New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed a shield law bill on Thursday aimed at protecting access to individuals seeking “reproductive and gender affirming healthcare” in her state. While speaking about the legislation at a Planned Parenthood in Montclair, New Jersey, Sherrill lamented her perceived difficulties about abortion access in the United States, commenting that it’s easier to get an AR-15 gun than an abortion in the country. 

“I came here to this Planned Parenthood right after Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court overturned Roe and turned back the clock on our rights,” Sherrill said while speaking at the bill signing ceremony. “We knew then that states like New Jersey would have to stand in the breach and protect freedoms that generations of women have fought for. In the past four years, 13 states … have enacted total abortion bans. It’s easier to get an AR-15 in the United States than it is to get an abortion. And the attack on reproductive healthcare is literally killing women.”