House District 17 (almost all of Wayne county) elects two members.

Richard Thompson earned an F from Life Gauge.  In 2007, as Speaker of the House, he appointed Carrie Webster to chair the Judiciary committee, Barbara Fleischauer to chair Constitutional Revision, and Don Perdue to chair Health and Human Resources.  These committee chairmen are more than willing to kill bills that protect unborn babies..  In 2006 Mr. Thompson, as a member of the House, voted against a motion to dispense with committee reference, effectively killing a parental notification bill.  He is a Democrat.  Due to his voting record, Life Gauge does not recommend that constituents contact him.

Don Perdue earned an F from Life Gauge.  

In 2006 he voted against a motion to dispense with committee reference, effectively killing a parental notification bill.  In 2006 he also used his position as chairman of the Health committee to kill 55 abortion-related bills, all of which would help West Virginia's unborn babies in some way.  Mr. Perdue refuses to place any of these bills on the agenda of his committee, ensuring they will die.  Mr. Perdue does more to harm West Virginia's unborn babies than any other person in the legislature.

The bills he killed in 2006 ...

 HB 2042 --- Allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure.
HB 2052 --- Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility.
HB 2068  ---  Requiring that any person seeking an abortion provide two forms of identification.
HB 2091 --- Prohibiting the distribution of RU-486 by any administrator, employee or other official of the college or university.
HB 2112 ---  Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor.
HB 2125 --- Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures.
HB 2130 --- Requiring the collection of statistics relative to abortions performed in the state.

HB 2143 --- Prohibiting school employees in their official capacity from facilitating an abortion.
HB 2152 --- Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations.
HB 2172  ---  Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents.
HB 2193 --- Providing when any part of an unborn child is outside the mother's womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state.
HB 2199 --- Prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from being involved in aiding or assisting any person to obtain an abortion to a greater extent than is required by law. 
HB 2200 --- Prohibiting family planning centers in WV that receive state funding from discussing abortion or abortion referrals.
HB 2383 --- Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided the father of the unborn child. 
HB 2532 --- Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus. 
HB 2553 ---  Requiring the higher education policy commission to ensure that no person employed by any state institution of higher education, or who provides services to any state institution of higher education or to the higher education policy commission, performs or participates in or instructs students in how to perform any abortion or abortion procedure.
HB 2559 --- Providing that unborn children are eligible for the children's health insurance program. 
HB 2591 --- Requiring medical facilities that provide abortions to administer anesthesia to an unborn fetus when aborted.
HB 2767 ---  Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother. 
HB 2895 --- Physicians performing abortions must take measures designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus.
HB 2896 ---  Requiring abortion providers to have relationship with hospitals within 15 minutes travel time. 
HB 2913 --- Requiring pre-employment examinations for persons working in a facility that performs abortions. 
HB 2915 --- Requiring the Bureau for Public Health to license, regulate and inspect facilities where three or more abortions are performed during a calendar year.
HB 2916 --- Prohibiting any person who is not a physician licensed in this state from performing an abortion.
HB 2921 --- Granting the Bureau for Public Health the authority to inspect facilities where abortions are performed at any time during the day or night, without a warrant.
HB 2922 ---  Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions.
HB 2923 --- Banning partial birth abortions in instances when the unborn child is capable of survival if delivered.
HB 2927 --- Requiring that nursing services at any facility that provides abortions be under the direction of a registered nurse.
HB 2940 --- Prohibiting the destruction of frozen embryos, and to provide for the adoption of frozen embryos.
HB 2952 --- Requiring all abortions performed during the second or third trimester be performed in a hospital.  
HB 2953 --- Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area. 
HB_2996 --- Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors.
HB 3126 --- Providing that when during the course of an abortion procedure a fetus is aborted alive, all available means be utilized to preserve its life. 
HB 3195 --- Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus, and prescribing criminal penalty for violations. 
HB 3200 --- Allowing hospitals to perform abortions only if the mother's life is in imminent danger.
HB 4082 --- Prohibiting the payment for the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 as a benefit under any health care insurance plan offered by the state to public employees. 
HB 4084 --- Providing that a woman who obtains an abortion has a cause of action against any physician who causes injury to the woman or the unborn child.
HB_4117 --- Adding criminal penalties to Informed Consent legislation.
HB 4273 --- State shall not pay for transportation to abortion-related appointments. 
HB 4315  ---  Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity without fear of disciplinary action or dismissal.
HB_4335 --- Abortion clinics shall comply with best practices determinations of the Department of Health and Human Resources. 
HB 4365 --- Requiring any facility that performs abortions to maintain a quality assurance program. 
HB_4367 --- Parents of any minor to undergo an abortion shall be notified at least 48 hours before the operation. 
HB 4375 --- Requiring that abortion procedures after the first trimester be performed only at an ambulatory surgical facility or hospital licensed to perform that service and that abortion facilities not be located within fifteen hundred feet from the property of  .  .  .   
HB 4376 --- Establishing the crime of Partial Birth Infanticide. 
HB 4388 --- Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed.
HB 4408 --- Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities. 
HB 4449 --- Providing that health care providers, health care institutions, or health care payers are not required to participate in abortion procedures that violate their respective consciences.
HB 4450 --- Prohibiting the performance of any abortion by any person who has admitted to or who has been adjudicated to have committed medical malpractice. 
HB 4476 --- Requirement that certain medical facilities which provide abortions to warn women seeking an abortion of increased risk of breast cancer. 
HB 4480 --- Requiring physicians to file regular reports with the DHHR, regarding patients who require medical treatment as a result of an abortion and providing criminal penalties. 
HB_4495 --- Clinics must comply with clean air standards. 
HB_4502  ---  Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus.
HB_4507 --- Choose Life License Plates, with revenues to Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
HB_4523 --- Definitions of hospital requirements applied to abortion clinics.
HB_4553 --- Ban to the fullest extent allowed under federal/state constitutions.
HB_4561 ---  No coverage of abortion under any state insurance plan. 
HB_4575 --- Parental consent in person, or notarized.
HB_4579 --- Under the supervision of a licensed supervisor. 
HB_4664 --- Reports of all abortion-related injuries and deaths. 
HB_4665 ---  No abortions if child is viable. 
HB_4671 --- Must inform woman life begins at conception.
HB_4672 --- Requiring Sexually Transmitted Diseases test for persons obtaining abortion. 
HB_4702 --- Must report abortions for congenital defects of fetuses.

In 2005 Mr. Perdue killed 52 bills assigned to his Health committee, bills that helped unborn babies in some way. 

In 2004 he killed 36 Life Gauge bills assigned to his Health Committee.  

In 2003 Mr. Perdue killed 23 of these bills.

In 2001 Mr. Perdue voted in a five member Health sub-committee to kill an Informed Consent bill, 3-2.  He is a Democrat who chairs the House Health Committee.  His address is Rt 1 Box 98, Prichard WV 25555 (486-5173).  Tell him the people of Wayne County want him to stop protecting abortionists.

House District 16 (the tiny northern tip of Wayne county, and 1/3 of Cabell county) elects three members.

Kelli Sobonya earned an A from Life Gauge.  She introduced a Life Gauge bill in 2006 and in 2007.  She was not willing to introduce a motion on the floor to discharge the Constitutional Revision committee in reference to HJR 18, which would remove the right to abortion and to abortion funding from the WV Constitution. She is a Republican.  Contact her at PO Box 367 Barboursville WV 25504, or 733-9169.  Thank her for cooperating with Life Gauge.

Dale Stephens earned an A from Life Gauge.  He introduced a Life Gauge bill in 2007 and in 2006.  In 2007 he was not willing to introduce a motion on the floor to discharge the Constitutional Revision committee in reference to HJR 18, which would remove the right to abortion and to abortion funding from the WV Constitution.  In 2006 he voted against a motion to dispense with committee reference, effectively killing a parental notification bill.  He said he accidentally hit the wrong button, and that he intended to vote for the motion.  He is a Democrat.  Contact him at PO Box 9006, Huntington, WV 25704, or 525-5449.  Thank him for cooperating with Life Gauge.

Doug Reynolds earned an A from Life Gauge.  He introduced a Life Gauge bill in 2007.  In 2007 he was not willing to introduce a motion on the floor to discharge the Constitutional Revision committee in reference to HJR 18, which would remove the right to abortion and to abortion funding from the WV Constitution. He is a Democrat.  Contact him at 703 Fifth Ave Huntington WV 25701, or 522-9200.  Thank him for cooperating with Life Gauge.

House District 20 (the southern tip of Wayne county, and the northern half of Mingo county) elects one member.

Steve Kominar earned an F from Life Gauge.  In 2006 he voted against a motion to dispense with committee reference, effectively killing a parental notification bill.  He is a Democrat.  Contact him at PO Box 753 Kermit WV 25674, or 393-3017.  Ask him to cooperate with Life Gauge.

Senate District 6 (part of Wayne, Wyoming and Mercer counties, and all of Mingo and McDowell counties) elects two members.

John Pat Fanning earned an F from Life Gauge. He voted against an Informed Consent bill in the Judiciary committee, April 5, 2001.  The bill died by a 9-7 vote.  He is a Democrat whose term ends in 2008.  Due to his voting record, Life Gauge does not recommend that constituents write to him.

Truman Chafin earned a D from Life Gauge.  For five years, beginning in 2002, Life Gauge asked him to introduce a Life Gauge bill.  He never did.  We finally quit asking.  He is a Democrat whose term ends in 2010.  Contact him at PO Box 1799, Williamson WV 25661 or 235-6123.  Ask him to cooperate with Life Gauge.

Senate District 7 (part of Wayne county, and all of Boone, Logan and Lincoln counties) elects two members.

Earl Ray Tomblin earned an F from Life Gauge.  He appoints Health committee and Judiciary committee chairmen who kill good legislation.  He is a Democrat whose term ends in 2008.  Contact him at PO Box 116, Chapmanville WV 25508, or 855-7168.  Ask him to appoint committee chairmen who will place all protective bills on the agenda.

Ron Stollings earned a D from Life Gauge.  He was unwilling to introduce any Life Gauge bill in 2007.  He is a Democrat whose term ends in 2010.  Contact him at PO Box 365 Madison WV 25130, or at 369-6194.  Ask him to cooperate with Life Gauge.

Senate District 5 (a tiny northern corner of Wayne county and half of Cabell county) elects two members.

Robert Plymale earned a D from Life Gauge.  For five years, beginning in 2002, Life Gauge asked him to introduce a Life Gauge bill.  He never did.  We finally quit asking.  He is a Democrat whose term ends in 2008.  Contact him at PO Box 519 Ceredo WV 25507, or 453-6321.  Ask him to cooperate with Life Gauge.

Evan Jenkins earned an D from Life Gauge.  He did not introduce Life Gauge bills in 2006 or 2007.  He is a Democrat whose term ends in 2010.  Contact him at 306 Holswade Dr  Huntington WV 25701, or 523-1365.  Ask him to cooperate with Life Gauge.