Fetal Tissue Bill
This vital legislation, important to voters across Louisiana, would have required a prospective vaccine recipient to be notified whether the vaccine was produced or tested using aborted human fetal derived cells or human embryonic derived cells. The Bill also requires the Louisiana Department of Health to post this information on its website. The Bill died in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee after passing the full House. Despite the critical importance of the legislation, two Republican Senators, Hensgens (Acadia, Lafayette, St. Landry, and Vermillion Parishes) and McMath (St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes), were inexcusably absent for the Committee vote, although they were present earlier at the Committee roll call. Republican Senator Fred Mills (Lafayette, Iberia, and St. Martin Parishes) voted to kill the Bill. The Committee enjoys a 5-3 Republican majority, yet sadly the bill was killed, directly or indirectly, by Republicans Hensgens, McMath, and Mills.
