(The Center Square) – Protecting doctors performing “gender affirming” health care procedures from lawsuits is in a Maine proposal known as a “shield law.”
Critics of the plan from Maine lawmakers say parental rights would be stripped.
The proposal, which is pending before the Legislature’s Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services, seeks to protect patients and health care providers in Maine who perform transgender care, abortions or provide in-vitro fertilization, procedures that are illegal in some other states. The measure’s primary sponsor, state Rep. Anne Perry, D-Calais, said the protections are needed to shield patients and medical professionals who perform gender-affirming and other reproductive care from prosecution by other states.
“We have Mainers and patients who come to Maine in need of reproductive health care or gender-affirming care, and as a Legislature, we cannot ignore this,” Perry said in testimony on Tuesday. “During a
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