119-hr629

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 629 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 629

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit chemical abortions, 
 and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 22, 2025

 Mr. Ogles (for himself, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Kelly of 
Mississippi, Mr. Bost, Mr. Cline, Mr. Brecheen, Mr. Allen, Mr. Weber of 
Texas, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Crane, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Mr. Clyde, Mr. 
Biggs of Arizona, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Moore of Alabama, and Ms. 
 Boebert) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit chemical abortions, 
 and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Ending Chemical Abortions Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds the following:

    (1) In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved 
 chemical abortion drugs for use in the United States. The 
 agency illegally categorized pregnancy as an illness and 
 asserted chemical abortion drugs provide a meaningful 
 therapeutic benefit.

    (2) In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration reduced the 
 number of doctor visits required for administration of chemical 
 abortion drugs from 3 visits to 1 visit. The agency also 
 removed the requirement for both the in-person administration 
 of misoprostol and a subsequent follow-up appointment. At this 
 time, the agency also expanded the availability of inducing a 
 chemical abortion from 7 to 10 weeks.

    (3) In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration eliminated 
 the in-person dispensing requirement for chemical abortion 
 drugs, purporting to allow these drugs to be dispensed by mail 
 in violation of longstanding Federal law.

    (4) When compared to surgical abortions, chemical abortions 
 are consistently more likely to result in complications that 
 are miscoded as a spontaneous abortion or ``miscarriage''.

    (5) According to the Guttmacher Institute, the Abortion 
 Industry's think tank, since 2000, the administration of 
 mifepristone and misoprostol has grown to comprise over 50 
 percent of all induced abortions in the United States.

    (6) There is a four times higher risk of experiencing 
 complications due to a chemical abortion than a surgical 
 abortion.

SEC. 3. RENAMING CHAPTER 74 OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE.

 The table of chapters for part I of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by striking the item related to chapter 74 and inserting the 
following:

``74. Abortion crimes.''.

SEC. 4. CHEMICAL ABORTIONS PROHIBITED.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after 

section 1531 the following:
``

Sec. 1532. Chemical abortions
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    (a) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
whoever prescribes, dispenses, distributes, or sells, any drug, 
medication, or chemical for the purpose of procuring or performing an 
abortion on any woman, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, 
fined under this title, or both.
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    (b) Exceptions.--Subsection

    (a) shall not apply to any of the 
following:
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    (1) The sale, use, prescription or administration of any 
 contraceptive agent administered before conception or before 
 pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional testing.
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    (2) The treatment of a miscarriage according to medical 
 guidelines as accepted as of the date of the miscarriage.
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    (3) In the case where a woman suffers from a physical 
 disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a 
 life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from 
 the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, 
 place the woman in danger of death.
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            (c) Bar to Prosecution.--A woman upon whom a chemical abortion is 
performed or attempted may not be criminally prosecuted under this 
section.
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            (d) === Definitions. ===
-In this section:
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    (1) Abortion.--The term `abortion' means intentionally 
 terminating the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with 
 an intention other than--
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        (A) to produce a live birth;
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        (B) to remove a dead unborn child caused by 
 miscarriage; or
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            (C) to treat an ectopic or molar pregnancy.
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    (2) Pregnant; pregnancy.--The term `pregnant' or 
 `pregnancy' refers to the human female reproductive condition 
 of having a living unborn child within her body throughout the 
 entire embryonic and fetal stages from fertilization to full 
 gestation and childbirth.
 ``

    (3) Unborn child.--The term `unborn child' means an 
 individual organism of the species homo sapiens, beginning at 
 fertilization, until the point of being born alive as defined 
 in 

section 8

    (b) of title 1, United States Code.''.

    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 74 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to 

section 1531 the following:

``1532. Chemical abortions.''.
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