H.R. 3755, the pro-abortion legislation known as the “Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021,” would “protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy” and “protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services.” Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.), the bill’s sponsor, said her bill was needed because “we have seen an unprecedented number of state-based attacks on a woman’s right to choose.”
The House passed H.R. 3755 on September 24, 2021 by a vote of 218 to 211 (Roll Call 295). We have assigned pluses to the nays because abortion has nothing to do with the protection of women’s health, despite the name of the bill; and there is no right to an abortion in the Constitution, the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision notwithstanding.
