Thu Apr 13, 2023 – 9:58 pm EDT
SANTA FE, New Mexico (LifeSiteNews) — In response to life-saving legislation in Republican-led states, New Mexico’s far-left Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on April 5 signed a new law codifying legal protections to kill babies in the womb and perform mutilating transgender surgeries.
“We are seeing the rights of individuals seeking critical health care services being quashed in states around the country,” Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a press release. “These policies have real consequences that play out in the lives of American families, and New Mexico is a state that will stand up for the rights of all to access the health care services they need.”
The state senate had passed the bill last month in a 23-15 vote after shooting down all amendments proposed by Republicans to protect conscience rights of physicians, require minors to obtain parental consent, or eliminate concerning language in the legislation that some worried could decriminalize infanticide.
According to the language of the legislation, “[a] public body or agent of a public body shall not discriminate against a person based on that person’s use of or refusal to use reproductive health care
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