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Vote Matters Remember your high school Latin? O tempora! O mores! It means, What a time! What a state of affairs! It’s a more appropriate motto for New Hampshire now than Live Free or Die. Last year’s election results were so bad that I felt like I went to sleep in New Hampshire and woke up in Massachusetts. It was 139 years ago when the Granite State last had a majority of Democrats in the Senate, and the House of Representatives, and a Democratic Governor. For perspective, that was when Ulysses S. Grant was elected President. The difference is that this group of pro-abortionists approves of unlimited abortion in ways that must have their forefathers spinning in their graves. The principal target of the new takeover is the parental notice law we passed in 2003. They’re set on repealing it. The House has already voted to repeal the law. That was made possible because, in addition to capturing the Senate and the governor’s office, pro-abortion Democrats went from a small minority to a majority in the House. Not that things were idyllic when Republicans controlled both houses and the governor’s office. A huge chunk of the Republican majority in the past was pro-abortion. Passing pro-life laws was considered impossible for decades. But we passed 2003’s parental notice law by a five vote margin in the House, and by one vote in the Senate. The governor then, Craig Benson, was a pro-life Republican whose assistance was invaluable. As I say, the new pro-abortion majorities immediately targeted parental notice. To most people, parental notice is a simple law, a simple, fundamental concept. Parents have a right to be involved in their daughter’s decision when she’s considering an abortion. To perform an abortion on a minor girl in secret is child abuse. It is unconscionable for legislators to be a party to subverting basic parental rights. Often the girls having these secret abortions are taken to the facilities by the adult males who got them pregnant. The goal of these men is to cover up their own actions. Often these men are guilty of statutory rape. For the rest of their lives the girls who are their victims have to live with the knowledge that they killed their babies. Our parental notice law never went into effect. Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and others challenged it, and got two federal courts to prevent it from being enforced. The decisions of those courts were so bad that last year the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sent the case back to them, saying in effect, “Do it over and don’t be sloppy.” But, upon the announcement that the new pro-abortion Democratic legislature intended to repeal the law and that the pro-abortion Democratic governor, John Lynch, would sign the repeal, the lower court has decided to wait and see. On March 7 the House voted to repeal. The vote was not even close—226 to 130. The breakdown of the vote by party was as expected, but still astounding. Of 208 Democrats voting, 194 voted to repeal. Only 14 voted to keep the law. If every Republican had voted to keep parental notice on the books, we still would have lost. The GOP tally was 116 for maintaining the family-supporting policy and 31 joined the Democrat majority. Humberto Sousa Cardinal Medeiros, who once shepherded the Boston Catholic Archdiocese, said, “No Catholic can in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports abortion.” Indeed, no human being can in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports abortion. How we vote matters. It has profound consequences. The numbers I’ve listed above present a big picture, an important message. But it’s worse than you might think. Because of the Democratic takeover, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives is the long-time NARAL chief in New Hampshire. No elaboration of her agenda is necessary. How we vote matters. Now the bill to repeal our parental notice law is in the Senate where the numbers are, again, awful. Moreover, the new Democratic President of the Senate has, as her principal aide on Social Policy, the recent Planned Parenthood chief. How we vote matters. If we lose in the Senate, minor girls will be encouraged, even coerced, to kill their babies. They will be encouraged by unscrupulous abortionists and unscrupulous legislators to avoid going to their parents for help and love. How we vote matters. Please tell your friends. |