23 SENATE DEMOCRATS BLOCK LATE-TERM ABORTION BAN FROM BEING HEARD

New Mexico Alliance for Life applauds the motion made today by Sen. William Sharer to send HB 390 to NM Senate Floor. Senator Pete Campos was the only Democrat to vote for motion, but sadly Late-Term Abortion Ban fails to be heard 

Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez calls on Senate to reject motion to hear HB 390, protects "order of  committee process" over the sanctity of life.  23 Senate Democrats vote in lock step with abortion industry to keep abortion legal up to the day of birth in NM.

In yet another partisan manner, 23 New Mexico Senate Democrats voted today to block HB 390 from moving to the Senate Floor for a fair vote. Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez (D- Los Lunas) insists that the voice of the people of New Mexico and the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of unborn children were less important than the "order of the committee system."  With one day remaining in the 2015 Legislature, he and the 22 Senate Democrats who voted in lock step with the abortion industry blocked any further progress for HB 390, the Late-Term Abortion Ban.   New Mexico Alliance for Life applauds the motion made by Senator William Sharer (R-Farmington) and 15 other Senators (16 total) including sole Democrat, Pete Campos (D-Las Vegas) for voting for the motion to move HB 390 to the Senate Floor.  New Mexico Alliance for Life will post the vote roll call as soon as it is available, stay tuned for more details soon.  

New Mexico Alliance for Life Executive Director, Elisa Martinez stated, "It is a sad day for New Mexicans who are fed up with the abortion industry fighting against the voice of the people and obviously influencing our elected officials to do the same," Martinez said, "We will continue to expose the profiteering interests of the abortion industry as well as holding our elected officials accountable to us, and not the extreme and regressive  positions of the abortion industry."

Stay tuned for more information to follow in the coming days.  Thank you to all our supporters and for those who took a courageous stand in defending the lives of premature unborn babies, women and our girls.  

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