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.
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