This proposal would end the federal law that protects access to reproductive health clinics and places of worship. By repealing that law, the federal government would no longer bring criminal cases against people who injure, threaten, or block others from getting or providing reproductive health services, or from practicing their religion at a house of worship. The repeal would apply to any case that is still pending, or any new case started on or after the day this becomes law.

Key points:

• Who is affected: Patients, health workers, and others going to reproductive health clinics; people attending services at places of worship; and those who protest or block access to these places.
• What changes: The federal ban on injuring, threatening, or interfering with people entering these sites would be removed by repealing 18 U.S.C. § 248, known as the FACE Act.
• When: The change would take effect on the date it becomes law and would also affect any related federal prosecutions that are still ongoing at that time.