Background
The Committee on Health and Human Services will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, March 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM at
📍 Cross Building, Room 209, 111 Sewall St., Augusta, to discuss LD 143 "An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services."
If you want to read LD 143, click here:https://legislature.maine.gov/bills/display_ps.asp?snum=132&paper=SP0079PID=1456
If you pick through the left side menu, you can find all kinds of good info!
In lieu of personally testifying in support of this bill, you may testify via Zoom, or by online testimony using the following link: https://www.mainelegislature.org/testimony/. Do this prior to the public hearing.
See below for EVERYTHING you're going to need to get this done, including testimony!
🔹 Steps to submit testimony online:
1️⃣ Click: "Public Hearing".
2️⃣ Choose a committee: "Health and Human Services" - using the drop-down menu.
3️⃣ Choose date: March 10, 2025, 10:00 AM - using the drop-down menu.
4️⃣ Click: LD 143
5️⃣ Enter your testimony in the box (or click the checkbox if you want to testify via Zoom).
6️⃣ Complete your contact information.
7️⃣ Click: "I'm not a robot"
8️⃣ Click: "Submit/Register".
Action Time-Window
⚠️ Please consider taking action by March 8, 2025.
Template
The below is a community member's testimony. Feel free to use it, something of your own, or something as simple as "I oppose LD 143, and it "ought not to pass." To get other wording ideas, as online testimony is submitted for this bill, you can see it here:https://legislature.maine.gov/ctl/HHS/03-10-2025?panel=0&time=0&sortdir=0&sortby=2 after clicking on the bill number.
I oppose LD 143 “An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services.”
By what I understand, this bill provides ongoing appropriations of $6,180,000 in each year of the biennium from the General Fund to be distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services to a single grantee to provide management and oversight of the delivery of family planning services. The bill establishes within the department the Fund to Maintain Access to Statewide Family Planning Services.
Another “feel good” bill title. Bottom line, I do not support providing $6.2 million tax dollars annually to fund abortion services here in Maine.
Again, I oppose LD 143 “An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services’, and it “ought not to pass.”
Credit for the above goes to our community member Danny (@DannyEmerson61) from the South Berwick Republican Committee (@BerwickSouth).
Disclaimer
A community member has shared this personal template for those who wish to express their views on LD 143. This template is not an official PTP position, and using it is entirely up to you. Pine Tree Patriots encourages civic participation but does not endorse or support specific actions or policies. Please remember this is an individual initiative.
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