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Skiers Come To Aid Of Man Injured In Avalanche
Proposed Constitutional Amendment On Abortions
A woman and two young children received treatment for minor injuries after the sports utility vehicle she was driving rolled over onto its side near Bayside Cemetery on Union Avenue, Laconia, on December 9.
Civilians coming upon the 8:20 p.m. crash site held the vehicle in place while others got the children out of the car, but the mother remained trapped inside until firefighters arrived.
The firefighters stabilized the vehicle before pulling the mother from the car.
Discussion: A press release from the fire department did not say what caused the crash, but Captain Chad Vallaincourt wrote, “With winter months here and the increase in holiday traffic, it’s important to stay vigilant while driving.”
Skiers Come To Aid Of Man Injured In Avalanche
Dominic Torro, 30, of Bow was treated for a life-threatening leg injury at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon after being rescued from a Mount Washington avalanche.
New Hampshire Fish and Game Sergeant Glen Lucas said Torro was skiing with a friend down “Airplane Gully” in a wilderness area between Mount Washington and Mount Clay on December 9 when they triggered the avalanche.
Torro’s friend and another skier who were not caught in the avalanche called 911 which led to a National Guard helicopter and the Mount Washington Auto Road Sno-Cat vehicle responding. They called in a backcountry paramedic to give the skiers medical guidance in stabilizing Torro until the helicopter arrived.
The skiers also shoveled out an area on the side slope to allow a paramedic and litter basket to be lowered from the helicopter to load Torro and hoist him back up.
Discussion: The Mount Washington Avalanche Center has not issued a hazard rating, listing the mountain as being under a general advisory, which urges caution but not the expectation of avalanche danger.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment On Abortions
A proposed constitutional amendment would have New Hampshire following Maine and Vermont in placing abortion rights into the state constitution, restoring the terms that were in effect prior to January 1, 2022. Abortion would be allowed until 24 weeks of pregnancy, after which licensed physicians could use their judgment as to whether to terminate a pregnancy. Current state law allows no abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Supporters of the constitutional amendment speaking at a press conference in the Legislative Office Building on December 11 said having the question on the ballot might lead to a higher turnout to vote in the November 2024 general election for president, governor, and legislature.
Passage of a constitutional amendment requires 60 percent of both the House and Senate to support placing the question on the ballot, and then at least 66 percent voters must approve the change to add it to the constitution.
Discussion: Very few proposed amendments are able to make it through the process and become part of the state constitution, and, while popular among a majority of citizens, this one is unlikely to make it as far as getting onto the ballot.
Café Chatter:
Last week one of the Legislative Service Request (LSR) I sponsored received an actual House Bill number 1248 and boy did it cause a squabble. Yes, it is a save the baby bill that limits abortions to 15 days. Dave Testerman is the sponsor and cosponsors are myself and Senator Gendreau.
The Democratics took no time attacking how “the MAGA majority (it sucks if you’re not a Trump supporter because the democrats just lumped you all into the Trump majority) is going to new extremes in their radical agenda to take away reproductive freedoms” (this of course is a lie, no one is taking away anyone’s reproductive freedoms, no one is stopping you from having sex and reproducing).
Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia “The female reproductive system has two functions: The first is to produce egg cells, and the second is to protect and nourish the offspring until birth.” Do you see the natural laws we live under? The reproductive system is there to produce egg cells (so new life can begin) to protect and nourish the offspring until birth. Just like gravity, if we jump, we fall. Because we have the know how to kill our offspring does not mean that should be the norm.
This bill had president Biden and many news outlets talking about it. I have to say, when you get the president, news outlets, and the democratic party’s attention you know they are running scared and sending a message to all their minions.
What did we hear from the NHGOP, the national GOP or presidential candidates running for office???? Crickets, not a peep. They all lost their chance to show how that most democrats are extreme and want unlimited abortions.
Here’s the real issue, morals. Do we have any morals left in NH? Do we know right from wrong anymore? Do we cherish life over death? Why kill an innocent baby that has done nothing wrong? The man and woman made a choice to reproduce and that is on them, not the baby. The people don’t want women getting abortions at six months, six months!
Let’s fight the lies and deception that has been sold to us over the years. Abortion is killing an innocent human life; a baby’s life starts at conception; we can’t arbitrarily make up when life starts. There is no excuse, we scientifically know when life starts. The sex, color of the hair, eye and skin, how tall or short and other characteristics of the baby have been determined at conception. It is beyond shameful we need an anti-abortion bill to stop killing innocent life.
— Representative John Sellers, Bristol
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