S4879 Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act

↑Expands abortion access model confidence 90%

Prohibits states from restricting or disadvantaging providers or assistants from offering reproductive health care (including abortion) to out-of-state patients, so more interstate access to abortion services.

(3) a health care provider or any individual or entity from providing or assisting a health care provider with reproductive health care services for an individual who does not reside in the State in which the services are to be provided.

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↑Expands abortion access model confidence 85%

Bars states and others from preventing, restricting, impeding or disadvantaging licensed or would-be licensed providers (including those who have provided or may provide abortion) from delivering reproductive health care services that are lawful where provided, so fewer state restrictions on clinics

No individual, entity, or State may prevent, restrict, impede, or disadvantage-- (1) a health care provider from providing or assisting with reproductive health care services lawful in the State in which the services are to be provided;

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↑Expands abortion access model confidence 80%

Appropriates $40M for legal defense grants to providers facing issues over reproductive health care (including abortion) and $40M for security grants to abortion-providing facilities, while barring federal funds for state enforcement actions against such providers, so more public support for access.

There is appropriated to the Attorney General, out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $40,000,000, to remain available until expended, for purposes of awarding grants to eligible entities or consortia of eligible entities to provide legal assistance to eligible providers.

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↑Expands abortion access model confidence 75%

Prohibits denial of professional liability insurance or lawsuits against providers solely for offering lawful reproductive health care (including abortion), and defines providers broadly to include those who would be licensed but for past/potential abortion services, so fewer barriers to providing.

An issuer of professional liability coverage for health care providers shall not-- (1) deny a health care provider professional liability coverage solely because that provider offers, supports, provides, or prescribes lawful reproductive health care services;

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