Reproductive Data Privacy and Protection Act

This bill aims to keep the government from using people’s reproductive or sexual health information gathered from calls, texts, emails, or other messages to investigate or charge them. When police ask to wiretap or intercept communications, they must promise they will not use any of that content to go after anyone who asks about, seeks, gets, provides, or helps others get reproductive or sexual health care. The same promise is required when the government asks phone or internet companies for a person’s communications or records using a subpoena, court order, or warrant.

The bill defines protected information broadly. It covers things like abortions and in vitro fertilization (IVF), birth control and medication abortion, related prescriptions, and details such as pregnancy status, menstruation, ovulation, ability to conceive, sexual activity, and related services and care.

• Who is affected: People seeking or providing reproductive or sexual health care; law enforcement; phone and internet companies that receive government data requests.
• What changes: Government agents must state under oath they will not use reproductive or sexual health information from communications to start or run investigations or court cases related to that care; this applies to wiretaps and to requests for communications or records.
• When: If passed into law; no specific effective date is provided in the text.