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Sununu’s Legacy of Using Women’s Bodies for Political Gain

written by Crystal Paradis

New Hampshire’s fetal personhood bill is expected to become the latest example of what those who have been following New Hampshire’s reproductive rights policies already know: Governor Sununu consistently steps on women’s bodies to rise in his own political career.

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Sununu’s Legacy of Using Women’s Bodies for Political Gain was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
June 7, 2017
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Gun Violence is Our Responsibility

written by Crystal Paradis

It was easy to tell myself I wasn’t doing work that supported the NRA. Until a man walked into a club in Orlando and killed 49 people, injuring over 50 others. Once again, dozens of innocent people were dead. Our nation mourned. Vigils were held. Arguments raged. Who is culpable for letting this happen again?

I was. And I didn’t act alone.

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Gun Violence is Our Responsibility was last modified: January 4th, 2019 by Crystal Paradis
July 12, 2016
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Talking #PinkOutTheVote & #NHpolitics on WSCA’s Seacoast Currents

written by Crystal Paradis

I had a great time chatting with Larry Drake on WSCA’s Seacoast Currents show this morning. We talked about how I got started with political activism and advocacy, and what I learned from Planned Parenthood’s national volunteer summit, The Power of Pink (#PinkOutTheVote). 

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Talking #PinkOutTheVote & #NHpolitics on WSCA’s Seacoast Currents was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
May 26, 2016
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New Hampshire Women Deserve Equal Political Representation

written by Crystal Paradis

Political power is everything. But nearly 25 years after “The Year of the Woman,” U.S. women have just 20 percent representation in the Senate and 19.3 percent in the House.

Here in New Hampshire, we gained headlines in 2013 with phrases like “… In New Hampshire, Women Rule!” when we became the first state in history to send an all-female delegation to Washington. But here at home, New Hampshire women make up just about a third of our state’s legislative representatives (33 percent in the House and 37.5 percent in the Senate). When we look at mayors, an even smaller percentage, just 16.7 percent, are women. Nationally, New Hampshire ranks fifth out of 50 states in political gender equality. So relatively speaking, New Hampshire women aren’t nearly as underrepresented as women are in the rest of the country. But is that really the best we can do?

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New Hampshire Women Deserve Equal Political Representation was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
May 22, 2016
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Domestic Violence Survivors Deserve a Better Court Model

written by Crystal Paradis

“My sister was lucky when her husband tried to kill her 18 months ago. As crazy as that sounds, it’s true. That attack against her life gave her the courage to finally call for help and escape nearly two decades of abuse. Hearing this story devastated us, her loving family who had suspected for decades but hoped it was just our imagination, but it also made us whole again by allowing us back into her life.

Before escaping through a window, she tried to calm her kids, my 11-year-old niece and screaming, crying 6-year-old nephew, who had just witnessed his father strangling his mother. “Who knew your own dad could turn out to be a bad guy?” he asked. As she waited outside in the freezing cold Grafton, NH night, hiding in the dark in her pajamas, for the one and half hours it took the police to arrive after she called for help, safety seemed so far away.

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Domestic Violence Survivors Deserve a Better Court Model was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
April 27, 2016
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Repealing the Hyde Amendment — in Hyde’s own words.

written by Crystal Paradis

In the inaugural article of my new column for Seacoast Sunday (The Portsmouth Herald/Fosters Daily Democrat), I wrote about the discriminatory nature of the Hyde Amendment, which unfairly targets poor women by restricting access to their legal right to have a safe abortion. It’s a matter of inequality. 

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Repealing the Hyde Amendment — in Hyde’s own words. was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
March 18, 2016
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Equal Access to Abortion Matters — Repeal the Hyde Amendment

written by Crystal Paradis

Last week, the New Hampshire House voted on 10 laws that impact women’s health and access to safe and legal reproductive health care. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the most significant abortion-related case of the past two decades, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. And in the past year, candidates vying for the highest office in the country have weighed in with their thoughts on women’s health in general and abortion in particular.

So, this begs the question: when equal access to reproductive health care is being discussed, who gets to frame the conversation?

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Equal Access to Abortion Matters — Repeal the Hyde Amendment was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
March 15, 2016
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Reproductive Justice Means Access to Care

written by Crystal Paradis

As an uninsured young adult working three jobs, Planned Parenthood was my only option for access to birth control and well-woman exams. Since they were there for me to provide much-needed sex education, information on and access to birth control and compassionate, professional health care, I’ve become outspoken about reproductive justice and the fact that I #StandWithPP.

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Reproductive Justice Means Access to Care was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
March 13, 2016
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Calling for an end to the attacks on Planned Parenthood

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Once the attacks on Planned Parenthood were proven to be a coordinated smear campaign, I joined Senator Shaheen from New Hampshire, along with Senators Patty Murray and Richard Blumenthal, along with Representatives Diana DeGette, and Jan Schakowsky, to call for an end to the efforts to take away access to necessary health care services.

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Calling for an end to the attacks on Planned Parenthood was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
February 10, 2016
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The Global Refugee Crisis — And What You Can Do About It

written by Crystal Paradis

According to UNCHR’s 2015 Mid-Year Trends Report, “the global refugee total, which a year ago was 19.5 million, had as of mid-2015 passed the 20 million threshold (20.2 million) for the first time since 1992. Asylum applications meanwhile were up 78 per cent (993,600) over the same period in 2014. And the numbers of internally displaced people jumped by around 2 million to an estimated 34 million.

Indications from the first half of the year suggest 2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first time. In a global context, that means that one person in every 122 has been forced to flee their home.” (Source: UNHCR)

How do you even wrap your brain around such a crisis?

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The Global Refugee Crisis — And What You Can Do About It was last modified: October 15th, 2017 by Crystal Paradis
December 31, 2015
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