I will also continue to fight in Congress for increased access to quality, affordable health care, especially comprehensive reproductive, maternal, and newborn health care
Fight in Congress for increased access to quality, affordable health care, especially comprehensive reproductive, maternal, and newborn health care.
Occurrences
Recognizing the United States legacy of dismissed pain and denied autonomy in women’s health care, and affirming the Federal Government’s duty to protect individual dignity and advance patient-centered care in women’s health.
Evidence
Congress.gov lists Rep. Morgan McGarvey [D-KY-3] as a cosponsor of H.R.12 on 03/30/2023.
Congress.gov summarizes H.R.12 as legislation to prohibit governmental restrictions on provision of and access to abortion services; it remained introduced/referred in committee.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Morgan McGarvey [D-KY-3] as an original cosponsor of H.R.3305 on 05/15/2023.
Congress.gov summarizes H.R.3305 as directing multi-agency efforts to improve maternal health and increase access to maternal health care.
The Clerk records Roll Call 708 on H.R.5378 as passed, and lists McGarvey, Democratic, Kentucky, voting Yea.
Congress.gov says H.R.5378 requires health care cost disclosures, sets Medicare and Medicaid payment requirements, and extends several public health programs.
McGarvey's office said he would continue fighting for safe and legal abortion and quality reproductive health care.
McGarvey's office said Congress must make Roe the law of the land again after the Supreme Court's Idaho abortion decision.
McGarvey joined colleagues and March of Dimes for Premature Awareness Month and discussed women's health, premature babies, disparities, and policy.
The caucus describes the Momnibus as a package to address maternal mortality, expand maternal care access, lower costs, and improve health for moms and babies.
McGarvey's office announced he introduced the Relief for Survivors of Miners Act to ease access to Black Lung Benefits Act benefits.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Morgan McGarvey [D-KY-3] as an original cosponsor of the 119th Congress H.R.12 on 06/24/2025.
Assessments
McGarvey promised to fight in Congress, not necessarily to secure enactment of a specific health-care statute. During his first House term he took concrete federal legislative actions closely matching the promise: cosponsoring the Women’s Health Protection Act for abortion access, cosponsoring the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act for maternal and newborn health access, voting for the House-passed Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, and introducing health-benefits legislation for miners’ survivors. Some major reproductive and maternal-health bills did not become law, but the promised action was congressional advocacy and legislative effort, which he materially carried out in the same term.