I have been under the impression that the New Hampshire Republican Party’s platform says that life begins at conception. I went to the website nh.gop to verify that because in light of the recent Dobbs decision overturning Roe and Casey, a Party that says it is opposed to abortion AND that has legislative majorities and also controls the Governor’s office should be expected to hold a special session to outlaw or at least further restrict abortions.
We believe that life is sacred, from conception to natural death and that we cannot diminish the value of one category of human life without diminishing the value of all human life.
I could not find the platform on nh.gop (Added the link and the “plank” -Skip). Perhaps I am just not as tech-savvy as the presumably “young guns’ who maintain the website, or perhaps the Party is embarrassed by its owna predictablea predictable platform?
Assuming that the platform says about abortion what I have been under the impression it says … that is, that the NHGOP is opposed to abortion … then the NHGOP has some serious cognitive dissonance issues because its leaders are NOT opposed to abortion, as they quickly pointed out in response to Dobbs:
.@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
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
With Roe and Casey overturned by Dobbs, isn’t it time for the NHGOP to stop the charade that the Party is pro-life? Prior to Dobbs, the NHGOP “leaders” could say that their hands were tied by Roe, that the 24-week ban is as far as they could go under existing law, blah, blah, blah.
They can’t do that anymore. If they aren’t going to ban abortion, or at least move to a 15-week ban, such as Virginia Governor Youngkin has proposed in response to Dobbs, WHICH CLEARLY THEY ARE NOT … then stop the charade and change the platform so it no longer is pro-life.
