; Whereas State laws criminalizing sexual and reproductive health care, including gender-affirming care and abortion care, sometimes enacted under the guise of protection, constitute an abuse of the power of the State that denies individuals their fundamental rights; Whereas even when charges are dropped or the defendant is exonerated, the long-term consequences of arrest or prosecution are irreparable; Whereas Black, indigenous, people of color, immigrants, people with low incomes, LGBTQI+ individuals, and other marginalized individuals are more likely, due to persistent disparities and oppression, to experience adverse pregnancy outcomes that place them under the scrutiny of the legal system; Whereas groups like the American Medical Association, American Public Health Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Society of Addiction Medicine, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Bar Association, and others oppose State-sanctioned punishment for pregnancy outcomes and oppose criminalizing providers and the provision of health care; Whereas Black, indigenous, people of color, immigrants, people with low incomes, LGBTQI+ individuals, and other marginalized individuals are more likely to be surveilled, arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and heavily punished within the criminal justice system; Whereas, in the 2022 Abortion Care Guidelines issued by the World Health Organization, the World Health Organization recommends the full decriminalization of abortion; Whereas human rights bodies, including the United Nations Human Rights Committee, have long said that governments that apply criminal sanctions against people who have an abortion, or medical providers who assist people in having an abortion, violate human rights principles and laws; Whereas human rights bodies have explicitly described criminalization of abortion and attacks on LGBTQI+ health as a form of gender-based violence