NH-EC01: Republican candidate for executive council shares misleading statements about abortion funding in NH
Joseph Kenney, a Republican candidate for executive council, made several inaccurate claims in his candidate questionnaire published this week.
Kenney, who’s seeking re-election for District 1 (which comprises areas in Coos county to Strafford county, including the greater Seacoast cities and towns of Dover, Durham, Farmington, Madbury, Rochester, Rollinsford, and Somersworth) has previously blocked funding to Planned Parenthood several times (even though abortion care is a small segment of the services offered at the health clinic). He’s has also voted no to extend funding for sex education programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancies.
According to a news release from Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund, there were several inaccuracies in Kenney’s responses—published in the Seacoast Online—that claimed family planning contracts in the state were funding abortions.
Kenney says public money can’t go to clinics that offer abortions, and has used that reasoning to justify his vote to block funding to Planned Parenthood—but there’s no state law that says this. Over the past three years, New Hampshire’s Planned Parenthood health clinics have served 11,223 patients for 15,717 visits.
https://granitepostnews.com/2024/10/09/joe-kenney-abortion-funds/