Subject: FW: Forrester Votes to Repeal NH’s Buffer Zone Law
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Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 17:38:23 -0700

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Subject: Forrester Votes to Repeal NH’s Buffer Zone Law

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May 5, 2016
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Forrester Votes to Repeal NH’s Buffer Zone Law

Concord, N.H. – Today, State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Jeanie Forrester added to her long history of restricting a woman’s right to choose when she voted to repeal<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=79fd286f3f&e=aac58c81e5> New Hampshire’s bipartisan Buffer Zone Bill that ensures safe access to reproductive healthcare facilities.

In 2014, the New Hampshire Senate passed a bill establishing 25-foot buffer zones around reproductive healthcare facilities to protect patients from harassment and intimidation. The original law had broad bipartisan support.

In addition to today's repeal vote, Forrester also voted to repeal it<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=5eec16d9c9&e=aac58c81e5> in 2015. Both efforts to repeal the law failed in the Senate, despite Forrester’s best effort.

Forrester has a long record in voting to restrict women’s access to healthcare. She’s voted in favor<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=9d9245a2a0&e=aac58c81e5> of classifying the death of a fetus as a homicide and earlier this year, she told<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=08cffbf949&e=aac58c81e5> the Valley News that if elected governor, she’ll be an advocate for “anti-abortion issues.”

“Jeanie Forrester is wasting no time showing Granite State women she’d be disastrous for their healthcare if she were elected governor,” said NHDP Spokeswoman Holly Shulman. “Granite state women no matter what their politics overwhelmingly believe that these decisions should be between a woman and her doctor, and that women should be able to access health care without a threat to their safety. Unfortunately, not a single republican running for governor agrees.”

Despite the fact that exit polls from 2012 show that 71 percent of New Hampshire<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=0f23430e67&e=aac58c81e5> voters supported a woman’s right to choose, the Republican candidates have spent their campaigns racing to the right on women’s health.

Mayor Ted Gatsas told NHPR<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=0d340eef33&e=aac58c81e5> in March, “I can tell you that in the Senate I voted against funding for Planned Parenthood in the past. I would vote against any public funding for Planned Parenthood.”

Meanwhile, Chris Sununu actually cast the deciding vote<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=cf5d068779&e=aac58c81e5> to defund Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire even after admitting<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=0845bf4944&e=aac58c81e5> explicitly to NHPR that “in his Seacoast district…Planned Parenthood is the only facility that offers care like low-cost birth control, STD testing and cancer screenings.”

At the time, this unpopular vote drew praise<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=c97114b7ff&e=aac58c81e5> from none other State Rep. Frank Edelblut, another far-right Republican candidate for governor.

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