Reproductive Rights

The WBA supports an Act to Improve Healthcare for Young Women (S754/H893) to allow minors' abortion choice with counseling alone rather than parental consent and which would reduce the age to which 12S applies to sixteen.

The WBA opposes bills that purport to increase health safety, imposes medically unnecessary and burdensome licensing requirements that are intended to make it harder for women to access an abortion if and when one is needed such as "an Act to Advance the Safety of women seeking to terminate a Pregnancy"; that require excessive state-scripted "counseling" at least 24-hours prior to an abortion "An Act Relative to a Women's Right to Know", that prohibit sex selection or ban 'partial birth' abortion, and that would create a substantial burden on the courts and the young women seeking judicial consent by allowing parental involvement under certain circumstance.