Guest Post by NH State Rep. Jane Cormier: "Have We Lost All Sanity?" - Granite Grok

Guest Post by NH State Rep. Jane Cormier: “Have We Lost All Sanity?”

Have We Lost All Sanity?

 I’ll bet you didn’t know NH now offers animals/pets rights to protection under domestic violence. Yes, that is right. PETS now have legislated rights under HB1410. Never mind that cruelty to animals is already a crime on the books. Animals now deserve rights analogous to human beings. Now, speed ahead to HB 1503 which sought to offer a remedy to the fact that human babies have no status under NH law.

If you are drunk driving and during a car accident, kill an unborn baby, that baby has NO legal status. The person driving the vehicle CANNOT be charged for the crime of causing the death of that baby. HB 1503 tried to remedy this (just as the NH State Supreme Court has suggested) by offering a Fetal Homicide bill for the sole purpose of defining “fetus” during a criminal act. This bill also defined CLEARLY that women obtaining abortions would NOT be affected in anyway by this Fetal Homicide bill. Abortion rights are already secure rights in the US Constitution.

There are 38 states including California who have Fetal Homicide bills on the books. However, Rep. David Huot (D-Laconia) offered an amendment to gut the bill and cleanse it of the word fetus. His explanation basically says the amendment provides a harsher sentence to the woman affected. However, the woman affected is still not allowed to seek justice for her killed baby. Her baby is still NONEXISTENT. Some say this was a NARAL proposed amendment. In any case, the gutting of this bill with Rep. Huot’s amendment was to protect that feared, slippery slope of abortion.

Pro abortion advocates fight these laws under the panic that somehow it will lead to stopping abortion. So rather than allow a commonsense law that allows a family to receive justice on their CHOICE to HAVE a baby, that baby must stay a nonentity. No justice – no closure – all to protect the already Constitutional right to have an abortion.

The Prime Sponsor of this bill was Rep. Leon Rideout from Lancaster who had the most unfortunate experience with Fetal Homicide in NH. His daughter was expecting a baby whom the family was eagerly awaiting. However, someone plowing through a stop sign, hit their vehicle, seriously injuring Rep. Rideout’s daughter and killing her late term baby. This person could not be charged with fetal homicide as the baby had no legal standing in NH. No justice, no closure.

Have we all lost our senses? We will provide protections for our pets but because of abortion ideologies, we will not support a family who loses a beloved and awaited member of their family? Something is very wrong. We have lost our way.

During the testimony, I pointed out that after studying the background of Fetal Homicide bills, the legal challenges that asserted violation of Roe vs. Wade, were uniformly rejected by both federal and state courts, including the Supreme courts of California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. The standings of these arguments were these laws DO NOT conflict with rights granted by Roe vs. Wade.

Choice goes both ways, folks. But abortion advocates fight for protected status – even when that status is not in danger. Their “slippery slope” must be protected at all costs. It doesn’t matter if that cost is a beloved and cherished baby.

You can find out how your representative voted on NH Gen Court. Look up HB 1503. The vote was taken on March 20. The first vote was the Huot amendment which was 176 in favor (to take out “fetus”) 116 against. You can then look at the roll call of this vote. His amendment might offer steeper sentences for the crime (naturally, judges will decide this) against the woman, but it leaves the woman and family bereft of justice and closure in the death/killing of their child. Not a good day in the NH House of Representatives.

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