Bill > SB5766

This bill aims to preserve a pregnant individual's ability to access abortion care in Washington state. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Affirming the longstanding public policy of Washington to promote access to affordable, high-quality sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion care, without unnecessary burdens or restrictions on patients or providers. 2. Modernizing the language in the state's reproductive privacy act to be more inclusive and gender-neutral, recognizing that transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive people also require abortion care. 3. Allowing qualified healthcare providers, such as physician assistants, advanced registered nurse practitioners, and others acting within their scope of practice, to provide early in-clinic and medication abortion care. 4. Prohibiting the state from penalizing, prosecuting, or taking adverse action against an individual based on their pregnancy outcomes or against someone for aiding or assisting a pregnant individual in exercising their right to reproductive freedom. 5. Ensuring that if the state provides maternity care benefits, services, or information, it must also provide substantially equivalent benefits, services, or information to allow individuals to voluntarily terminate their pregnancies.

Health and Social Services

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5766&Year=2021&Initiative=false