Priorities

Priority Issues of Opposition:
  1. Universal Pre-kindergarten: any effort to advance UPK
  2. Any efforts to end Medical Cost-Sharing plans
  3. Embryonic Stem Cell Research: any effort to undermine current law
  4. Any Planned Parenthood sponsored bill
o       Planned Parenthood legislation from past sessions:
a.       Forcing health care facilities to offer “emergency contraception” to victims of sexual assault;
b.      Providing Planned-Parenthood-style sex education to students;
c.       Removing the “conscience clause “ in our current law that protects pharmacists who as a matter of conscience do not want to fulfill a prescription that would lead to an abortion, and
d.      Forcing insurance companies to cover contraceptives.
 
Priority Issues of Support:
1.       Human Labor and Sexual Trafficking
2.       Indecent Public Exposure
3.       Adoption: Putative Father Registry to facilitate more adoptions for waiting families.
4.       Education: Amending current law to allow Colleges to offer degrees if they are “in the process” of getting an accreditation.