THE PROBLEM GUARANTEE THE RIGHT TO ABORTION AND ENSURE ACCESS

• Repeal any existing state abortion restrictions or bans, including: • Any gestational limit; • Laws that ban or criminalize abortion, including self-managed abortion; • Medically unnecessary and burdensome restrictions on abortion providers and on clinics, including those that restrict access to medication abortion; • Laws that require parental involvement and restrict young people’s access to c. [...] • Expand who can provide abortion care, including by: • Repealing any laws that require that abortions are provided only by physicians; • Making explicit that advanced practice clinicians can provide abortion; • Expediting the licensure of abortion providers; and • Expanding access to abortion training, including creating state grants to train abortion providers. [...] 28 STATE PLAYBOOK FOR GENDER JUSTICE • Remove funding barriers and ensure abortion is affordable, including: • Allocating funds to help in-state and out-of-state abortion patients pay for care or practical support or directly subsidize abortion clinics and funds; • Improving insurance coverage of abortion care in both private and public plans, including by: • P roviding Medicaid funding for aborti. [...] STATE PLAYBOOK FOR GENDER JUSTICE 29 • Address refusals to provide abortion and other health care, including by ensuring that: • Hospital mergers do not result in communities losing access to reproductive health care services; • Institutional hospital policies that deny treatments, such as abortion or gender-affirming care, for non-medical reasons are transparent and disclosed to patients; and • A. [...] • According to a 2024 Pew Research Center survey, a majority of Americans strongly agree that “the decision about whether to have an abortion should belong solely to the pregnant woman.” • According to a Economist/YouGov poll, 76% of adults believe the issue of abortion is important, including 82 to 90% of 18 to 29-year-olds.