Reproductive Rights Team Key Issues:

1. PA FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act will be introduced soon by PA rep Lindsay Powell to ensure residents seeking reproductive health care can access clinics.  We can support passage.

2. U.S. FACE Act – already a federal law which protects patients, providers, and health center staff from violence and harassment. It seeks to protect the facilities that provide reproductive health services, including pro-life pregnancy counseling services and any other pregnancy support facility providing reproductive health care. Trump  pardoned 23 individuals convicted of FACE Act  crimes. With President Trump pardoning FACE Act violators, it’s clear that his administration will not be enforcing this act.

3. H.R. 21/S. 6. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is a purposefully misleading anti-abortion bill intended to target providers and interfere with medically necessary care. Passed House.  Did not get through Senate, but it is on the watch list.  They are trying bad things.

4. Global HER Act / H.R. 764 / S.280 – This Act would end Trump’s Global Gag Rule and prevent any future president from unilaterally imposing it again. The Trump Administration reinstated the deadly global gag rule, an anti-abortion policy that risks the health and lives of women, girls, young people, and LGBTQ+ people in communities around the world. This gag rule disproportionately affects BIPOC people and prevents foreign organizations that receive certain US assistance from providing, counseling, referring, or advocating for legal abortion in their country. In essence, this policy has elected officials interfering in health care around the world, which can result in the spread of diseases and increased numbers of (what should be) preventable deaths.