Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill aiming to protect New York healthcare providers from legal repercussions in states with abortion bans. This move follows the indictment of a New York doctor for providing abortion pills to a Louisiana resident. Under the new law, providers can use their practice names instead of their own when prescribing abortion medications to enhance their anonymity. Hochul emphasized New York's commitment to protecting abortion access and criticized the actions of states that aim to intimidate healthcare professionals.
The newly signed law will allow health-care practitioners to avoid putting their names on prescriptions for medications used in abortions, instead using their medical practice names.
Ms. Hochul stated, 'Other states want to target, harass, scare, intimidate doctors and patients. But those are not our values here in the state of New York.'
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