'Let's be really clear what that means: They want to hold women captive in their own states,' said PattyMurray after Republican Sen. James Lankford blocked the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act.
this week by Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto , Kirsten Gillibrand , Patty Murray , and Sheldon Whitehouse , the bill would make clear that patients can cross state lines for abortion care and empower the U.S. attorney general and affected individuals to take legal action against those who attempt to restrict that right.
While Lankford took action to block the bill, its sponsors and other supporters emphasized that his party is behind the ongoing and sweeping assault on reproductive rights on a national scale.at her GOP colleagues on the Senate floor, declaring that"Republican lawmakers have already set their sights on ripping away the right to travel. Let's be really clear what that means: They want to hold women captive in their own states.
"It's disgraceful that anyone would object to making sure people can travel to other states for reproductive healthcare," she added in a statement."It's morally repugnant. By objecting to this bill, Republicans are rejecting any appearance of fighting for people's rights, and embracing all-out oppression of women like never before."
Cortez Masto similarly said that"by objecting to my legislation, they're allowing state legislators to reach across state lines to control not just what happens in their states, but what happens in every state across this country and to punish women for exercising their fundamental rights. It's absolutely outrageous."Right-wing groups and state lawmakers are already
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