Yesterday, the MA Senate voted 37 to 3 to strengthen the state’s shield law that protects the right to abortion care and gender-affirming care.

This bill would expand the state’s telehealth shield law by prohibiting all state actors from cooperating with any out-of-state hostile litigation, establishing state-level EMTALA protections for emergency abortion care, allowing providers critical anonymity by using their practice name on prescription labels for reproductive and gender-affirming health care medicines, and ensuring all clinicians and lawyers are protected from professional discipline related to hostile litigation, and more.

The 3 NO votes were from Republicans Kelly Dooner (R-Taunton), Peter Durant (R-Durant), and Ryan Fattman (R-Sutton).