Thursday, January 29, 2015

House Fails to Garner Support for Harmful Abortion Ban, Instead Passes Dangerous and Misleading Abortion Restriction that Threatens Women's Health

January 22, 2015
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 7 (H.R. 7), which seeks to take insurance coverage of abortion away from women. The bill replaced H.R 36, which would have banned abortion nationwide at 20 weeks without a health exception, only a narrow life exception and a cruel sexual assault exception. House Leadership dropped H.R. 36 after members objected to the sexual assault exception, which would have required rape survivors to file a report.

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