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Protect Women from Forced Abortions! No woman should be forced into an abortion. HB 1721 would ban coerced abortions in New Hampshire. Women should not need to rely on abortion providers to detect coercion, when those providers stand to gain financially from her abortion. The House Judiciary Committee believed […]
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Support Informed Consent for Abortion Women seeking abortion should be entitled to meaningful informed consent – not by some clinic’s “protocol,” but by legal right. HB 1707 provides for informed consent including a 24-hour reflection period. A woman deserves sufficient information to make an informed choice between giving birth
Support Medical Conscience Rights Medical personnel should not be compelled to perform or participate in abortions and other procedures that violate their religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. HB 1787 will protect the conscience rights of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and everyone involved in allied health professions. Some state legislators don’t agree
Support the Viable Fetus Protection Act New Hampshire is one of the only states where abortion is unrestricted throughout all nine months of pregnancy. New Hampshire deserves better! The Viable Fetus Protection Act (HB 1680), which would provide protection to viable preborn children, is coming to the House floor with hard
The New Hampshire Senate today killed SB 490 on a 12-10 vote. This attempt to establish an “end-of-life study committee” would have been a step toward an assisted suicide law for New Hampshire, as the sponsor made clear in her speech introducing the bill. This vote is a statement
Cornerstone urges you to vote “inexpedient to legislate” on HB 287. When the bill was introduced, and throughout the work sessions on the bill, Cornerstone urged that the bill shift its focus to a study of human trafficking in New Hampshire. We also urged that legislators explicitly reject re-defining
Cornerstone Action supports HB 1787-FN, relative to health care freedom of conscience. Health care professionals should not be expected to leave their religious, moral, and ethical beliefs at the door when they come to work. While HB 1787 specified conscience protection for practitioners relative to only a few procedures,
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Shortly before the 2016 election, then-candidate Chris Sununu – who had a mixed record as an executive councilor when it came to funding abortion providers – wrote that he would support five specific “common sense” initiatives long pursued by pro-life voters. In an open letter addressed to attorney Ovide
Your doctor shouldn’t have to leave her convictions at the office door when she comes to work. On Tuesday, February 20, at 10:00 a.m., a House committee will consider HB 1787-FN. This bill would prohibit discrimination against health care providers who object on religious, moral, or ethical grounds to
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Senate Bill 490’s title indicates it’s about studying end-of-life issues, but the sponsor’s recent Senate testimony told a different tale. Cornerstone Action’s executive director Shannon McGinley explains the organization’s opposition to the bill. We appreciate Sen. Martha Hennessey’s candor at the February 8 hearing on the bill, when she
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