Lauren believes that providers should not be faced with criminal prosecution and jail time for doing their jobs and helping patients and families.
Prevent providers from facing criminal prosecution or jail for providing reproductive health care.
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Lauren believes that providers should not be faced with criminal prosecution and jail time for doing their jobs and helping patients and families.
Full title: "To protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services." The cosponsors list includes Ms. Underwood.
The bill was introduced in the House and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on the Judiciary.
Underwood announced that her legislation to rename the Plainfield Post Office passed committee with unanimous bipartisan support; the press release page also categorizes her reproductive-rights posts under Health Care and Reproductive Rights, but contains no enacted federal protection barring criminal prosecution of reproductive-health providers.
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The promised federal outcome was to prevent providers from criminal prosecution or jail for providing reproductive health care. The evidence shows Underwood cosponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023, which would protect providers’ ability to provide abortion services, but the bill was only introduced and referred to committee and was not enacted. No evidence shows an enacted federal protection delivering the promised provider-prosecution shield. Because she made a serious legislative attempt but the outcome was not delivered, this is a failed promise with effort credit.