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New Hampshire’s Choice Climate
State Grade for Abortion Laws: A-
Key Facts:
* 50 percent of New Hampshire counties have no abortion provider.
* New Hampshire lost no abortion providers between 1992 and 1996; the number stayed the same at 16.
* 161,130 women in New Hampshire need contraceptive services and supplies.
* 9.9 percent of women in New Hampshire lack health insurance.
* Governor John Lynch (D) is pro-choice.
Learn more about how New Hampshire measures up.
Contact Your U.S. Representatives
Senator John E. Sununu
E-mail: mailbox@sununu.senate.gov
Web: http://sununu.senate.gov/
* Republican
* Anti-choice
* Supports a ban on abortion with exceptions in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment.
* Voted with the National Right to Life Committee 100 percent of the time in 1999 and 2000.
* Voted YES on numerous amendments to gut the nation's international family planning programs.
* Voted YES on a global "gag" rule to ban overseas organizations from receiving U.S. family planning dollars if the organizations use their own funds to provide legal abortion services, including referrals (2001).
* Voted NO on an amendment to require federal employee insurance plans that provide coverage of prescription drugs also to provide contraceptive coverage (1998).
Senator Judd Gregg
E-mail: mailbox@gregg.senate.gov
Web: http://www.senate.gov/~gregg/
* Republican
* Anti-choice
* Voted NO on an amendment that would have allowed women serving overseas to obtain abortions at military hospitals using their own money (2002).
Representative Carol Shea-Porter
E-mail:
Web: http://www.shea-porter.house.gov/index.shtml/
* First District
* Democrat
* Pro-choice
Representative Paul Hodes
E-mail:
Web: http://hodes.house.gov//
* Second District
* Democrat
* Pro-choice | 
