Urgent Legislative Alert!

House Bill 2062, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA), is coming up for a final vote very soon. This is a piece of anti-woman legislation will even effect women who want to have their babies.

HB 2062 will have unintended consequences for pregnant women. In South Carolina, a similar law has been used only three times against an actual perpetrator since its inception in 1984. It has been used over 70 times, however, to prosecute women who were carrying their babies to term. A similar trend has appeared in other states as well, even though the laws specifically exempt pregnant women just as HB 2062 does.

HB 2062 does nothing to address violence against pregnant women, but functions
solely by defining fetuses as people under the Kansas criminal code. Homicide is the number one cause of death amongst pregnant women. Until violence against women is addressed; pregnant women will continue to be murdered.

HB 2062 is controversial because, for the first time ever, it would define fetuses, from the moment of conception, as full people under Kansas law.

Please help us stop this bill today. Please contact the representatives below and ask them to vote "NO" on HB 2062.

Robert Grant
620-457-8496
grant@house.state.ks.us

Shirley Palmer
620-223-4105
palmers@house.state.ks.us

Dennis McKinney
620-723-2129
mckinney@house.state.ks.us

Joshua Svaty
785-472-7794
svaty@house.state.ks.us

Tom Burroughs
913-375-1956
burroughs@house.state.ks.us

Stan Frownfelter
913-262-9659
frownfelter@house.state.ks.us

Steve Lukert
785-284-3623
lukert@house.state.ks.us

Eber Phelps
785-625-5947
phelps@house.state.ks.us

Vincent Wetta
620-326-5205
wetta@house.state.ks.us

Nile Dillmore
316-264-2988
dillmore@house.state.ks.us

Oletha Faust-Goudeau
316-652-9067
faustgoudeau@house.state.ks.us

Raj Goyle
316-681-8133
goyle@house.state.ks.us

Ann Mah
785-266-9434
mah@house.state.ks.us

Melody McCray-Miller
316-744-7516
Millerm@house.state.ks.us

Terry McLachlan
316-619-7879
mclachlan@house.state.ks.us

Cindy Neighbor
913-268-9061
neighbor@house.state.ks.us

Michael Peterson
913-371-7354
peterson@house.state.ks.us

Tom Sawyer
316-265-7076
sawyer@house.state.ks.us

Mark Treaster
620-459-6363
treaster@house.state.ks.us

Ed Trimmer
620-221-7146
trimmer@house.state.ks.us

Jim Ward
316-683-3609
ward@house.state.ks.us