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Official title: To protect a person's ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider's ability to provide abortion services.
Introduced June 24, 2025 by Judy Chu · Last progress June 24, 2025
The bill creates strong, nationwide federal protections to preserve abortion access and provider ability to deliver evidence‑based care, at the cost of heightened federal-state legal conflict, increased litigation and administrative burdens, and new fiscal exposures for governments and taxpayers.
Pregnant people nationwide (including cisgender women, transgender men, and nonbinary individuals) gain explicit federal protection that abortion is essential health care and a protected right, preserving legal access across states.
Healthcare providers, clinics, pharmacists, and telemedicine services are expressly allowed to provide and arrange abortion care (including medication abortion), reducing regulatory uncertainty and helping preserve local provider capacity.
People in restrictive states, low-income individuals, and rural residents can lawfully travel out-of-state and receive assistance from friends, drivers, or nonprofits to obtain prenatal, childbirth, fertility, or abortion services, lowering travel, lodging, and logistical barriers.
State governments and taxpayers face a large increase in federal‑state litigation and legal conflicts as states with restrictive laws challenge or are preempted by the Act, raising legal uncertainty and costs.
Taxpayers and federal/state budgets may incur substantial new costs from increased litigation, enforcement, potential funding or program implementation, and mandatory fee-shifting to prevailing plaintiffs.
Healthcare providers and facilities may face compliance uncertainty, licensure ambiguity, and operational/legal burdens (including conflicts over conscience objections), especially for clinicians who practiced in restricted jurisdictions or institutions with opposing policies.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal right to pre‑viability abortion, protects travel for reproductive care, preempts conflicting laws, and provides DOJ and private enforcement with fee‑shifting.
Creates a federal statutory right for people to obtain abortion services before fetal viability and for providers to furnish those services without burdensome state or other restrictions, while allowing post-viability care when a provider determines it is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health. The law preempts conflicting state or federal laws, protects interstate travel to obtain reproductive health care, and provides enforcement through the Attorney General and a private right of action with fee-shifting and sovereign-immunity waivers.