Maryland has become the latest state to take steps to protect its population from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, as is expected to happen this summer. State legislators expanded abortion rights by overriding Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto over the weekend.
The new Maryland law expands which medical providers can perform abortions, allowing nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and trained physician assistants in addition to doctors. It also calls for most insurance providers to cover abortion without deductibles or other costs, and puts $3.5 million into a new training program with the mandate to “expand the number of health care professionals with abortion care training and increase the racial and ethnic diversity among health care professionals with abortion care training.”
Maryland isn’t the only state making recent moves to shore up reproductive rights, though.
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