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Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 other attorneys general in urging the American Medical Association (AMA) to take stronger action to "protect health care providers" from allegedly "dangerous medical board certification requirements."

In testimony submitted to AMA, Attorney General Tong and the coalition which includes Tong's buddy New York AG Letitia James, argue that requiring "abortion and gender-affirming care providers to travel to states that restrict those forms of care in order to get board-certified puts them in legal and physical risk."

The attorneys general further warned that "mandating in-person testing in states that have criminalized or penalized reproductive and gender-affirming health care endangers providers and threatens access to essential care nationwide."

“The American Medical Association needs to be clear-eyed about the serious threat that doctors face in certain states today. Connecticut has taken strong, proactive steps to protect our providers of reproductive and gender-affirming care from radical, out-of-state legal threats. Policies that force doctors to travel to these states undermine those protections and inflict needless risk,” said Attorney General Tong.

Earlier this year, the AMA "acknowledged the risks posed to health care providers by state laws that restrict abortion and gender-affirming care, adopting a policy encouraging medical boards to provide alternative testing options in states with such restrictions."

However, Attorney General Tong and the coalition assert that AMA’s current stance does not go far enough to protect examinees – it lacks sufficient urgency and fails to provide policy guidance to the specialty boards on concrete steps they should take to protect candidates. The attorneys general call for AMA to go further by recommending such steps, including:

• Relocating testing sites to non-restrictive states;
• Shifting to remote testing to eliminate the need for travel to "hostile" environments; or
• Granting individual exemptions from in-person exams in restrictive states for those facing heightened legal or physical risks.

The coalition’s statement and testimony both complain about the "aftermath" of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: "Following the decision, several states implemented draconian restrictions on abortion and have since taken steps to criminalize patients and providers. Many of the same states have followed by passing a wave of restrictions on gender-affirming care."

The attorneys general argue that officials in these "anti-choice states" have made it clear their goal is to "intimidate and punish reproductive health and gender-affirming care providers, no matter where the care was provided."

Remember, these are providers who terminate babies in the womb and perform experimental medical procedures on gender-confused children who are not capable of comprehending the long-term negative health consequences associated with "gender affirming care" -- care which the Trump administration has described as "chemical and surgical mutilation."

Attorney General Tong and the coalition warn that mandating in-person board certification testing in states that penalize these forms of "health care" could have far-reaching and harmful consequences. In particular, the attorneys general highlight the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ABOG), which requires OB/GYNs seeking board certification to travel to Texas for in-person testing.

"Texas has implemented some of the most severe anti-abortion legislation in the country and similarly restricts access to gender-affirming care for young people," Tong's press release says. "Despite these restrictions, ABOG continues to require in-person certification exams for all obstetricians and gynecologists in Texas."

The attorneys general assert that ABOG’s refusal to provide accommodations for candidates who fear prosecution or physical harm in Texas places providers at needless risk and endangers access to abortions and chemical & surgical mutilation services for young people nationwide.

The attorneys general emphasize that ensuring the safety of health care providers is essential to maintaining access to abortions and chemical & surgical mutilation services for children in states like Connecticut. The attorneys general are urging AMA to act "urgently and forcefully to ensure medical specialty boards adopt concrete, actionable policies that protect providers, warning that failure to act could exacerbate the national health care crisis."

Imagine that - a health care crisis caused by not terminating enough babies or transing enough children!

Joining Attorney General Tong in submitting this testimony, which was led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, are the attorneys general of Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

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