Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that every person has the basic right to emergency health care, including abortion care.

In the wake of state-level abortion bans, some pregnant patients facing life-threatening emergencies — like severe hemorrhaging, heart failure, or premature rupture of membranes — have experienced delays or denials of care because providers fear criminal prosecution. This resolution declares it the sense of the House that every person has a basic right to emergency healthcare, including abortion care when medically necessary. It highlights that these bans disproportionately affect Black and Indigenous patients, who already face higher rates of dangerous pregnancy complications, and argues that criminalizing emergency medical care puts both patients and providers in impossible situations.