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Former Sen. Scott Brown, running for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire for the Republicans.

Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, is denying a “shameful” charge that he is pro-life, even a little bit. This comes after his Democratic opponent, incumbent Senator Jeanne Shaheen, highlighted Brown's support for two failed bills that would have regulated abortions in neighboring Massachusetts.

As a Massachusetts state senator in 2003 and 2005, Scott voted in favor of a 24-hour waiting period for women considering abortion, and informed consent legislation that would have required abortionists to provide their clients with accurate information about fetal development and the potential safety risks of abortion.

“[Brown] said this is not a decision that women are capable of making with our families and health care providers. He said this is a decision that the government should be making, that I, Scott Brown, am going to make,” Shaheen told supporters at a Derry, New Hampshire, campaign stop on Tuesday. “He may have turned his back on the constituents that he had in Massachusetts when he moved to New Hampshire, but he can't turn his back on his record.”

Brown responded by forcefully defending his pro-abortion bona fides before a group of reporters Tuesday, arguing that he only supported the “objectionable” 24-hour-waiting period because he assumed it would later be removed from the bill, and that his support for informed consent was mainly intended to promote adoption and other abortion alternatives, and that women were free to toss the information in the trash without looking at it if they wanted to.

“Let me be crystal clear: The choice of whether to have an abortion comes down to a decision that is best made between a woman and her doctor,” Brown said. “As you know, I live in a house full of women and have been advocating and fighting for women's safety my entire life. For Senator Shaheen and her allies to suggest otherwise in the way they have is just shameful.”

The heated exchange between the two campaigns came on the same day Shaheen launched a new television spot singling out Brown’s prior support for informed consent.

“In Massachusetts, Scott Brown pushed for a law to force women considering abortion — force them — to look at color photographs of developing fetuses,” says a female narrator as the camera pans across an image of the 2005 “Women’s Right to Know Act,” which Brown co-sponsored. “Scott Brown wants the government to tell women how to make this decision.”

But Brown denied that the bill would have forced women to do anything more than accept a pamphlet containing information about fetal development.

“I would never force a woman to do anything, and I would never support a bill that would do such a thing,” Brown said Tuesday. “That woman could've taken that [pamphlet] and put it right in the barrel if she wanted to; it wasn't forced. The sole intent was to promote adoptions and different alternatives.”

“Senator Shaheen and I are both pro-choice,” Brown added. “We both support Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.”

This is not the first time Brown has vociferously defended abortion-on-demand during this campaign. Last month, Brown lashed out at his own state party when the New Hampshire GOP voted to include personhood rights for unborn children as part of their official party platform.

“[I’m] a pro-choice, independent Republican,” Brown said at the time. “I don't agree with that particular part of the platform. However I have always felt that we are a big tent party. We have the opportunity to agree or disagree.”

Brown also repeatedly bucked his party on the abortion issue during his short stint as a U.S. Senator from 2010 to 2013. Then representing Massachusetts in the upper chamber, he repeatedly expressed his support for expanded access to abortion, including an end to the ban on abortion on military bases in cases of rape, and continued federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Brown even called the 2012 Republican Party platform's strong pro-life language “a mistake.”

Abortion is not the only issue on which Brown falls on the side of social liberals. He backed the Obama administration's decision to allow open homosexuals to serve in the military, and personally invited a controversial gay activist to the signing of the bill that made it law.

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Brown became New Hampshire’s nominee for U.S. Senate after defeating former U.S. Senator Bob Smith, a strongly pro-life candidate who was seeking to return to the seat he held from 1991-2003.

According to the latest polling, he trails Shaheen by six percent.