New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc told supporters this week that he thinks the future of abortion rights belongs to Republican gentlemen state lawmakers, who he claims know best how to give women a voice on their reproductive rights.

During a Wednesday night town hall in Auburn, New Hampshire, Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general, weighed in on whether he thinks abortion rights should be decided at the state level or the federal level.

It belongs to the state. It belongs to these gentlemen right here, who are state legislators representing you, Bolduc said, motioning to at least two Republican state representatives in the room, Jason Osborne and Jess Edwards.

Edwards, for one, voted against sidelining a bill in March that would have banned abortion upon the detection of a so-called fetal heartbeat, a misleading reference to cardiac activity in an embryo. That means the bill would have banned abortion after about five weeks, a point at which many people dont even know that they are pregnant.

Heres a shot of Bolducs campaign event, with Edwards seated nearby (HuffPost circled him with a yellow line). Bolduc tweeted out this image after the event.