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H.R. 2085: Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act

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H.R. 2085: Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act

112th Congress · introduced 2011-06-02 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-06-02 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act

Plain summary

Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act or the MARCH for Military Women Act - Amends the prohibition on using funds available to the Department of Defense (DOD) to perform abortions by adding an exception for cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. (Current law provides an exception only where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.) Repeals a statutory restriction on using a medical treatment facility or other facility of the DOD to perform an abortion.

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Official text

Military Access to Reproductive Care and Health for Military Women Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28] · 81 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Diana DeGette (D-CO), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Paul Tonko (D-NY), William R. Keating (D-MA), André Carson (D-IN), Al Green (D-TX) and 21 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr2085 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112