Four years since Dobbs v. Jackson
Today marks four years since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Four years since reproductive rights, access to women’s healthcare, and women’s safety were put on the chopping block all across the country.
Over these last four years we have seen one party step up to the plate to protect women’s healthcare, and one party routinely push dangerous legislation to dismantle reproductive rights and endanger women. In 2021, Republicans passed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in New Hampshire history. The ban includes no exceptions for rape or incest and punishes doctors with up to seven years in prison and up to $100,000 in fines. Not only does New Hampshire remain the only state in New England that doesn’t legally protect access to abortion, but NH Republicans are actively fighting to restrict access to abortion and women’s access to healthcare and have repeatedly attempted to institute more and more restrictive abortion bans.
“Since the end of Roe v. Wade, the governing majority in New Hampshire has proposed more than 25 bills threatening reproductive health and rights, from outright abortion bans to permanently repealing the NH Family Planning Program, a program which ensures lower-income Granite Staters can get essential reproductive and sexual healthcare.”
- Kayla Montgomery, Vice President of Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund
The 2026 legislative session was no different.
185 Republican representatives scored 0% on Planned Parenthood’s 2026 reproductive rights legislative scorecard for the house, voting against reproductive rights and healthcare every time they cast a vote: 185 Republicans and 0 Democrats. In the Senate, in 2026, every Democrat voted in support of reproductive rights while every Republican voted against them.
Over the last six months, NH Republicans have attempted to:
Pass an even more restrictive abortion law that would have banned abortions at 20 weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest, and imposed criminal penalties of up to $100,000 and seven years in prison on doctors.
Repeal New Hampshire's patient safety zone around reproductive healthcare facilities.
Force pharmacies and health centers to give medically inaccurate information about medication abortion.
Force healthcare providers to deliver false and medically inaccurate information to their patients in order to receive critical funding, at a time when healthcare funding is most needed.
Criminalize even just driving a patient to an abortion appointment.
Democrats fought to defeat them at every turn. NH Democrats have led the fight to ensure every Granite Stater has access to family planning resources and the healthcare they need, including abortion care.
Granite Staters are already facing increasing barriers to accessing healthcare. Meanwhile, underfunded hospitals, worker shortages, and attacks on Medicaid have made it even harder to access the medical care we need. Republicans are not acting to protect patients, improve safety, or provide necessary assistance to overworked healthcare providers; they are only trying to move New Hampshire closer to an outright abortion ban.
Granite Staters need leaders who fight to protect their rights and their access to life saving medical care.