Fri Mar 18, 2022 – 6:03 pm EDT
OLYMPIA, Washington (LifeSiteNews) — Washington Democrat Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Thursday formally affirming a “fundamental right” to abortion, allowing non-physicians to participate in abortions and amending the language of existing state abortion law to appease the sensibilities of transgender activists.
HB 1851, the Affirm Washington Abortion Access Act, formally declared that it is “the public policy of the state of Washington to continue to protect and advance equal rights to access abortion care that meets each individual’s needs, regardless of gender or gender identity, race, ethnicity, income level, or place of residence”; then replaced instances of “woman” and “her” with “pregnant individual,” based on the alleged need to “recognize that transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive people also get pregnant and require abortion care.”
It also amended current law’s references to “physicians” in the context of abortion to include a “physician, physician assistant, advanced registered nurse practitioner, or other health care provider acting within the provider’s scope of practice”; and declared that the state “shall not penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against an individual based on their actual, potential, perceived, or alleged pregnancy outcomes,” or “for
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