IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1411 
Recognizing July 2024 as the 30th anniversary of the reproductive justice 
movement to raise awareness around the history of reproductive justice 
and honor the foremothers of the reproductive justice movement, build 
a world in which Black girls and gender expansive people, as well as 
all Americans marginalized by their race, class, or gender, are free 
from systems of reproductive oppression of their bodies, sexuality, labor, 
and reproduction. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 6, 2024 
Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. WILSON of Florida, 
Ms. UNDERWOOD, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, and Mr. EVANS) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing July 2024 as the 30th anniversary of the repro-
ductive justice movement to raise awareness around the 
history of reproductive justice and honor the foremothers 
of the reproductive justice movement, build a world in 
which Black girls and gender expansive people, as well 
as all Americans marginalized by their race, class, or 
gender, are free from systems of reproductive oppression 
of their bodies, sexuality, labor, and reproduction. 
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•HRES 1411 IH 
Whereas, 30 years ago, in 1994, a trailblazing group of Black 
women came together to advance a health agenda cen-
tered on the unique concerns and lived experiences of 
women and girls of color, especially Black women and 
girls, who faced longstanding health disparities, including 
higher rates of infant and maternal mortality and mor-
bidity, breast cancer, fibroids, gender-based violence, and 
HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas they coined this vision to be ‘‘reproductive justice’’, 
building on concepts of reproductive rights, social justice, 
and human rights as a way of centering the specific lived 
experiences of Black women; 
Whereas reproductive justice offers a human rights frame-
work that affirms the right to not have a child, the right 
to have a child, the right to the social and economic sup-
ports to parent one’s children, free from violence, and the 
right to bodily autonomy and sexual expression; 
Whereas the foremothers of the reproductive justice move-
ment helped the Nation to understand that Black women 
know what it means to lead communities and lead move-
ments, while struggling for basic equality, social justice, 
and human rights; 
Whereas reproductive justice seeks to address bans and re-
strictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that 
have perpetuated systems of oppression, lack of bodily 
autonomy, White supremacy, and anti-Black racism, all 
rooted in systems resulting the enslavement, rape, and 
experimentation of Black people, forced sterilizations, 
medical experimentation on low-income women’s repro-
ductive systems, and the forcible removal of indigenous 
children; 
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•HRES 1411 IH 
Whereas Black women and gender expansive Black people are 
three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related 
causes than White women in the United States; 
Whereas studies show that when Black women suffer from 
severe injuries or pregnancy complications or simply ask 
for assistance, they are often dismissed or ignored in the 
health care settings that are supposed to care for them; 
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States upended 
nearly 50 years of its own precedent and issued a major-
ity opinion in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization 
that overturned the constitutional right to abortion care 
enshrined by Roe v. Wade and continues to dispropor-
tionately impact Black women and girls, who are more 
likely to lack economic resources, to be unemployed and 
uninsured, and to be insured by programs that restrict 
coverage for abortion care; 
Whereas the Black LGBTQIA+ community experiences dis-
proportionate levels of homelessness, poverty, and unem-
ployment and a crisis of violence against Black 
transgender women and girls; 
Whereas, too often, Black families lack access to jobs with a 
living wage, safe and secure housing, accessible transpor-
tation, and affordable, healthy food; 
Whereas Black families bear the brunt of environmental in-
justices like air and water pollution, which worsen health 
outcomes, and the burden of law enforcement officials op-
erating with unfair and unjust biases, which can be fatal; 
and 
Whereas Black women are the largest voting constituency in 
the United States electorate: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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•HRES 1411 IH 
(1) honors the 30th anniversary of the founding 
of the reproductive justice movement; 
(2) acknowledges a history of institutional rac-
ism, inhumanity, and inequality of access to infor-
mation, services, and supports, especially for Black 
women, girls, and LGTBQI+ individuals, and recog-
nizes that the mission of reproductive justice can 
help to continue to remedy this history, as we fight 
to fully realize the promise of these United States; 
(3) acknowledges the right to bodily autonomy 
rooted in the ‘‘liberty doctrine’’ of the 14th Amend-
ment to the Constitution, established during the Re-
construction era to ensure all Americans, including 
enslaved Americans—Black Americans—had a fun-
damental right to life, liberty, and property, free 
from forced labor, forced abortion, and forced preg-
nancy; 
(4) supports the Equal Access to Abortion Cov-
erage in Healthcare (EACH) Act’s policies of repeal-
ing the Hyde Amendment to guarantee abortion cov-
erage regardless of a patient’s health insurance sta-
tus or ZIP Code; 
(5) supports the American Rescue Plan’s poli-
cies to address racial disparities in maternal and 
child health outcomes and give States the option to 
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