Thu May 4, 2023 – 2:26 pm EDT
ANNAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) — Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore signed a slate of new laws Wednesday to make the Old Line State a haven for those trying to evade other states’ laws against abortion, as well as making it easier across the board to obtain abortions and gender “reassignment” procedures.
The Associated Press reports that the new laws ensure that women and abortionists cannot be subjected to criminal, civil, or administrative punishments for violating the abortion laws of other states, ban the sharing of data relating to abortion “care” by health information exchanges, electronic health networks, and other health care providers, require public colleges and universities to develop plans to give students easy access to contraception and abortion pills, and require the state Medicaid program to subsidize so-called “gender-affirming treatment.”
That final law, the so-called Trans Health Equity Act, defines “gender-affirming treatment” so broadly as to include hormone therapy, hormone blockers, and puberty blockers; face, hair, voice, anatomy, genital, and gonad alteration; voice therapy and voice lessons; laser removal for the scars surgical transitions typically leave behind; “standard fertility preservation procedures”; reversal of prior transition treatments; and combinations of the
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