February 12, 2025
The 119th Congressional session kicked off with high energy as the same week of the Presidential Inauguration, the national pro-life march also occurred. In a celebratory environment, dozens of Congressional members introduced numerous pieces of pro-life legislation in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. See the highlights and list below:
This SFLAction inspired bill introduced by Rep. Ogles (R-TN) would make it illegal to sell or distribute Chemical Abortion Pills in America. The pills are clearly deadly to preborn children and exceptionally harmful to women. SFLAction has prioritized ending exposure to the killing metabolites in Chemical Abortion Pills, which have 4x the rate of injury and 10x the death rate of surgical abortions, which are also deadly. Also troubling, during the Clinton, Obama, and the former Biden Administrations, no FDA or EPA environmental assessments were completed to ensure that dumping human remains was not a hazard to all life, from endangered species to humans. Today, we have proven that these life-ending metabolites are in our drinking water as hundreds of thousands of Chemical Abortions each year result chemically tainted blood, placenta tissue and human remains to be flushed into our wastewater systems.
The North Star of the Pro-Life Generation, this bill introduced by Rep. Burlison (R-MO) would prevent abortions from the moment of conception, establishing legal personhood at that miraculous moment. The bill calls for protections for the life of the mother as well as “equal protection for the right to life of each born and preborn human person, and under the duty and authority of the Congress.”
This includes Congress’ power under Article I, Section 8, to make necessary and proper laws, and Congress’ power under Section 5 of the 14th Article of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being. However, nothing in the act authorizes the prosecution of any woman for the death of her preborn child.
An SFLAction inspired piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Roy (R-TX) and Sen. Daines (R-MT), this measure would prevent Corporate Abortion from misusing colleges and universities as a place to market and sell Chemical Abortion Pills. The bill would deny federal funds to schools that push Chemical Abortion drugs through a “student-based service site.” The issue is timely as California will require student health centers to provide Chemical Abortion Pills by 2023, an effort that the bill sponsor pushed as a beta test for other states. State legislators in New York and Massachusetts already have legislation to follow suit.
- Defunding Planned Parenthood Act
The House bill introduced by Rep. Fischbach (R-MN) would prohibit funding from Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. or any of its affiliates unless they certify that the affiliates and facilities will not commit and will not provide funds to entities that commit abortions during that year. If the certification requirement is unmet, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture must recoup any federal assistance those entities receive.
The Senate bill introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) would ensure federal tax dollars aren’t going to organizations, like Planned Parenthood, to perform abortions, full stop.
Prohibiting federal funding of Planned Parenthood represents a significant effort to enact President Trump’s stated agenda of reducing the role of the federal government on the issue of abortion. If taxpayers underwrite the nation’s largest abortion vendor, abortion is federal. America’s healthcare dollars should be invested in care that takes care of every patient, in and outside of the womb, and this bill also makes no exceptions for Planned Parenthood, as they should be debarred and defunded as bad actors in the healthcare space.
This bill introduced by Rep. Fischbach (R-MN) would require federally funded entities to certify that they will not, subject to certain exceptions, commit abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions. The Senate version introduced by Sen. Wicker (R-MS) is a full-on prohibition of taxpayer funding of abortions.
One does not need to be pro-life to agree that no taxpayer should be forced to pay for abortions with their hard-earned tax dollars. Especially at this moment when some argue that there needs to be less federal engagement on abortion, following through would mean ending federal spending and federal mandates that allow and even demand ending innocent, preborn life. The abortion industry sells death at a profit, choosing to end the lives of those they say might suffer rather than addressing the suffering. Our nation deserves better.
This bill introduced by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) would prohibit abortion in cases where a fetal heartbeat is detected. In post-Roe America, protecting a preborn child after a confirmed heartbeat is the least we can do for someone with a universal sign of life. Usually, medical personnel rush to help those with a beating heart.
- Stopping Traffickers and Their Accomplices Act
This bill introduced by Sen. Budd (R-NC) would hold accountable Chemical Abortion Pill pushers who are willing to ignore victims of sex traffickers just to make a quick sale. The measure also demands training and a hotline to be established so that no abortion industry sales team can claim ignorance of the signs of abuse and can know when and how they must alert authorities. Chemical Abortion Pills are an abuser’s dream drug, as many stories in the media report.
As we’ve previously reported, there is evidence that some women have been given abortion pills without their knowledge and consent, often by partners acting against their wishes. This practice is more easily done through online sales of the abortion pills. The Washington Post, CNN, and other news sources are among those reporting on this tragedy for women.
Even if you support abortion, that’s no reason to ignore the plights of women trapped in a horror story. And in fact, according to the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement’s YouGov/Survey USA polling, more than 6 in 10 young, registered voters support in-person appointments for Chemical Abortion Pill to address the problem of abusers getting the pills too easily.
All other pro-life legislation:
- Abortion Survivors Protection Act (House & Senate) Rep. Wagner (R-MO) & Sen. Lankford (R-OK) – To prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care if a child survives an abortion or attempted abortion.
- Women’s Protection in Telehealth Act – Rep. Steube (R-TX) – To demand that the useful tool of telehealth not be used for Chemical Abortion Pill distribution given known problems with online sales.
- Ultrasounds Saves Lives Act – Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) – To ensure that women seeking an abortion are notified, before giving informed consent to receive an abortion, of the medical risks associated with the abortion procedure and the major developmental characteristics of the unborn child.
- Pregnancy Is Not an Illness Act – Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) – To prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from treating pregnancy as an illness for purposes of approving abortion drugs.
- Second Chance for Moms Act – Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) – To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require a warning label advising that the effects of mifepristone can be counteracted, to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a hotline to provide information to women seeking to counteract the effects of mifepristone.
- Parental Notification and Intervention Act – Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL)– To provide for parental notification and intervention in the case of an unemancipated minor seeking an abortion.
- Dignity for Aborted Children Act (House & Senate) – Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) & Sen. Ricketts (R-NE) – To protect the dignity of human remains by requiring fetal remains to be handled respectfully, rather than as trash.
- Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act – Rep. Foxx (R-NC) – To amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that commits abortions.
- No Taxpayer Funding for the U.N. Population Fund – Rep. Roy (R-TX) – To prohibit United States contributions to the United Nations Population Fund.
- No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Disclosure Act – Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) – To prohibits federal funds, including funds in the budget of the District of Columbia, from being expended for abortion or health coverage that includes coverage of abortion.
- To nullify the modifications made by the Food and Drug Administration in January 2023 to the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy for the abortion pill mifepristone, and for other purposes – Rep. Harshbarger (R-TN) – To nullify the modifications made by the Food and Drug Administration in January 2023 to the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy for the abortion pill mifepristone. This essentially would reinstate health and safety standards for the deadly pills.
- Abortion is Not Health Care Act – Sen. Lee (R-UT) – To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 so that abortion costs can’t be deducted as a medical expense.
- Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act Sen. Lee (R-UT) – To prohibit the treatment of certain distributions and reimbursements for certain abortions as qualified medical expenses.
- National Day of Tears – Rep. Clyde (R-GA) – To memorialize the preborn by lowering the United States flag to half-staff on the 22d day of January each year.
- FACE Act Repeal Act – Rep. Roy (R-TX) – To repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. This law has been used to make federal crimes out of local events, weaponized against peaceful pro-life protestors.
- Unborn Child Support Act – Sen. Cramer (R-ND)– To allow a court, in consultation with the mother, to award child support payments while the child is still in the womb and retroactively up to the point of conception as determined by a physician
- Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act – Sen. Daines (R-MT) – To prohibit discrimination against a preborn child diagnosed with Down Syndrome by preventing their death by abortion.
- Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data – Rep. Norman (R-SC) – To require a National Abortion Reporting law, to gather data on abortion and its consequences to women and the preborn, just like with other health reports.
- Teleabortion Prevention Act – Rep. Mark Marris (R-NC) – To make it a federal offense for healthcare providers to perform a chemical abortion without first physically examining the patient, being present during the chemical abortion, and scheduling a follow-up visit for the patient.
- Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance – Sen. Lee (R-UT) – To restrict the availability of Federal funds to organizations associated with the abortion industry.
- No Abortion Coverage in Medicaid Act – Rep. Brecheen (R-OK) – To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to limit demonstration projects related to abortion under Medicaid and CHIP.
- To prohibit treatment of certain distributions and reimbursements for certain abortions as qualified medical expenses – Rep. Brecheen (R-OK) – To prohibit treatment of certain distributions and reimbursements for certain abortions as qualified medical expenses.
This is only the beginning! There are still crucial pieces of pro-life legislation coming down the pipeline so stay tuned for updates on significant bills as more are introduced.