Committee adopts amendment changing gestational-age reporting language; debate centers on privacy and clinical practice
November 13, 2025 | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs, House of Representatives, Committees , Legislative, New Hampshire
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Representative Kesselring offered an amendment (Amendment 3091) that sets an effective date of July 1 and removes the word "estimated" from the statutory phrase "gestational age." Kesselring said the change brings statute in line with clinical practice and prevents New Hampshire from being the first state to introduce a different reporting precedent.
Representative Weber objected to bundling the date change with the reporting-language change and warned the amendment could lead to more intrusive and unnecessary ultrasound procedures and privacy harms. "Removing estimated gestational age... leads us towards more ultrasounds and more intrusion and more unnecessary and expensive procedures and intrusions on women's privacy," Weber said.
Representative Kesselring and others countered that Massachusetts and other states use statutory language that does not include the term "estimated" and that the amendment includes reporting provisions to avoid inconsistent reporting.
The amendment carried 10–7 on the roll call; passage as amended also carried 10–7. Representative Kesselring will prepare the majority report; a minority report was anticipated.
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