Protect the constitutional right to travel across state lines to obtain lawful abortion and other reproductive health care by advancing the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act.

“Because the Supreme Court dismantled the constitutional right to abortion, it is critical now to protect the right to travel across state lines to obtain health care. Our bill will protect patients and health care workers and safeguard women’s basic constitutional freedoms against Orwellian control by Trump and authoritarian MAGA extremists,” said Congressman Jamie Raskin. “We are fighting to be one pro-choice nation again but, in the meantime the right of all Americans to travel the nation must be protected.”

Raskin committed to protecting interstate travel for reproductive health care by backing legislation that would protect patients, helpers, and health care workers from state restrictions.

Raskin, Fletcher, Strickland Introduce Legislation to Protect a Woman’s Right to Travel for Health Care Amid Abortion Bans | Press Releases | Congressman Jamie Raskin
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Congress.gov text identifies H.R.8297 as the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act and shows it targeted state-law interference with interstate abortion services, including travel across state lines for lawful abortion care.

The bill text matches the promise’s policy target: protecting interstate travel to obtain lawful abortion services and assistance with that travel.

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Text - H.R.8297 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland’s 8th District as an original cosponsor of H.R.8297 on July 7, 2022.

Raskin took concrete legislative action to advance the act by cosponsoring it when introduced.

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Cosponsors - H.R.8297 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 362 on H.R.8297 as passed, 223-205, and records Raskin as voting Yea.

Raskin voted to pass the bill in the House, another concrete step advancing the measure.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 362, H.R.8297
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Congress.gov action history shows House passage on July 15, 2022, followed only by Senate receipt on July 18, 2022; the bill status is Passed House, not enacted law.

The act advanced in the House but did not clear Congress or become law, so the promised legal protection was not delivered despite clear effort.

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Actions - H.R.8297 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
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Congress.gov titles page shows the short title as passed by the House was Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act; as introduced it was Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022.

This confirms that the bill Raskin cosponsored and voted for is the act named in the promise, despite an earlier introduced title.

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Titles - H.R.8297 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act
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