Photo credit: Teemu008 (CC-By-SA 2.0)
Photo credit: Teemu008 (CC-By-SA 2.0)
Photo credit: Teemu008 (CC-By-SA 2.0)

With most New Hampshire press attention turned toward the February 9 presidential primary, a state legislative committee quietly voted 9-7 Tuesday to reject HB 1627. This state-level Born-Alive Infant Protection bill seeks to ensure appropriate care for children who survive attempted abortion.

The same committee on a 9-8 vote later rejected a bill to ban dismemberment abortions.

The bills will go to the full House, probably next week, for a vote on the “inexpedient-to-legislate” committee reports.

New Hampshire law currently bans partial-birth abortion – a measure enacted over a 2012 gubernatorial veto. A parental notification law was passed in 2011, also over a veto. No other abortion regulation is in place in the Granite State.

Read more at Leaven for the Loaf.

You May Also Like

On the Scene as New Hampshire Defunds Planned Parenthood

New Hampshire Executive Councilors have turned thumbs down to a contract proposal from Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.

Republican Hemingway declares candidacy for NH governor

Andrew Hemingway has become the first New Hampshire Republican to announce a…