A group of Republicans in the New Hampshire state House and Senate want to ban abortion after just 15 days.
Republicans currently hold a trifecta in New Hampshire, with GOP majorities in the House and Senate and a Republican occupying the governor’s mansion. But control of the House — the largest in the country with 400 members — sits on a knife’s edge. There are 198 Republicans and 195 Democrats, three independents, and four vacant seats.
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Republicans “claim that they don’t want to ban abortion anymore, and that they don’t want to change the 24 week ban. And here we are, with a bill from sponsors in both chambers, trying to move the ban to 15 days,” says Alexis Simpson, deputy minority leader of the New Hampshire House. Simpson pointed to other proposals floated by GOP members to restrict abortion, including a Texas-style abortion bounty law in 2021, and 15-week ban that is expected to be introduced in the upcoming session.
I love that these fuckwits haven’t come to terms with the fact that most Americans hate this policy, and all it does is drive out the vote for the Dems.
It's very telling they they're floundering on this and can't get consistent messaging. The party has fallen apart in most meaningful ways. The Republican Party of 2012 would've had analyst and strategist approved talking points given to every Republican to parrot. They'd have a consistent national campaign of bullshit.
Not only are the strategists being ignored, I think a lot of them have flat out left since 2016. If they weren't far right to start, there's a good chance they've been disgusted and quit.
This isn't to say we should be complacent. A wounded animal is the most dangerous. But they are wounded, and a few good attacks will end them.
But this proposed law does not ban abortion 15 days after ovulation — it bans abortion at 15 days gestation, counted from the first day of a woman’s last menstrual cycle… which means it would ban abortion before some woman have even had conceived.
Which also means that you can just go ahead and subtract 2-4 weeks (at least, subtract more if you're not super regular or your christofascist overlords require a waiting period between an initial consultation and the procedure itself) from any of these laws. So far, i've only seen one that uses the "probable fertilization" date instead (but to be honest, idk how they determine that date so there could be some fuckery there too).
Women are nothing but livestock to these people. There only to make more babies to feed to the capitalist machine. Their god has made women to be property, with no franchise, no rights, no purpose but to be bred and do work beneath them, like raising those babies and cooking and keeping a home for their owners. It makes no difference to them if that woman is their mother, their sister or their daughter.
I’ve called and left a voicemail for the one of the two bill sponsors. Two don’t have numbers in their gencourt pages and the senators phone goes to an assistants voicemail. You can be damned sure I’m calling my local reps tomorrow.
Even if nothing ultimately comes from these bs laws, it wastes so much time and effort. I believe intentionally so. Keep progressives too busy putting out their flaming turd bags to actually make much progress.
Either way they fycking win while we argue and make jokes and fear for our futures.
Weird, the gaslighters kept telling us that Republicans would not steal rights if Roe was repealed.
Meanwhile, if I take a look around, you have stuff like this, AND Republicans rubbing their hands together in glee thinking about messing with BIRTH CONTROL and LGBT rights as well...
A new American Family Survey finds that nearly half of Republicans said they would prefer a national policy on abortion, instead of letting each state decide.
Among Republicans, that’s nearly 10 points higher than when the same question was asked last year.
Either it enshrines abortion rights, or Republicans will discover everything so far has been child's play. They'll see a backlash that's record setting.
I think the point is to allow contraceptive and day after pills, but ban any sort of actual abortion. I'd guess it's to address folks who believe birth control is abortion. I'm not sure if this is eyerollingly stupid or part of a devious strategy that's going somewhere serious.
To be clear, fuck these idiots, but I want to know if we need to defend against some new avenue of attack.
At what point does the right ban a woman saying no to sex? After all, if contraception is redefined as abortion, then a woman refusing to have sex with a guy is "aborting" the potential baby they could have had together.
Even if you caught a pregnancy at the 15 day mark a lot of the paperwork and diagnosis will mark that as the 4 week mark. The clock sort of officially starts from your last period so for the first two weeks-ish of a pregnancy you aren't ACTUALLY pregnant.
There isn't really a functional 15 day abortion option because the earliest you can catch a pregnancy is at official week four. Conception itself is really hard to track exactly so they just tag the whole thing to the last obvious biological proof a person wasn't pregnant.
Which means this isn't a "get thee to a doctor" move. It's a "they know this fact is essentially no different in function than a full ban but it kinda sounds like it's not if you never did your homework ."
A group of Republicans from both the state House and Senate have announced plans to introduce a bill that would ban almost all abortions after just 15 days gestation.
Earlier this year, members of both the Republican and Democratic caucuses voted to remove criminal and civil penalties associated with that ban, and prohibit the state from further restricting the practice.
Two-thirds of voters in New Hampshire support keeping abortion legal in all or most cases, according to the most recent Pew Research data, and at least one of the bill’s co-sponsors, Rep. John Sellers, is in a vulnerable seat after winning by just four votes in 2022.
The proposed ban is notable in part because just a few weeks ago New Hampshire’s Committee to Elect House Republicans declared that the state’s abortion laws were just as liberal as neighboring Massachusetts.
Reached for comment by Rolling Stone, GOP Rep. Jason Osborne, chairman of the committee, called House Bill 1248-FN “no-chance legislation supported by only a few fringe members.”
And here we are, with a bill from sponsors in both chambers, trying to move the ban to 15 days,” says Alexis Simpson, deputy minority leader of the New Hampshire House.
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