Reproductive Equity Now, Lovering Health Center, and Equality Health Center Condemn NH House Finance Division Vote to Eliminate State’s Family Planning Program

Elimination of this program would have devastating consequences for Granite Staters’ ability to access basic health care

CONCORD (March 27, 2025) – Reproductive Equity Now, Lovering Health Center of Greenland, and Equality Health Center of Concord released the following statements after Finance Division III approved an amendment to the state budget to eliminate the New Hampshire Family Planning Program (NHFPP). This program, which serves thousands of Granite Staters every year, ensures that people can access no-cost and low-cost contraception, pregnancy tests, cancer screenings, STD testing, and more. 

Christina Warriner, New Hampshire State Director of Reproductive Equity Now: “Eliminating New Hampshire’s Family Planning Program would result in thousands of Granite Staters losing access to life-saving, low-cost preventative health care that allows them to have agency over their own health, well-being, and family building. It will disproportionately target low-income individuals who rely on this program for basic, essential health care like birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing. Independent providers like Lovering Health Center and Equality Health Center have not received state funding for years due to anti-abortion attacks — and yet, they’ve continued to show up for their communities, surviving on grit, mission, and the generosity of donors who know the care they provide is essential for our communities. But with no providers receiving funding under this proposal, trusted community-based health centers will be pushed closer to the brink. This isn’t just a budget decision — it’s a calculated effort to dismantle reproductive health care across New Hampshire. We call on the Finance Committee to reverse this dangerous and deeply irresponsible decision before it’s too late.”

Jinelle Hall, Executive Director of Equality Health Center, and Sandi Denoncour, Executive Director of Lovering Health Center: “As the only two independent sexual and reproductive health clinics in New Hampshire, our clinics have been denied Family Planning funding by the Executive Council since July 2021. Without these essential funds, we have been forced to weather strained budgets, all while doing our best to continue to provide compassionate, low- or no-cost reproductive health care to all Granite Staters. Through grit and the generosity of our communities, we have succeeded in this work and were able to collectively provide over $80 thousand in reduced or no-fee services beyond abortion care. But now with the seven remaining providers within the NHFPP bound to be denied this funding, despite the 53-year history of the program with past bipartisan support, our state’s health care infrastructure will be more fragile than ever before. We cannot allow these attacks on reproductive health care to continue. We strongly urge the Finance Committee to oppose eliminating the entire NH Family Planning Program."

Equality Health Center, Lovering Health Center, and the state’s four Planned Parenthood of Northern New England clinics have been denied family planning funding by the Executive Council since 2021. By eliminating the state’s Family Planning Program, it will now deny this funding to the seven healthcare sites that provide services through the NHFPP.

This proposal to eliminate New Hampshire’s Family Planning Program will be voted on by the full House Finance Committee next week. Reproductive Equity Now, alongside other advocates, are urging New Hampshire residents to write-in to the committee and urge them to reverse course.

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