NH: Republicans help deliver Democrats two abortion wins

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The support of several Republican House lawmakers Thursday gave Democrats wins on significant abortion bills.

By fairly wide margins, members voted to remove criminal and civil penalties from the state’s 24-week abortion ban and to prohibit the state from further restricting access to an abortion.

Legislation repealing the 24-week ban ended in a 192-192 tie, with five Republicans supporting repeal. The bill was tabled and is likely to stay there; un-tabling it requires a two-thirds vote moving forward.

And two bills that would have further restricted access to an abortion failed, again because Republicans joined Democrats in voting them down.

House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, an Auburn Republican, issued a statement immediately after the votes, calling Democrats’ support for all three bills “radical.”

“While it is easy for extremist Democrats to use heated rhetoric to try to advance their radical agenda, the fact of the matter is that public opinion is not on their side,” Osborne said.



https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/03/24/republicans-help-deliver-democrats-two-abortion-wins/

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1. We will see which side public opinion agrees with.

It ain't yours.

[Joinfortmill]

2. 👍

[Demanchor]

3. It's awfully radical of us to

Not want the last 50 years stripped from us. I’m a proud radical if we’re using this idiot’s terminology.