About the bill
Supporters say the government shouldn’t be able to obtain your sexual or reproductive health data, period.
Context
Since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in June, much focus has turned to popular apps or websites which track a woman’s menstrual cycle. The most popular app has 43 million active users, and that’s not even counting the millions of users for other alternatives in the marketplace.
Pro-choice people fear that law enforcement, in those states where abortion will now imminently become illegal or nearly-illegal, will look for and prosecute women who seek or obtain abortions using warrants for the sexual and reproductive health information stored on technological devices and platforms — such as menstrual cycle trackers.
Jen Klein, executive director of the White House Gender Policy Council, told …
Sponsor and status
117th Congress (2021–2023)
This bill was introduced on June 16, 2022, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
12 Cosponsors (12 Democrats)
Position statements
History
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Jun 16, 2022
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Introduced
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S. 4434 (117th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number S. 4434. This is the one from the 117th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 117th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2021 to Jan 3, 2023. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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