Category Archives: Leaven for the Loaf
Ellen Kolb: Dispute over Fetal Homicide Bill
Five months after its introduction and first hearing, four months after its passage in the New Hampshire Senate, three months after its House hearing, and days after its House passage, language has been discovered in a fetal homicide bill that … Continue reading
Ellen Kolb: Abortion Group Denounces Sports Team for Pro Life Ads
(Note: This post is from the Kansans for Life blog, reporting on a Major League Baseball team under fire from abortion advocates for accepting advertising from the Vitae Foundation, a pro-life advocacy group. -EK) Under the heading, “Kansas City Royals, … Continue reading
Postscript to House Vote On SB 66: The Naysayers
Steve MacDonald over at Granite Grok was blunter than I after the SB 66 vote in the House: “NH Democrats Defend the Right to End a Woman’s Pregnancy Against Her Will.” That’s harsh, but tough to refute, especially in view of … Continue reading
Ellen Kolb on Passage of Fetal Homicide Bill in NH House
After lengthy debate and four preliminary roll call votes, the New Hampshire House on June 1 voted 186-170 to approve fetal homicide legislation. SB 66 now goes back to the Senate for expected concurrence with a House amendment. From there, … Continue reading
Fetal Homicide and Women’s Rights: Remember These Women
If fetal homicide legislation is going to be cast as a women’s rights issue, the women who lost children and grandchildren belong front and center. Make sure your state reps know about these women, before the June 1 vote on SB … Continue reading
NH State Budget: How Much For Abortion Providers?
The New Hampshire Senate will vote next week on the budget proposal prepared by the Senate Finance Committee. Whatever the Senate passes will go to the House the next day. Under the Senate proposal, would any of the money allocated … Continue reading
A Team Effort: St. Gianna’s Place
“A Safe Harbor for Mother and Child.” Step by step, St. Gianna’s Place is on the way to becoming a shelter for pregnant and parenting women. Administrative details are in place: a board of directors; nonprofit tax status. Now comes … Continue reading
House Committee to Take Up Retained Bills Including Fetal Homicide
The New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee has scheduled a work session for Tuesday, May 23 on several retained bills, including two on fetal homicide (HB 156 and SB 66). Also on the agenda…More | Leaven for … Continue reading
Remember those “Common Sense” Initiatives Chris Sununu Supported?
Six months ago, just before the last statewide election in New Hampshire, a concerned pro-life Republican elicited a letter from Chris Sununu listing some pro-life initiatives Sununu would back if he were elected governor. [The] number of those initiatives that … Continue reading
Bipartisan Error: House Committee Rejects Fetal Homicide Bill, Then Sets it Aside
Rep. John Burt of the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice committee reported from the State House today that the committee “retained” SB 66, joining HB 156 in the pile of bills kicked aside for a vote in 2018. Before the … Continue reading