Excerpt from The Spokesman-Review story, originally published January 23:
Sami Alloy, interim executive director of Pro-Choice Washington, called on lawmakers to pass legislation “that will affirm Washington’s legal protections and safeguard our rights against a hostile administration that we know will stop at nothing to roll them back.”
“We are calling on the legislature to invest robustly in our clinics and our care infrastructure, because we know a right without access is not really a right,” Alloy said. “And we are here today calling on the Legislature to protect the rights of patients and providers who rely on our state to access care.”
Ferguson’s executive order, Alloy said, will help the state “do everything we can to resist Project 2025 and to safeguard our rights.”
