Expressing the sense of Congress to support the case of Beatriz, a young woman from a rural area of El Salvador, living in extreme poverty and with lupus, who fought for her life against the state to allow her to terminate a pregnancy that put her at risk, which exposed the serious consequences of the absolute criminalization of abortion in El Salvador, and urging the Salvadoran state to assume its international obligations in the field of human rights.
Summary
This concurrent resolution condemns the absolute criminalization of abortion in El Salvador and anywhere in the world. It also calls upon the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to recognize that total criminalization of abortion violates human rights.
Bill status
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1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2023
Committee Review
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President
Introduced May 2, 2023
Last action May 5, 2023
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Committee
2
May 5, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
May 2, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
May 2, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
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1 primary · 16 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Nikema Williams
DDemocratic
Co
Adriano Espaillat
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Lee
DDemocratic
Co
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
DDemocratic
Co
Donald M. Payne, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
James P. McGovern
DDemocratic
Co
Janice D. Schakowsky
DDemocratic
Co
Jasmine Crockett
DDemocratic
Co
Jesús G. "Chuy" García
DDemocratic
Co
Joaquin Castro
DDemocratic
Co
Linda T. Sánchez
DDemocratic
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