Thu Mar 2, 2023 – 5:04 pm EST
OLYMPIA, Washington (LifeSiteNews) — Washington state legislators are moving forward on a bill to ensure that any woman can travel to the state and abort her baby for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy. The legislation also ensures that any individual can come to the state for genital or chemical mutilation.
“Washington law prohibits the interference with a pregnant woman’s right to choose to have an abortion prior to viability or to protect the woman’s life or health,” a report on the bill explains. “Life or health” is a broad exception that can allow for abortions up to the moment of birth.
The legislation forbids any government entity from assisting another state in a criminal investigation related to transgender drugs and surgeries or abortions. The current bill “clarifies that state and local boards and commissions are also prohibited from cooperating with or providing information to individuals, agencies, commissions, boards, or departments of another state for the purpose of enforcing another state’s law or assisting an investigation that is related to another state’s law.”
“We believe in reproductive freedom here in Washington State, and we will use
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