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Saturday, July 16th, 2022

‘They Want to Hold Women Captive’: GOP Blocks Bill Protecting Right to Travel for Abortion

Author:     JESSICA CORBETT
Source:     Common Dreams
Publication Date:     July 14, 2022
 Link: ‘They Want to Hold Women Captive’: GOP Blocks Bill Protecting Right to Travel for Abortion
Stephan:   It is unclear to me how any woman who thinks she is the equal of any man could vote Republican since the Republican Party's position is clearly that men are dominant and women are subordinate and second class. Yet millions of women are Republicans so I assume they also believe their gender is subordinate and second class. If you know a Republican woman ask her how she deals with this, and what she thinks.
Christofascist Male dominance U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) Credit: Kevin Dietsch / Getty

Democratic leaders and reproductive rights advocates swiftly blasted anti-choice Republican lawmakers on Thursday after U.S. Sen. James Lankford blocked a bill intended to protect the right of pregnant people across the country to travel for abortion services.

The GOP senator from Oklahoma—which banned nearly all abortions this year even before the Roe v. Wade reversal—objected to Democrats’ effort to pass by unanimous consent the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act of 2022.

Introduced this week by Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Patty Murray (Wash.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), 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.

Murray took aim at her GOP colleagues on the Senate floor, declaring that “Republican […]

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