Republicans in New Hampshire Want to Ban Abortion After 15 ... Days | That’s just one day after at-home tests can confirm a pregnancy

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rollingstone.com

Republicans currently hold a trifecta in New Hampshire, with GOP majorities in the House and Senate and a Republican occupying the governor’s mansion. But control of the House — the largest in the country with 400 members — sits on a knife’s edge. There are 198 Republicans and 195 Democrats, three independents, and four vacant seats.

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Republicans “claim that they don’t want to ban abortion anymore, and that they don’t want to change the 24 week ban. And here we are, with a bill from sponsors in both chambers, trying to move the ban to 15 days,” says Alexis Simpson, deputy minority leader of the New Hampshire House. Simpson pointed to other proposals floated by GOP members to restrict abortion, including a Texas-style abortion bounty law in 2021, and 15-week ban that is expected to be introduced in the upcoming session.

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But this proposed law does not ban abortion 15 days after ovulation — it bans abortion at 15 days gestation, counted from the first day of a woman’s last menstrual cycle… which means it would ban abortion before some woman have even had conceived.

Yep, thats how you normaly count:

Your weeks of pregnancy are dated from the first day of your last period. This means that in the first 2 weeks or so, you are not actually pregnant.

https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/week-by-week/1-to-12/1-2-3-weeks/

The title is wrong. The two weeks end two weeks before the tests can detect it.

Which also means that you can just go ahead and subtract 2-4 weeks (at least, subtract more if you're not super regular or your christofascist overlords require a waiting period between an initial consultation and the procedure itself) from any of these laws. So far, i've only seen one that uses the "probable fertilization" date instead (but to be honest, idk how they determine that date so there could be some fuckery there too).