“Committed to keep pushing legislation (the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act) to shield doctors who provide legal abortion care from out-of-state prosecution.”
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The CHAMPIONED rating is upheld. The reachable PRIMARY source (govinfo BILLS-118s1297is) fully documents the outcome for THIS promise: after the 2022-09-21 promise, Murray reintroduced the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act in the 118th Congress as the lead sponsor. The cited quote appears verbatim on the page — "Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Padilla, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Merkley...) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary" — introduced April 26, 2023. The bill text confirms the promise's substance: it bars any State from restricting or penalizing a provider for furnishing lawful reproductive/abortion care to out-of-state patients, i.e. it shields doctors from out-of-state prosecution/liability. Being the first-named lead sponsor who reintroduces the bill in a new Congress is leading/driving the legislation, not merely voting — so CHAMPIONED is not overstated; it is corroborated by Murray's own releases (reintroduction and the GOP-blocked-passage release) surfaced in search. The second cited source (congress.gov) returned HTTP 403, but this is congress.gov's routine automated-fetch block, not evidence of fabrication or an unsupported claim: every substantive fact it asserts (title, "Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]", Introduced 04/26/2023) is independently confirmed by the reachable govinfo PRIMARY source, GovTrack, and Murray's Senate site. Because a reachable primary source verifies the outcome with an exactly-matching quote, the one unreachable corroborating link does not warrant a downgrade. Same nonpartisan bar applied.
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