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The state’s new controversial abortion ban, known as the Fetal Life Protection Act, got the attention of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday with an effort sponsored by Republicans to add an exception for fatal fetal anomalies to 24-week abortion ban.
The House Thursday decided to approve a long sought exemption for fatal fetal diagnoses to the 24-week abortion ban law passed last year.
For the first time in two years, the New Hampshire House met in Representatives Hall and began by honoring long-time legislator and advocate Renny Cushing who died from cancer last week.
The House Judiciary Committee Friday decided to take the middle road on abortion, recommending killing all but two of the six abortion bills it heard last week.
The House Thursday passed bills that would add exemptions to the state’s new 24-week abortion ban passed last year and extended the COVID-19 vaccination exemption to state and county health care facilities despite warnings of the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money and facility certification.
A new campus in Franklin focused on the needs of the state’s veterans and a $100 million fund to incentivize local housing projects across the state were among new initiatives Gov. Chris Sununu outlined in his State of the State address Thursday.
One bill, CACR 18, is a proposed constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights, both to terminate and to have a baby, and House Bill 1674 would enshrine abortion rights in state law as other New England states have done.
CONCORD – An effort to repeal the state’s new 24-week fetal protection law came to an emotional head at a legislative hearing, Thursday with personal testimony given by women on both sides of the issue of abortion and from the medical community that it will likely lead to a loss of those providing care in the Granite State if allowed to stand.
Two bills seeking to significantly change access to abortion services drew mostly opposition during public hearings Wednesday.