Directive 25-01 instructs the Washington State Department of Health to adopt rules related to emergency abortion care at hospitals. The rules must do two things: First, the rules must ban ...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued a directive on Tuesday requiring the Department of Health to affirm ... providing emergency abortion care. The Washington State Hospital Association responded ...

Washington state will be unaffected by whatever ... “Abortion care is health care,” reads Inslee’s directive. “For decades, practicing health care providers and other medical experts ...

A pilot program in Washington state aims ... to abortion care, especially if they live in rural areas, are struggling financially or don’t have easy access to reproductive health care, Beth ...