2025 New Hampshire Legislative Agenda

We’re working in Concord to expand access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care.

Our 2025 Priorities

With an anti-abortion trifecta in the New Hampshire state government, we know that we need to be prepared to fight back against continued attacks on abortion and the LGBTQ+ community, while simultaneously pushing for proactive advances in reproductive equity.

Take a look at our 2025 Legislative Session priorities:

  • Abortion is basic reproductive health care that gives people the freedom to fully control our bodies, lives, and futures. New Hampshire must acknowledge that abortion access is critical to ensuring that everyone can live, thrive, and raise families in healthy communities. That includes being able to get the care we need without worrying about threats to our health, freedom, or well-being.

    Title: A Resolution recognizing abortion as a critical component of comprehensive reproductive health care

    Sponsors: Rep. Simpson (D), Rep. M. Smith (D), Rep. Hakken-Phillips (D), Rep. M. Murray (D), Rep. Seibert (D), Rep. Vandecasteele (R), Rep. Turer (D), Rep. Lloyd (D), Rep. Ebel (D), Rep. Weber (D), Sen. Rosenwald (D), Sen. Prentiss (D), Sen. Altschiller (D), Sen. Reardon (D), Sen. Perkins Kwoka (D).

    Full Text: HCR 7

    In the Senate, this has been introduced as a legislative measure.

    Title: An act relative to access to abortion care.

    Sponsors: Sen. Altschiller (D); Sen. Rosenwald (D); Sen. Perkins Kwoka (D); Sen. Fenton (D); Rep. Telerski (D)

    Full Text: SB 260

  • New Hampshire moms continue to face large gaps in maternal health and wellness. Behavioral health, including substance overdoses, is the leading cause of maternal mortality in New Hampshire. In the past two decades, 11 maternity wards in the state have closed, and Granite Staters continue to face threats to our already-fragile maternal health ecosystem. That’s why Reproductive Equity Now is advocating for the bipartisan Momnibus 2.0, legislation that builds off of 2023’s Momnibus bill to support moms in the Granite State by helping address maternal depression and anxiety, filling gaps in maternal health care services and postpartum support, supporting moms after they give birth, and lowering costs for working families. Learn More & Take Action!

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    Title: An Act providing maternal depression screening for new mothers, increasing access to health care services for new mothers, and relative to job protection within the employer-sponsored New Hampshire paid family and medical leave plan.

    Sponsors: Sen. Ricciardi (R), Sen. Prentiss (D), Sen. Fenton (D), Sen. Rosenwald (D), Sen. Lang (R), Sen. Perkins Kwoka (D), Sen. Pearl (R), Sen. Birdsell (R), Rep. Peternel (R), Rep. Potenza (R), Rep. Rombeau (D), Rep. Burnham (R), Rep. Kuttab (R)

    Full Text: SB246

  • Reproductive Equity Now intends to defend against: 

    1. A bill relative to restrictions on elective abortion (HB 476): Rep. Katy Peternel (R) has introduced a bill in the legislature to ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. This abortion ban would have devastating health and economic consequences for patients, and prevent providers from offering the best medical care. Reproductive health care decisions should be between a patient and their doctor, without political interference, no matter what. Without federal protections for care, it is critical that we do not allow the right to abortion to be further eroded in New Hampshire.

    2. A bill providing criminal and civil penalties for the recruitment, harboring, or transporting of a pregnant unemancipated minor in order to obtain an abortion without parental permission (HB 191): This legislation, introduced by Rep. Glenn Cordelli (R), is intended to criminalize transporting young people to abortion appointments, and even threatens to criminalize the sharing of information about how to access abortion. “Travel bans,” which have already been blocked by courts in several states, are another step in anti-abortion extremists’ playbook to make abortion completely unattainable. This bill is a reckless and costly attempt to strip freedom away from Granite Staters.

    3. Two bills restricting access to transgender health care (HB 377 and HB 712): Last session, we saw New Hampshire Republicans pass several anti-LGBTQ bills, including one to ban Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming surgeries for young people. Now, anti-LGTBQ lawmakers are continuing their work to ban transgender health care by introducing a bill to ban access to essential gender-affirming medication, and another to ban gender-affirming surgeries for young people in entirety.

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