Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
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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Bill Overview
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
Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
WI • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
CT • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Charles Schumer
NY • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
IL • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
CO • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE]
DE • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
DE • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
NV • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
IL • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
PA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ]
AZ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
NY • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
NH • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
AZ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Kim, Andy [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
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
Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
CT • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
GA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
RI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
NV • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
VT • I
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
NH • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Elissa Slotkin
MI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
MN • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
RI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 6/24/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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