AFTER READING Kayla Montgomery’s misleading op-ed about Kelly Ayotte‘s record on IVF, abortion, and women’s health, I felt compelled to respond and provide some additional information for voters to consider.
Kelly could not have been clearer that we must protect access to IVF, and yet her opponents continue to attack her and lie about her in an attempt to scare women. Kelly didn’t vote to restrict access to IVF, and what the other side won’t tell you is that the Affordable Care Act does not mandate coverage for IVF treatments in the first place. As with most things in politics, you need to look beyond the attacks to find the truth.
This campaign of fear and lies being perpetrated against Kelly Ayotte is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. It’s irresponsible to stand up and mislead the public about what they can and cannot do. Spreading such disinformation about access to health care has no place in our state politics. We should be having a conversation about what we need to do to improve care for women, not waging a political battle to tear others down.
I saw more of this when Joyce Craig and Cinde Warmington held a press conference recently to continue to lie about New Hampshire’s abortion law and Kelly’s stance on it.
The current law in New Hampshire protects women’s freedom to obtain an abortion up to six months of pregnancy and provides exceptions for medical emergencies and fatal fetal anomalies in the last trimester. Kayla Montgomery’s op-ed conveniently left out the fact that New Hampshire law allows for abortions up to six months or that there are exceptions to it in the last trimester. She also left out that her organization, Planned Parenthood, characterizes abortion in New Hampshire as “mostly accessible.” You can look it up for yourself on their website. This flies in the face of the fear mongering that she, along with Joyce and Cinde, are engaged in against Kelly.
The truth is that our abortion law represents the consensus viewpoint on abortion, and Kelly has said repeatedly that as governor she will defend it and will not change it. I trust Kelly Ayotte to do what she says. I trust her because she’s dedicated her life to serving the public, for years as a murder prosecutor and then as our attorney general — under both Democratic and Republican governors. I trust her because I saw what she did working across the aisle for women in the U.S. Senate, and I know that with Kelly as governor, we will have an advocate who will listen and do her best for all of New Hampshire.
Kelly Ayotte’s opponents are spending a lot of time talking about her, and much less time laying out what their priorities and vision for our state will be. It’s only April — we’ve got a long election season to go, and I hope we are going to hear more about what people stand for, instead of all this time telling us who they are against.
Rep. Katelyn Kuttab (R-Windham) represents Rockingham District 17.
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