Baton Rouge, LA – State Representative Frank A. Hoffmann introduced a bill, HB305, with the following verbiage into the state House:
?Prohibits employees and representatives of abortion providers, and affiliates
of such providers, from delivering instruction or materials in public elementary or
secondary schools or in charter schools receiving state funding.?
What is especially odd about the bill is that it would prevent materials and instruction of any topic to be given out at a publicly funded institution. It would prohibit:
?Presenting or otherwise delivering any instruction or program on any topic to
students at a public elementary or secondary school, or at a charter school that
receives state funding.?
The bill clearly intended to prevent children from learning about abortion services would make it illegal, for example, to be employed by an abortion clinic and give a lecture on safe sex practices. Therefore, it seems, an educated population does not bode well for anti-abortion activists.
Pro Choice America rates Loisianna’s Senate, House, and Executive branches of government as “anti-choice.”?The governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, stated via Twitter:
Congrats 2Rep.Hoffman on HB305 passing out of committee- it ensures providers aren't using taxpayer resources 2 promote abortion in schools.
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) April 9, 2014
Representative Hoffman is an anti- abortion legislator. He strongly supports the April 2010 legislation that made it so insurance companies would not be able to cover the cost of an elective abortion in the state of Louisiana. He also strongly supported legislation which requires a woman to watch an ultrasound of the fetus in order to have an abortion. This includes cases of women who are impregnated due to rape or incest. Hoffman is also a retired ?Ouachita Parish school administrator. Hoffman was first elected in 2007. His final eligibility term will be in 2016.
The bill is scheduled to be debated on the house floor on April 16th.
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