New Law Protects Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services

New Law Protects Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services - Healthcare Law Update - October 2026 - Brach Eichler
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Published Date: 10/1/2026

On August 20, 2026, Governor Sherrill signed S2260/A2218 into law, protecting access to reproductive healthcare in New Jersey and strengthening safeguards against out-of-state legal actions targeting patients and providers. The law broadly defines “reproductive health care services” to include services relating to pregnancy, assisted reproductive technology, contraception, miscarriage management, abortion, and care to support a person’s alignment with their gender identity or expression. The law creates a new criminal offense of interference with reproductive health care services, making it a crime to purposely or knowingly injure, threaten, intimidate, or physically obstruct patients or providers seeking to access or provide reproductive health care. The law also prohibits State courts and judicial officers from issuing subpoenas, search warrants, or wiretap orders in connection with out-of-state or federal proceedings related to reproductive health care activity, and prohibits State and local law enforcement from arresting individuals based on such activity. Additionally, the law prohibits professional licensing boards from imposing penalties on a provider based solely on the provider’s reproductive health care activity, and prohibits medical malpractice insurers from taking adverse action against an insured for providing reproductive health care to a patient from a state where such services are illegal.

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