California Bill Would Protect Doctors Who Mail Abortion Pills to Out-of-State Patients
California legislators have introduced a bill that would protect the state’s doctors who mail abortion pills to patients in other states as well as other protections including those related to so-called “gender-affirming care.”
State Senate Bill 345, introduced last month by state Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), would allow doctors to provide and dispense abortion and contraception medication to both in-state and out-of-state patients.
The bill would also ban California from extraditing doctors who face charges in other states for providing abortion services; protect doctors from paying fines to other states for such services; and allow doctors to sue anyone who attempts to stop them from providing abortions….