Governor Janet Mills yesterday, July 5, signed an Executive Order to further safeguard access to abortion in Maine and to protect Maine health care providers who provide reproductive health care and their patients in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Mills said, “A woman’s right to choose is just that – a woman’s, not a politician’s. This Executive Order makes clear that access to reproductive health care, and the health care providers who offer it, will be protected by my Administration.”
The Governor’s Executive Order:
- Prohibits State agencies from cooperating with another state’s investigation into a person, organization, or health care provider for delivering abortion care in Maine.
- Directs State agencies to conduct a review of laws and regulations for barriers to reproductive health care and exercise discretionary authority under the law to remove or minimize those barriers, and, among other things.
- Makes clear that the Governor will exercise her authority within the law to decline extradition attempts from other states pursuing criminal charges against a person for receiving or performing abortion care
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More at Maine.gov.
Governor Janet Mills signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at protecting reproductive rights in Maine. https://t.co/ogOX8cBsiJ
— CBS 13 News (@WGME) July 6, 2022
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