The Quickie: New Hampshire Executive Council Votes To Defund Family Planning Services — Again
For Immediate Release: Nov. 30, 2023
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In today’s Quickie: New Hampshire votes to defund family planning again and new polling shows a majority of Floridians support abortion rights.
NEW HAMPSHIRE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL VOTES TO DEFUND FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES…AGAIN: This week, the New Hampshire Executive Council voted to to reject contracts with three organizations, including Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, that were responsible for providing most of the state’s reproductive services at a low cost, such as cancer screenings and birth control. Part of the Council’s rationale for rejecting these contracts is that the organizations provide abortions; however, taxpayer dollars are not used for abortion services at any of these health centers.
"The New Hampshire Executive Council's repeated rejection of funding that the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has set aside for vital reproductive health care providers is not only disheartening but dangerous. These facilities are lifelines for our communities, offering essential preventive care that impacts the health and well-being of thousands of Granite Staters”, Kayla Montgomery, Vice President for Public Affairs at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, said in a press release.
Read more in The Seacoast Online.
NEW FLORIDA POLL CONFIRMS VOTERS ACROSS THE BOARD SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS: A new poll from the University of North Florida Public Opinion Research Lab found that 62% of respondents would vote yes on a prospective ballot initiative aimed to amend the state’s constitution. Among respondents that identified as registered Republicans, 53% would vote to protect abortion rights in Florida, with just 39% voting no. 65% of Black voters would approve the amendment, as would 52% of Hispanic respondents.
On examination of the results, UNF Public Opinion Research Lab director Michael Binder told Florida Politics “If this amendment does make it on the ballot, initiatives like this one need a supermajority of 60% in order to pass, and it looks like the proposed abortion amendment is right at that threshold among these respondents,” he said.
Read more at Florida Politics, and review the poll here.