Mass. Governor’s Non-Cooperation Order as to Enforcement of Different States’ Abortion Legal guidelines

[1.] No Help from Government Division Companies. Besides as required by the order of a court docket of competent jurisdiction, no govt division company and no worker, appointee, officer, or different particular person appearing on behalf of any govt division company could present any info or expend or use time, cash, services, property, tools, personnel or different sources in furtherance of any investigation or continuing initiated in or by one other State that seeks to impose civil or felony legal responsibility or skilled sanction upon an individual or entity for

[a.] [i.] the supply, securing, or receiving of, or any inquiry regarding reproductive well being care companies which are authorized on this Commonwealth; or

[ii.] any help given to any particular person or entity that pertains to the supply, securing, receiving of, or any inquiry regarding reproductive well being care companies which are authorized on this Commonwealth.

This restriction shall not apply to any investigation or continuing the place the conduct that’s topic to potential legal responsibility below the investigation or continuing initiated in or by the opposite State could be topic to civil or felony legal responsibility or skilled sanction below the legal guidelines of the Commonwealth if dedicated on this Commonwealth. However the final prohibition of this part, companies and people appearing on their behalf could present info or help in reference to such an investigation or continuing in response to the written request of an individual who’s the topic of such an investigation or continuing.

[2.] Safety of Well being Care and Different Professionals Licensed within the Commonwealth. The Commissioner of Public Well being and the Commissioner of Occupational Licensure are directed to work with the boards {of professional} licensure working below their respective supervision to implement insurance policies that may be certain that no particular person shall be disqualified from licensure or topic to self-discipline by a Commonwealth board {of professional} licensure for offering or helping within the provision of reproductive well being care companies or as a consequence of any judgment, self-discipline, or different sanction threatened or imposed below the legal guidelines of one other State as long as the companies as supplied would have been lawful and in line with requirements for good skilled follow within the Commonwealth.  The Commissioners shall report back to me on measures carried out by the boards below their supervision inside 45 days of this Order.

[3.] Unavailability of Interstate Extradition. However the provisions of G. L. c. 276, §§ 11-20R, the Workplace of the Governor shall decline any request acquired from the chief authority of every other State to subject a warrant for the arrest or give up of any particular person charged with a felony violation of a regulation of that different State the place the violation alleged entails the supply or receipt of or help with reproductive well being care companies until the acts forming the idea of the prosecution of the crime charged would additionally represent a felony offense below the legal guidelines of the Commonwealth. In line with the necessities of the USA Structure, this limitation shall not apply within the circumstance the place the one who is the topic of the request for arrest or give up was bodily current within the requesting State on the time of the fee of the alleged offense and thereafter fled from that State.

[4.] Definitions. For the needs of this order, the phrases listed under shall have the next meanings:

“Reproductive well being care companies” consists of all medical, surgical, counseling, or referral companies referring to the human reproductive system, together with, however not restricted to, companies referring to being pregnant, contraception, or the termination of a being pregnant;

“Government division” consists of the workplace of the Governor, any govt workplace of the Commonwealth, as outlined by part 2 of chapter 6A of the Basic Legal guidelines, and any company, bureau, division, workplace, or division of the Commonwealth inside or reporting to such an govt workplace of the Commonwealth.

Due to commenter Dr. Ed for the pointer.