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Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide more opportunities for mothers to succeed, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 7, 2025 by Michelle Fischbach · Last progress May 7, 2025
This bill expands federal resources, services, and legal mechanisms to support pregnant people and families (including retroactive child support and multi‑year grants and a centralized resource hub) but does so while restricting participation and services related to abortion, creating new liabilities and litigation risks for fathers and states, and imposing administrative burdens on providers and agencies.
Pregnant and postpartum people in underserved and rural areas gain free information, referrals, supportive services, and telehealth monitoring equipment, improving access to prenatal and postnatal care.
Parents and families (and service providers) get a centralized federal hub (pregnancy.gov) plus clearer access to aggregated federal funding opportunities, making it easier to find pregnancy support resources and grants.
Authorized multi‑year federal funding (FY2025–FY2030) provides sustained federal resources for maternal and infant support programs and grantees.
Women and providers that perform, refer for, counsel in favor of, or financially support abortion are barred from grant eligibility and the programs may not fund abortion coverage, narrowing access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare and excluding some providers.
Grant priorities that favor organizations able to promote carrying pregnancies to term may reduce availability of neutral counseling and limit women's access to a full range of options.
Defining 'child' to include prenatal stages could have broader legal consequences beyond child support, potentially affecting reproductive-rights litigation and related laws.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Creates pregnancy.gov clearinghouse, funds nonprofit pregnancy-support grants (excluding abortion providers), and allows child support obligations for an unborn child beginning as early as conception.
Establishes a federal public clearinghouse (pregnancy.gov) listing licensed or accredited private child placement agencies and federal funding opportunities for pregnancy-support services, conditions certain state incentive payments on annual reporting, creates a new HHS grant program to fund nonprofit pregnancy-support organizations that encourage carrying pregnancies to term (while excluding entities that perform, induce, refer for, or counsel in favor of abortion), and changes federal child support rules so biological fathers can be required to support an unborn child (with obligations potentially beginning as early as the month of conception). Key compliance deadlines include annual state submissions by January 1, a first HHS report to Congress by the second December 31 after enactment, and a two-year delay before the child-support amendments take effect.