Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at preventing abortion providers and gender-transition practitioners from avoiding prosecution by traveling to Washington, D.C., after performing procedures banned in his home state.
The D.C. Shield Law Repeal Act would repeal the D.C. Council’s Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022, which in part protects individuals and abortion providers from being held legally accountable in other states for engaging in or performing abortions, as well as disseminating gender hormone drugs.
“Both abortion and cross gender hormone drugs have serious, irreversible consequences,” Clyde said in a statement.
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