Tag Archives: Ellen Kolb
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
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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
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Tagged Ellen Kolb, Fetal Homicide
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Considering Religious Liberty
President Trump has issued an executive order on religious liberty, addressing in part the litigation between the government and the Little Sisters of the Poor over the government’s contraceptive mandate. The Sisters are apparently off the hook if I properly understood … Continue reading
Former PP Worker Speaks Out House Funding Vote
I posted a few minutes ago about a U.S. House vote re-directing funds away from Planned Parenthood. My attitude was yay-but-Senate. Allow me to share with you a more decisive response, from Catherine Adair – a woman whom I have the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Adair, Ellen Kolb, Planned Parenthood, US House
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What will it take to get abortion providers out of the budget?
Four years ago today, a jury was deliberating the fate of Kermit Gosnell. That trial ended with Gosnell serving life in prison for murder and manslaughter. Today, a GOP-majority Congress, with a GOP president looking on, can’t agree on when … Continue reading
Ellen Kolb: WHAT’S GONE RIGHT: A 5-YEAR REVIEW
As the blog’s 5-year anniversary month winds up, I’ll take one last look back. It would be easy to reflect on things left undone, such as the failure to pass this or that pro-life law. Not today, though. This is … Continue reading
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Family Prosperity by the Numbers
For the most part, I endorse Thomas Carlyle’s description of economics as the dismal science. I have to add the “most part” qualifier after meeting and working with an economist who with her husband – also an economist – has … Continue reading
Leaven for the Loaf Turns Five
Five years ago today, I put up the first post on Leaven for the Loaf. Pro-life issues in New Hampshire seemed like a tiny niche for a blog, but I plunged in anyway. Thank you for plunging in with me. … Continue reading
Will The March for Science Include All Science?
From the event’s web site: “We unite as a diverse, nonpartisan group to call for science that upholds the common good and for political leaders and policy makers to enact evidence-based policies in the public interest.” Okay, then – how … Continue reading
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The New Media Militia 