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119-hr-6883119th Congress

Reproductive Coercion Prevention and Protection Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Min, Dave [D-CA-47]

Introduced

Summary

Creates a federal civil remedy for reproductive coercion. This bill would add reproductive coercion to the federal definition of coercive behavior and authorize a private federal cause of action when the conduct involves interstate or foreign commerce.

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  • Survivors could sue covered partners or family members in federal court and seek actual damages, punitive damages, and injunctive relief when the conduct uses interstate travel, communications, payments, or other cross-border links.
  • The bill defines reproductive coercion to include pressuring someone to become or end a pregnancy, sabotaging contraception or access to reproductive information, and using force, threat, intimidation, or other tactics to control pregnancy outcomes. It treats a single incident or a pattern of reproductive coercion as domestic violence.
  • “Covered defendant” is defined narrowly to include spouses, intimate or dating partners, cohabitants, people who share a child, and certain family members. The text preserves state custody authority and state definitions and remedies while creating this federal civil action framework.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Federal lawsuits for reproductive coercion

If enacted, you would be able to bring a federal civil lawsuit when a covered defendant commits domestic violence or reproductive coercion. Covered defendants include spouses, intimate or dating partners, cohabitants, people who share a child, and certain relatives. The case would need a link to interstate or foreign commerce, such as travel across state lines, use of mail or electronic communications, payments or items that moved in interstate commerce, or conduct in U.S. territorial or maritime jurisdiction. Courts could award actual damages, punitive damages, and injunctions or other relief the court finds appropriate.

Reproductive coercion added to federal definition

If enacted, the bill would add the phrase "including reproductive coercion" to the Title IV federal definition of coercive behavior. Agencies, grant programs, and courts that use the Title IV definition could treat reproductive coercion like other coercive acts. This change is a definitional clarification and would not, by itself, create new federal payments or change state court rules.

State custody and law remain intact

If enacted, the bill would say nothing in it changes State courts' power over child, property, or pet custody. It would not change State court jurisdiction or State definitions of domestic violence or reproductive coercion for State-law remedies. An Article III court would still be able to remand a case or part of a case to a State court when appropriate.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Min, Dave [D-CA-47]

CA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Tokuda, Jill N. [D-HI-2]

    HI • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Randall, Emily [D-WA-6]

    WA • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Pou, Nellie [D-NJ-9]

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. McDonald Rivet, Kristen [D-MI-8]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-DE-At Large]

    DE • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Johnson, Julie [D-TX-32]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25]

    FL • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Walkinshaw, James R. [D-VA-11]

    VA • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Simon, Lateefah [D-CA-12]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-MI-3]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Sykes, Emilia Strong [D-OH-13]

    OH • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

  • Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2]

    NC • D

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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