New Hampshire
NH Senate rejects several anti-choice House GOP bills!
April – 2012 The New Hampshire state Senate rejected several bills that were aimed at limiting women’s access to reproductive services and abortion care in the state. Thanks the hard work of PPNNE and legislators, the Senate defeated a number of bills that would essentially defund Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire, ban abortions after 20 weeks, repeal the state’s contraception coverage mandate, and require a woman to wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion. The only anti-choice measure to pass the Senate was the inane and redundant partial-birth abortion ban, which outlawed a procedure in the state that has already been outlawed at the federal level.
This is an exciting victory for access to reproductive health care services in the Granite State! Jennifer Frizzell, the PPNNE Policy Director, told the Nashua Telegraph that, ““The actions of the New Hampshire Senate … bring to a halt the comprehensive anti-women’s health agenda that was pushed by Speaker Bill O’Brien and New Hampshire House leadership.”
However, anti-choice extremists and the House GOP leadership, including Speaker O’Brien, are determined to ensure that the discussion on these bills stays alive. Not content with the Senates’ votes on these bills, GOP Representatives have attached the 24-hour mandatory waiting period bill as an amendment to an unrelated tax credit bill. In their determination to pass anti-choice and anti-women legislation, these extremist Republican Representatives are willing to sacrifice the efficiency of the legislature and derail necessary bills to help the Granite State’s economy and job creation!
We will continue to stand for women’s access to crucial and critical health care services, and you can help to!
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