Your children were given to you to nurture and protect. Now, increasingly, this right is being threatened, particularly by forces within the public education system.
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Responding to Karen Testerman’s False Claims
You may have seen Karen Testerman publicly circulating false claims about HB 396 and the recent actions of her husband, Rep. Dave Testerman. It’s important that you know the truth.
Bloodthirsty Sixteen: Group Of NHGOP Reps Vote For Aborting Viable Children
On Thursday, March 23, the New Hampshire House voted to pass HB 224, a bill to return New Hampshire to unrestricted abortion until a child’s head crowns. Although the House is virtually tied between Republicans and Democrats, the bill passed 205-178, with a group of 16 Republican representatives joining the Democrats. This is a historic moment, … Read more
Rep. Dave Testerman Sides With Democrats, Betrays Women And Girls
Over the past weeks, families and churches around New Hampshire have engaged in tireless advocacy and negotiation to protect the dignity and privacy of women and girls in New Hampshire by working to get HB 396, State Recognition of Biological Sex, to the House floor. On Wednesday night, their efforts were single-handedly demolished by Republican representative … Read more
When They Blame Pro-Lifers, Ask Them This One Question
As you all know, the midterms were not what many Granite State conservatives had hoped for. In the coming days, you will hear some in the New Hampshire GOP establishment lay these midterm setbacks at the feet of pro-lifers.
Abortion in NH: Setting the Record Straight on Democrat, Media Falsehoods
Since the passing last year of New Hampshire’s ban on abortions after 24 weeks (nearly six months), liberals have been busy spreading lies about the new law, claiming that it required a transvaginal ultrasound and that the law requires a woman to carry a dead baby to term.
Cornerstone Statement on Dobbs Decision
With Friday’s decision in Dobbs, the issue of abortion has now been returned entirely to the states. Despite what you may have heard, Granite Staters who oppose abortion should understand that, when it comes to abortion law, this decision changes nothing about our immediate situation in New Hampshire. Early this year, Governor Sununu—despite his earlier promise to … Read more
Gov. Sununu Lied to Get Elected
For years, New Hampshire’s “buffer zone” law has allowed private abortion clinics to ban counseling, protesting, and silent prayer on the public sidewalks outside their facilities.
How About Running for Office – Yes, You!
We elect our legislators every two years, and 2022 is a state election year. Primary elections for the NH State Senate and House of Representatives are in four short months, and the general election is in six months. A lot can happen in that time. Will you be part of ensuring a bright future for … Read more
Pro-Life NH Senate Amendment Defeated 14-10
On Wednesday, we wrote about our support for a floor amendment to HB 1609 proposed by courageous NH state Senator Regina Birdsell, which would have created a legal safe harbor for preborn children diagnosed with abnormalities incompatible with life. You can read the Birdsell amendment for yourself here.
Call your NH Senator Now: Create a Safe Haven for the Preborn
Tomorrow, the New Hampshire Senate will vote on HB 1609. Although this bill was originally introduced as a gutting bill designed to totally nullify our 24-week abortion ban—the Fetal Life Protection Act—the bill was fortunately curtailed by the New Hampshire House Finance Committee before being passed by the full House.
NH House Republican Leadership Are Ushering in Unlimited Abortion
On April 13, the NH House Judiciary Committee will hear Senate Bill 399. Although this bill was introduced to repeal the Fetal Life Protection Act—New Hampshire’s only protection for the late-term pre-born—it was then amended by the NH Senate into a form that Cornerstone supports.
Victory! Gov. Sununu Signs Civil Liberties Defense Act into Law
Yesterday, Governor Sununu signed HB 440, Rep. Jim Kofalt’s Civil Liberties Defense Act or CLDA, into law. New Hampshire now has a fundamental emergency powers reform in place that will assure our constitutional rights remain secure in declared states of emergency.
Full Analysis: Two Victories and a Narrow Defeat in NH House Session
The New Hampshire House met this week and oversaw two victories and one narrow defeat on Cornerstone-priority bills. This week’s developments should be emboldening—but also a reminder of the urgent work that remains to be done.
These NH House Republicans Voted for Unrestricted Abortion Up to Birth
In the first months of its existence, New Hampshire’s modest Fetal Life Protection Act that protects preborn children in their final weeks in the womb, has endured multiple attempts to extinguish it prematurely, either by direct repeal or gutting it of any ability to be enforced.
NH GOP Leadership Allows House Judiciary to Create More Pro-Abortion Legislation
On Thursday, February 17, the full New Hampshire House earned the tragic distinction of becoming the only Republican-led legislative body in America since Roe v. Wade to vote in favor of authorizing unlimited abortion up to birth.
The NH House Just Became the Most Pro-Abortion GOP Legislature in US History
Yesterday, the GOP-led New Hampshire House voted 179-174 in favor of House Bill 1609. The House rejected an amendment proposed by the House HHS Committee—which Cornerstone supported—and instead passed the bill in its original form.
GOP Senate Members Vote to Preserve the Fetal Life Protection Act, Turning Back Democrats’ Repeal Attempt
SB 399 was originally an outright repeal of the Fetal Life Protection Act – or FLPA – proposed by Senate Democrats. Fortunately, the bill was amended by Judiciary Committee Republicans to instead protect our law by further clarifying its ultrasound requirement.