OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Governor Jay Inslee passed a directive requiring the Washington Department of Health to affirm all hospitals have a legal obligation to perform emergency abortion services.
“Ideological politicians are relentlessly interfering with the most private and crucial health care decisions a doctor and their patient will ever make, and now they’re doing so even when the life of a mother hangs in the balance,” Inslee said.
This directive comes as the nation nears the second anniversary of the
Roe v. Wade determined the United States Constitution protected a woman’s right to have an abortion.
This month, the Supreme Court is set to rule on Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States, which allow politicians to jail emergency room doctors for providing emergency abortion care.
“Fortunately, we’ve taken numerous steps in Washington to make sure patients in Washington are not subject to these horrors. Hospitals and clinics in Washington have become a haven for patients seeking the abortion care they can no longer access in other states. We will meet every challenge to women’s right of choice with an unwavering affirmation that Washington is and will remain a pro-choice state,” Inslee said.
