New York Passes Bill To Protect Doctors Prescribing Abortion Pills
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The bill has yet to be signed into law by the state's governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, who has previously expressed support for such protections.
New York's Democratic-majority state legislature announced Tuesday that it had passed a bill to provide legal protection to doctors prescribing and shipping abortion pills to patients in states that ban the procedure.
The bill has yet to be signed into law by the state's governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, who has previously expressed support for such protections.
"It is our moral obligation to help women across the country with their bodily autonomy by protecting New York doctors from litigation efforts from anti-choice extremists," said Carl Heastie, speaker of the New York State Assembly, in a statement.
The law comes a year after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion. The change allowed lawmakers to legislate on the issue at the state level and ushered in a slew of bans or severe restrictions in more than 20 states.
