Speaker: Without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute.

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher: Thank you, Madam Speaker. For a year and a half now, people in Texas who are able to do so have been traveling out of state to obtain abortion care, and now that 15 other states have banned abortion, more people are traveling even further to get the reproductive health care they need. In response to the exercise of this constitutional right to travel, lawmakers and others in Texas and in states across the country are threatening to take away that right, too. These threats fail not only to reflect the will of the majority of people in this country, these threats fail to recognize the fundamental rights of Americans guaranteed in our constitution. Congress has the authority and the responsibility to protect people from these unconstitutional efforts to prevent, restrict, impede, or otherwise punish a person traveling to another state to obtain a legal abortion, and to protect health care providers and others who assist that person. Last week, I reintroduced the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, which passed this house last year, with Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland and Congressman Jamie Raskin and more than 150 original co-sponsors. And madam speaker, I urge the House to pass this bill once again to protect this fundamental right.

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