“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.”
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.
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Evidence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Congress.gov lists H.R.4099 as introduced on 06/24/2025, referred to House Energy and Commerce, with status Introduced. It lists Rep. Jamie Raskin as a 06/24/2025 cosponsor.
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Raskin’s office says Representatives Raskin, Fletcher, Strickland, and more than 128 original cosponsors introduced the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act to protect interstate travel for reproductive health care.
Assessments
Raskin materially advanced the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act by cosponsoring earlier and current versions, voting for House passage in 2022, and helping introduce the 2025 version. However, the promised protection has not been enacted into federal law: the 2022 bill passed the House but died in the Senate, and the 2025 bill remains introduced/referred. This is a serious legislative effort without delivery of the promised outcome.
Raskin materially advanced the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act by original cosponsorship and a yea vote when the House passed H.R.8297 in July 2022. However, the bill only passed the House, was received in the Senate, and was not enacted, so the promised federal protection for interstate travel for lawful abortion and reproductive health care was not delivered. This qualifies as a serious legislative attempt but failed outcome.