Pro-Choice Voter Guide: New Hampshire District 01
Rep. Frank Guinta
Rep. Frank Guinta (R) is anti-choice. He is the incumbent.
Rep. Guinta earned a 0-percent score in NARAL Pro-Choice America's 2011 Congressional Record on Choice.
Voted twice to block Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds, which would have denied millions of Americans access to contraception, cancer screenings, and other basic medical care.
Voted for H.R.3, a bill that would ban abortion coverage in state health-insurance exchanges; impose tax penalties on small businesses and many individuals who purchase private health plans that include abortion coverage; and make permanent several restrictions that block many women from accessing abortion care.
Voted to allow hospitals to refuse to provide emergency abortion care to women who could die without it.
Rep. Guinta received a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee in 2011.
Rep. Guinta was endorsed in 2010 by the extreme Republican National Coalition for Life which requires all endorsed candidates to "indicate they are faithfully pro-life, and do not justify abortion for innocent babies who are conceived through rape or incest."
Former Rep. Carol Shea-Porter
Former Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D) is pro-choice.
NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC has endorsed Former Rep. Shea-Porter.
Former Rep. Shea-Porter said, "I believe that we have a right to make our own medical decisions. Women have a right to make their own reproductive decisions, and families have a right to make end of life decisions. We must insist that our representatives in Congress represent us and protect us, and I pledge to be a forceful defender of an individual's right to privacy."
Brendan Kelly
Brendan Kelly (L) has no known position on choice.
