
Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
Policy Area: Health
Sponsor: Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] (D-TX)
Latest Action (2022-07-18): 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.
Subjects: Abortion, Civil actions and liability, Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation, Drug therapy, Health care coverage and access, Health personnel, Right of privacy, Sex and reproductive health
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How members voted on HR8297. 593 total positions across all roll calls for this bill.
| Member | Date | Question | Vote | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert B. Aderholt (R-Alabama) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Jake Auchincloss (D-Massachusetts) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Mark E. Amodei (R-Nevada) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Alma S. Adams (D-North Carolina) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Pete Aguilar (D-California) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Rick W. Allen (R-Georgia) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Jodey C. Arrington (R-Texas) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Sanford D. Bishop (D-Georgia) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Cliff Bentz (R-Oregon) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Stephanie I. Bice (R-Oklahoma) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Florida) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Vern Buchanan (R-Florida) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Andy Barr (R-Kentucky) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Julia Brownley (D-California) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Ami Bera (D-California) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Brian Babin (R-Texas) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Donald S. Beyer (D-Virginia) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Mike Bost (R-Illinois) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Brendan F. Boyle (D-Pennsylvania) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Jim Banks (R-Indiana) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-California) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Jack Bergman (R-Michigan) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Delaware) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Ted Budd (R-North Carolina) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Troy Balderson (R-Ohio) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| James R. Baird (R-Indiana) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Shontel M. Brown (D-Ohio) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Ken Calvert (R-California) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| James E. Clyburn (D-South Carolina) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Kat Cammack (R-Florida) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| John R. Carter (R-Texas) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Ed Case (D-Hawaii) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Jim Costa (D-California) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Kathy Castor (D-Florida) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Yvette D. Clarke (D-New York) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Joe Courtney (D-Connecticut) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| André Carson (D-Indiana) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Judy Chu (D-California) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
| Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-Arkansas) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Nay | Passed |
| Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) | 2022-07-15 | Yea-and-Nay | Yea | Passed |
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HR8297 is the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, introduced in the House of the 119th U.S. Congress by Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] (D-TX). 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.
HR8297 was sponsored by Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] (D-TX). Cosponsors and roll-call positions are listed on this page.
As of 2022-07-18, HR8297 Received in the Senate..
HR8297 has had 2 roll-call votes on record. The most recent: 2022-07-15 — Yea-and-Nay (Failed).
HR8297 is categorized under "Health." Browse other bills in this area at /topic-health/.
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