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Pro-life leaders in Oklahoma are confident a new state law will withstand an expected court fight from abortion supporters after Gov. Kevin Stiff signed a bill that punishes abortionists. In pro-abortion Maryland, meanwhile, the state appears to be competing to be an abortion mecca.
Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, a Democrat, at a MD Dems Women's Diversity Leadership Council event, Dec. 4, 2019. / Edward Kimmel via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Annapolis, Md., Apr 11, 2022 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
A Maryland law set to take effect July 1 will allow non-physicans to perform abortions, and allot $3.5 million per year for “abortion care” training in the state.
“By enacting this law, Democrat lawmakers have now de-medicalized abortion and removed abortion from the spectrum of health care,” Laura Bogley, the director of legislation for Maryland Right to Life, told CNA. “As a result, many more women will be injured or killed by substandard abortion practices without any protection under Maryland law.”
Maryland House and Senate members, the majority of whom are Democrats, voted April 9 to override Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of House Bill 937, the Abortion Care Access Act.
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