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H.R. 8297: Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022

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H.R. 8297: Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022

117th Congress · introduced 2022-07-07 · Health · Latest: Received in the Senate.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2022-07-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 2 recorded votes in our records. Latest: House roll call 361 (2022): On Motion to Recommit, HR8297 (2022-07-15), Failed. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate. 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

Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022

Plain summary

Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act This bill prohibits anyone acting under state law from interfering with a person's ability to access out-of-state abortion services. ( Abortion services includes the use of any drugs that are approved to terminate pregnancies and any health care services related to an abortion, whether or not provided at the same time or on the same day.) Specifically, the bill prohibits any person acting under state law from preventing, restricting, impeding, or retaliating against health care providers who provide legal abortion services to out-of-state residents, any person or entity who helps health care providers to provide such services, any person who travels to another state to obtain such services, any person or entity who helps another person travel to another state to obtain such services, or the movement in interstate commerce of drugs that are approved to terminate pregnancies. The Department of Justice may enforce this bill through civil actions; the bill also establishes a private right of action for violations.

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Official text

Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] · 182 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Ami Bera (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Jason Crow (D-CO), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), James A. Himes (D-CT), John B. Larson (D-CT), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Ed Case (D-HI), Bill Foster (D-IL), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Sean Casten (D-IL), André Carson (D-IN), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Seth Moulton (D-MA) and 122 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] reported raising $1.8 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

Recorded votes

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Record fed-us-cong117-hr8297 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117