Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
United States117th CongressHR-8297House of Representatives
Updated: Jul 18, 2022
Summary
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.
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Timeline
On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 209 - 219 (Roll no. 361).
House of Representatives
View voteOn passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 223 - 205 (Roll no. 362). (text: CR H6647)
House of Representatives
View voteMotion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
House of Representatives
Received in the Senate.
Senate