Leading taking to take aen momet to note there are many things we need to do to reduce cost right should the words of my colic in the neighboring state of south dakota. I think he is well aware pharmaceuticalic prices are numr one in the minds of people in many of ourep states. Ethical problems with joint negotiate with the band so we can negotiate expensive is committed to an out of office. We hope to get to the next month. Recently a 50 50 is one competitive fuel that should be a major help is a Strategic Petroleum reserve in so many other areas where we are working together. I dont think anyone thought we could emerge between pandemic and everything was planned for the same. Honestly the country to prevent cross in the spirit but also on our minds with what has recently worked in the decision no space. They said, next line this ruling i think its a precedent of healthcare positions at the mercy of state laws govern their ability to access reproductive care. Leaving them with fewer rights and fling us. Over 20 states and just families, over 20 states have laws in place that could be used to restrict access to abortion. Twentyfive faithec in public ae expected to abortion in the days and weeks ahead. But, comets, the worst of the legislation was introduced to allow private citizens to act as a vigilante. Some people who helped cross state lines for reproductive care. Vigilantes just like we saw in texaswo. In texas, legislatures are working on a bill to criminalize businesses that provide resources simply to help their workers obtain Abortion Services in other states. These proposals dont just hurt those in need of care. Theyre also creating an uncertain environment for documents. Three clinics in states like minnesota we protected rights are protected. Two major states in the u. S. , that is that. Illinois, minnesota spoke on the phone theh head of the red river clinic at a fogger, the conference had to resort to help fundey a page to get the money e needs to look for clinic across the river to minnesota, to a safe place. Planned parenthood of more i met with only ay week ago about the services of the work they are doing right now. In montana, clients of r8 become upper residency Residency Program at sycamore supposedly are afraid it mightsu be pursued by outofstate. Prosecutors. We should never settle for situation when the committee sortre of different rights that women emissary. Or equipment in illinois than women in texas. But with so many extreme republicans raising to stay cap up to be the first to take away womens rights, it is clear we must explicitly protect travel to other states to access reproductive care. We do not have to at manchin white this might d matter. We do not need to conjure up hypotheticals. We already know whatap happens. Think h about the heartbreaking, and raging story the 10yearold girl in ohio to go to indiana to get an abortion after she was r impregnated by her rapist. When a story came out last week, some people doubt it. Now a clear print in the criminal complaint out of the state of ohio, so yes, this happened. This man right a 10yearold girl and she got pregnant. I think she get the care she needed at age ten to get an abortion she had to go across state lines to the state of indiana just to get her care. The next little ten euros right or 12yearold right, or 14 euros right to get the care that she desperately needs to be put in jeopardy . What about her mom . What about her doctor . Where will this end . That is most not codified roe versus wade love that the bill be voted on trust last month. We must also pass the freedom to travel for healthcare act by unanimous consent right now. Thats the bill are great colic senator Cortez Mastro is leading our bill protects women and girls for big punisher traveling to another state to access Abortion Services. Adventures of c doctors not be punished for providing reproductive care outside the home state. Claims across the country struggle to navigate the post row nightmare landscape, they should not have to add to their list of worries whether they will be criminally prosecuted for serving in a nearby state. This is an issue, as i noted, that hits close to home. Because minnesota, being in the neighborhood thatut includes the states of north dakota, south dakota, iowa, wisconsin. All of which have been recent issues with Reproductive Health care for the freedom to travel cannot be an empty promise. That is why the bill gives the department of justice, those women and doctors the power to sue people who infringe on the right to travel for healthcare. Whens in states abortion events arty face obstacles to care. We cannot wait to see what antichoice state legislatures criminalize next too. We have to act now. All of this comes down to one question, who should get to make the d personal decision or woman . Or for h a 10yearold girl . You to be her family . Should it be a woman herself . Or should it be politicians . Our colleagues on the other side of the out support these justices in place in the Supreme Court. As to where we are right now. Think the answer is clear, to each and every one of my colleagues have the opportunity to show whereom the stanford wil become together and protect to seek healthcare across state lines for the sake of the women and, yes girls across this country . I hope we do. I thanked senator Cortez Mastro for leadership. I yield the floor. Asked madame president could collect senator from colorado request document present a very senior senator from minnesota for her remarks. And for what brings us to the floor today. This is the first time in american history, better president , thefu mental rights d fundamental constitutional right is been stripped away from the American People and especially american women by the Supreme Court of the United States. Dobbshe, United StatesSupreme Court demolish 50 years of half a century of democratic and republican appointed justices upholding a constitutional right to s privacy and is now been obliterated by the United StatesSupreme Court. A fundamental right that has been upheld and over again right justices appointed as i sent by both presence of both sides of the aisle. Madam president , if you had said to me when i was in a law school in the early 90s, this day would ever come sit Supreme Court using a radical, a radical method of constitutional interpretation called regionalism, that was invented basically when i was in law school. You would have told me h there s a president of the United States would appoint the majority of the Supreme Court without radical interpretations i never would have believed it. I would never have believed it. And that is what has happens because of the justices donald trump put on the Supreme Court. I want people to hearing are republicans in this country. In this chamber. Look at outfit i know it is called regionalism. Buts it started in the 1980s and started in the 1990s but is not the way our constitution is been interpreted all these years. This is radical. It is not conservative and no sense is that a conservative decision . It has happens. Americans no longer have a constitutional right to privacy to make their own health reproductivean choices. I read every one of these opinions. And the majority never even have the courage to grapple with the nature of this fundamental right. What is stripping away would mean for millions of americans especially millions of american women like my three daughters. Instead, what he said was when he wrote was about was right in 1860 its not right today. That was the death of his analysis. Opinion dripping with hostility. A cavalier attitude toward what he was stripping away from the American People. I know, i live in the state where there are people that hold very sincere beliefs on both sides of the question. Its hard for many americans. That was like i always believe the right place but the decision to be made is by a woman with her doctor. By thea state. States that you have to carry your pregnancy to term affect any regard to individual circumstances that you might face. An instant, as a result of this courts decision state laws to ban abortion art literally from the 1800s, are coming back into being. Politicians are writing state laws. Force a woman to carry a term without exceptions. Think about that. Even for women and children who have been raped, like that 10yearold girl in ohio, who have to travel to indiana for an abortion is living in the state where they are talking about a ilpersonhood bill. Soldiers serving in my home state for women who have served in the armed forces, who are worried about women who were serving in the armed forces today on u. S. Military bases in states like mississippi have banned abortion. What is supposed to happen to them . What happened to their right to privacy . Even if w we pay for them to travel everyone is going to know what is going on. Pregnant women could easily find themselves in America Today in an emergency room. Literally every single day. Everybl day with doctors unableo help because somebody has to go and consult a lawyer. Doctors are french prescribed medications for their patients. Even have a conversation about the Reproductive Health or fear of prosecution. Over the country there are elected leaders, socalled leaders. Politicians that are putting themselves between a woman and her right to choose. Nothing i am saying here is fantastic. Everything i am saying is being talked about it, contemplated, legislated in America Today. All across this country as a result of what this of reported standard of cancer could learn she is pregnant. Happens every day. Every day. She cant get the treatment she needs for her cancer. This is literally crazy. It is literally crazy. As you have heard only work today this is not even crazy enough for the elected politicians around there countr. Now, theyre threatened to use the law to prevent women, american citizens, exercising the right to travel across state lines to access Reproductive Healthcare. In the United States ofc american. It wasnt enough to strict limits of this mental right and happy state force them to bring a pregnancy to term. That is not enough. Unable to use the law to prevent him from traveling from one state to another in the United States of america. I see the pages sitting in today the age of my daughter, one that was 17 years old. I cannot believe this is what we are handing over to the next generation of americans. I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it. This is despicable especially coming from the w same people could never stop telling us ive devoted they are to freedom and liberty. What a line that is. What ahe lie that is. I am coming to the end, i dont like calling from oregon is next. I just want to say one last thing. I am so grateful to live in a state like colorado. A western purple state where we have already codified a womans right to an abortion. A womans right to choose. We understand and we have always estate understood that protecting a womans personal liberty to make these decisions is fundamental to her freedom to participate in our society. If people from other states need to come to colorado to access the care they need, congress has the obligation to shield them from prosecution. And we need to make sure healthcare providers, no matter where they are at colorado or other states are safer prosecution reducing nothing of the women themselves, to say nothing of teenage girls themselves. I cannot believe we are even having this conversation on the floor of the United States senate. I cannot believe it. That is the america we live and because of this the court. Because of this radical ideology they have perpetrated. That is why i strongly, strongly support Bill Mccauley from nevada. On behalf of my three daughters, i want to thank her for her valuable l leadership on this issue. Mr. President i give the floor. Quick center from oregon. Next mr. President , many colleagues want to speak. I am going to be brief. The name of senator cortez masco built sums up what this is really all about. The center has proposed she is a former attorney general, a very skilled l lawyer. She has proposed legislation, the freedom to travel for healthcare act. And i just want us to take a second to think about the name of my colleagues from nevadas legislation. And i would submit sentiments, that you know something is gone horribly wrong america when the seller is forced to consider a proposal entitled the freedom to travel for healthcare act. Kylix, just look at those words. The freedom to travel for healthcare. My colleague has introduced a bill that is as basic as it gets. Freedom. Effective six republicans on the Supreme Court of ripped that freedom out by the roots. Now, state governments are moving toward analyzing travel for healthcare. They are even moving toward analyzing, helping people travel for healthcare. That is unthinkable in my view. Except millions and millions of americans and being terrified every single day. In my state of oregon worked for chapter 11 estate that protects womens health. Womens basic freedoms. My home states going to be there for people to get the healthcare they need including an abortion. But the fight that is why i am so pleased to stand with my colleague from nevada, senator cortez amassed over at my part the pacific northwest, senator murray. Two, or the senate to pass legislation the name, the freedom to travel for healthcare act. And what my colleagues legislation does, is protect women and doctors, and she doesnt by protecting a constitutional right, constitutional right to interstate travel. Collects, even after these three weeks that overturn roe, it is shocking and appalling to see what has come next. We have seen space sprinting towards a panic and criminalizing abortion outright. Are you a victim of rape or incest . No exceptions. I give a child . You will still be forced to birth a child. His life in danger if you carry a pregnancy to term . You better get your affairs in order. That is the world millions and millions of american women are living in now that the applicants on the Supreme Court of ripped away roe versus wade. Womens lives are in danger. American freedoms are disappearing m. The legislation proposed by mccarley from nevada is as basic as it gets. The senate needs to act now and it needs to act in that inning for give the floor. Next mr. President. Quick center from colorado. Mr. President , the senate should absolutely support the freedom to travel for healthcare act. Currently abortion is banned in ten states. Many more are sent tool follow. Colorado like other prochoice dates we are seeing a large influx of patients with your tragic stories of limits of the cars are outside of hundreds of miles they went for appointments after took affect one woman had a water break at 19 weeks. Actually, her wedding day she moved up her wedding day. The doctors recommended terminating her pregnancy to protect herpr life. To increase the possibility she could have children in the c future. But it was not allowed in texas. So she flew to colorado for emergency care. Her daughter had her make a plan for this travel. Make a plan in case she went into labor on the flight. The plan was to sit near the bathroom. That is what itco will soon come to fort women and half of america. Without this legislation, a woman could face prosecution for traveling across state lines. Lets not sink in. Her choice would be possible jail or probable death. This bill will protect every womans right to travel, to seek reproductive care. Basic freedom. But also protect doctors who practice in states like colorado, and protect them for prosecution lawsuits for helping outofstate patients. Fundamentally, my fellow senators have said this is about freedom. In this new post roll era women can be forced into government mandated pregnancies. States are stripping women of the freedom over their bodies and their future. The least we should do is protect every patient traveling to receive care that just a few weeks ago was permitted nationwide. and doctors with jail time for seeking or providing Reproductive Health care would be a true stain on this nation. I hope we can find 60 senators to support this bill. I yield the floor. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from rhode island. Mr. Whitehouse mr. President , im very glad to stand with senator cortez masto to support this legislation and also recognize the leadership of senator murray on this issue as we fight to protect fundamental rights belonging to the women of america. For nearly half a century women relied on roes recognition that the constitution protects their right to decide if and when to have children. A radical and captured Supreme Court has revoked this constitutional right, disrupting constitutional right, disrupting constitutional right disrupting the reliance antitrust of generations of women to make fundamental decisions about their own health and their own futures. Overturning is wildly unpopular. The deeppocketed extremist interests invested hundreds of millions of dollars over decades to build a court where that kind of stuff could get done. It is an outrage women across the country are angry and democrats are angry and we are fighting back in every way we can. In addition to state abortion bands and bold legislatures are wrecking even more extreme restrictions on women like proposals to investigate, prosecute to get the care they need. You think i im kidding, legislation has already been introduced in missouri. The constitution already protect the rights to interstate travel but as we have now seen, we cant rely on an increasingly extremist Supreme Court to protect our rights. Remember in a large number of pregnancies, abortion actually becomes medically necessary. Necessary for the health of the woman to bear children in the future for the life of the woman to survive, the risk the pregnancy presents, for the risk to other children. It is extremely important to protect medical professionals in the states like rhode island, my home state from punishment for providing care to women from states where state legislatures have made abortions illegal. Have made abortions illegal. Have made abortion illegal. I was proud to work with senator cortez mascolp to help draft the freedom to travel for healthcare act. It will protect womens rights to cross state lines and Seek Medical Services and protect providers in states that they are traveling to. S there is much more to stand against this assault on the Constitutional Rights and i yieldna the floor. Mr. President , while our colleagues are joining us to speak on behalf of the language, i wanted to thank the senator for