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.
We opposed this measure for these reasons:
This bill uses tax dollars to lie about pregnancy resource centers and to promote Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion.
Read our brief to learn more.
Disappointingly, the MA legislature has once again passed this bill. Governor Healey signed the Pregnancy Resource Center Smear Campaign 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 was held on July 24th at the State House in Boston. Thank you to those who attended and provided testimony opposing this discriminatory and unconstitutional bill. The Gag Rule is currently in committee.
Action Alert
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!
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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.
A hearing for this bill was held on November 21st at the State House in Boston. Thank you to those who attended and provided testimony opposing this dangerous bill. The Radical Abortion Expansion bill is currently in committee.
Action Alert
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.
The MA 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.
A hearing for this bill was held on October 11th at the State House in Boston. Thank you to those who attended and provided testimony opposing this harmful bill. The Sex Ed Mandate is currently in committee.
Action Alert
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.
The MA legislature is considering HB587/HB463 which would require school districts to adopt an opt-in policy for students to participate in human sexual education. This means that before a student would be allowed to participate in sex education lessons, the district would be required to secure written permission from the parent or guardian consenting to their child’s participation.
We support this bill for this reason:
Currently, MA students are automatically required to participate in sex education lessons unless their parent or guardian opts them out. This policy increases the likelihood of student participation, potentially against their parents’ or guardians’ wishes since busy parents or guardians may miss the notification of upcoming sex education lessons and/or forget to submit a letter to remove their child from these lessons.
This proposed opt-in rule respects parents and parental rights and ensures that only students whose parents or guardians desire them to participate in sex education lessons at school receive instruction in human sexuality and sexuality issues.
Action Alert
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 MA 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.
A hearing for this bill was held on October 20th at the State House in Boston. Thank you to those who attended and provided testimony opposing this harmful bill. The Physician Assisted Suicide bill is currently in committee.
Action Alert
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.
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 was held on July 19th at the State House in Boston. The proposed School Vaccine Bills are currently in committee.
Action Alert
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.
