I will champion a federal right to an abortion through the Women’s Health Protection Act, and preserve access to medication abortion through telehealth.
Preserve access to medication abortion through telehealth.
Occurrences
Evidence
The bill text states that before fetal viability, governments may not place “a limitation on a health care provider’s ability to provide, or a patient’s ability to receive, abortion services via telemedicine.” The bill page also shows Ms. Goodlander among the listed House members at introduction, and its latest action is referral to committee.
The Congressional Record index lists, under abortion-related bills and resolutions, “revise regulations banning mailing or receiving of drugs, instruments, equipment, and educational materials relative to medication abortions (see H.R. 2029), H1147 [11MR].” Another Congressional Record index page for Maggie Goodlander lists “H.R. 2029: Ms. Goodlander” among her bills and resolutions cosponsored.
Under “Bills and resolutions cosponsored,” the index lists “Abortion: revise regulations banning mailing or receiving of drugs, instruments, equipment, and educational materials relative to medication abortions (see H.R. 2029), H1419 [3AP].” It also lists other abortion-related cosponsorships including H.R. 12 and H.R. 4876.
Assessments
Goodlander took concrete same-term legislative action to preserve medication abortion access through telehealth, including backing H.R. 12, which would bar limits on abortion services via telemedicine, and cosponsoring H.R. 2029 related to medication abortion access. However, the cited measures were introduced or referred and not enacted, so the promised policy outcome was not delivered.