New Hampshire Republicans Want To Give Men Power To Veto A Woman's Abortion

The state of New Hampshire is currently considering three separate anti-abortion bills, and one of them would give men the right to veto a woman's abortion if he claims he is the father. While there are paternity testing requirements, these would take so long via court battles that the woman would essentially lose her right to choose in the process. The bill is currently still in committee, but it would be a disastrous blow to bodily autonomy if it were to pass. Farron Cousins discusses the legislation.

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Republicans in the state of New Hampshire are pushing three separate anti-abortion pieces of legislation, all just as bad as the one before it, one of them of course modeled after Texas's, uh, anti-abortion bill that the us Supreme court is still, you know, planning on ruling on, but one of these bills, IMIT is exceptionally startling because one of these three pieces of legislation would actually allow men who claim to be the father of the unborn child. It would give them the legal right to block a woman from having an abortion. If the man comes forward and says, Nope, you can't terminate this pregnancy.

This law would say, that's it then done. Of course, the man has to be the father. And if the woman of course refutes the father's claim and says, no, you're not the father. Then you'd have to do the paternity test and go to court. Now here, the thing about that under this law, that's not an immediate thing. You don't immediately that day, get the paternity test and get your court hearing. No, it pushes it back weeks. If not months and months and months, by which time when we finally get the resolution confirming or denying that man's paternity, it would likely already be too late. Cuz in many, the woman would've already have had the child, but she wouldn't have been able to terminate the pregnancy while it was still being held up in court. So the man would win. Anyway, it does of course have the exception for sexual assault.

But only of course, if the woman has reported the sexual assault to authorities four, the man makes the challenge saying that she has to keep the baby. So if a woman is assaulted and hasn't reported it yet, but finds out she's pregnant and the man finds out, he can immediately file a challenge and say, Nope, she can't get rid of the baby. And if she hasn't reported it yet, because these things are not, you know, it's not like having your car stolen, you don't call the police immediately. This is a whole psychological thing. When a, when an assault happens, it is a very traumatic event and many individuals who go through it, don't immediately say, I gotta call the police. It it's so much more involved than that. And that's why sometimes it does take time for them to be reported. And again, if the man makes the claim first, no matter what, even if she reports that it was an assault after that, if he's filed the claim, she has to keep it. And of course, once the baby is born, yeah, it goes to the man, most likely, most likely, but see the law doesn't actually cover that. It only says the man would have to cover the cost of prenatal care. So once the baby is born, the man would actually have no financial obligation. Sure. He's supposed to take it, but it doesn't

Necessarily mandate that he does. So basically this law would force women to have the baby. The man would have to pay for all the prenatal care. But then after that, if he suddenly decides, you know what, I'm out, she's on her own. That's how extreme these new proposed laws are getting, getting. And of course this one is still in committee. It doesn't even have a whole lot of Republican support at this point. It course was put forward by Republicans. But the rest of the party, even on this one, they're like, you know what? Don't know if we can do this, but if they don't do it in New Hampshire, I guarantee you they're gonna try it somewhere else because this is how extreme they're getting. They want to take away women's rights and literally hand those rights over a woman's body to a man because that's what Republicans today are all about.