Restoring the First Amendment and Right to Peaceful Civil Disobedience Act of 2025

Summary

Repeals the federal criminal prohibition that made it a crime to obstruct access to reproductive health care facilities and related conduct, and removes that statute from the federal criminal code. The repeal takes effect on the date of enactment and is explicitly applied retroactively to prosecutions pending on that date as well as prosecutions begun on or after enactment. The Act only changes the federal statute and its table entry; it does not create new programs, allocate funds, or alter state laws or other federal statutes that might be used in related cases.

• Removes the federal criminal offense that prohibited obstructing access to reproductive health care facilities.
• Deletes the repealed statute’s entry from the title 18 table of sections in the U.S. Code.
• Makes the repeal retroactive to prosecutions pending on the enactment date and to prosecutions begun on or after enactment.
• Does not create new programs, appropriate funds, or direct agency actions.
• Does not affect state criminal laws or other federal statutes that could apply to similar conduct.
• Eliminates the statutory basis for federal prosecutions under the repealed law; prosecutorial and court responses to pending cases could change.
• Applies immediately on the date of enactment.
• Is narrowly focused: it changes one federal criminal statute and the code's table listing.