


Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) detailed her push to protect interstate abortion access on Monday and promised to test legislation that would protect New York doctors assisting women in other states to receive abortions.
A state law pushed by Hochul now establishes legal protections for doctors in the Empire State who prescribe and ship abortion medication to women in states where the practice is outlawed, Hochul confirmed on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
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Under the now-passed legislation, state law enforcement agencies are banned from cooperating with out-of-state litigation against those healthcare providers who use telehealth to prescribe abortion treatment, host Mika Brzezinski said before asking how women in the states where the practice of abortion is banned can even get the treatment they are prescribed.
"We can also have it sent to different clinics and providers," Hochul said. "We are going to test this. This has not been done before. It's not been enforced, and I'm prepared to stand on the constitutional rights of the people in this country."
"If someone sues us, we'll fight back," she added. "We can not be subjugated to these individuals who are just weaponizing every way they can to take away women's basic rights."
These people are at war with women, according to Hochul.
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"Whether it's the Supreme Court of the United States, whether it's Republicans in Congress or Republican governors, my god, why don't they pay attention to the fact that women will be voting?" she said. "More women vote than men. That is a good thing, and there will be consequences when we take back the House next year."
The public is going to see that elections have consequences, Hochul said, with Brzezinski adding that if Republicans are not voted out, "women are going to die or become sterilized."