OFPC Holds State Capitol News Conference

This morning, OFPC Executive Director Mike Jestes participated in a State Capitol news conference with Rep. Rebecca Hamilton (D-Oklahoma City), Dr. Dominic Pedulla, and other pro-life leaders regarding HB 3077.

This bill, which is now in the state Senate would, like in eight other states and several countries, prevent the paying of compensation to young women who risk their health to donate human eggs to fertility clinics and for medical research purposes.

Under the legislation, all women could continue to donate their eggs for IVF purposes, in an effort to conceive a child, but no compensation would be paid.

In a moral society, Oklahomans shouldn't want to unnecessarily put young women's health at risk via egg harvesting and allow creation of an unethical market for body parts.

Mike Jestes on KFOR News Channel 4

OFPC Executive Director Mike Jestes is now taping a spot with KFOR's Bobbie Miller about proposed reforms to Oklahoma's divorce statutes. Several bills have been introduced at 23rd and Lincoln, which are designed to slow down the divorce process, when minor children in the home will be affected negatively by their parent's split.

One bill is by Rep. Mark McCullough (Sapulpa) and the other is HB 2279 by Rep. Sally Kern (Oklahoma City). No-fault divorce laws, enacted nationwide since the 1970s, have proven over the past 40 years to be disasterous for children.