马里兰州加入23州联盟提交意见书：支持挑战退伍军人事务部限制堕胎护理新规
马里兰州总检察长办公室11月9日在 Baltimore 宣布，总检察长 Anthony G. Brown 已加入一个由23名总检察长组成的联盟，向美国联邦巡回上诉法院提交法庭之友意见书，支持原告挑战联邦退伍军人事务部（VA）的一项新规；原告案件为 Minority Veterans of America 诉退伍军人事务部长案。
联盟指出，VA 于2025年12月定稿的这项规则，推翻了2022年确立的保护，将使九成原先合资格的患者失去堕胎护理，危及退伍军人及其家属的健康、令医疗提供者无所适从，并把沉重的医疗费用转嫁给各州。2022年规则实施第一年，经 VA 获得堕胎护理的患者中，73%的妊娠威胁到其健康，17%为强奸受害者，10%面临危及生命的妊娠。
Brown 表示，这项规则变更危及已为国家冒过生命危险的退伍军人及其家属的健康与安全，服役者应得包括堕胎护理在内的全面医疗覆盖。联盟称，尽管各州曾直接向 VA 与白宫行政管理和预算局表达忧虑，并于2025年9月提交评论信，VA 仍未作修改即定稿该规则。
（来源：马里兰州总检察长办公室）
Maryland Joins 23 Attorneys General Backing Challenge to VA Rule Restricting Abortion Care for Veterans
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general on Nov. 9 in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in support of plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration's new federal rule on abortion care for veterans, in Minority Veterans of America v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
The coalition argues that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rule, finalized in December 2025, would deny abortion care to 90% of previously eligible patients, jeopardizes the health and wellbeing of veterans and their families, creates dangerous confusion for healthcare providers, and shifts burdensome healthcare costs onto states. The rule reversed protections established in 2022 that permitted abortion care for veterans and their survivors and dependents in cases of self-reported rape or incest, or when a pregnancy threatened a patient's health. In the first year of the 2022 rule, 73% of patients who received abortion care through the VA had pregnancies that threatened their health, 17% were survivors of rape, and 10% faced life-threatening pregnancies.
"This rule change jeopardizes the health and safety of our Veterans and their families, endangering those who have already put their lives on the line for our country," Brown said.
(Source: Maryland Attorney General)
来源：马里兰州总检察长办公室
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