Kathy Hochul pushes legislation defending interstate abortion entry

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) detailed her push to guard interstate abortion entry on Monday and promised to check laws that may defend New York medical doctors helping girls in different states to obtain abortions.

A state legislation pushed by Hochul now establishes authorized protections for medical doctors within the Empire State who prescribe and ship abortion medicine to girls in states the place the follow is outlawed, Hochul confirmed on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

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Beneath the now-passed laws, state legislation enforcement companies are banned from cooperating with out-of-state litigation in opposition to these healthcare suppliers who use telehealth to prescribe abortion therapy, host Mika Brzezinski mentioned earlier than asking how girls within the states the place the follow of abortion is banned may even get the therapy they're prescribed.

"We are able to even have it despatched to completely different clinics and suppliers," Hochul mentioned. "We're going to check this. This has not been achieved earlier than. It is not been enforced, and I am ready to face on the constitutional rights of the folks on this nation."

"If somebody sues us, we'll battle again," she added. "We cannot be subjugated to those people who're simply weaponizing each approach they'll to remove girls's primary rights."

These persons are at conflict with girls, in line with Hochul.

"Whether or not it is the Supreme Courtroom of the USA, whether or not it is Republicans in Congress or Republican governors, my god, why do not they take note of the truth that girls shall be voting?" she mentioned. "Extra girls vote than males. That may be a good factor, and there shall be penalties after we take again the Home subsequent 12 months."

The general public goes to see that elections have penalties, Hochul mentioned, with Brzezinski including that if Republicans should not voted out, "girls are going to die or turn out to be sterilized."