No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025
Key claim: The bill permanently prohibits use of any federal funds for abortions (except rape, incest, or life endangerment) and bars qualified health plans from covering abortion.
Abstract
(HR7 · 119th Congress) No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025 This bill modifies provisions relating to federal funding for, and health insurance coverage of, abortions. Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions or for health coverage that includes abortions. Such restrictions extend to the use of funds in the budget of the District of Columbia. Additionally, abortions may not be provided in a federal health care facility or by a federal employee. Historically, language has been included in annual appropriations bills for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions—such language is commonly referred to as the Hyde Amendment. Similar language is also frequently included in appropriations bills for other federal agencies and the District of Columbia. The bill makes these restrictions permanent and extends the restrictions to all federal funds (rather than specific agencies). The bill’s restrictions regarding the use of federal funds do not apply in cases of rape, incest, or where a physical disorder, injury, or illness endangers a woman’s life unless an abortion is performed. The Hyde Amendment provides the same exceptions. The bill also prohibits qualified health plans from including coverage for abortions. Currently, qualified health plans may cover abortion, but the portion of the premium attributable to abortion coverage is not eligible for subsidies. Latest action (2025-01-22): Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Why this matters
Codifying the Hyde Amendment as permanent law and extending it to all federal funds would remove a decades-long annual appropriations debate and set a durable floor of federal non-funding for abortion, affecting Medicaid enrollees, federal employees, servicemembers, and residents of DC and the territories. Barring abortion coverage in ACA qualified health plans would also reshape private insurance options in the individual marketplace, with practical effects on low- and middle-income enrollees who rely on subsidized coverage.