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The bill invests modest federal funds to expand and professionalize the abortion-care workforce—improving access, diversity, and telehealth capacity—while creating compliance burdens and leaving trainees in restrictive states facing geographic barriers to clinical training.
Clinical students, residents, and advanced practice clinicians will gain more hands-on abortion-care training, instructor support, and transition-to-practice resources, increasing the number of clinicians able to provide abortion care.
Students from minority-serving institutions and trainees from states with limited training opportunities will see expanded targeted placements and recruitment, likely improving provider diversity and access in underserved communities.
Trainees (especially low-income students) will receive scholarships and stipends that lower financial barriers to pursuing abortion-care training.
Trainees (and their future patients) in states with restrictive rules may still lack direct clinical opportunities because hands-on training is limited to "covered" states, forcing travel, relocation, or continued shortage of local providers.
Eligible institutions receiving grants must submit annual confidential reports, creating new administrative and compliance burdens for grantees.
The requirement that grant funds supplement, not supplant Title VII/VIII funds could complicate budgeting for institutions that rely on multiple federal training sources and add financial management complexity.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a HRSA grant/contract program to expand clinical abortion training and placement, authorizing $25M/year for FY2027–FY2031.
Creates a HRSA-run grant and contract program to expand clinical education and post-training placement in abortion care for students, residents, and advanced practice clinicians who train in states where comprehensive abortion training is allowed. Eligible awardees include accredited health professions schools, academic health centers, and public or private nonprofit safety-net providers; priority is given to programs in permissive states, those training learners from states with limited access, and minority‑serving institutions. Authorizes $25 million per year for FY2027–FY2031. Funded activities may include expanding clinical training sites, defining inclusive training activities, telehealth, curriculum integration, partnerships, recruitment and retention, instructor training, transition-to-practice support, scholarships/stipends, and annual confidential reporting to HHS with aggregated summaries to Congress. Funds must supplement, not supplant, existing Title VII/VIII PHS Act funding.
Official title: Provide for the establishment of an education program to expand abortion care training and access.
Introduced June 24, 2026 by Tammy Baldwin · Last progress June 24, 2026