The leadership of the NHGOP wasted no time, after the Supreme Court’s Dodds decision was finally released, to assure us that New Hampshire will continue to allow abortion, for any reason, for the first 24 weeks:
House Maj. Leader Jason Osborne: "While today’s ruling returning complete authority over abortion back to the states where it belongs is a great triumph for federalism, it does nothing to change the accessibility of these services in New Hampshire.” #nhpolitics
— Kevin Landrigan (@KlandriganUL) June 24, 2022
.@GovChrisSununu has predicable reaction: "Regardless of this Supreme Court decision, access to these services will continue to remain safe, accessible, and legal in New Hampshire." #nhpolitics
— Kevin Landrigan (@KlandriganUL) June 24, 2022
That will place New Hampshire on the far-left of the political spectrum. For example, Virginia Governor Youngkin told the Washington Post that he wants a ban on abortion after 15 weeks because that is the point an unborn baby can feel pain:
He said he would like to see abortion outlawed at the point at which a fetus feels pain, saying he believes that to be 15 weeks — similar to recent laws passed in Florida and Mississippi. Others have put the pain threshold at 20 weeks, he added, suggesting that might be a point of compromise between the Republican-controlled House of Delegates and Democratic-controlled Senate.
The 15 week threshold will likely become the “political center” as a number of States have banned or will soon ban abortion entirely:
Abortion is now banned in at least nine states, with trigger bans in several more set to take effect in the coming days. Laws in eight states took effect on Friday after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/urnXjV1uNF pic.twitter.com/3pYUVKlmvA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2022
While States on the other end of the political spectrum, like California, will allow abortion up to the instant of birth:
Abortion is legal in California.
It will remain that way.
I just signed a bill that makes our state a safe haven for women across the nation.
We will not cooperate with any states that attempt to prosecute women or doctors for receiving or providing reproductive care.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 24, 2022
So what is going to happen is that Leftists in States that ban or restrict abortion will move to the pro-abortion States. New Hampshire will be an attractive destination for those Leftists because States like California have been turned into dumps by decades of Democrat Party governance.
At the same time, people opposed to abortion who live in pro-abortion States, and that includes New Hampshire, will relocate to States that are not pro-abortion or at least less pro-abortion.
In other words, New Hampshire is going to get MORE “blue” as long as Sun-King Sununu and his minions keep New Hampshire well to the Left on the abortion-spectrum.
So why is this a good thing?
Because this country is nearly evenly divided into two halves that have virtually nothing in common with each other. I don’t want to rule over the half of the country that believes that aborting a nine-moth old unborn baby is “health care,” that believes BLM/Antifa riots are an acceptable form of political protest, and that believes that it is normal and acceptable to force people to inject experimental drugs into their bodies, even after those drugs have been shown to be useless, to name just a few examples. Nor do I want to rule over such people.
I just want us to peacefully go our separate ways. And, for the reasons I laid out above, I believe Dodds will, at least, nudge us in that direction by making “red” States redder and “blue” States “bluer.” In other words, Dodds will nudge us in the direction of peacefully splitting into two countries.
