Doctors who present abortion tablets shall be protected. (Representational)

New York:

New York’s Democratic-majority state legislature introduced Tuesday that it had handed a invoice to offer authorized safety to medical doctors prescribing and transport abortion tablets to sufferers in states that ban the process.

The invoice has but to be signed into regulation by the state’s governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, who has beforehand expressed assist 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,” stated Carl Heastie, speaker of the New York State Assembly, in a press release.

The regulation comes a yr after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal proper to an abortion. The change allowed lawmakers to legislate on the difficulty on the state degree and ushered in a slew of bans or extreme restrictions in additional than 20 states.

Under the brand new regulation, medical doctors working in New York state who present abortion tablets — or telehealth consultations to ladies who get abortions — could be shielded from prosecution in states the place abortion restrictions are in place.

The New York laws may benefit physician Linda Prine, recognized for having based an emergency hotline that ladies can name from wherever within the US for medical recommendation relating to reproductive well being.

According to Prine, the Supreme Court’s resolution has precipitated a “huge increase” within the variety of calls.

Since the Supreme Court resolution, Washington state, Massachusetts, Colorado and Vermont have handed legal guidelines to guard their medical doctors in instances associated to abortion.

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