Iwrite to share the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation’s shock and disappointment with The Music Hall’s decision to cancel Lovering Health Center’s rental of the historic theater just six days before its annual fundraiser and the highly anticipated showing of a documentary film about abortion. We are deeply concerned by the timing of the cancellation, the purported reason for the cancellation, and the subsequent explanation that abortion is “too political” for The Music Hall. This decision furthers abortion stigma and harms the Seacoast community, including the Health Center and people who provide, seek, and support access to abortion.
We implore The Music Hall to make this right.
Lovering Health Center, the region’s independent sexual and reproductive healthcare provider, contracted with