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Women’s Health Protection Act Protects Abortion Not Women–New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan Supports Pro-Abortion Legislation to Nullify All Pro-Life Laws

Jun 9, 2021 | 2021 Press Releases, Press Releases, Press Room, Uncategorized

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WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), along with U.S. Representatives Judy Chu (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Veronica Escobar (D-TX) introduced the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA).

Among the Democrats co-sponsoring this bill was Senator Maggie Hassan who will face voters in 2022.

“Senator Hassan’s extreme pro-abortion views—even supporting late-term abortions with tax dollars—are out of step with the citizens of New Hampshire,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life (NRLC).

“The so-called Women’s Health Protection Act would essentially remove all legal protections for unborn children on the federal and state level. The Women’s Health Protection Act is, in effect, a no-limits-on-abortion-until-birth bill, said Tobias. “Pro-abortion Democrats have yet to hear of an abortion-expansion bill they didn’t like and they are more than willing to push it on to the American people.”

Tobias continued,Tragically, the only ones to benefit from such a law would be abortionists and abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. This legislation endangers women and their unborn children, would expand taxpayer funding of abortion, and would no longer require that a woman be given information about the development of her unborn child.”

Among the protective laws that the bill would nullify:

*Requirements to provide women seeking abortion with specific information on their unborn child and on alternatives to abortion;

*Laws providing reflection periods (waiting periods);

*Laws allowing medical professionals to opt-out of providing abortions;

*Laws limiting the performance of abortions to licensed physicians;

*Bans on elective abortion after 20 weeks when an unborn child is capable of feeling pain;

*Bans on the use of abortion as a method of sex selection. These anti-sex selection laws generally have broad public support in the states in which they are enacted, including support from substantial majorities of women.

The bill would also invalidate most previously enacted federal limits on abortion, including federal conscience protection laws and most, if not all, limits on government funding of abortion.

This legislation would invalidate nearly all existing state limitations on abortion,” said Jennifer Popik, J.D., director of Federal Legislation for National Right to Life.This legislation would also prohibit states from adopting new protective laws in the future, including various types of laws specifically upheld as constitutionally permissible by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement, NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.