HR629 Ending Chemical Abortions Act of 2025

↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 95%

Prohibits prescribing, dispensing, distributing or selling any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion, with exceptions only for contraceptives before conception, miscarriage treatment, and life-endangering physical conditions, so less access to medication abortion.

whoever prescribes, dispenses, distributes, or sells, any drug, medication, or chemical for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion on any woman, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined under this title, or both.

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↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 80%

The bill bans chemical abortions at all stages (with narrow exceptions), including after the current FDA limit of 10 weeks, so less access to abortion overall.

whoever prescribes, dispenses, distributes, or sells, any drug, medication, or chemical for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion on any woman, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined under this title, or both.

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↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 85%

Limits exceptions for the chemical-abortion ban to only contraceptives before conception, miscarriage treatment per guidelines, and physician-certified life-endangering physical conditions, so narrower exceptions than in many current laws.

Subsection (a) shall not apply to any of the following: (1) The sale, use, prescription or administration of any contraceptive agent administered before conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional testing. (2) The treatment of a miscarriage according to medical guidelines as accepted as of the date of the miscarriage. (3) In the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman

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↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 70%

Defines 'pregnant' and 'unborn child' as beginning at fertilization and uses that definition to trigger the chemical-abortion ban, which could affect IVF by treating embryos as protected from fertilization onward.

The term `pregnant' or `pregnancy' refers to the human female reproductive condition of having a living unborn child within her body throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages from fertilization to full gestation and childbirth. (3) Unborn child.--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 1, United States Code.

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