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The state’s new abortion ban is not the same as Massachusetts and New York as Gov. Chris Sununu contends because New Hampshire’s law criminalizes doctors for providing such a service after 24 weeks of pregnancy except to save the woman’s life.
Ryan Guptill, the governor’s nominee to become a Circuit Court judge, went to a public hearing Friday with questions posed about how he would handle the backlog of cases, involuntary emergency admission hearings, and the lack of public defenders slowing the process.
Medicaid reimbursement rate increases for birthing units around the state were approved Wednesday as Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington spoke of the long-term damage being done to maternal health-care since the state’s new abortion ban went into effect.
The NH Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS), as newly required by NH House Bill 1608, is providing instructions for residents to withdraw their COVID-19 vaccine information from the NH Immunization Information System (NHIIS), should they choose.
Following the vote in the state Senate Thursday to sustain Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of HB 1454, which would establish a formula for determining the distance a new landfill must be located from perennial water sources, Rep. Megan Murray, D-Amherst, has re-filed the bill for the 2023 legislative session.
Gov. Chris Sununu Thursday had a perfect record as the legislature sustained all eight of his vetoes including one that would have enhanced regulations for siting landfills that was overridden in the House.
Lawmakers Thursday rejected a planned $100 million program to help state residents with energy costs this winter proposed by Gov. Chris Sununu and instead approved a less expensive program targeted to low-and middle-income residents.
With over 500 lawn signs placed across the county urging voters to reject Free Staters and Libertarian “extremists” from the House of Representatives and county leadership, members of Citizens for Belknap were expressing gratitude to voters for unseating a number of Republican legislators in the state primary Tuesday.
The attorney representing 800 victims who were physically, sexually and emotionally abused as children incarcerated by the state says it’s time to reform confidentiality laws that keep the public from knowing what is happening at the Sununu Youth Services Center.