Republican Kelly Ayotte wants voters to forget what she said about abortion before Dobbs

When she was running for the Senate, Ayotte called for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Once serving in the upper chamber, she supported legislation to implement a national 20-week abortion ban with exceptions for rape and incest, or to save the life of the pregnant parent — though just a handful of weeks shorter than New Hampshire’s cutoff, many severe fetal abnormalities incompatible with life are diagnosed between 18 and 22 weeks. She also supported a failed Republican amendment to a highway bill that would have dramatically expanded exceptions to the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act, and co-sponsored stand-alone legislation that would have done the same. She supports withholding government funds from Planned Parenthood.