A bill that aims to protect health care providers sending abortion pills and patients who receive them has made its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

AB 260, authored by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), would “authorize a pharmacist to dispense mifepristone or other drug used for medication abortion without the name of the patient, the name of the prescriber, or the name and address of the pharmacy, subject to specified requirements,” according to the bill’s text.

Pharmacists would be required to maintain a log “that is not open to inspection by law enforcement without a subpoena and would prohibit the disclosure of the information to an individual or entity from another state.”

“California must stand firm in the facts and our values,” Aguiar-Curry previously said in a st

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