Reproductive Equity Now’s 2026
New Hampshire
Legislative Agenda!
Our 2026 Priorities:
As New Hampshire’s 2026 legislative session gets underway, Reproductive Equity Now is focused on making New Hampshire a safe and healthy place to live by ensuring every Granite Stater has the autonomy to decide if, when, and how to begin a family.
That’s why our legislative priorities center on protecting patients and providers, strengthening perinatal care and support for moms and families, and defending against attacks on abortion and our bodily autonomy.
Our 2026 New Hampshire Legislative Agenda:
1) Protect Our Patients and Providers
As states with anti-abortion laws attempt to influence and control how other states deliver health care, New Hampshire patients and providers deserve protection from this type of government overreach.
Reproductive Equity Now is focused on safeguarding patients and providers in the Granite State from out-of-state efforts to control or disrupt access to legal reproductive health care. We will not allow outside actors to undermine patient privacy, provider safety, or New Hampshire’s authority to protect essential care.
Bills we’re tracking:
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This shield law says that New Hampshire law – and only New Hampshire law – will dictate the care our providers offer and our patients’ access to care.
This means that if other state actors – or bounty hunters – try to investigate legal care provided in New Hampshire, not only are our patients and providers protected, but our state officials are prohibited from expending any resources to support these investigations.
Read the full bill HERE.
2) Protect and Expand Postpartum Support for Moms and Families
Every pregnant person and mom deserves safe, affordable care—no matter where they live or how much they make. Last session, New Hampshire made key investments in maternal health care and family supports (learn more about Momnibus 2.0)– but there’s still more to do.
This year, Reproductive Equity Now is focused on expanding access to additional perinatal care and supports, while pushing back against efforts to undo the bipartisan progress we’ve fought so hard to win.
Bills we’re tracking:
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Relative to the coverage of diapers under the state Medicaid plan.
Read the full bill HERE.
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By requiring employees to give at least 15 days notice to take leave for postpartum or pediatric appointments and by empowering employers to deny job reinstatement post leave.
This legislation threatens the bipartisan progress made to support New Hampshire moms and families that we achieved through Momnibus 2.0 just last year.
Read the full bill HERE.
3) Defend Against Threats to Abortion Access
With an anti-abortion trifecta in the New Hampshire state government, it’s no surprise that lawmakers have introduced a wave of bills that would further restrict reproductive health care at a time when the state is already facing a serious health care crisis.
Providers are stretched thin, clinics are closing, and costs are rising—yet instead of addressing these challenges, the New Hampshire Republican Majority is only making it worse.
We’re not backing down. This session, we’re focused on defending the legal right to abortion, pushing back against efforts to erode our rights and combating the spread of disinformation that undermines trust in care and puts patients at risk—because New Hampshire should be a safe, healthy place to live and raise a family.
Bills we’re tracking:
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Despite repeated claims that New Hampshire legislative leaders won’t entertain any new abortion restrictions, this legislation is, plain and simple, a 20 week abortion ban. This is an arbitrary restriction on basic reproductive health care—with no basis in science or medicine—that would have devastating health and economic consequences for Granite Staters. Read the full bill HERE.
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This bill purports to prevent reproductive coercion, but in reality does nothing to protect women who are coerced to keep their pregnancies. This bad faith bill also attempts to establish fetal personhood, a well known anti-abortion strategy to ban abortion outright. Read the full bill HERE.
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By prohibiting health care professionals at medical facilities that receive any New Hampshire state funding from referring patients for abortion care.
This bill imposes a gag rule on New Hampshire providers, hindering their ability to have comprehensive, unbiased, and evidenced-based conversations with patients about reproductive health care services.
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Legislation that would allow any health care professional to decline providing abortion care due to conscientious or moral objection.
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This bill would further restrict patients from seeking abortion care by criminalizing someone for driving a young person to an abortion appointment without written parental permission.
As a reminder, we already have parental notification laws on the books for minors accessing abortion care so this law is just putting another barrier to care in place!
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This legislation requires medical facilities and pharmacies prescribing or dispensing medication abortion to post signage about medication abortion reversal.
Despite steadfast agreement from major medical institutions that claims regarding abortion “reversal” treatments are not based in science and do not meet clinical standards.
Read the full bill HERE.
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