117th Congress · House
Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022
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
In plain language
- House bill in the 117th Congress.
- Prohibits anyone acting under state law from interfering with a person's ability to access out-of-state abortion services.
- House passed it on Jul 15, 2022 (substantive).
Official summary (Congressional Research Service)
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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Roll-call votes on this measure
- proceduralJul 15, 2022 · House · Failed
On Motion to Recommit — H R 8297 — Ensuring Access to Abortion Act
- substantiveJul 15, 2022 · House · Passed