Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) voted to restore the right to an abortion nationwide, ensuring all Americans can make their own decisions about their bodies, their lives, and their futures.
The Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022 establishes a statutory right to abortion, securing health care providers’ right to provide abortion care and patients’ right to receive that care, free from state bans and restrictions.
Rep. Axne previously voted for The Women’s Health Protection Act in September of 2021.
The House also advanced the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act – addressing extremist Republicans’ attempts to restrict Americans’ freedom of movement. This legislation will prohibit any attempt under state law to:
- impede an individual from crossing state lines to obtain a legal abortion
- interfere with a health care provider’s ability to offer legal reproductive care
- restrict individuals from helping others to seek a legal abortion
- obstruct the transportation of FDA-approved abortion medication.
“It’s time for Congress to meet this moment and make sure every person has access to the health care that they need” Rep. Axne said. “I firmly believe women should be in charge of their own bodies and I am thankful I was able to cast my vote to help ensure the future safety and health of women. I will continue to fight until every woman in Iowa and across this country has the power to make their own medical decisions.”
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BACKGROUND:
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a women’s reproductive choice to terminate a pregnancy in Roe v. Wade.
And in 1992, the Court decided in Planned Parenthood v. Casey to protect “the right of the woman to choose to have an abortion before viability and to obtain it without undue interference from the state.”
But, earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in a landmark decision holding that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion.
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