On Sunday night Taylor Swift’s boyfriend won the Super Bowl, an excruciating moment for Republicans across the nation. Why excruciating? Well, last week Republicans declared a “Holy War” on the iconic, history-making singer, all because she once encouraged young...
A coalition of lawmakers and advocacy groups convened a discussion last week aimed to bridge the gap between the experiences of young individuals and families in New Hampshire and the policies crafted to support them.
Republicans in the New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday blocked a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have created proactive protections for abortion rights in the state. New Hampshire is the only state in New England where such abortion rights are not enshrined in state law.
During this morning’s meeting of the Executive Council, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella revealed he declined to sign onto an amicus brief supporting access to the abortion medication mifepristone ahead of a Supreme Court review. This comes after a...
As smug political staffers and elected officials are so fond of reminding us, elections have consequences. The days following a major election like the one New Hampshire had last Tuesday allows us to observe and appreciate those consequences for those individuals...
“Thousands of girls and women in states that banned abortion experienced rape-related pregnancy, but few (if any) obtained in-state abortions legally, suggesting that rape exceptions fail to provide reasonable access to abortion for survivors,” the study stated.
During Tuesday’s event, the president and vice president highlighted several new measures the administration is taking to strengthen reproductive health care access, criticized extreme abortion bans, and highlighted the stakes of the 2024 election for reproductive rights.
Testimony on a trio of abortion bills in the State House Judiciary Committee — which included a 15-day abortion ban which has attracted national attention — drew intense scrutiny from state medical professionals and even a Republican state representative on...
Members of the New Hampshire Senate Democrats gathered on Thursday to unveil a slate of new bills aimed at shoring up abortion rights in the state, as well as a constitutional amendment aimed at enshrining proactive abortion protections into state law. State...
Once the cool headed older sibling of the state House, New Hampshire’s Republican Senate majority in the 24-member body has taken a sharp ideological right turn in recent years, and their legislative agenda reflects that.
Here are five areas of legislation filed in the State Senate so far likely to be hot topics in the New Hampshire political scene in 2024.
