A new bill introduced into Congress would repeal Washington’s D.C.’s law allowing abortionists and cross-sex hormone providers to ply their trades in states where their work is illegal.
“Both abortion and cross gender hormone drugs have serious, irreversible consequences,” said Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia, a Republican who introduced the bill into the House of Representatives Dec. 3, according to his website. “We cannot allow the Left’s woke ideology, under the guise of ‘bodily autonomy,’ to infiltrate our states through the shipping of these drugs with zero legal repercussions.”
The D.C. Shield Law Repeal Act would end D.C. Council’s Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022. Washington, D.C.’s law prevents people living in the District of Columbia from being prosecuted in other states for providing cross-sex hormones to minors or aborting children across state lines. Concurrent with Rep. Clyde’s proposed legislation, Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, has introduced a similar bill in the Senate, according to his website.
Clyde’s bill is co-sponsored by 25 other members of the House.
“Shield laws fly in the face of constitutional legality and basic morality,” said Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, according to Clyde’s website.
Alliance Defending Freedom, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America have all come out in support of the bill, according to Rep. Clyde’s website.
“We are grateful to Rep. Andrew Clyde for introducing this bill to repeal the so-called shield laws in Washington, D.C.,” said Matt Sharp, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom. “These unconstitutional ‘shield laws’ open the door for the illegal and illicit flow of dangerous abortion drugs into prolife states, harm women and their unborn children, and protect abortion drug traffickers from legal liability.”
The Department of Health and Human Services released a report last month that found the physical and psychological damages connected to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and other surgical interventions to be “significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked,” as CatholicVote has previously reported.
Rep. Clyde noted that his bill would “hold providers accountable for their crimes.”
“Congress must use its constitutional authority over our nation’s capital to hold D.C. providers liable for undermining state laws,” he said, “and to protect women, children, and the unborn.”
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