Across the nation, politicians in other states have employed strategies to restrict affordable reproductive healthcare access.  Women face increasing danger as multiple states enact bans and stringent restrictions.  Abortion is currently legal and safe in Maryland. We have the opportunity to support the brave health care providers offering crucial care, ensuring that they can continue without fear of legal repercussions or threats to their professional licenses. This includes physicians, clinicians, and pharmacists.

Montgomery County NOW is steadfast in our support for reproductive justice.  Although we watch attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), enact TRAP laws, abortion bans, and rollbacks in access to birth control in other states, Marylanders must ensure this never happens in our state.

Article 48, Maryland Declaration of Rights:
Right To Reproductive Freedom

The proposed amendment confirms an individual's fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including but not limited to the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end the individual's pregnancy, and provides the State may not, directly or indirectly, deny, burden, or abridge the right unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.