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Wes Moore on Abortion

 

 


Bridge Project: cash assistance to prenatal mothers

Q: What is the hardest part about making progress in maternal health?

Gov. SANDERS (R-AR): We started Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Arkansas and we have put $45 million towards addressing maternal health in our state. We have about 35,000 pregnancies in Arkansas every year. Ten thousand of those women are not seeing a doctor until after their first trimester and over 1,100 never see a doctor until they go into labor.

Gov. MOORE (D-MD): We're just now announcing something called the Bridge Project, where it is something that's going to focus on providing cash assistance to mothers--who are both prenatal and then postnatal mothers--to be able to provide cash assistance for them to be able to have additional measurements of support. It's going to happen for 150 families in the most areas of Maryland that you've had concentrated poverty being a long-term challenge.

Source: Meet the Press on 2026 Maryland Gubernatorial race , May 10, 2026

Maryland will protect reproductive health and rights

Gov. Wes Moore said that Maryland plans to pave the way forward on abortion rights. Moore made the remark during an interview with ABC News: "My thinking is that Maryland is going to lead with this," he said. "This is the first time that we've actually seen a Supreme Court actively working to take rights away from people. Maryland is going to be a state where we are going to protect reproductive health and reproductive rights." Moore noted that in addition to stockpiling the abortion pill mifepristone "upwards of three years," state lawmakers have been taking steps toward protecting abortion rights by passing legislation.

Additionally, Moore said he has continued to support state legislative leadership to ensure "that next year abortion and reproductive rights will be on the ballot in the state of Maryland.

Source: CBS Baltimore on 2026 Maryland Governor press release (2023) , Apr 16, 2023

Enshrine the right to abortion into Maryland's Constitution

Protect reproductive freedoms and advance access to reproductive health care by enshrining the right to abortion into Maryland's Constitution, combating any efforts to restrict care and expanding training for health care providers so more Marylanders can obtain care.
Source: 2022 Maryland Gubernatorial campaign website WesMoore.com , Jul 24, 2022

Other governors on Abortion: Wes Moore on other issues:
MD Gubernatorial:
Ashwani Jain
Christopher Bouchat
Dan Cox
Doug Gansler
John B. King
Kelly M. Schulz
Larry Hogan
Peter Franchot
Robin Ficker
Rushern Baker
Thomas Perez
MD Senatorial:
Angela Alsobrooks
Benjamin Cardin
Chris Chaffee
Chris Van Hollen
Colin Byrd
David Trone
Larry Hogan
Robin Ficker

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