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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 846 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit disinformation in the advertising of abortion services, and for |
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| 6 | 6 | | other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY31, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | ONAMICI(for herself, Mrs. SYKES, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. |
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| 12 | 12 | | DAMS, Ms. TITUS, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. |
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| 14 | 14 | | WALWELL, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. DELBENE, Ms. NOR- |
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| 15 | 15 | | TON, Mr. SMITHof Washington, Ms. CLARKEof New York, Ms. LEGER |
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| 17 | 17 | | ERNANDEZ, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Ms. MCCOL- |
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| 18 | 18 | | LUM, Mr. COHEN, Ms. BROWNLEY, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. BALINT, Ms. |
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| 20 | 20 | | UDZINSKI, Mr. CASAR, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. CHU, Ms. |
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| 22 | 22 | | EGETTE, Mr. GOLDMANof New York, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. TONKO, Ms. |
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| 24 | 24 | | AYAPAL, Ms. MOOREof Wisconsin, Mrs. MCIVER, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. |
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| 26 | 26 | | ORRESof New York, Mr. MAGAZINER, Ms. PETTERSEN, Ms. WILSON |
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| 27 | 27 | | of Florida, Mr. G |
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| 28 | 28 | | RIJALVA, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, |
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| 29 | 29 | | Mrs. F |
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| 30 | 30 | | LETCHER, Ms. ANSARI, Mr. DAVISof Illinois, Ms. BYNUM, Ms. |
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| 32 | 32 | | ALINAS, Ms. WASSERMANSCHULTZ, Ms. CRAIG, Ms. CASTORof Florida, |
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| 33 | 33 | | Ms. O |
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| 34 | 34 | | CASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. DEXTER, Ms. MORRISON, and Ms. LEEof |
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| 35 | 35 | | Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 36 | 36 | | Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 37 | 37 | | A BILL |
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| 38 | 38 | | To prohibit disinformation in the advertising of abortion |
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| 39 | 39 | | services, and for other purposes. |
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| 40 | 40 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 41 | 41 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 45 | 45 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 46 | 46 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Antiabortion 2 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Disinformation Act’’ or the ‘‘SAD Act’’. 3 |
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| 48 | 48 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 4 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Congress finds the following: 5 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (1) Abortion services are an essential compo-6 |
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| 51 | 51 | | nent of reproductive health care. 7 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) After decades of escalating attacks on abor-8 |
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| 53 | 53 | | tion rights, on June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson 9 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court 10 |
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| 55 | 55 | | overruled Roe v. Wade, reversing decades of prece-11 |
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| 56 | 56 | | dent recognizing a constitutional right to abortion 12 |
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| 57 | 57 | | and permitting decimation of an already precarious 13 |
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| 58 | 58 | | landscape of access to abortion. 14 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (3) The effects were immediate and disastrous. 15 |
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| 60 | 60 | | As of January 2025, abortion is unavailable in 14 16 |
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| 61 | 61 | | States, leaving 17.9 million women, as well as 17 |
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| 62 | 62 | | transgender and gender nonconforming individuals, 18 |
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| 63 | 63 | | of reproductive age (ages 15 to 49), without access 19 |
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| 64 | 64 | | to abortion in the home State of such individuals. 20 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (4) Travel time to an abortion clinic, already 21 |
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| 66 | 66 | | burdensome under Roe, has quadrupled since Dobbs, 22 |
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| 67 | 67 | | as scores of clinics in already underserved areas 23 |
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| 68 | 68 | | have been forced to close and more patients have 24 |
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| 69 | 69 | | been forced to travel to other States (with over 25 |
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| 70 | 70 | | 170,000 people traveling out of State for care in 26 |
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| 74 | 74 | | 2023 alone). As distance to an abortion facility in-1 |
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| 75 | 75 | | creases, so do the accompanying burdens of time off 2 |
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| 76 | 76 | | from work or school, lost wages, transportation 3 |
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| 77 | 77 | | costs, lodging, child care costs, and other ancillary 4 |
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| 78 | 78 | | costs. 5 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (5) These burdens do not fall equally. Since 6 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Dobbs and additional State bans and restrictions on 7 |
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| 81 | 81 | | abortion care have taken effect, data shows that 8 |
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| 82 | 82 | | women with low incomes and women of color have 9 |
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| 83 | 83 | | experienced the largest increase in travel times to 10 |
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| 84 | 84 | | abortion clinics. This is particularly burdensome for 11 |
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| 85 | 85 | | women and pregnant people of color in the South, 12 |
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| 86 | 86 | | the area of the country that has seen the highest in-13 |
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| 87 | 87 | | creases in travel time. 14 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (6) The freedom to decide whether and when to 15 |
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| 89 | 89 | | have a child is key to the ability of an individual to 16 |
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| 90 | 90 | | participate fully in our democracy. 17 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (7) Unfortunately, rampant misinformation and 18 |
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| 92 | 92 | | disinformation have affected the ability of people to 19 |
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| 93 | 93 | | access needed abortion care. Crisis pregnancy cen-20 |
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| 94 | 94 | | ters (CPCs) often disseminate and promote inac-21 |
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| 95 | 95 | | curate information about abortion and contracep-22 |
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| 96 | 96 | | tion. 23 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (8) CPCs are antiabortion organizations that 24 |
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| 98 | 98 | | present themselves as comprehensive reproductive 25 |
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| 102 | 102 | | health care providers with the intent of shaming, de-1 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ceiving, or discouraging pregnant people from having 2 |
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| 104 | 104 | | abortions. 3 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (9) According to the Journal of Medical Inter-4 |
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| 106 | 106 | | net Research (JMIR) Public Health and Surveil-5 |
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| 107 | 107 | | lance, there are more than 2,500 CPCs in the 6 |
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| 108 | 108 | | United States, though some antiabortion groups 7 |
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| 109 | 109 | | claim that the number is closer to 4,000. 8 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (10) According to 2020 data from JMIR Public 9 |
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| 111 | 111 | | Health and Surveillance, CPCs outnumber abortion 10 |
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| 112 | 112 | | clinics nationwide by an average of 3 to 1. In some 11 |
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| 113 | 113 | | States, this statistic is higher. For example, The Al-12 |
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| 114 | 114 | | liance: State Advocates for Women’s Rights & Gen-13 |
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| 115 | 115 | | der Equality (The Alliance) found that in Pennsyl-14 |
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| 116 | 116 | | vania, CPCs outnumber abortion clinics by 9 to 1. 15 |
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| 117 | 117 | | The Alliance also found that in Minnesota, CPCs 16 |
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| 118 | 118 | | outnumber abortion clinics by 11 to 1. 17 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (11) CPCs routinely engage in a variety of de-18 |
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| 120 | 120 | | ceptive tactics, including— 19 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (A) making false claims about reproductive 20 |
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| 122 | 122 | | health care and providers; 21 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (B) disseminating inaccurate, misleading, 22 |
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| 124 | 124 | | and stigmatizing information about the risks of 23 |
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| 125 | 125 | | abortion and contraception; and 24 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (C) using illegitimate or false citations to 1 |
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| 130 | 130 | | imply that deceptive claims are supported by le-2 |
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| 131 | 131 | | gitimate medical sources. 3 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (12) CPCs typically advertise themselves as 4 |
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| 133 | 133 | | providers of comprehensive health care. However, 5 |
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| 134 | 134 | | most CPCs in the United States do not employ li-6 |
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| 135 | 135 | | censed medical personnel or provide referrals for 7 |
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| 136 | 136 | | birth control or abortion care. 8 |
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| 137 | 137 | | (13) Most CPCs are not Health Insurance 9 |
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| 138 | 138 | | Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-covered 10 |
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| 139 | 139 | | entities, but many deceptively claim to be compliant 11 |
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| 140 | 140 | | with HIPAA in order to collect sensitive information 12 |
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| 141 | 141 | | and mislead pregnant people about the privacy prac-13 |
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| 142 | 142 | | tices and obligations of CPCs. CPCs have been 14 |
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| 143 | 143 | | found to disclose the health data of pregnant people, 15 |
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| 144 | 144 | | including to law enforcement. 16 |
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| 145 | 145 | | (14) By using these deceptive tactics, CPCs 17 |
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| 146 | 146 | | prevent people from accessing reproductive health 18 |
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| 147 | 147 | | care, intentionally delay access to time-sensitive 19 |
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| 148 | 148 | | abortion services, and can subject people to harmful 20 |
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| 149 | 149 | | interactions with law enforcement. The consequences 21 |
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| 150 | 150 | | of these tactics and delays are far greater in the 22 |
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| 151 | 151 | | wake of Dobbs. 23 |
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| 152 | 152 | | (15) CPCs target under-resourced neighbor-24 |
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| 153 | 153 | | hoods and communities of color, including Black, 25 |
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| 157 | 157 | | Latino, Indigenous, Asian-American, Pacific Is-1 |
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| 158 | 158 | | lander, and immigrant communities, by locating 2 |
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| 159 | 159 | | CPCs near social services centers and comprehensive 3 |
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| 160 | 160 | | reproductive health care providers. CPCs place ad-4 |
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| 161 | 161 | | vertisements in these neighborhoods that mislead 5 |
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| 162 | 162 | | and draw people away from nearby providers that 6 |
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| 163 | 163 | | offer evidence-based sexual and reproductive health 7 |
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| 164 | 164 | | care, including abortion care. This exacerbates exist-8 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ing health barriers and delays access to time-sen-9 |
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| 166 | 166 | | sitive care. 10 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (16) People are entitled to honest, accurate, 11 |
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| 168 | 168 | | and timely information when seeking reproductive 12 |
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| 169 | 169 | | health care. 13 |
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| 170 | 170 | | SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON DISINFORMATION RELATING TO 14 |
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| 171 | 171 | | ABORTION SERVICES. 15 |
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| 172 | 172 | | (a) P |
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| 173 | 173 | | ROHIBITION.—It shall be unlawful for any per-16 |
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| 174 | 174 | | son to engage in deceptive advertising about the reproduc-17 |
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| 175 | 175 | | tive health services offered by the person, including adver-18 |
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| 176 | 176 | | tising that misrepresents that the person— 19 |
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| 177 | 177 | | (1) offers or provides contraception or abortion 20 |
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| 178 | 178 | | services (or referrals for such contraception or abor-21 |
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| 179 | 179 | | tion services); or 22 |
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| 180 | 180 | | (2) employs or offers access to licensed medical 23 |
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| 181 | 181 | | personnel. 24 |
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| 185 | 185 | | (b) RULEMAKING.—The Commission may promul-1 |
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| 186 | 186 | | gate, under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, 2 |
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| 187 | 187 | | any regulations the Commission determines necessary to 3 |
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| 188 | 188 | | carry out this section. 4 |
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| 189 | 189 | | (c) E |
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| 190 | 190 | | NFORCEMENT BY COMMISSION.— 5 |
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| 191 | 191 | | (1) U |
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| 192 | 192 | | NFAIR OR DECEPTIVE ACTS OR PRAC -6 |
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| 193 | 193 | | TICES.—A violation of this section or a regulation 7 |
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| 194 | 194 | | promulgated pursuant to this section shall be treated 8 |
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| 195 | 195 | | as a violation of a regulation under section 9 |
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| 196 | 196 | | 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 10 |
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| 197 | 197 | | (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair or decep-11 |
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| 198 | 198 | | tive acts or practices. 12 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (2) P |
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| 200 | 200 | | OWERS OF COMMISSION .—Except as other-13 |
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| 201 | 201 | | wise provided in paragraph (3), the Commission 14 |
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| 202 | 202 | | shall enforce this section and any regulation promul-15 |
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| 203 | 203 | | gated pursuant to this section in the same manner, 16 |
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| 204 | 204 | | by the same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 17 |
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| 205 | 205 | | powers, and duties as though all applicable terms 18 |
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| 206 | 206 | | and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act 19 |
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| 207 | 207 | | were incorporated into and made a part of this sec-20 |
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| 208 | 208 | | tion, and any person who violates this section or a 21 |
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| 209 | 209 | | regulation promulgated pursuant to this section shall 22 |
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| 210 | 210 | | be subject to the penalties and entitled to the privi-23 |
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| 211 | 211 | | leges and immunities provided in the Federal Trade 24 |
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| 212 | 212 | | Commission Act. 25 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (3) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS .—Notwith-1 |
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| 217 | 217 | | standing section 4, 5(a)(2), or 6 of the Federal 2 |
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| 218 | 218 | | Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 44; 45(a)(2); 46) 3 |
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| 219 | 219 | | or any jurisdictional limitation of the Commission, 4 |
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| 220 | 220 | | the Commission shall also enforce this section and 5 |
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| 221 | 221 | | any regulation promulgated pursuant to this section 6 |
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| 222 | 222 | | in the same manner provided in paragraphs (1) and 7 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (2) with respect to organizations not organized to 8 |
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| 224 | 224 | | carry on business for their own profit or that of 9 |
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| 225 | 225 | | their members. 10 |
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| 226 | 226 | | (4) I |
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| 227 | 227 | | NDEPENDENT LITIGATION AUTHORITY .— 11 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (A) C |
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| 229 | 229 | | IVIL ACTION BY COMMISSION.—If the 12 |
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| 230 | 230 | | Commission has reason to believe that a person 13 |
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| 231 | 231 | | has violated this section or a regulation promul-14 |
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| 232 | 232 | | gated pursuant to this section, the Commission 15 |
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| 233 | 233 | | may bring a civil action in any appropriate 16 |
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| 234 | 234 | | United States district court for any of the fol-17 |
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| 235 | 235 | | lowing remedies: 18 |
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| 236 | 236 | | (i) To enjoin any further such viola-19 |
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| 237 | 237 | | tion by such person. 20 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (ii) To enforce compliance with this 21 |
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| 239 | 239 | | section or a regulation promulgated pursu-22 |
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| 240 | 240 | | ant to this section. 23 |
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| 241 | 241 | | (iii) To obtain a permanent, tem-24 |
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| 242 | 242 | | porary, or preliminary injunction. 25 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (iv) To obtain civil penalties. 1 |
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| 247 | 247 | | (v) To obtain damages, restitution, or 2 |
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| 248 | 248 | | other compensation on behalf of aggrieved 3 |
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| 249 | 249 | | consumers. 4 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (vi) To obtain any other appropriate 5 |
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| 251 | 251 | | equitable relief. 6 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (B) E |
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| 253 | 253 | | XCLUSIVE AUTHORITY OF COMMIS -7 |
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| 254 | 254 | | SION.— 8 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (i) E |
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| 256 | 256 | | XCLUSIVE AUTHORITY .—Except 9 |
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| 257 | 257 | | as otherwise provided in section 16(a)(3) 10 |
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| 258 | 258 | | of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 11 |
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| 259 | 259 | | U.S.C. 56(a)(3)), the Commission shall 12 |
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| 260 | 260 | | have exclusive authority to commence or 13 |
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| 261 | 261 | | defend, and supervise the litigation of, any 14 |
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| 262 | 262 | | civil action under this section and any ap-15 |
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| 263 | 263 | | peal of such action, in its own name by 16 |
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| 264 | 264 | | any of its attorneys, designated by it for 17 |
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| 265 | 265 | | such purpose, unless the Commission au-18 |
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| 266 | 266 | | thorizes the Attorney General to do so. 19 |
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| 267 | 267 | | (ii) R |
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| 268 | 268 | | ELATION TO ATTORNEY GEN -20 |
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| 269 | 269 | | ERAL.—The Commission shall inform the 21 |
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| 270 | 270 | | Attorney General of the exercise of such 22 |
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| 271 | 271 | | authority, and such exercise shall not pre-23 |
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| 272 | 272 | | clude the Attorney General from inter-24 |
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| 273 | 273 | | vening on behalf of the United States in 25 |
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| 277 | 277 | | such action and any appeal of such action 1 |
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| 278 | 278 | | as may be otherwise provided by law. 2 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (d) C |
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| 280 | 280 | | IVILPENALTY.—In addition to any other pen-3 |
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| 281 | 281 | | alty as may be prescribed by law, any person who violates 4 |
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| 282 | 282 | | this section or a regulation promulgated pursuant this sec-5 |
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| 283 | 283 | | tion shall be punishable by a civil penalty for each such 6 |
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| 284 | 284 | | violation that shall not exceed the greater of— 7 |
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| 285 | 285 | | (1) $100,000 (to be adjusted annually for infla-8 |
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| 286 | 286 | | tion based on the change in the Consumer Price 9 |
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| 287 | 287 | | Index); or 10 |
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| 288 | 288 | | (2) 50 percent of the revenue earned by the ul-11 |
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| 289 | 289 | | timate parent entity of a person during the pre-12 |
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| 290 | 290 | | ceding 12-month period. 13 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (e) R |
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| 292 | 292 | | EPORTS.—Beginning 1 year after the date of the 14 |
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| 293 | 293 | | enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the 15 |
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| 294 | 294 | | Commission shall submit to Congress a report that in-16 |
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| 295 | 295 | | cludes (with respect to the previous year) a description 17 |
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| 296 | 296 | | of— 18 |
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| 297 | 297 | | (1) any enforcement action by the Commission 19 |
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| 298 | 298 | | under this Act; 20 |
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| 299 | 299 | | (2) the outcome of any such action; and 21 |
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| 300 | 300 | | (3) any regulation promulgated pursuant to this 22 |
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| 305 | 305 | | (f) SAVINGSCLAUSE.—Nothing in this Act may be 1 |
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| 306 | 306 | | construed to limit the authority of the Commission under 2 |
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| 307 | 307 | | any other provision of law. 3 |
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| 308 | 308 | | (g) D |
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| 309 | 309 | | EFINITIONS.—In this Act: 4 |
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| 310 | 310 | | (1) A |
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| 311 | 311 | | BORTION SERVICES.—The term ‘‘abortion 5 |
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| 312 | 312 | | services’’ means an abortion or any medical or non- 6 |
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| 313 | 313 | | medical service related to or provided in conjunction 7 |
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| 314 | 314 | | with an abortion, whether or not provided at the 8 |
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| 315 | 315 | | same time or on the same day as the abortion. 9 |
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| 316 | 316 | | (2) C |
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| 317 | 317 | | OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 10 |
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| 318 | 318 | | means the Federal Trade Commission. 11 |
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| 319 | 319 | | (3) P |
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| 320 | 320 | | ERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ has the 12 |
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| 321 | 321 | | meaning given that term in section 551(2) of title 5, 13 |
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| 322 | 322 | | United States Code. 14 |
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