Lisa Newcomb, Communications Director
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During Governor Mills’ first term, she has had a profound impact on access to healthcare including sexual and reproductive health care and abortion. She has signed into law:
- Public and private insurance coverage mandates for abortion.
- Expansions to allow trained and trusted clinicians, including nurse practitioners and physician assistants, to provide abortion care to their patients.
- Modernized family planning laws to reflect best medical practices.
- Protections for clinicians who provide abortion care.
- Patient safety zones for healthcare providers.
- Expanded access to menstrual products.
- Automatic enrollment in family planning coverage for people earning less than 214% of the federal poverty level.
- Expanded coverage for birth control through private insurance
- Easier dispensing of emergency contraception through vending machines.
- Expanded Medicaid/MaineCare including access to reproductive and sexual health care.
- Dedicated resources to improve maternal health outcomes; and much more to improve the health and lives of Maine women and families.