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In Emotion-Laden Hearing, New Mexico Senate Kills Pro-Life Bills
March 17, 2015
By Cheryl Sullenger
 Santa
Fe, NM - During a Sunday Senate committee meeting laced with heavy
emotion, two pro-life bills were tabled, leaving the out-of-control New
Mexico abortion industry without accountability.
After
clearing the House with strong bi-partisan support, two measures, HB
390 (Late-Term Abortion Ban) and HB 391 (Parental Notification for
Abortion), landed in the Democratically-controlled Senate Public
Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Gerald Ortiz Y. Pino.
Sen.
Pino is a staunch supporter of "Catholics for Choice." Earlier this
month, Pino's committee killed a bill that would have required that
abortionists maintain local hospital privileges. Attendees of the
hearing said he cut off expert testimony from the bill's supporters and
refused a fellow legislator's request to allow the playing of 911
recordings that described numerous life-threatening abortion injuries
suffered by women at New Mexico abortion facilities.
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