While lawyers operating the hotline will only be sharing legal advice on the status of Oregon law, they can also provide contact information for providers and abortion funds if callers need more information on the resources available to them.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon is launching a new abortion hotline offering free legal advice to callers, moving to further defend abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer and eliminated federal protections for the procedure.
. “This is especially important because we share a border with Idaho, which has a near-total abortion ban.”with California and Washington to promote the West Coast as a safe haven for the procedure. Honore also said she expects calls from people within Oregon seeking clarification about their rights in the state.have been implemented in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. Legal challenges are pending against several of those bans. The lone clinic in North Dakota relocated across state lines to Minnesota..
“They had a lot of logistical advice about batching out calls," she said. “The most important thing is that we get back to people really quickly, because sometimes they need to know an answer fairly quickly.”
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