Home passes invoice that aimed toward defending interstate journey for abortion

The Home on Friday handed the Making certain Entry to Abortion Act, which might ban states from criminalizing those that journey out of state for such a process. The invoice’s approval got here shortly after the Home once more handed a sweeping abortion rights invoice, the Girls’s Well being Safety Act, however neither invoice is on monitor to cross the Senate.

HOUSE AGAIN PASSES SWEEPING ABORTION RIGHTS BILL ON TRACK TO FAIL IN THE SENATE

The Making certain Entry to Abortion Act handed the Home in a 223-205 vote.

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After the Supreme Court docket’s choice final month in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group struck down the excessive court docket’s practically 50-year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade, a number of states moved to ban or prohibit abortion, prompting some abortion rights activists to argue ladies who journey to different states for abortionor those that journey with them could also be prosectuted. However no state has enacted any such measure, and in a concurring opinion to Dobbs, Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued he wouldn't see such a transfer as constitutional given the “constitutional proper to interstate journey.”

Related laws, the Freedom to Journey for Well being Care Act of 2022, was blocked within the Senate earlier this week. That invoice, launched by Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Patty Murray (D-WA), was blocked by Republicans after Democrats sought to cross it with unanimous consent.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) objected to the transfer, saying in remarks on the Senate ground, “To be very clear: no state has banned interstate journey for grownup ladies searching for to acquire an abortion. No state has performed that.”

The Senate’s rejection of the same invoice demonstrates that the invoice handed by the Home faces grim odds within the higher chamber, as does the Girls’s Well being Safety Act, which beforehand failed there.