Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed a pro-abortion executive order Tuesday offering protection to abortionists who kill unborn babies in violation of other states’ pro-life laws.
Bangor Daily News reports Mills’ order mirrors those of several other pro-abortion Democrat governors in recent weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and began allowing states to protect unborn babies from abortion again.
The executive order bans Maine state agencies from working with authorities from pro-life states to prosecute abortionists who abort unborn babies in violation of their state laws. It orders state agencies to conduct a review of pro-abortion laws in Maine to “minimize barriers” to abortion.
In the order, Mills said she also will refuse, when possible, to arrest or extradite abortionists charged with violating other states’ pro-life laws, WBUR reports.
“A woman’s right to choose is just that – a woman’s, not a politician’s,” she said in a statement Tuesday. “This executive order makes clear that access to reproductive health care, and the health care providers who offer it, will be protected by my administration.”
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Last week, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee issued similar executive orders, calling their states a “sanctuary” for abortion and the killing of unborn babies a “human right.”
Abortion is expected to remain legal in Maine even without Roe. Approximately 2,000 unborn babies are aborted there every year. Since 2019, Mills has signed several pro-abortion bills into law, including one forcing taxpayers to fund elective abortions through MaineCare and another allowing non-doctors to abort unborn babies.
Since Roe in 1973, more than 63 million unborn babies and hundreds of mothers have died in supposedly “safe,” legal abortions in the U.S. The infamous ruling forced states to legalize abortions for any reason up to viability and allowed abortions for any reason up to birth.
Now, many states are starting to protect unborn babies from abortion again.
In the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling June 24, the Supreme Court justices overturned Roe and allowed states to protect unborn babies from abortion again. Thirteen already have done so, although some have been blocked by court orders, and more state are expected to enact pro-life laws in the coming weeks.
Ultimately, as many as 26 states may ban abortions and protect babies from certain death for the first time in nearly 50 years.
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