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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and two Oregon Health & Science University physicians, Dr. Maria Rodriguez and Dr. Alison Edelman (far right), give a news conference on the abortion pill in southeast Portland on March 12, 2023. | LYNNE TERRY/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Words of encouragement are added to an anonymous message on a display at the Youth Villages office in Lake Oswego, March 2, 2023. Youth Villages supports kids up to 18 with emotional or behavioral problems through their in-home Intercept program. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Peer support specialists working for Malheur County offered Narcan, an overdose-reversing drug, to people stopping by a day shelter in Ontario on Oct. 13, 2022. | KYLE GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Nearly 22 million women, girls and gender-nonconforming persons of reproductive age are now living in states where abortion has been banned or is in other ways inaccessible, a contingent of U.S. and global human rights groups noted in a letter to the U.N. | JENNIFER SHUTT/STATES NEWSROOM

Nurses and health care workers at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton. | COURTESY OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION

Mae Hochstetler, left, sits with her twin children Josh and Joy Hochstetler, both 25, at her home where she lives with Josh on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, in Lynnwood, Washington. | RYAN BERRY/EVERETT HERALD