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SENATE BILL 933
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By: Senators Carozza, McKay, Ready, Salling, Simonaire, and West
Introduced and read first time: January 28, 2025
Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Criminal Law – Causing Ingestion of an Abortion–Inducing Drug – Prohibition 2
(Women’s Freedom From Coercion Act) 3
FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to 4
ingest an abortion–inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other 5
person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or through force 6
or threat of force; and generally relating to causing ingestion of abortion–inducing 7
drugs. 8
BY adding to 9
Article – Criminal Law 10
Section 3–216 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2021 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 13
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15
Article – Criminal Law 16
3–216. 17
(A) IN THIS SECTION , “ABORTION–INDUCING DRUG ” MEANS A DRUG , 18
MEDICINE, OR A MEDICINAL OR CH EMICAL PREPARATION F OR INTERNAL HUMAN 19
CONSUMPTION THAT IS DESIGNED TO INDUCE A N ABORTION. 20
(B) A PERSON MAY NOT KNOWI NGLY AND WILLFULLY CA USE ANOTHER TO 21
INGEST AN ABORTION –INDUCING DRUG : 22
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(1) WHEN THE PERSON KNOW S OR BELIEVES THAT T HE OTHER 1
PERSON IS PREGNANT ; AND 2
(2) (I) WITHOUT CONSENT ; 3
(II) THROUGH FRAUD OR COE RCION; OR 4
(III) BY FORCE OR THREAT O F FORCE. 5
(C) A PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS GUIL TY OF A FELONY AND 6
ON CONVICTION IS SUB JECT TO IMPRISONMENT NOT EXCEEDING 25 YEARS. 7
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 8
October 1, 2025. 9