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Introduced May 6, 2025 by Katie Boyd Britt · Last progress May 6, 2025
The bill expands federal referrals, privacy protections, and earlier financial support for pregnant people and families while imposing ideological funding restrictions, administrative reporting and compliance burdens, and legal/financial risks that may reduce provider capacity and limit reproductive-care access.
Pregnant and postpartum people (especially in rural, frontier, medically underserved, and tribal areas) gain a centralized federal portal and free referrals to medical care, nutrition, housing, child care, education, parenting support, and telehealth equipment for at-home prenatal/postnatal visits, improving access to services.
Mothers and families can obtain earlier and retroactive child support (from conception onward) with court-ordered amounts set in consultation with the mother, increasing available financial support and protecting maternal autonomy by prohibiting compelled paternity measures without the mother's consent and barring prenatal tests that risk fetal harm.
Parents, prospective adoptive families, and nonprofits benefit from greater federal transparency — a single searchable federal pregnancy portal (pregnancy.gov) and curated listings of federal funding opportunities and licensed private child placement agencies nationwide — making it easier to find services and grants.
Pregnant people and health-care providers that perform or support abortions are excluded from funding and health coverage that includes abortion, and programs are required to encourage carrying pregnancies to term, which can reduce access to comprehensive reproductive care and constrain neutral counseling.
Rural, underserved, and Medicaid-eligible populations may see reduced service capacity because eligibility restrictions on grants and limits on which providers can receive funding could exclude some providers, shrinking available care in areas of need.
State governments and nonprofit grantees face increased administrative, monitoring, and reporting burdens (including annual reporting of licensed agency lists), and states risk losing incentive payments for noncompliance, all of which may divert resources from direct services and raise implementation costs.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal pregnancy resource website and grant program for pregnancy-support nonprofits, requires State reporting of child-placement agencies, and allows child-support for unborn children.
Creates a federal pregnancy resources website and a grant program for nonprofits that provide pregnancy and postpartum services while excluding entities that perform or support abortions; requires states to report licensed private child placement agencies annually and conditions certain federal adoption incentive payments on that reporting; and changes federal child-support rules to allow establishing and enforcing support obligations for an unborn child, effective two years after enactment.