Title: A concurrent resolution supporting reproductive health care in the United States.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This concurrent resolution expresses support for efforts to ensure that all women have access to comprehensive, preventative, and affordable health care services and are able to receive unbiased information about those services.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 18 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 18

       Supporting reproductive health care in the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2019

Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Blumenthal, 
 Mr. Brown, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Bennet, Mr. 
    Menendez, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Wyden, Mr. 
    Whitehouse, Ms. Harris, Mr. Coons, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Schatz, Ms. 
  Stabenow, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Smith, Mr. 
     Tester, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Warren, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. 
Gillibrand, Mr. Booker, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Markey, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. 
  Hassan, Mr. Peters, Mr. Carper, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Reed, Mr. Udall, Mr. 
 Durbin, Mr. King, Mr. Warner, and Ms. Sinema) submitted the following 
 concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
       Supporting reproductive health care in the United States.

Whereas Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) upholds the constitutional right to 
        privacy, including in health care decisions and the right to access 
        abortion care;
Whereas Roe v. Wade demonstrates quality legal reasoning and is consistent with 
        related precedent since it was based on sound legal principles first 
        established in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Eisenstadt v. Baird 
        (1972), and repeatedly reaffirmed by the Supreme Court, including in 
        Obergefell v. Hodges (2015);
Whereas the facts that have developed since Roe v. Wade was decided reaffirm 
        that people of the United States support the right to choose, that 
        abortion is a medically safe procedure, and that access to reproductive 
        health care provides women with greater economic opportunities;
Whereas the rights established in Roe v. Wade have been relied upon in this 
        country for almost 50 years;
Whereas a majority of people of the United States support access to abortion 
        care;
Whereas, while the State of Alabama, the State of Georgia, and other States 
        passed laws in 2019 that clearly seek to overturn Roe v. Wade and are 
        unconstitutional; meanwhile in 2018 there were over 60 bills introduced 
        in more than 21 States to protect and expand access to reproductive 
        care;
Whereas low-income individuals and women of color are disproportionally impacted 
        by restricting access to abortion care; and
Whereas when States have enacted laws in violation of Roe v. Wade, health 
        clinics close and health care services disappear: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That Congress supports efforts to--
            (1) ensure that all women can access comprehensive, 
        unbiased information and make their own health care decisions;
            (2) promote preventive health care services for women;
            (3) ensure that all women have access to comprehensive, 
        affordable health care that includes pregnancy-related care, 
        including prenatal care, miscarriage management, family 
        planning services, abortion care, labor and delivery services, 
        and postnatal care; and
            (4) improve women's access to reproductive health care, 
        regardless of the State in which they reside.
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