Ellen Kolb has been a pro-life advocate in New Hampshire for over 25 years. She writes about the life issues on her blog, Leaven for the Loaf. She is currently Legislative Affairs director for Cornerstone Policy Research, a non-profit, non-partisan family policy council in New Hampshire. In 2012, she worked with the NHGOP as Women's Outreach Director. She and her husband have been married for 32 years and have five grown children. She delights in New Hampshire's parks and trails, and whenever possible, she's outdoors enjoying that particular slice of God's creation.
New Hampshire’s statutory definition of “physician’s office” has apparently been a factor in shielding abortion facilities from oversight, according to a recent report in the state’s largest-circulation newspaper. In a front page story on May19 credited to a team of reporters, the New Hampshire Sunday News ran an article under the headline “Officials say NH [...]
The New Hampshire House today tabled HR 6, a resolution in favor of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, on a vote of 239-111 . HR 6 had come to the floor without recommendation after an 8-8 deadlock in the Judiciary Committee. Tabling does not kill the resolution but removes it from immediate consideration. [...]
How far are we from “Do Not Resuscitate” becoming everyone’s default medical order? News from California raises that question, among others. According to KCAL/CBS Los Angeles, an 87-year-old woman from Bakersfield, California died at a hospital last week after being transported from her assisted-living facility, where a nurse declined to perform CPR on her. A [...]
Dear President Obama, I see that your Administration has just issued new rules in an attempt to appease me and all the other Americans who have concerns about your mandatory-contraception coverage. The formal fact sheet describing these rules says that you are accepting feedback through April 5. Perhaps something new will come up within the [...]
Less than a mile from New Hampshire’s State House in Concord is the Feminist Health Center on Main Street, an abortion facility from way back. It was founded 39 years ago, just a year after Roe v. Wade. The homey little building is easy to miss on a normal day, with only a modest sign to [...]
On June 15, New Hampshire Governor John Lynch announced his veto of a bill to ban partial-birth abortion. The House and Senate will consider overrides to this and other vetoes on June 27. After becoming the longest-serving New Hampshire governor in nearly two centuries, and after building a reputation as a moderate politician, he has [...]
As a New Hampshire voter, I’m accustomed to being made much of by presidential candidates every four years. Dozens of them criss-cross the state, meeting us in diners and living rooms and on Main Streets all over our Granite State. After the primary, we’re left in relative peace until the next go-‘round. Here we are, [...]
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