While many states are cutting back on reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare, Massachusetts now has a new state bill that "will expand and add protections to reproductive and transgender healthcare."
According to a news item on Feminist Majority Foundation's site ("Massachusetts Expands Protections for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Care"), Governor Maura Healey signed a "groundbreaking new act" that will "safeguard patients, providers, insurers, tech companies, and others from federal investigations related to reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare."
The bill, S.2538, "adds reproductive and gender-affirming care providers’ personal information to the list of protected non-public information under the public records law."
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