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Educational Opportunity Scholarships in NH: the view from Concord
Part 1 of 2 Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~G.K. Chesterton Dominique Vazquez-Vanasse has two little boys, and as a busy mom she doesn’t...
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NH Pro-Roe Resolution Is Full of Contradictions
Eight New Hampshire state representatives will come before the Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs committee next Thursday to make their case for HR 6, a resolution marking the 40th anniversary...
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A New Voice for Informed Consent in NH
Coming in two days: a hearing on HB 483, a bill to require that women seeking abortion have the facts they need in order to give informed consent. Thursday, February 14, House Judiciary Committee, room...
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Rep. Sanborn to colleagues: “Keep our Promise” re Ed Tax Credit
The New Hampshire House will vote next week on HB 370, repeal of the education tax credit. The House Ways and Means committee voted 10-7 to pass the repeal. The minority report by Rep. Laurie Sanborn...
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Informed consent: thumbs down, says NH House committee
Follow/Subscribe to Leaven to stay informed about this and other New Hampshire bills. update, 4:50 p.m.: “This legislature has no business being involved. The messages [in HB 483] are not neutral and...
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Rep. Rowe’s straight talk: “The total thrust of this bill is euthanasia”
New Hampshire advocates of physician-assisted suicide have finally learned what some public-policy activists never figure out: sometimes it’s more productive to go after a big goal one little slice at...
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Surprise! NH Roe resolution: tie vote in committee
A proposed resolution in praise of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade will go to the floor of the New Hampshire House with no recommendation after a tie vote in committee this morning. Despite...
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NH House kills HB 483, rejects informed consent again; here’s link to the...
The New Hampshire House voted this morning to reject HB 483, Rep. Jane Cormier’s bill to establish informed consent requirements for abortion. The vote on the inexpedient-to-legislate motion was...
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Foster, NH AG nominee, opposed parental notification law
Gov. Maggie Hassan has nominated Democratic former state senator Joseph Foster to be New Hampshire’s next attorney general. Foster was in the New Hampshire House from 1995 to 1998 and in the New...
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NH Reps, what does Ohio know that we don’t?
This week’s news includes the story of three women and one child in Cleveland, Ohio, liberated from years of captivity and abuse at the hands of a kidnapper. Among the charges likely to be filed...
View ArticleNH GOP CD2 candidates Garcia & Lambert have a voting record on the life issues
New Hampshire’s Second District Congresswoman, Democrat Ann Kuster, has a battle ahead of her next year. There will be at least two Republicans competing to get past the GOP primary and onto the...
View ArticleNH House elects Shawn Jasper as Speaker
A parliamentary battle in Concord ended today with Rep. Shawn Jasper (R-Hudson) emerging as Speaker of the New Hampshire House. It took three ballots and more than six hours for Jasper to prevail over...
View ArticleLooking back: selected NH House votes, 2015
Personhood, buffer zone repeal, fetal homicide, conscience protection for health care providers, public funding of abortion providers, abortion statistics, restriction on post-21-week abortion: the New...
View ArticleNH committee publishes reports on Born-Alive & dismemberment abortion bills;...
The New Hampshire House calendar for the February 10 session has just been released, with reports on bills including HB 1627, the Born-Alive Infant Protection bill, and HB 1560, a bill to ban the...
View ArticleA sobering day in the N.H. House
That was quite a ride the New Hampshire House gave us yesterday, swerving into a figurative ditch time and again while getting back on track just often enough to let me catch my breath. And all this...
View ArticleAftermath: roll calls of selected N.H. House votes
Among hundreds of bills disposed of thus far this year by the New Hampshire House, ten have touched on abortion and one on First Amendment rights outside abortion facilities. All eleven of those bills...
View Article“End of life” study bill up for N.H. House vote May 11
Senate Bill 426, about studying end-of-life choices, will be up for a vote in the New Hampshire House this week. The session is scheduled for May 11 and might carry over to May 12 due to the House’s...
View ArticleUpdate: end-of-life study bill fails in N.H. House; 68 “not voting”
The New Hampshire House has killed a bill that would have set up a commission to study end-of-life issues. SB 426 originally called for study of “aid-in-dying.” An amendment removed that language, but...
View ArticlePreliminary situation report: N.H. House
Defense of pro-life seats in the New Hampshire House is underway, believe it or not. I have some numbers for you. No names yet; those will follow later. For now, here’s a quick look at the lay of the...
View ArticleGeneral election candidates set for N.H.
The dust has settled on the Granite State’s primary election. Most New Hampshire House incumbents with strong records on recent life-issue bills did well and will be on the ballot in November. Let’s...
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