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Reproductive Equity Now Proudly Welcomes Former House Speaker Terie Norelli and Former State Senator Becky Whitley to Board
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Reproductive Equity Now Proudly Welcomes Former House Speaker Terie Norelli and Former State Senator Becky Whitley to Board

Reproductive Equity Now announces the appointment of two powerhouse leaders to its Board of Directors this week: Terie Norelli, former Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and Becky Whitley, former New Hampshire State Senator and US Congressional Candidate. With an anti-abortion trifecta in New Hampshire’s state government, Norelli and Whitley bring deep political acumen and an unwavering commitment to reproductive freedom—assets that will be instrumental in advancing the organization’s bold legislative and organizing agenda across the Granite State.

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Reproductive Equity Now Slams New Hampshire House Budget’s Elimination of Family Planning Program
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Reproductive Equity Now Slams New Hampshire House Budget’s Elimination of Family Planning Program

Today, New Hampshire’s House of Representatives rejected an amendment brought forth by Minority Leader Alexis Simpson that would have reinstated funding in the upcoming biennial state budget for the New Hampshire Family Planning Program, a program with a 53-year history of providing low-cost, preventative sexual and reproductive health care to thousands of Granite Staters.

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Repro Equity Now Statement After Trump Administration Cuts Millions in Title X Funding for Planned Parenthood Clinics
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Repro Equity Now Statement After Trump Administration Cuts Millions in Title X Funding for Planned Parenthood Clinics

Today, Rebecca Hart Holder, President of Reproductive Equity Now, released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) formally announced that it will be freezing Title X funding for thirteen Planned Parenthood affiliates, citing their refusal to end Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices. Title X funding provides access to critical preventative care like low-cost/free birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment. According to Physicians for Reproductive Health, in 2022, through Title X funds, providers at sexual and reproductive health care clinics across the country were able to serve 2.6 million family planning patients. Title X funds cannot be used for abortion care.

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

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. 

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New Hampshire Bulletin | House shuts down effort to recognize abortion as critical to women’s health in New Hampshire
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New Hampshire Bulletin | House shuts down effort to recognize abortion as critical to women’s health in New Hampshire

“Several House majority lawmakers campaigned on a promise not to further restrict access to abortion care in New Hampshire,” Reproductive Equity Now, a Boston-based advocacy group pushing for abortion access across New England, said in a statement. “But when they had an opportunity to follow through on this promise by affirming that an individual’s right to terminate their pregnancy, prior to 24 weeks gestation, shall not be denied or infringed upon, they did not.

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Union Leader | ICYMI: NH Lawmakers Publish Op-Ed Calling on Legislature to Affirm Abortion As Basic Health Care
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Union Leader | ICYMI: NH Lawmakers Publish Op-Ed Calling on Legislature to Affirm Abortion As Basic Health Care

New Hampshire State Senator Debra Altschiller (D-Stratham) and State Representative Mary Hakken-Phillips (D-Hanover) co-authored an op-ed published in the New Hampshire Union Leader, titled “Abortion Is Basic Health Care,” urging the New Hampshire Legislature to affirm Granite Staters’ right to abortion care. This op-ed was drafted in partnership with Reproductive Equity Now, a reproductive rights organization working across New Hampshire and New England to make equitable access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care a reality for all people. Read more HERE or below.

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New Hampshire Lawmakers Introduce Momnibus 2.0; Senate Committee Unanimously Recommends Passage
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New Hampshire Lawmakers Introduce Momnibus 2.0; Senate Committee Unanimously Recommends Passage

At today’s Senate Health and Human Services Committee public hearing for Momnibus 2.0 (SB 246), legislation that supports the health and well-being of pregnant and postpartum women, families, and maternal health providers, committee members unanimously voted in executive session to advance the legislation with an “Ought to Pass” recommendation. This major win comes directly after a group of bipartisan lawmakers, with support from a broad coalition of maternal health advocates, introduced the legislation at a press conference this morning.

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New Hampshire House Votes to Withdraw 15-Week Abortion Ban
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New Hampshire House Votes to Withdraw 15-Week Abortion Ban

This morning, the New Hampshire House voted in favor of a motion to withdraw HB 476, a bill that would have banned abortion care in New Hampshire after 15 weeks. The motion to withdraw passed the House with an overwhelming majority of bipartisan support. This vote comes just one week after more than 12,000 Granite Staters registered their opposition to this bill in advance of its public hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. 

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Reproductive Equity Now Slams Trump's Executive Order Attacking Access to Health Care for Transgender Youth 
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Reproductive Equity Now Slams Trump's Executive Order Attacking Access to Health Care for Transgender Youth 

Last night, President Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to end gender-affirming medical treatments for people under the age of 19. In response, Reproductive Equity Now President Rebecca Hart Holder released the following statement condemning the President’s actions, and reminding the public that the fights for transgender health care and abortion access require a coordinated and integrated response.

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Seacoast Online | Is new NH bill a travel ban on abortions or sex trafficking prevention? What politicians are saying
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Seacoast Online | Is new NH bill a travel ban on abortions or sex trafficking prevention? What politicians are saying

Rebecca Hart Holder, the president of Reproductive Equity Now, called it a “travel ban” in a press release.

“Despite their false claims, 'abortion trafficking' simply does not exist,” Holder said. “Travel bans are about one thing: control. Controlling our bodies, movements, and freedoms. Travel bans are the next step in anti-abortion extremists’ playbook to make essential reproductive health care unattainable, especially for young people.”

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