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New Hampshire House Votes To Ban Funds For Planned Parenthood | New Hampshire’s GOP-led House voted to prohibit the state from contracting with “organizations that provide abortions even if private money is used to pay for the service,” including Planned Parenthood. Though the women’s health organization predominantly provides contraceptive, breast cancer, and STD testing services to nearly 16,000 low-income women in New Hampshire, its small abortion practice has led lawmakers to cut off funding. Some hospitals that provide abortion services could be affected, but proponents believe that they and others “could set up a separate business to handle” those specific procedures. The bill does allow “medical procedures to save the life of the child, remove a dead fetus,” or “remove an ecotopic pregnancy,” and, after passing 207-147, will now be considered by the state Senate.