BOSTON (WWLP) - One in three American women lives in a state where they are not able to get an abortion.

Governor Healey signed a law on Thursday ensuring access to reproductive care is standard in the Bay State.

This law updates a 2022 version dubbed the Shield Act, and functions by strictly regulating the release of personal data, including physicians' names, and preventing out-of-state investigation and prosecution of health care services that are legal in the Bay State, including abortions.

"No one is going to come to Massachusetts and attack our people, attack our institutions, and attack our providers, because we believe in freedom," said the governor. Lawmakers are responding to a series of Trump administration policy changes that decrease funding and access to health care, inclu

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