HB937 establishes the Abortion Care Clinical Training Program in the Maryland Department of Health to ensure that there are a sufficient number of health professionals, training funds, and coverage requirements for the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide abortion care. Additionally, this requires the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,500,000 to the abortion program.
The Maryland State Senate voted to override the Governor’s veto for HB937 on April 9, 2022 by a vote of 29 to 15. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the U.S. Constitution.