Reproductive Rights Legislation
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-01-22 — Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care Act: cross-connection with planned-parenthood-federal-funding-prohibition: Adds to the broader 119th Congress package of reproductive rights measures, on the restriction side of the ledger. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-01-23 — SAVE Moms and Babies Act of 2025: cross-connection with save-moms-and-babies-act-reproductive-rights: Adds a federal legislative vehicle to the broader reproductive rights legislation landscape, working through FDA drug-approval authority rather than direct abortion prohibition. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-04-16 — Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act: cross-connection with title-x-abortion-provider-prohibition: Fits within the broader legislative landscape shaping access to reproductive health services via provider funding eligibility. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-01-26 — Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act: cross-connection with supporting-pregnant-parenting-women-families-act: Represents the pregnancy-center/anti-abortion funding pole of the broader reproductive rights legislative landscape tracked on that page. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-06-24 — Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026: cross-connection with reproductive-health-care-training-act: The Training Act adds a workforce-development component to the broader reproductive rights legislative package being tracked in the 119th Congress. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-03-18 — Reproductive Freedom for Veterans Act: cross-connection with reproductive-freedom-for-veterans-act: HR4876 is a population-specific instance within the broader post-Dobbs federal legislative effort to establish or preserve reproductive healthcare access. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-06-24 — To prohibit a REMS-certified provider from prescribing mifepristone without an in-person visit and a medical license in the State in which the patient resides, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with reproductive-rights-mifepristone-access: HR9421 is part of the broader legislative landscape on reproductive rights, specifically targeting medication abortion access via REMS restrictions. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-24 — Federal Workforce Reproductive Rights Protection Act: cross-connection with federal-workforce-reproductive-rights-protection-act: HR9448 is a targeted federal-workforce vehicle within the broader reproductive rights legislative landscape. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-01-15 — Life at Conception Act of 2026: 2026 — S3667 Life at Conception Act reintroduced in the Senate; would federally define personhood at fertilization, with downstream implications for abortion access, contraception, and assisted reproduction. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
- 2025-01-03 — Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2025: HR73 (Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2025) introduced, proposing to amend IRC §213 to exclude abortion expenses from the itemized medical expense deduction — a tax-code lever that indirectly raises the cost of abortion care for itemizing taxpayers rather than directly restricting the procedure. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-05-14 — Conscience Protection Act of 2025: cross-connection with conscience-protection-act-2025: Federal conscience protections directly affect patient access to reproductive services, intersecting with the broader legislative landscape governing reproductive rights. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-24 — Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act of 2026: S4880 (119th Congress), the Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act of 2026, was introduced and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee; it would prohibit a specific abortion procedure (commonly termed dilation and evacuation by medical providers) and represents an incremental restrictionist measure introduced the same session as S4879, which moves in the opposite direction. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-24 — Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act: cross-connection with let-doctors-provide-reproductive-health-care-act: Both address federal legislative approaches to reproductive health access; the Let Doctors Provide Act focuses specifically on protecting medical providers delivering such care. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-01-24 — Life at Conception Act: HR722 (Life at Conception Act) represents the personhood-at-fertilization strand of reproductive-rights legislation in the 119th Congress, contrasting with codification bills that would affirm abortion access. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-02 — Notice of Vacatur Regarding Certain Provisions of the 2024 Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities Final Rule: cross-connection with section-1557-gender-identity-vacatur: Section 1557 also governs sex-based discrimination in health programs relevant to reproductive care; vacatur of related provisions affects the broader healthcare civil rights landscape. (novelty: 3)