Republicans currently hold a trifecta in New Hampshire, with GOP majorities in the House and Senate and a Republican occupying the governor’s mansion. But control of the House — the largest in the country with 400 members — sits on a knife’s edge. There are 198 Republicans and 195 Democrats, three independents, and four vacant seats.
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Republicans “claim that they don’t want to ban abortion anymore, and that they don’t want to change the 24 week ban. And here we are, with a bill from sponsors in both chambers, trying to move the ban to 15 days,” says Alexis Simpson, deputy minority leader of the New Hampshire House. Simpson pointed to other proposals floated by GOP members to restrict abortion, including a Texas-style abortion bounty law in 2021, and 15-week ban that is expected to be introduced in the upcoming session.
Makes sense, 24 hours to make a decision is plenty.
And of course women should be taking pregnancy tests daily just in case.
Even if you caught a pregnancy at the 15 day mark a lot of the paperwork and diagnosis will mark that as the 4 week mark. The clock sort of officially starts from your last period so for the first two weeks-ish of a pregnancy you aren’t ACTUALLY pregnant.
There isn’t really a functional 15 day abortion option because the earliest you can catch a pregnancy is at official week four. Conception itself is really hard to track exactly so they just tag the whole thing to the last obvious biological proof a person wasn’t pregnant.
Which means this isn’t a “get thee to a doctor” move. It’s a “they know this fact is essentially no different in function than a full ban but it kinda sounds like it’s not if you never did your homework .”
You bet! Maybe they can add chemicals right into the toilet water so it changes color for a + test.
I’m sure they could make testing chemical tablets just like the cleaning tablets.
That actually sounds kind of cool.