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Official title: Amend the Public Health Service Act to provide more opportunities for mothers to succeed, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 6, 2025 by Katie Boyd Britt · Last progress May 6, 2025
The bill centralizes and funds pregnancy/postpartum supports and strengthens prenatal child‑support enforcement, improving access and oversight for many families, but it restricts participation and funding for abortion‑related services and creates new reporting, compliance, and legal risks that could shift costs, reduce provider availability, and complicate reproductive‑health policy.
Pregnant and postpartum people (including in rural and tribal areas) gain free access to consolidated information, referrals, and direct services — including housing, nutrition, childcare support — plus at‑home telehealth equipment to improve prenatal/postnatal monitoring.
Parents (mothers) can obtain financial support from biological fathers as early as the month of conception, with retroactive child‑support awards to help cover prenatal and early childhood costs.
The bill protects maternal health and autonomy by limiting paternity measures (requiring the mother's consent and prohibiting measures that risk harm).
Organizations that provide, refer for, or support abortion (and funds used for abortion coverage) are barred from grants, reducing the pool of eligible providers and integrated care options and likely creating gaps in comprehensive reproductive and maternity care—especially in rural and underserved areas.
The bill’s definition of 'child'/'unborn child' as a human at any stage in the womb could constrain reproductive‑health policy and provoke legal conflicts affecting abortion access and related laws.
Retroactive child‑support rules can impose significant retroactive financial liabilities on biological fathers, raising fairness, enforcement, and debt concerns for individuals later determined to be fathers.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal pregnancy resource site and grant program for pregnancy/postpartum support, requires state reporting of licensed placement agencies, and allows child-support obligations for unborn children.
Creates a federal pregnancy resources website and a national list of licensed private child placement agencies, ties state eligibility for adoption/guardianship incentive payments to annual reporting, funds grants to nonprofits that provide pregnancy and postpartum support (but bar grantees from performing or promoting abortion), and requires states to establish child‑support obligations for an unborn child on request (with paternity measures subject to consent and safety exceptions). The bill sets reporting, monitoring, and privacy requirements for grantees and conditions federal program participation on compliance; one major provision (child‑support changes) becomes effective two years after enactment.