(Consider this a personally posted action alert of sorts. Please forward freely with contact information attached.)
Lots of VERY IMPORTANT, and very bad things are happening to Nebraska’s legalized Child Abandonment law right now. See Amendments 10 and 11 below in particular.
This is the Nebraska page on LB 1, and its evolving amendments can be found listed down the right hand side.
I’ve already written about Amendments 1 and 2 on the Nebraska related blog Marley Greiner and I are co-authoring- Children of the Corn
These are new;
AM 4– sets the cut off at 1 year
AM 5– 30 days
AM 6– four months
AM 9– sets an expiration date- June 4, 2009
but the latest amendments are exactly what I suspected were coming;
AM 10– insert “The person leaving such child may remain anonymous.”
(emphasis added)
and
AM 11– insert “The hospital shall not require the person leaving such child to provide any medical history of the child or the child’s family. The person leaving such child may voluntarily provide medical history of the child or the child’s family.”
(emphasis added)
These last two amendments will have GRAVE lifelong consequences for Nebraska’s next set of State enabled abandoned kids.
Now is the time to contact Nebraska legislators via phone and e-mail.
When speaking with Legislators ask for what we really want, nothing short of a full repeal of the Nebraska legalized child abandonment law, age it down to Zero point Zero (no kids at all.)
This will require rejecting LB 1 (and ALL of its amendments to date) and LB 3 entirely, and instead introducing an aged to Zero point Zero bill.
A final vote is scheduled for Friday.
Here is the Nebraska Legislators main list (each entry has contact information & phone)
and
E-mail address for those that have them:
Adams, Greg – [email protected]
Aguilar, Ray – [email protected]
Ashford, Brad – [email protected]
Avery, Bill – [email protected]
Burling, Carroll – [email protected]
Carlson, Tom – [email protected]
Christensen, Mark – [email protected]
Cornett, Abbie – [email protected]
Dierks, Cap – [email protected]
Dubas, Annette – [email protected]
Engel L. Patrick – [email protected]
Erdman, Philip – [email protected]
Fischer, Deb – [email protected]
Flood, Mike – [email protected]
Friend, Mike – [email protected]
Fulton, Tony – [email protected]
Gay, Tim – [email protected]
Hansen, Thomas – [email protected]
Harms, John – [email protected]
Heidemann, Lavon – [email protected]
Howard, Gwen – [email protected]
Hudkins, Carol – [email protected]
Janssen, Ray – [email protected]
Johnson, Joel – [email protected]
Karpisek, Russ – [email protected]
Kopplin, Gail – [email protected]
Kruse, Lowen – [email protected]
Langemeier, Chris – [email protected]
Lathrop, Steve – [email protected]
Lautenbaugh, Scott – [email protected]
Louden, LeRoy – [email protected]
McDonald, Vickie – [email protected]
McGill, Amanda – [email protected]
Nantkes, Danielle – [email protected]
Nelson, John – [email protected]
Pahls, Rich – [email protected]
Pankonin, Dave – [email protected]
Pedersen, Dwite – [email protected]
Pirsch, Pete – [email protected]
Preister, Don – [email protected]
Raikes, Ron – [email protected]
Rogert, Kent – [email protected]
Schimek, DiAnna – [email protected]
Stuthman, Arnie – [email protected]
Synowiecki,John – [email protected]
Wallman,Norman – [email protected]
White, Tom – [email protected]
Wightman, John – [email protected]
-Lauren Sabina Kneisly
(Author of Baby Love Child
and co-author of Children of the Corn.)