Bills would criminalize abortion, prohibit late-term ones
February 9, 2021 GMT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lawmakers in the Republican-led House are looking at measures that would criminalize abortion, prohibit late-term abortions and remove restrictions on picketing outside abortion clinics.
New Hampshire is among the least restrictive states when it comes to abortion. A group of anti-abortion bills heard last year did not pass the Legislature, which was then led by Democrats.
Rep. Walter Stapleton, R-Claremont, told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday he hoped his bill “protecting nascent human life as a reasonable state interest” would “reduce, if not yet completely eliminate, the dichotomy we’ve had for 48 years between the Right-to-Life of of the preborn and the lawful consent granted for abortion under the law.”