If you believe that medical decisions are personal and should be made by the client/patient in concert with doctors, rather than legislators, you might want to support LD 1619, an act to protect the rights of women/people of child-bearing age.

This bill protects the privacy of patients obtaining an abortion, changes the standard for when an abortion may be performed after viability to when a licensed physician determines it is necessary, and removes criminal penalties for performing an abortion. Let’s get politics out of the bedroom.

Abortion is part of protecting women’s health. 

   Linda Garson Smith lives in Belfast