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The new law in New York expands the state's shield laws for healthcare providers who provide abortion services to other states, making it one of eight Democrat-led states with such protections.
The Reproductive Health Act is a New York law enacted on January 22, 2019, that protects reproductive rights, decriminalized abortion, and eliminated several restrictions on voluntary abortions in the state. [1] The RHA repealed §4164 of the state Public Health Law. [2] The law has received national media attention. [3]
[23] [19] [13] According to Cornell University constitutional law professor Michael C. Dorf, the amendment would protect the right to abortion in the state of New York by ensuring that prohibiting abortion would be an unconstitutional form of health-care discrimination because they would be "singling out one form of reproductive health care ...
Two states, Maine and Washington, also ban harassment by telephone. Four states ban property damage to a clinic: California, Oregon, New York, and Washington. One state, Maine, has enacted a noise regulation pertaining to activity outside of a clinic, and also made it an offense to intentionally release a substance with an unpleasant odor ...
Doctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is illegal would be provided with legal protection under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The measure ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Monday to shield the identities of physicians ... New York Gov. Hochul signs law protecting abortion pill prescribers after doctor indicted in Louisiana ...
The legal actions set up a test of laws in some Democratic-controlled states, including New York, that seek to protect health care providers who use telehealth to prescribe and then mail abortion ...
California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Washington have passed laws to also protect telehealth actions when the provider prescribes abortion pills to a patient who is in an antiabortion state. [1] These shield laws have been enacted after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with Dobbs in June 2022 ...