Senator Hassan Statement Ahead of Vote on Women’s Health Protection Act

WASHINGTON – Senator Maggie Hassan released the following statement ahead of the Senate vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act. The legislation would guarantee the right to access an abortion—and the right of an abortion provider to deliver these abortion services—free from medically unnecessary restrictions that interfere with a patient’s individual choice or the provider-patient relationship.

“Granite Staters understand that to protect women’s economic and personal freedoms, we need to ensure that they can make their own health care decisions. Today’s vote comes at a critical inflection point for our country as politicians from Concord to Washington work to strip away reproductive freedoms. I urge all of my colleagues to stand up against these attacks that harm not just women’s health, but the fundamental dignity and autonomy of all people, which is critical to our democracy as a whole. The fate of Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread and, without Congress’ action, reproductive freedom as we know it could cease to exist.”

Senator Hassan is focused on expanding access to reproductive health care services and fighting against any efforts to chip away at the rights afforded under Roe v. Wade. Earlier this year, Senator Hassan and the NH Congressional Delegation announced that following their push, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) received $500,000 in Title X Dire Needs. This funding helps offset funding losses that PPNNE, as well as other providers in the region, have suffered over the last few years – both from the previous administration’s Title X Gag Rule, which left the majority of New Hampshire family planning providers without access to Title X funding, as well as from the New Hampshire Executive Council’s repeated votes to defund providers.

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