Citizens for Life Action Alert

Action Alert issued by Citizens for Life, the New Hampshire affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, regarding SB 335.

RTL Action Alert for NH

URGENT. April 24th

Please call your Representatives, starting tonight, and ask them to vote NO
on Senate Bill 335 - Mandatory Open Adoption. The bill is expected to be
voted on by the House of Representatives on Thursday, April 29th. If passed
into law, Mandatory Open Adoption will frighten many pregnant women into
choosing abortion. The following letter has been sent to all House Members.
Please use the points in it to express your opposition to SB 335.

April 24, 2004

Regarding SB 335 - Mandatory Open Adoption

Dear Representative:

Legislators who embrace the moniker "pro-choice" do so to
express that women should have the choice to either give birth to their
babies or to obtain abortions. "Pro-choice" advocates recoil at legislation
friendly to human fetuses when such legislation restricts abortion practice.
Similarly, and in the interest of philosophical integrity, "pro-choice"
people should oppose pressures on women to get abortions. This last part is
a common ground on which "pro-life" advocates comfortably stand with their
friends on the other side of the issue.

Citizens for Life urges you - "pro-choice" or "pro-life" - to
vote against Senate Bill 335 as it is because it would exert pressure on
pregnant women to obtain abortions.

If a pregnant woman does not want to keep her baby, she has two
options remaining: giving her baby to adoptive parents or going to an
abortion provider. Most women who want to see their babies adopted want the
right to maintain their privacy. Privacy, here, is a matter of secrecy,
anonymity. When that is stripped from a woman, she is placed into a crisis
decision. That is unfair to women who want to exercise their choice to give
birth and see their babies adopted.

Senate Bill 335 seeks to strip privacy - secrecy, anonymity -
from women who do not want their personal information made available to the
children they bear - with love in their hearts - and place in families
better situated to care for them.

Birth mothers should have the option, perpetually, to make their
identities available. This choice allows women to be free from the
virtually compulsory exertions in SB 335 that restrict their freedom to
choose birth.

The bizarre irony inherent in SB 335's mandatory open adoption
policy is that many potentially adopted children will not be alive to
exercise the discovery advocated by the bill's supporters.

Please vote No on SB 335.

Respectfully,

Roger Stenson, Executive Director