Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 13 - 10.
The bill repeals 18 U.S.C. §248 (the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, statute) and updates the title table. The repeal applies to any prosecution pending on, or commenced on or after, enactment.
Progressives emphasize increased threats to patient safety and access.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive statutory repeal that is legally precise about the mechanism of repeal but sparse in explanatory material and transition/addressing collateral consequences.
The bill repeals 18 U.S.C. §248 (the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, statute) and updates the title table.
The repeal applies to any prosecution pending on, or commenced on or after, enactment.
Narrow but highly polarized repeal with low fiscal impact; likely to clear a sympathetic House but faces steep Senate and public-opinion/legal barriers.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive statutory repeal that is legally precise about the mechanism of repeal but sparse in explanatory material and transition/addressing collateral consequences.
Progressives emphasize increased threats to patient safety and access.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize increased threats to patient safety and access.
Likely to view the bill negatively as removing a federal tool that protects patients and clinic staff from obstruction, intimidation, and violence.
Sees increased risk to reproductive-health access and civil rights, especially where state protections are weak.
Approaches the bill with caution: sympathetic to federalism and civil liberties arguments, but concerned about public-safety and access consequences.
Would weigh need for federal backup against states' capacity to protect clinics.
Likely to support the repeal as protecting free speech and limiting federal criminalization of protests.
Views it as returning authority to states and preventing federal intrusion into local disputes.
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Narrow but highly polarized repeal with low fiscal impact; likely to clear a sympathetic House but faces steep Senate and public-opinion/legal barriers.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize increased threats to patient safety and access.
Narrow but highly polarized repeal with low fiscal impact; likely to clear a sympathetic House but faces steep Senate and public-opinion/le…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused substantive statutory repeal that is legally precise about the mechanism of repeal but sparse in explanatory material and transition/addressing…
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