Issues

Susan will passionately advocate for restoring a woman's right to choose and to make her own health care decisions.

Protecting reproductive rights, including access to safe and legal abortion, is fundamental to ensuring that everyone has the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies and futures. These rights are essential to gender equality, allowing individuals to plan their families, careers, and lives on their own terms. By safeguarding these rights, we uphold the values of privacy, dignity, and autonomy, ensuring that all people can choose what is best for their health and well-being without government interference. It's about protecting freedom, ensuring fairness, and standing up for the rights of all individuals.

New Hampshire is NOT like the other New England states in this regard.

In New England, it is only in NH that abortion care is not explicitly protected or even expanded. All New England states except New Hampshire — Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, RI  and CT plus NY and NJ — have enacted specific legislative and statutory protections for abortion. And although Massachusetts has a  24-week restriction, all other New England states have no bans prior to viability. Unlike our neighbors, NH has no protections for reproductive freedom, and as a result, reproductive freedom is constantly attacked in our statehouse. Both Six week and 15-day bans were proposed just last year.

Funding for abortion care is prohibited in NH — even to the extent that even basic healthcare funding that is specifically earmarked as such is turned away and refused simply because some providers also provide abortion care.  Whereas in the neighboring states, public funding for abortion care is protected, and in some states, private insurance is even mandated. Abortion care is healthcare in the Northeast, except in NH.