CA, WA, OR launch "West Coast offense" to protect abortion rights

The commitment vows to set up protections against states that target medical professionals who provide abortions and patients who receive legal reproductive health care services in California, Washington and Oregon.

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It also pledges to “protect against judicial and local law enforcement cooperation with out-of-state investigations, inquiries and arrests” related to abortions performed in the three states.

The three states will “[r]efuse non-fugitive extradition of individuals for criminal prosecution” related to accessing legal reproductive health care.

What they’re saying: “More than half the nation’s population now lacks safe access to a medical procedure that only a patient and their doctor can and should make for themselves,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said in a statement.

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