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Officials announced that nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and midwives will be allowed to perform abortions, and insurance companies will still cover the procedure under a law that goes into effect this week.
Maryland is one of a dozen states that announced they will be preserving abortion access to women up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy.
Moving forward, the state is expected to put a constitutional amendment up to a vote that would preserve women’s rights to secure access to abortion.
"It’s going to be a different world,” Ariana Kelly (D-Montgomery), a leading abortion rights advocate in the General Assembly, said in an interview with Maryland Matters. “Yesterday and tomorrow, totally different worlds.”
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