HR1525 Protecting Life from Chemical Abortions Act

↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 90%

The bill prohibits enforcement discretion on REMS for abortion drugs, reinstates and bars waiver of the in-person dispensing requirement, and conditions any reduction in REMS protections on improved state abortion data reporting, making medication abortion harder to obtain remotely or with fewer in‐

shall, effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, reinstate the requirement under such strategy that abortion drugs be dispensed in only clinics, medical offices, and hospitals by or under the supervision of a certified health care provider (commonly referred to as the ``in-person dispensing requirement'').

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↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 80%

The bill mandates that abortion drugs may only be dispensed in clinics, medical offices, or hospitals under supervision of a certified provider meeting specific qualifications (ability to assess pregnancy duration, diagnose ectopics, provide or arrange surgical intervention, etc.), increasing clinic

The provider has the following qualifications: (i) Ability to assess the duration of pregnancy accurately. (ii) Ability to diagnose ectopic pregnancies. (iii) Ability to provide surgical intervention in cases of incomplete abortion or severe bleeding, or to have made plans to provide such care through others, and ability to assure patient access to medical facilities equipped to provide blood transfusions and resuscitation, if necessary.

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↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 80%

The bill prohibits the Secretary from declaring or using any public health emergency under 42 U.S.C. 247d or 247d-6b with respect to abortion and terminates any such existing declaration, preventing use of emergency authorities that could expand federal funding or access related to abortion.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not use or declare any public health emergency under section 319 or 319F-3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d, 247d-6b) with respect to abortion.

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↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 60%

The bill defines ``unborn child'' as an individual organism of the species homo sapiens beginning at fertilization until born alive, and defines abortion to include use of any drug to intentionally kill the unborn child or terminate pregnancy (with narrow exceptions), which could affect IVF by deem

The term ``unborn child'' means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of being born alive as defined in section 8(b) of title 18, United States Code.

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