Charlotte Matherly reports:
New Hampshire is an outlier in the region when it comes to collecting abortion statistics. A bill by Sen. Kevin Avard seeks to change that.
Senate Bill 36 would make New Hampshire the 47th state to require medical providers and facilities to report information about abortions they perform to the state Department of Health and Human Services. That would include when and where the procedure happened, what methods or prescriptions were used and information about the patient, including their age and state of residence, as well as the gestational age of the fetus.
Avard, a Nashua Republican, said the bill would keep patient identities anonymous by gathering information on the practices of abortion providers but not the identities of people who receive abortions.
Read more at Concord Monitor.
h/t, Joe Cadillic