Abortion in New Hampshire

[2][3][4] New Hampshire law regarding abortion has been heard before the US Supreme Court in the case Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in 2006.

[7] The New Hampshire parental notification law was passed again in 2011 after the Republican-controlled House and Senate overrode Democratic governor John Lynch's veto.

These included attempts to define a fetus as a person when a pregnant woman was murdered (for example the Lacey Peterson case).

[2] A bill passed the House by a vote of 190–109 in 2012 that failed to become law that would have prevented women from getting abortions after the 20th week of gestation.

The law had no impact on the number of abortions performed on minors, only increasing the frequency of parental participation in the process.

[2] As of 2017, California, Oregon, Montana, Vermont, and New Hampshire allowed qualified non-physician health professionals, such as physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives, to perform first-trimester aspiration abortions and to prescribe drugs for medical abortions.

[11] On January 1, 2022, a bill passed that required patients receiving abortion care at a health center in New Hampshire to have an ultrasound.

[13] The 1973 US Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester.

§ 1983, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Parental Notification Act was unconstitutional and a preliminary injunction to prevent its enforcement once it became effective.

[19] The Court vacated the judgment of the First Circuit in a unanimous decision authored by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

[20] Equality Health Center was established in downtown Concord in 1973, shortly after abortion became legal after the Roe v. Wade ruling.

[21] Alaska, California, and New Hampshire did not voluntarily provide the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) with abortion related data in 2000.

[30] The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that, in their most recent survey, 74% of people from New Hampshire said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

[35] Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, hundreds of abortion rights protesters rallied and marched in Manchester, Exeter, Keene and Portsmouth.

[36] On July 3, 1989, a fire was started at the Feminist Health Center clinic in Concord, New Hampshire, on the day the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law banning funding of public facilities as related to abortion.