing themselves is illegal and that we are watching....

...if you are voting absentee, you will be receiving your ballot any day now....

...workflows that support timely referrals and effective clinical standards....

...Things you need to know about the Hawaii General Election....

Laurie Field, Hawaii State Director for PPVNH said, “Ige and Green have publicly supported increased access to reproductive health care, comprehensive sex education, LGBTQ and immigrant rights."

...A federal district court struck down a Hawaii law forcing pregnancy centers and pro-life doctors to advertise for the abortion industry Thursday, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision affirming free speech in NIFLA v. Becerra....

... Under the new criteria, recipients for grants must either follow a “sexual risk reduction model” or a “sexual risk avoidance model” ....

...“If we win California that should take care of Hawaii”....

...look to other places both here and abroad where assisted suicide is already legal....

... May 3 Adjournment Sine Die ....

...attorneys filed complaint over violations of federal conscience protections....

...HB2169 Maui County Suicide Prevention Bill heads for floor votes....

...Conference Committee Members Assigned....

...This practice of discarding human life turns the practice of medicine upside down....

...Every single one of Mock’s customers from age 15-18 is a homosexual child molester.  Who will demand that ‘Janet’ Mock name them?  ‘Her’ identity begins with shielding homosexual child molesters from the police in late 1990s Honolulu....

...It would have been nice to see this kind of concern on "medication" intended to kill.... 

...Bills that would have (1) established a task force to reduce suicides in Hawaii by 25% (HB2278 HD1), (2) designate September as Suicide Prevention Month (HB1703) and (3) create an application for smartphones designed to provide resources to Hawaii's youth (HB1704) all perished....

...We can learn a lot about the folly of this path if we look to other places here and abroad where assisted suicide already is legal. A quick survey turns up countless instances of the failures of these laws to safeguard the most vulnerable....

...“Assisted suicide is dangerous public policy with potentially deadly consequences for everyone, but especially people with disabilities, the sick, the poor, and the elderly"....

The Senate Chambers will have HB2739 HD1 on the agenda (we have no idea where it will be on the agenda) when session opens tomorrow, March 29, 2018, at 11:30 a.m....

...The assisted suicide bill passed 4-1 unamended by the Senate Judiciary Committee....

...On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. in room #016....

The U.S. Supreme Court heard a First Amendment challenge Tuesday to a California law requiring pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to post information about state-funded abortions.... Hawaii and Illinois have similar laws....

...Assisted Suicide passes Senate Committee, Gay Therapy Ban passes House Committee....

...The State appealed to the Intermediate Court of Appeals, arguing that Hawaii's wrongful death statute limits recovery for "the death of a person," and that the fetus did not qualify....

...Friday, March 16, 2018,  8:30 – 11:25 a.m., Conference Room 229, State Capitol....

...HB2739 has been assigned to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection & Health and Senate Judiciary....

...Mallory received backlash for attending Farrakhan's annual Saviours' Day address, an event where the Nation of Islam leader attacked "that Satanic Jew," called Jews "the mother and father of apartheid," and proclaimed that "when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door...."

... Rep. Tupola offers amendments to HB 2739 ....

...After 4 Hours of Testimony, Democrats take 13 minutes to PASS HB-2739 HD1 out of committee....