Intending to “send a message to women across the nation that we simply will not go backwards,” Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced proposals that would make abortion care cheaper in New Jersey and train more clinicians to treat people traveling from states where the procedure is expected to be illegal. In January, the Democratic governor signed a bill that enshrined abortion rights into state law, anticipating the majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court will render a ruling overturning or restricting Roe V. Wade in June. Before Murphy signed the law, it was stripped of a provision that wo…
