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Representative’s sweeping reproductive-freedom bill fails in subcommittee, 2-6
Summary
Representative Bain’s Reproductive Freedom Act, which would have repealed the state’s near-total abortion ban and protected providers, failed in the Population Health Subcommittee by a 2-6 vote after a short sponsor speech and limited questioning.
Representative Bain presented the Reproductive Freedom Act, a broad proposal to repeal the state’s near-total abortion ban and restore statutory protections for abortion, contraception and providers. After a brief speech describing the bill as a “South Star” vision for reproductive autonomy, the subcommittee voted 2-6 to defeat the measure.
Bain described the bill as restoring “reproductive freedom” by repealing the near-total ban, protecting health-care providers from prosecution and ensuring access to contraception and pregnancy care. The sponsor framed the measure as emblematic of a broader political vision and said the bill was intentionally ambitious.
Committee members did not engage in extended policy debate on the merits in the record; the clerk read the final tally as 2 ayes and 6 nays. Representative Bain said she would continue organizing around the issue regardless of the vote.
The transcript records no amendment activity, no fiscal analysis and no outside witness testimony during the item. With the subcommittee’s negative vote, the bill did not advance.
