To the Editor:
I do know that New Hampshire values liberty and freedom — together with the power to make private, reproductive well being choices. I felt betrayed when Governor Sununu signed the primary abortion ban in New Hampshire’s fashionable historical past final 12 months. He selected to disregard sufferers, suppliers, and nearly all of Granite Staters and the folks of New Hampshire have been needlessly harmed by an ultrasound mandate and lack of exceptions to the 24-week ban for six months.
New Hampshire has a protracted historical past of upholding reproductive freedom, however Governor Sununu and different anti-abortion lawmakers modified that.
I’m grateful for the courageous storytellers who spoke out in opposition to Sununu’s abortion ban and efficiently fought so as to add an exception for deadly fetal diagnoses to the 24-week ban. Their efforts resulted within the passage of HB 1609, a invoice that lessens the hurt of New Hampshire’s abortion ban and repeals the pointless ultrasound requirement.
The underside line is that these anti-abortion legal guidelines shouldn’t have been adopted within the first place. With the top of Roe v. Wade coming this summer time, now’s the time to proceed to take motion to guard and broaden abortion entry — to be there for our group throughout New England and to remain knowledgeable. I urge you to get entangled with or donate to New Hampshire’s native abortion suppliers, like Deliberate Parenthood of Northern New England, Equality Well being Heart, and Lovering Well being Heart.
Sofia Piazza
Haverhill