Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Tammy Baldwin
Introduced
Summary
Guarantee nationwide protections for a person's right to obtain abortion services and a provider's right to deliver them. The Women's Health Protection Act of 2025 would create a federal rule that stops laws and rules that single out abortion or place heavier burdens on abortion than on similar medical procedures. It defines key terms, protects pre-viability care, allows post-viability care to protect life or health, and explicitly protects interstate travel and the movement of medicines, equipment, patients, and providers.
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- Families and patients: Would protect access to abortion before viability and allow post-viability care when needed to protect life or health. It would bar medically unnecessary in-person visit rules and stop forced disclosure of why a patient seeks care.
- Health care providers: Would protect providers' ability to give abortion care including by telemedicine and across state lines, and would forbid facility, staffing, testing, or disclosure requirements that are not required for similar procedures.
- States and interstate commerce: Would preempt conflicting state laws and recognize a right to travel and to assist others in getting reproductive health services across state lines.
- Courts and enforcement: Would let the Attorney General sue and would create a private right of action so patients and providers can seek injunctive relief and attorney's fees. It would limit state sovereign immunity where federal law allows challenges.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Federal protections for abortion care
If enacted, you would be able to get abortion care before fetal viability without state rules that single out abortion. Providers could give abortions after viability when, in their good-faith medical judgment, it is needed to protect the patient's life or health. The bill would bar residency bans, medically unnecessary in-person visit rules, telemedicine limits beyond generally applicable rules, and facility or staffing rules that do not apply to comparable procedures. Tests or procedures could only be required if they are standard in established clinical practice guidelines. These protections would take effect upon enactment.
Federal preemption of conflicting laws
If enacted, the bill would make its protections override any federal or State law that conflicts with it. Federal and State officials would be prohibited from enforcing laws that conflict with the Act. The bill preserves specific exceptions, such as clinic access laws and certain insurance and contract rules. These preemption rules would take effect upon enactment.
Stronger federal enforcement and court tests
This bill would let the Attorney General sue in federal court and let individuals and providers sue States or officials to stop laws that violate the Act. Plaintiffs would not have to exhaust state remedies and courts could enjoin enforcement and award costs and reasonable lawyer fees to winners. The bill also requires courts to demand clear and convincing proof that a challenged restriction is essential to safety or health and cannot be achieved by less-restrictive means. These enforcement and judicial rules would take effect upon enactment.
Right to travel for reproductive care
If enacted, you would be able to travel to another State to get reproductive health services, including abortion. You would also be able to assist another person to travel for such care. These travel and assistance rights would take effect upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Tammy Baldwin
WI • D
Cosponsors
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Charles Schumer
NY • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Patty Murray
WA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Richard Durbin
IL • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Angela Alsobrooks
MD • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Michael Bennet
CO • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Lisa Blunt Rochester
DE • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Maria Cantwell
WA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Christopher Coons
DE • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Catherine Cortez Masto
NV • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Tammy Duckworth
IL • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Kirsten Gillibrand
NY • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Maggie Hassan
NH • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Martin Heinrich
NM • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Mazie Hirono
HI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Timothy Kaine
VA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Mark Kelly
AZ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Andy Kim
NJ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Angus King
ME • I
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Edward Markey
MA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Christopher Murphy
CT • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Alex Padilla
CA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
John Reed
RI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Bernie Sanders
VT • I
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Brian Schatz
HI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Adam Schiff
CA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Jeanne Shaheen
NH • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Elissa Slotkin
MI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Tina Smith
MN • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Chris Van Hollen
MD • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Mark Warner
VA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Elizabeth Warren
MA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sheldon Whitehouse
RI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Ron Wyden
OR • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
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