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Thursday • January 29 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.V

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No Constitutional Right to Abortion in NH

Wed, 2024-01-31 03:00 +0000

On Thursday, February 1st, the Democrats in the New Hampshire House of Representatives will be attempting to put a right to abortion in the New Hampshire Constitution (CACR23), and we must stop them. We cannot make the destruction of children and women a right in the New Hampshire Constitution.

Predatory abortion clinics intentionally disguise themselves as “healthcare centers,” when in truth they do not offer healthcare, they only sell coercion, lies and trauma. Their counseling consists of an abortion sales pitch where the “clump of cells” inside you must be removed before it turns into a baby because they say you’re not ready to become a Mom.

After the initial sales pitch and pressure, the next steps move quickly, like a whirlwind. You soon find yourself in a procedure room with your legs in stirrups, and then you quickly find out that you were lied to because you feel your child being violently removed from your womb. The people surrounding you at that very moment are all accomplices in the lies that led up to the death of your child. Terror and grief grasp you so hard that you are numb and in shock. They throw you a bag of saltines and a dixie cup of juice and sit you in a waiting room with all the other broken women to wait to make sure you’re not hemorrhaging. After a little while, you are shown the door, and that is the last you hear from them. They are done with you, but your nightmare has just begun.

The abortion clinic didn’t offer me healthcare, help, real counseling, or the truth. They coerced me, took my money, ripped my child from my womb, and then left me broken with a lifetime filled with trauma and grief.

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A few years later, and in a different relationship, I became pregnant again and went to an ob/gyn for care. They did routine genetic testing, which came back positive for Down’s Syndrome. The Dr. assured me the result was accurate and then proceeded to pressure me to terminate the pregnancy because “raising a special needs child would be difficult.” We refused to terminate the pregnancy because we knew our child would be perfect and loved regardless of any challenges that may come with her.

Months later, my daughter was born a healthy and perfect 10 pounds 9 ounces. She did not have Down’s Syndrome or any other challenge. We were blessed. Later, I found out that several friends and relatives also had the same experience I did with a positive result for a genetic abnormality, and they too were pressured to terminate the pregnancy, and they too refused and had children who were born without the predicted abnormality.

I looked into these genetic tests and found that they have false positive results over 80% of the time. These same genetic tests are still being used today and still have over 80% false positive results. Why is this????

Millions of babies have been killed, and millions of Moms have been traumatized due to the lies, coercion, and deceit of the predatory abortion industry, whose tentacles are far-reaching into our healthcare system.

My story is common, but you don’t hear it often because broken women don’t speak up and tell their stories. It took me 30 years and a lot of counseling to be able to tell mine.

I’ll never know my first child or who he would have been, or what he would have done. My second child grew up to be a strong, bright, and independent woman who became one of the youngest women to serve in the New Hampshire State Legislature, and while she was there, she fought against predatory abortion before she even knew she had lost a sibling to abortion.

Please call, email, and text your New Hampshire State Representatives and tell them to say NO to CACR23 on February 1st.

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Multiple GUN CONTROL Hearings on February 2nd!

Wed, 2024-01-31 01:00 +0000

From the Women’s Defense League: On Friday, February 2nd, in the Legislative Office Building (located behind the state house), in rooms 202-204, there will be multiple gun control hearings held in the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.

This is where you can have the chance to testify against or for some of the bills being heard in the committee.

House Bill 1050 – AN ACT relative to establishing a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase a firearm.

House Bill 1336 – AN ACT relative to employees’ firearms in locked vehicles.

OPPOSE – This bill mandates that employers have no say if their employees have firearms locked in their vehicles. While we agree that employees should be able to do this, it is a contract between the employer and the employee. The government shouldn’t be getting involved nor mandating what a private company does.

House Bill 1711 – AN ACT authorizing the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and providing for processes for confiscation of firearms following certain mental health-related court proceedings and for relief from mental health-related firearms disabilities.

OPPOSE – This bill makes it so those who are adjudicated violently mental ill to seek inpatient or out patient mental health care become prohibited persons for purchasing or possessing firearms, but it also requires their firearms be confiscated. Anyone who is adjudicated to receive in patient or out patient mental healthcare (for any reason) already becomes a prohibited person according to the ATF.

This is yet another bill that is discriminating against gun owners and doesn’t actually do anything to solve or help those with mental health issues. If someone is involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, they’ve already lost all their freedoms. If they are released, shouldn’t they only be released if they are mentally WELL? There should be no need to confiscate their firearms. If someone is released, and they are still violently mentally ill, why the hell are they being released?

This is another bill that is trying to solve a mental health issue with gun confiscation.

You can email or call the committee members below:

First Name Last Name Email Phone
Amanda Bouldin Amanda.Bouldin@leg.state.nh.us (603) 494-8689
Amy Bradley Amy.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us (603) 315-1597
Linda Harriott-Gathright linda.harriottgathright@leg.state.nh.us (603) 880-4537
Jason Janvrin Jason.Janvrin@leg.state.nh.us (603) 944-7449
Dennis Mannion Dennis.Mannion@leg.state.nh.us
David Meuse David.Meuse@leg.state.nh.us
Nancy Murphy Nancy.Murphy@leg.state.nh.us (603) 424-0254
Alissandra Murray Alissandra.Murray@leg.state.nh.us
Jodi Newell Jodi.Newell@leg.state.nh.us
Ray Newman Ray.Newman@leg.state.nh.us (603) 880-8973
Kevin Pratt Kevin.Pratt@leg.state.nh.us (603) 895-9502
Mark Proulx Mark.Proulx@leg.state.nh.us (603) 669-7179
Karen Reid Karen.Reid@leg.state.nh.us
Jennifer Rhodes Jennifer.Rhodes@leg.state.nh.us (603) 762-8069
Terry Roy Terry.Roy@leg.state.nh.us (603) 239-3369
Loren Selig Loren.Selig@leg.state.nh.us
Jonathan Stone Jonathan.Stone@leg.state.nh.us
John Sytek john.sytek@leg.state.nh.us (603) 893-8889
Jeffrey Tenczar Jeffrey.Tenczar@leg.state.nh.us
Johan Wheeler Jonah.Wheeler@leg.state.nh.us (603) 831-9916

You can also sign in to either OPPOSE the legislation and provide written testimony if you so choose by clicking on the following link (an example is below): https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

The GOP Despises Its Voters … Senator James Lankford Edition

Tue, 2024-01-30 23:00 +0000

When you think of Oklahoma you think deep Red, very conservative, etc., etc., etc. …. right? Except Senator James Lankford who is supposed to be representing the people of Oklahoma actually is a tool for Mitch McConnell and the GOP-donor-class. McConnell used Lankford as the “face” of the amnesty-bill he collaborated with Biden and Schumer on … which essentially allows 2 MILLION illegals to jump the line and enter the country annually in return for a promise by Biden that he’ll keep illegal immigration at that limit.

The GOP in Oklahoma is having none of this B.S. See resolution below from the Oklahoma GOP condemning Lankford.

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