SALEM, OR – Governor Tina Kotek today signed a package of legislation focused on protecting Oregonians’ reproductive health care, keeping Planned Parenthood clinic doors open in every part of the state, and ensuring access to lifesaving vaccines as President Trump and Republicans in Congress escalate their attacks on patients, providers, and public health. The signing builds on Governor Kotek’s broader record of standing up for Oregonian’s reproductive freedom and expanding public health access across every corner of the state.
“Reproductive freedom shouldn’t depend on who’s in the White House,” said Governor Tina Kotek. “While President Trump and extreme Republicans in Washington, D.C. defund Planned Parenthood and turn back the clock on decades of progress, Oregon is doing the opposite – protecting patients, protecting providers, and expanding access. As long as I am Governor, our state will not back down.”
“While Donald Trump and extreme Republicans in Congress work to defund Planned Parenthood, undermine vaccine access, and rip away reproductive freedom, Governor Kotek is doing the opposite – keeping clinic doors open in every part of Oregon, strengthening shield protections for patients and providers, and defending access to lifesaving vaccines,” said Christopher Coburn, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Action Oregon. “Planned Parenthood Action Oregon is proud to stand with the Governor, and we’ll keep fighting alongside her to protect Oregonians’ access to care.”
Governor Kotek has made protecting reproductive freedom, defending health care access, and standing up to federal attacks on Oregonians a central priority throughout her time in office:
- In November 2025, after the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress defunded Planned Parenthood, Governor Kotek directed millions in emergency state funding to keep Planned Parenthood health centers open across Oregon. The legislation she signed today makes that protection ongoing, guaranteeing uninterrupted coverage for more than 42,000 Oregonians who rely on Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings, contraception, STI testing, and other essential preventive care.
- In September 2025, Governor Kotek joined the governors of California and Washington to launch the West Coast Health Alliance, later joined by Hawaii, to defend evidence-based public health standards as the federal government plays politics with vaccines. The vaccine access law she signed today builds directly on that work.
- Immediately following Donald Trump’s election in 2024, Governor Kotek announced that Oregon had secured a long-term supply of abortion medication. She also expanded protections for medical providers and patient privacy to ensure that Oregon continues to have the strongest reproductive health care protections in the nation.
- In 2023, Governor Kotek signed Oregon’s original Shield Law – one of the strongest in the nation – protecting providers and patients seeking reproductive and gender-affirming care. Today’s expanded Shield Law further protects providers and patients from out-of-state extraditions, subpoenas, and disclosure of personally identifiable health information for care that is fully legal in Oregon.
- As Speaker of the Oregon House, Governor Kotek led the passage of the Reproductive Health Equity Act in 2017, codifying Oregonians’ right to access abortion, contraception, and reproductive health care without cost barriers – and as Governor, she directed regulators to enforce full insurer compliance with the law.
ABOUT GOVERNOR KOTEK
Governor Tina Kotek has spent her career making history and fighting for others. Over the last three years, Governor Kotek has expanded access to affordable childcare, created thousands of new shelter beds, protected abortion access and vote-by-mail, and funded early literacy and summer learning programs. She has also been a national leader in pushing back against Donald Trump’s attacks on our communities, our healthcare, and our rights by blocking his illegal attempts to deploy the Oregon National Guard in our communities and working through the night to reverse his decision to strip food assistance from Oregonians by taking away SNAP benefits.
Governor Kotek is running for reelection to continue defending Oregon values and tackling the state’s biggest challenges – lowering costs, reducing homelessness, strengthening schools, expanding mental health and addiction care, and bringing affordable childcare to every corner of the state.