Lankford Blocks Bill To Protect Interstate Abortion Travel

The Hill reports:

GOP Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) on Thursday blocked a Democratic request to unanimously pass a bill seeking to protect interstate travel for abortion.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), joined by a string of Democratic senators, had sought consent to pass a bill that would prevent states from punishing women who travel to other states where abortion is legal to get the procedure.

The measure would also protect health care providers who provide abortions to out-of-state patients. “Does that child in the womb have the right to travel in their future?” Lankford said in objecting. “Do they get to live?”

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The legislation seeks to protect the right to travel freely from state to state to seek reproductive health care services in the wake of Roe’s repeal. https://t.co/ldlQ8fGxtk

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