Led by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democratic governors in 20 states are launching the Reproductive Freedom Alliance to strengthen abortion access overall and even ensure services for U.S. residents who live in states with more restrictive laws.
Democratic governors in 20 states are launching a network intended to strengthen abortion access in the wake of the U.S.and instead shifting regulatory powers over the procedure to state governments.
That includes, organizers said, sharing model statutory language and executive orders protecting abortion access, ways to protect abortion providers from prosecution, strategies to maximize federal financing for reproductive health care such as birth control, and support for manufacturers of abortion medication and contraceptives that face potential new restrictions from conservatives.
For example, 22 Democratic-run states have weighed in on the Texas challenge to medical abortions that was filed by many of the same litigant states that worked together to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. A similar contingent of Republican-led states has filed briefs in the Texas case urging a judge to reverse a decades-old approval by the Food and Drug Administration of medical abortions.
Lujan Grisham acknowledged that the alliance cannot make national policy or even impose policy across state lines. But she said there’s practical value in having executives and their staffs have a formal framework to communicate. Governors’ offices in the alliance also have started working with advocacy groups that back abortion access.
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