Pregnancy Is Not an Illness Act of 2025

This bill says the Department of Health and Human Services, including the FDA, may not treat pregnancy as an “illness” when deciding whether to approve abortion medications or when setting safety rules for those drugs. It also cancels any past FDA approvals of abortion drugs that relied at all on treating pregnancy as an illness. The bill specifically names mifepristone’s existing approval as one that would be void once the bill takes effect .

Key points

• Who is affected: Patients seeking medication abortion, health care providers, pharmacies, and drug manufacturers.
• What changes: The FDA could not use pregnancy-as-illness reasoning to approve or manage abortion drugs; approvals that used that reasoning would be undone, including the current approval of mifepristone .
• When: These changes would apply upon enactment of the bill, immediately voiding any affected approvals named in the bill’s terms.