Overview

• Oregon lawmakers passed a bill to protect abortion and sex reassignment health care for transgender people.
• The bill expands access and insurance coverage and boosts legal safeguards.
• Republicans sought to stall the bill by sending it back to different policy committees and delaying the vote.
• The bill includes measures to shield patients and providers from lawsuits and require emergency contraception and medication abortion at student health centers.
• The bill allows doctors to provide abortions regardless of age and bars them from disclosing that to parents in certain cases.