JEANNE SHAHEEN (D), Incumbent

The first woman to serve as both governor and senator in New Hampshire, Shaheen is a proven advocate for protection and expansion of access to sexual and reproductive health care.

Defunding Planned Parenthood … is a dangerous, politically motivated attack on women and I will not stand for it.

Jeanne Shaheen, Jan. 5, 2017

Source: shaheen.senate.gov

Shaheen has provided steady and unswerving support for access to reproductive care. During efforts to pass the Affordable Care Act, she helped to block the addition of abortion restrictions to the bill — calling amendments proposed by anti-abortion politicians “a very far-reaching intrusion into the lives of women.”

As New Hampshire’s governor, Shaheen signed the 1997 repeal of an archaic, unconstitutional state law that criminalized abortion. She continues to oppose abortion bans, including the bans passed by anti-abortion politicians in multiple states in 2019.

BILL O’BRIEN (R)

A former speaker of the state House of Representatives, O’Brien has a record of making incendiary anti-abortion remarks.

Both the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing abortions in our country involve mass murder, though they differ in magnitude.

Bill O’Brien, Nov. 23, 2019

• O’Brien has described Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court decision that affirmed the constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion — as “say[ing] yes to put[ting] unborn to death.”

• On two occasions, O’Brien voted to ban safe, legal access to abortion at approximately 20 weeks — and O’Brien supported legislation that would have blocked users of public health-care programs from obtaining care at Planned Parenthood health centers.