Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
Latest action. Received in the Senate.
Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
This bill prohibits anyone acting under state law from interfering with a person's ability to access out-of-state abortion services. ( Abortion services includes the use of any drugs that are approved to terminate pregnancies and any health care services related to an abortion, whether or not provided at the same time or on the same day.)
Specifically, the bill prohibits any person acting under state law from preventing, restricting, impeding, or retaliating against
health care providers who provide legal abortion services to out-of-state residents,
any person or entity who helps health care providers to provide such services,
any person who travels to another state to obtain such services,
any person or entity who helps another person travel to another state to obtain such services, or
the movement in interstate commerce of drugs that are approved to terminate pregnancies.
The Department of Justice may enforce this bill through civil actions; the bill also establishes a private right of action for violations.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Passed House" stage on July 15, 2022. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
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Who is behind it?
Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) introduced it on July 7, 2022, and 182 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They are 182 Democrats.
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How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on July 7, 2022, 1526 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 1515 days ago, on July 18, 2022.
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Vote history
- HouseReceived in the Senate.
- SenateNot stated in the latest action
- PresidentNot stated in the latest action