MANCHESTER, N.H. – New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation joined with political leaders from Concord and Washington in an event at the Doubletree Hilton Manchester on Monday to commemorate the anniversaries of the Roe vs. Wade decision, the Citizens United decision and the day before the New Hampshire Presidential Primary.
Hosted by the groups End Citizens United and Reproductive Freedom for All, speakers at the event stated that the growth of undocumented political spending played a direct role in the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe, which provided federal abortion access protections for decades.
End Citizens United CEO Tiffany Muller added that the rise of “dark money” would continue to enable those who overturned Roe unless voters organize and get out to the polls to oppose Donald Trump and his allies.
“Our freedoms are at the core of what’s at stake in 2024. Our freedom over our own bodies, our freedom over voting, our freedom over what books we read, who we marry, who we love, and the fundamental foundations of our democracy,” she said. “President Biden has made this contrast clear while he’s defending our democracy and safeguarding our rights,Donald Trump and the MAGA extremists are putting it at risk.”
Following speakers echoed these sentiments about the threat Trump poses to reproductive rights and more if re-elected, all stating that they would write-in Joe Biden in Tuesday’s Presidential Primary. U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) went further, stating that Trump believes he is unaccountable to the people of the U.S. and would never stop escalating his attacks, comparable to fascist dictators of the past.
“Donald Trump is not just talking. He is telling you who he is and what he believes. He believes he is above the law, he believes he is unaccountable to the people of this country. He is an election denier who will choose violence over honoring votes,” she said. “Democracy is the alternative to violence and Donald Trump’s behavior and history and what is saying tells you exactly who he is: he is the kind of ruler we fought a revolution to reject and that is what is at stake in this election. Our democracy can simply not afford another Trump presidency.”
Speakers during the event also said that there was no substantive difference between Trump and other Republicans such as Nikki Haley, also criticizing efforts by Republican legislators at the state level to restrict abortion access, such as a recent bill here in New Hampshire that would restrict abortion to women 15 days after conception.
Mini Timmaraju, President and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, said that Republicans have stopped discussing abortion, using recent elections in Virginia as an example of how she believes it is no longer advantageous for them to do so.
37ish “Republicans are now trying to figure out what the message should be on abortion because they haven’t figured it out, they’re not talking about it, but the truth Is no matter what their message is on abortion, until they change their policy viewpoint, until they support a federal law reinstating the protections of Roe, they will continue to lose,” she said. “They can’t win, so they are going to try to deflect and our job as advocates is to remind voters.”