Massachusetts Family Institute is working hard to inform, educate, and motivate Bay Staters to effectively engage the culture. We decipher what is happening in government, then strive to inform and equip you to make your voice heard on the social issues impacting our families and our shared values. We know from years of experience that when you speak whether by email, letter, or a phone message — elected officials listen.
In this Action Center, we offer ways you can easily make your voice heard. Please get involved through the action items below!
Hidden in HB58/SB24, the latest appropriations bill is a million-dollar smear campaign against pro-life pregnancy resource centers. Disappointingly, the MA legislature has once again passed this bill.
We oppose this measure for these reasons:
This bill uses tax dollars to lie about pregnancy resource centers and to promote Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion.
Ask Governor Healey to veto this portion of the Supplemental Budget Bill, which went to her desk March 23rd. We have supplied talking points and detailed instructions on how to contact the governor HERE.
Read our brief to learn more.
Update: Governor Healey signed this bill on March 29th, 2023. Read the news story here.
HB377/SB174 aims to censor the speech of pro-life pregnancy resource centers, making it more difficult for them to do their vital work for women and babies.
We oppose this bill for these reasons:
If passed this bill would violate the First Amendment free speech rights of pregnancy resource centers and benefit Big Abortion at the expense of vulnerable mothers.
A hearing for this bill is scheduled for Monday, July 24th from 1-5 pm. We strongly encourage you to attend the hearing and provide testimony opposing this discriminatory and unconstitutional bill. Once more information is provided regarding the hearing we will include it here. Or you can visit the MA government website.
Please contact your legislators to tell them you oppose this bill. Click here to send them an email or for a phone script to call them!
Read our brief to learn more.
HB1599/SB1114 would eliminate nearly all restrictions on abortion in Massachusetts, would make an abortion more dangerous for women, would allow girls of any age to obtain abortions without parental consent, and more.
We oppose this bill for these reasons:
If passed this bill would undermine parental rights, eliminate conscientious objections to performing abortions and safety regulations for dangerous late-term abortions, and target pregnancy resource centers.
Stay tuned for a call to action to oppose this bill. We will supply talking points and detailed instructions on how to contact your legislators. Check back for updates.
Read our brief to learn more.
The Massachusetts legislature is considering HB544/SB268 which would mandate a controversial sex education framework for public schools across the state. Currently, local schools can decide for themselves what and when to teach the children in their community about sex, based on the unique needs of their student populations and the desires of their parents. This would eliminate that right.
We oppose this bill for these reasons:
If passed this bill would result in less transparency and loss of local control and would expose children to graphic sexual content. Visit the sex ed page of our website to learn more about the kind of sex ed content that would be mandated.
Action Alert
We expect a hearing to be called on this bill shortly. Once the hearing takes place the bill could be brought for a vote at any time. Please contact your legislators to tell them you oppose this bill. Click here to send them an email or for a phone script to call them!
Read our brief to learn more.
In 2012, the voters of our Commonwealth rejected physician-assisted suicide in a state-wide referendum. In 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Court refused to find a right to assisted suicide in our Constitution. Nevertheless, the pro-suicide lobby is again pushing HB2246/SB1331, “An Act relative to end of life options,” to legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts.
We oppose this bill for these reasons:
Physician-assisted suicide invites abuse and creates a slippery slope toward devaluing life. Devaluing life for some means devaluing life for all. Physician-assisted suicide is never necessary and always ends a unique and valuable human life.
Stay tuned for a call to action to oppose this bill. We will supply talking points and detailed instructions on how to contact your legislators. Check back for updates.
Read our brief to learn more.
HB604 would delete the religious exemption for K-12th grade students from the current vaccine law, completely eliminating the exemption for students at both public and private schools. This exemption has been part of the MA vaccine statute for decades.
SB1391 is identical to HB604 but is titled, “An Act relative to vaccines and preventing future disease outbreaks.” It too would eliminate the religious exemption.
HB2151/SB1458 would keep the exemption but would require all exemption requests to go through the MA Department of Public Health.
We oppose these bills for these reasons:
They would eliminate religious exemptions, result in decreased accountability and increased government bureaucracy, shame schools and parents, and allow minors to consent to vaccination without their parent or guardian’s consent or knowledge.
A hearing for these bills is scheduled for Wednesday, July 19th at 9 am. To give virtual testimony you must sign up by 5 pm on Monday, July 17th. We strongly encourage you to pre-register to testify in person as well. Same-day registrations may not be accepted if there are too many people signed up to testify. Click here to register to testify.
Please contact your legislators to tell them you oppose these bills. Click here to send them an email or for a phone script to call them!
Read our brief to learn more.
