S. Res. 828 (IS) - Expressing the sense of the Senate that every person has the basic right to emergency health care, including abortion care.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 828 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 828

  Expressing the sense of the Senate that every person has the basic 
        right to emergency health care, including abortion care.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2024

   Mrs. Murray (for herself, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Wyden, Mr. 
   Schumer, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Ms. Butler, Ms. 
  Cantwell, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Carper, Mr. Casey, Mr. Coons, Ms. Cortez 
 Masto, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Fetterman, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. 
 Hassan, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Helmy, Ms. Hirono, Mr. King, Ms. Klobuchar, 
   Mr. Merkley, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Reed, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schatz, Mrs. 
  Shaheen, Ms. Smith, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Warnock, Ms. 
   Warren, Mr. Welch, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Warner, and Mr. 
 Peters) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the Senate that every person has the basic 
        right to emergency health care, including abortion care.

Whereas bans and restrictions on reproductive health care, including abortion 
        care, put the health and lives of women at risk;
Whereas State laws that purport to ban and restrict abortion in emergency 
        circumstances force medical providers to decide between withholding 
        necessary, stabilizing medical care from a patient experiencing a 
        medical emergency or facing criminal prosecution, and put the lives, 
        health, and futures of patients at risk;
Whereas the harms of criminalizing medical providers providing emergency health 
        care or women receiving emergency health care are far-reaching, and 
        providers and patients who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, 
        immigrants, people with low incomes, and LGBTQI+ individuals are more 
        likely to be put under the scrutiny of the legal system;
Whereas the harms associated with abortion bans and other restrictions on 
        reproductive health care have a disproportionate impact on women of 
        color, specifically Black and Indigenous pregnant patients, who are more 
        likely to experience life-threatening pregnancy complications; and
Whereas the chaos and confusion caused by abortion bans and restrictions can 
        dissuade providers from providing appropriate medical care to patients, 
        including in emergency care situations such as heart failure or high 
        blood pressure, premature rupture of membranes, severe obstetric 
        hemorrhage or infection, sepsis, placenta previa (where the placenta 
        attaches to the cervix), and in some cases missed miscarriages, among 
        many other emergency medical conditions: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that every person has 
the basic right to emergency health care, including abortion care.
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