Expressing the sense of Congress to support the case of Beatriz, a young woman from a rural area of El…

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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.

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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.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · May 2, 2023

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

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Official title: 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.

Latest action (May 5, 2023): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: International Affairs · Origin: House · Introduced: May 2, 2023

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.