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Back to business — and what may turn into a big debate. The Senate is considering another abortion and gender-affirming health care bill. #nmleg

“Under this bill, if you seek or provide reproductive or gender-affirming care in New Mexico, regardless of where you come from, New Mexico will do everything in its power to protect you and protect your information from the reach of other states,” said @Sen_MimiStewart. #nmleg

A FIR says SB 13 "would protect providers of reproductive care or gender-affirming care from civil or criminal liability and discrimination by the licensing boards of their specialties and by other states where activities protected in NM are not protected." #nmleg

Sen. Bill Sharer, R-Farmington, has introduced an amendment similar to one he introduced on HB 7. "It does one simple thing. It removes the word 'perinatal,'" he said. #nmleg

"We're about to leave a child alone, crying and hungry and cold until she dies," Sharer says. #nmleg

"I want to make sure to clarify for any members of the public who are listening: We are not about to leave a child to die, and abortion after birth is not a thing," says @KatyDuhiggforNM. "Perinatal care is an essential part of the full spectrum of reproductive care." #nmleg

"There was a comment that was made that I disagree with, that this is not a thing. Well, let me tell you, it very much is a thing," said Sen. @gwschmedes, R-Tijeras. #nmleg

Sen. David Gallegos, R-Eunice, said a woman who worked at an abortion clinic in ABQ testified some years ago that babies are essentially being killed after birth. #nmleg

"Her job was to take these children that after the abortion process that had not died and put them on cookie sheets in a rack and continue to put them up there after they'd fallen in order to give them time to die," he said. #nmleg

"I just cannot abide the attempt to make it sound like we are trying to kill babies. This is nuts," said Sen. @jerryfornm, D-Albuquerque. #nmleg

“Insinuating that a pregnant woman is just sitting around and then right before birth or right after birth decides she just doesn't want the baby anymore is deeply insulting to me as a woman and insulting and dangerous to women everywhere,” says Sen. @siahforsenate. #nmleg

“I trust and respect to women, and I trust and respect health care workers to make these deeply personal decisions in privacy, and insinuating that women just sit around and at the last minute decide to not have the baby or have the baby killed is deeply misogynistic,” she added.

"One of the things that I do find misleading is using 'reproductive health care' and 'abortion' together. Reproductive means you're reproducing. Health care means that we're providing for health and well-being. Abortion means both the opposite," Sen. Sharer says. #nmleg

"We're already the late-term abortion capital of America. We don't need to become the after-birth abortion [capital] of America, too," Sen. Sharer says in his closing statement. #nmleg

The Senate rejected Sharer's amendment 13-26. #nmleg

"If I would have had this bill drafted, I would've just called it the Planned Parenthood Protection Act," said Sen. David Gallegos, R-Eunice. #nmleg

Now the debate has shifted to federal statute. Sen. Gallegos asks about 18 U.S. Code 3182. He asks Sen. @ASL4Justice4all, a retired law professor, to yield. "There is a principle called comity. C-O-M-I-T-Y, which is a principle of states respecting other states," she says. #nmleg

"This bill is very carefully drafted to comply with the notion of comity," she says. #nmleg

"I've had people that are already calling for a referendum on this and House Bill 7 because people in the state of New Mexico aren't satisfied with the work we're doing here," says Sen. David Gallegos, R-Eunice. #nmleg #abortion

“These discussions and continued efforts to stifle my ability as a woman to make my own critical decisions that only I know as my own person, what affects me, how I can deal with them better, it’s very troubling to me,” says Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe. #nmleg

“Ninety-nine years in prison. A $100,000 fine. Loss of license to practice. Those are the some of the consequences for reproductive providers in some states if they provide an abortion to their patients,” Sen. Brenda McKenna, D-Corrales, says in closing remarks on SB 13. #nmleg

The Senate is voting on SB 13. The vote won't come as a surprise. We know how this is going to turn out in the Democrat-controlled chamber. #nmleg

ALERT: The Senate votes 26-16 to approve SB 13. #nmleg