He was joined by Rep. Drew Hansen, D-Bainbridge Island, who plans to introduce a sanctuary bill that will provide patients and medical providers with legal tools and protections if any criminal or civil action is taken against them for receiving, assisting or providing reproductive health care services or gender-affirming services in this state.
Hansen, an attorney and chair of the House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee, said the proposed new law would block out-of-state subpoenas for services lawfully received and provided in Washington.
Washington’s Reproductive Privacy Act codified abortion rights into state law in 1991 through a narrowly successful voter initiative. Inslee has recently suggested the next step could be
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