EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Andrew Clyde Moves To Hold Abortion Providers ‘Accountable For Their Crimes’

Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde unveiled legislation Wednesday to repeal Washington, D.C.’s shield law, the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.

Clyde’s D.C. Shield Law Repeal Act would repeal the D.C. Council’s Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022, which in part protects individuals and abortion providers from being held legally accountable in other states for engaging in or performing abortions as well as disseminating gender hormone drugs. Clyde told the DCNF in an exclusive statement that repealing D.C.’s shield law would help to “hold providers accountable for their crimes” and also “protect women, children, and the precious unborn.”

“D.C.’s shield law allows providers in our nation’s capital to deliver abortion drugs and cross gender hormones — with zero legal repercussions — to individuals in states that rightly prohibit these harmful drugs,” Clyde said. “This is a blatant, egregious effort by the Left to spread both the evils of abortion and woke gender ideology into every corner of our country.”

“Given Congress’s constitutional authority over Washington, we must repeal D.C.’s shield law to not only hold providers accountable for their crimes, but to protect women, children, and the precious unborn,” the Georgia Republican continued. “Failure to do so lets providers off the hook for undermining state laws and endangering Americans — including my constituents in Northeast Georgia.”

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