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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 629
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit chemical abortions, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY22, 2025
Mr. O
GLES(for himself, Mrs. MILLERof Illinois, Mr. KELLYof Mississippi,
Mr. B
OST, Mr. CLINE, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. WEBERof
Texas, Mr. C
RENSHAW, Mr. CRANE, Mr. GREENof Tennessee, Mr.
C
LYDE, Mr. BIGGSof Arizona, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. MOORE
of Alabama, and Ms. B
OEBERT) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ending Chemical 4
Abortions Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 6
Congress finds the following: 7
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(1) In 2000, the Food and Drug Administra-1
tion approved chemical abortion drugs for use in the 2
United States. The agency illegally categorized preg-3
nancy as an illness and asserted chemical abortion 4
drugs provide a meaningful therapeutic benefit. 5
(2) In 2016, the Food and Drug Administra-6
tion reduced the number of doctor visits required for 7
administration of chemical abortion drugs from 3 8
visits to 1 visit. The agency also removed the re-9
quirement for both the in-person administration of 10
misoprostol and a subsequent follow-up appointment. 11
At this time, the agency also expanded the avail-12
ability of inducing a chemical abortion from 7 to 10 13
weeks. 14
(3) In 2021, the Food and Drug Administra-15
tion eliminated the in-person dispensing requirement 16
for chemical abortion drugs, purporting to allow 17
these drugs to be dispensed by mail in violation of 18
longstanding Federal law. 19
(4) When compared to surgical abortions, chem-20
ical abortions are consistently more likely to result 21
in complications that are miscoded as a spontaneous 22
abortion or ‘‘miscarriage’’. 23
(5) According to the Guttmacher Institute, the 24
Abortion Industry’s think tank, since 2000, the ad-25
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ministration of mifepristone and misoprostol has 1
grown to comprise over 50 percent of all induced 2
abortions in the United States. 3
(6) There is a four times higher risk of experi-4
encing complications due to a chemical abortion than 5
a surgical abortion. 6
SEC. 3. RENAMING CHAPTER 74 OF TITLE 18, UNITED 7
STATES CODE. 8
The table of chapters for part I of title 18, United 9
States Code, is amended by striking the item related to 10
chapter 74 and inserting the following: 11
‘‘74. Abortion crimes.’’.
SEC. 4. CHEMICAL ABORTIONS PROHIBITED.
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(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 74 of title 18, United 13
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1531 14
the following: 15
‘‘§ 1532. Chemical abortions 16
‘‘(a) P
ROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other pro-17
vision of law, whoever prescribes, dispenses, distributes, 18
or sells, any drug, medication, or chemical for the purpose 19
of procuring or performing an abortion on any woman, 20
shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined 21
under this title, or both. 22
‘‘(b) E
XCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 23
any of the following: 24
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‘‘(1) The sale, use, prescription or administra-1
tion of any contraceptive agent administered before 2
conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed 3
through conventional testing. 4
‘‘(2) The treatment of a miscarriage according 5
to medical guidelines as accepted as of the date of 6
the miscarriage. 7
‘‘(3) In the case where a woman suffers from 8
a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical ill-9
ness, including a life-endangering physical condition 10
caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that 11
would, as certified by a physician, place the woman 12
in danger of death. 13
‘‘(c) B
AR TOPROSECUTION.—A woman upon whom 14
a chemical abortion is performed or attempted may not 15
be criminally prosecuted under this section. 16
‘‘(d) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 17
‘‘(1) A
BORTION.—The term ‘abortion’ means 18
intentionally terminating the pregnancy of a woman 19
known to be pregnant, with an intention other 20
than— 21
‘‘(A) to produce a live birth; 22
‘‘(B) to remove a dead unborn child caused 23
by miscarriage; or 24
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‘‘(C) to treat an ectopic or molar preg-1
nancy. 2
‘‘(2) P
REGNANT; PREGNANCY.—The term ‘preg-3
nant’ or ‘pregnancy’ refers to the human female re-4
productive condition of having a living unborn child 5
within her body throughout the entire embryonic and 6
fetal stages from fertilization to full gestation and 7
childbirth. 8
‘‘(3) U
NBORN CHILD.—The term ‘unborn child’ 9
means an individual organism of the species homo 10
sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of 11
being born alive as defined in section 8(b) of title 1, 12
United States Code.’’. 13
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 14
for chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 15
by inserting after the item relating to section 1531 the 16
following: 17
‘‘1532. Chemical abortions.’’.
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