Marie Bradley: Beware of reps who voted to add abortion to state constitution

To The Daily Sun,

Recently the NH Legislature voted on CACR 23 an abortion amendment. The purpose of the legislation was to place a question on the November ballot adding an Amendment to the NH Constitution to enshrine in our State Constitution the “so-called right” to have an abortion up to 24 weeks (six months) no questions asked and also the right to have an abortion up to birth for any reason “necessary” relying solely on the professional judgment of a physician.

This did not garner the 60% needed to pass and was defeated, thank God. Only one Laconia representative voted against it. Thank you, Steve Bogert. Three other representatives voted in favor — Democrats Charlie St. Clair, David Huot and Republican Mike Bordes.

Please let it sink in what this Constitutional Amendment would have meant for the unborn innocent child in NH — abortion anywhere, anytime up to six months gestation and thereafter up to birth just by getting a like-minded physician to agree to this procedure.

In 2019 the NH Legislature abolished the death penalty. The argument used to abolish the death penalty has always been it is “cruel and inhumane.” I cannot think of any procedure that ends a life that could be more cruel or inhumane than the termination of the life of a defenseless unborn child. The push to end life at every stage of its development is beyond abhorrent. Sixty-three million U.S. abortions since 1973 — what kind of people have we become?

Rep. Bordes has shown us repeatedly by his votes in the Legislature on children’s issues that he has no interest in protecting our children. He is a hopeless cause. I can only pray in the future Reps. St. Clair and Huot will choose to protect our most vulnerable population — the born and unborn children of New Hampshire.

Marie Bradley

Laconia