{"id":1563288,"date":"2022-07-20T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563288"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:19:36","slug":"vulnerable-senate-dem-digs-in-on-abortion-gop-challengers-go-on-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vulnerable-senate-dem-digs-in-on-abortion-gop-challengers-go-on-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable Senate Dem Digs In On Abortion, GOP Challengers Go On Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvulnerable-senate-dem-digs-in-on-abortion-gop-challengers-go-on-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-hampshire\">New Hampshire<\/a>\u2018s Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/maggie-hassan\">Maggie Hassan<\/a>, one of the Senate\u2019s most vulnerable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a>, heard the Supreme Court had overturned <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/roe-v-wade\">Roe v Wade<\/a><\/em>, she swiftly dug her heels in on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The polarizing issue could cost her with Granite State moderates, but the former governor, who is bidding for a second term in the Senate, took a strong stance. She also made her <a href=\"https:\/\/gop.com\/blog\/maggie-hassan-voted-to-pass-the-most-extreme-pro-abortion-bill-in-history\/\">position<\/a> \u2014 in support of abortion all the way through the third trimester \u2014 part of her campaign in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision catapults us backwards,\u201d Hassan declared in a June 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dG0ntZHQz5Y\">ad<\/a> released less than a week after the court\u2019s decision. \u201cWe will not be intimidated. I will fight and never back down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, her Republican challengers are saying Hassan is not on the same page with New Hampshire voters at all when it comes to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates in the crowded GOP primary field are eager to expose what they say is an extreme abortion agenda that doesn\u2019t reflect what New Hampshire residents want.<\/p>\n<p>A 2021 University of New Hampshire <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.unh.edu\/survey_center_polls\/643\/\">poll<\/a> found that a majority of Granite Staters, 58%, want at least some restrictions on abortion, and 38% think abortion should be legal in all circumstances. More broadly across the country, since 1996, only about 28% of Americans have ever thought abortion should generally be legal in the second trimester, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/235469\/trimesters-key-abortion-views.aspx\">according<\/a> to Gallup.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan is <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiehassan.com\/news\/press-release\/planned-parenthood-action-fund-endorses-senator-maggie-hassan\/\">endorsed<\/a> for reelection by Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Last June, 64-year-old Hassan co-sponsored the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act (WHPA) along with other Senate Democrats, a bill that would force several pro-abortion goals that are not even close to being supported by a majority of Americans. In February and again in May, Hassan backed attempts to bring the proposed law to the Senate floor for a vote.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Preview: I\u2019m voting yes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kgTBKPJmIO\">https:\/\/t.co\/kgTBKPJmIO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Maggie Hassan (@SenatorHassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorHassan\/status\/1522260081227747332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The audacious bill\u00a0would nix\u00a0state laws that restrict abortion, forcing states to\u00a0allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy up to the day of birth. It would do away with\u00a0parental notification laws like New Hampshire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.nh.gov\/filing-petition-judicial-waiver-parental-notification-abortion-can-be-performed\">current<\/a> one, and it would likely force medical personnel to violate their consciences and participate in abortions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blumenthal.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/WHPA%20-%20Senate.pdf\">law\u2019s text<\/a>\u00a0is explicit\u00a0that it would supersede the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWHPA will essentially legalize abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy and undo every state law that has protected children in the womb,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demsforlife\/status\/1497344730836836355?s=20&#038;t=eiCIJiQSH70jcQKlfleIFg\">said<\/a>\u00a0Democrats for Life America.<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire had no restrictions on abortion until last year, when Gov. Chris Sununu (R) signed the state\u2019s current 24-week abortion ban. Since then, state lawmakers have added an exemption for fatal fetal anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>State Senator Chuck Morse, one of the Republicans running against Hassan, oversaw the passage of the 24-week ban as New Hampshire\u2019s current Senate president.<\/p>\n<p>Morse said he believes Hassan has gone \u201cway too far\u201d on abortion and \u201cagainst what I believe the people of New Hampshire stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe believes in abortion throughout the pregnancy and she believes the federal government should be paying for it. That\u2019s unheard of and it\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d Morse told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Morse added on the parental notification issue that,\u00a0\u201cI think the public here want to know what their child\u2019s doing, not only in that category, but in many other categories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc is the most well-known of the Republican candidates after he ran for Senate in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>About a third of GOP primary voters say they plan to vote for Bolduc, but 58% are still undecided, partly due to the lack of name recognition in the Republican field, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.unh.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1692&#038;context=survey_center_polls\">according<\/a> to an April University of New Hampshire poll.<\/p>\n<p>Bolduc accused Hassan of \u201cthrowing gas on the fire\u201d of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision and said it will make\u00a0her more vulnerable in the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Hampshire voters, regardless of party, do not approve of partial birth abortion and abortion up to the time of birth. This is her position. This is absolutely a wrong position when it comes to where Granite Staters think about it,\u201d Bolduc told The Daily Wire. \u201cBut she doesn\u2019t look at it that way. She wants to put fuel on the fire to create divisiveness again, to detract from the other really bad things she\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe women on both sides of this issue have a better chance of addressing this at the state level and having a bigger voice than they do at the federal level. The federal level has done nothing but create divisiveness, hatred,\u201d the former general said.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to lose that leverage because she knows that it plays well for her in commercials and sound bites,\u201d Bolduc said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Smith was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhcornerstone.org\/latest-news\/cornerstone-director-kevin-smith-announces-resignation-2\/\">director<\/a> of a conservative advocacy group in New Hampshire that emphasizes pro-life issues, and he\u00a0has a long pro-life record stretching back to when he was a 19-year-old member of the state House and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/legislation\/1997\/HB0768.html\">sponsored<\/a> a ban on partial-birth abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe holds an extreme position on this issue that is vastly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When New Hampshire\u2018s Sen. Maggie Hassan, one of the Senate\u2019s most vulnerable Democrats, heard the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v Wade, she swiftly dug her heels in on abortion. The polarizing issue could cost her with Granite State moderates, but the former governor, who is bidding for a second term in the Senate, took &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}