Hillary Seeger: New Hampshire abortion laws allow for plenty of time to decide

To The Daily Sun,

One can't turn on the television or radio without hearing about the terrible restrictive abortion law in New Hampshire. These ads make it sound like rape victims will be forced to carry a child and other women who suffer horrors will face that same fate. Not true.

Abortions are legal in New Hampshire up to 24 weeks in most cases, under a law added into the state budget last year. That limit is lifted when a mother’s life or health is at risk or when a fatal fetal anomaly “incompatible with life” exists, meaning the infant won’t survive outside the womb.

Lawmakers added an exception for fatal fetal anomalies this year after women shared their accounts of having to terminate late into a pregnancy after learning their child would not live.

I personally know two families with lovely children who survived premature birth at 24 weeks. I do not know how a rape victim would not have the time or emotional wherewithal to make this decision within the 24-week time frame, and I say this coming from a position of having suffered MST.

Facts are nice and they are not shared nearly enough anymore.

Hillary Seeger

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