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? ANC 4B urges the Government of the District of Columbia guarantee access and affordability for reproductive health services in the District of Columbia to all who may seek it, through Bill 24-0726, the “Enhancing Reproductive Health Protections Amendment Act of 2022”, and/or similar measures; and ? That ANC 4B urges all relevant offices within the Government of the District of Columbia—including but not limited to the Mayor, DC Council, Attorney General, and Department of Health—communicate or continue to communicate to the general public that reproductive health services are available within the District of Columbia regardless of one’s place of residence or citizenship, legal status of citizenship, race, age, ethnicity, income, gender identity, or religious credence or lack thereof; and ? That ANC 4B urges DC Council and the Mayor pass and sign into law legislation protecting self-management of abortions and medical practitioners’ right to offer abortions and related reproductive health services; and ? That ANC 4B urges DC Council and the Mayor pass and sign into law full Medicaid funding of abortion and other reproductive health services in the District of Columbia, including for self-medicated abortions; and ? That ANC 4B urges DC Government to provide financial and logistical support to community organizations willing and able to provide safe travel to and from reproductive health service provider premises for individuals attempting to attain reproductive health services; and ? That ANC 4B urges DC Council and the Mayor pass legislation prohibiting state courts from enforcing the penalties of another state against any individual who obtained reproductive health services which are illegal in another state, in the spirit of House Bill 5414 which was recently introduced in Connecticut; and ? That ANC 4B urges DC Council and the Mayor voice support for H.R. 3755, the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, in order to widely and permanently codify the right to provide and access abortion services throughout the United States of America.