U.S. House approves Rep. Lizzie Fletcher’s bill to protect the right to seek an abortion out of state

One of the two rooms where abortion procedures are performed at the UNM Center for Reproductive Health in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 30, 2022. (Credit: Gabriela Campos for The Texas Tribune)

The U.S. House on Friday passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, a Houston Democrat, that would protect a person's right to travel across state lines to receive an abortion.

The bill is one of two that the House passed Friday to shore up abortion access. The other would effectively codify Roe v. Wade by creating a federal law allowing people to receive abortions nationwide. The bills are unlikely to become law since they require 60 votes in the Senate to move forward.