Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act of 2025 amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 so the State Department's annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices must include a detailed reproductive-rights section for each country. The bill follows findings that reproductive rights are human rights under international standards, that U.N. and World Health Organization materials address contraception, abortion, pregnancy care, and reproductive coercion, and that prior State Department reports omitted reproductive-rights reporting.
The required reporting must cover whether each country has adopted and enforced policies promoting access to contraception, accurate family planning and sexual health information, safe pregnancy and childbirth care, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and reproductive cancers, and access to safe abortion services and post-abortion care. It also must report whether countries restrict abortion access or criminalize pregnancy-related outcomes, including miscarriages and pregnancies outside marriage.
The bill requires descriptions of pregnancy-related injuries and deaths, unsafe-abortion deaths, discrimination, coercion, and violence against women, girls, LGBTQI+ individuals, and people with disabilities in health-care settings and detention. It requires reporting on obstetric violence, coerced abortion, coerced pregnancy, coerced sterilization, fertility incentives or disincentives, withholding reproductive health information, family planning access, denials of accurate family planning services, disparities in reproductive health services and outcomes, and government responses.
Who Benefits and How
Women, girls, LGBTQI+ individuals, people with disabilities, and people of reproductive age in countries covered by the reports benefit from more systematic documentation of barriers, discrimination, coercion, violence, and disparities related to reproductive health care. U.S. policymakers, human rights advocates, reproductive health organizations, and congressional oversight staff benefit from richer country-by-country information for diplomacy, foreign assistance decisions, and human rights advocacy.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State Department human rights reporting staff bear the main workload because they must collect, verify, and describe detailed reproductive-rights conditions for each country. U.S. embassies and country teams may need to gather more information from civil society, health systems, and foreign governments. Foreign governments that restrict reproductive health services or tolerate coercion, discrimination, or violence may face increased public scrutiny in U.S. human rights reports.
Key Provisions
- Requires annual country human rights reports to cover reproductive rights in each country.
- Requires reporting on access to contraception, family planning information, pregnancy and childbirth care, sexually transmitted infection treatment, reproductive cancer care, abortion services, and post-abortion care.
- Requires reporting on criminalization of pregnancy outcomes, including spontaneous miscarriages and pregnancies outside marriage.
- Requires reporting on pregnancy-related injuries and deaths, including deaths due to unsafe abortions.
- Requires reporting on discrimination, coercion, and violence against women, girls, LGBTQI+ individuals, and people with disabilities in health-care, institutional, and detention settings.
- Requires reporting on coerced abortion, coerced pregnancy, coerced sterilization, fertility incentives or disincentives, withholding of information, and other reproductive or sexual coercion.
- Requires reporting on family planning access, denials of information and services, disparities by marginalized identity, and government accountability measures.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the State Department's annual country human rights reports to include detailed reproductive-rights reporting, including contraception, pregnancy and childbirth care, abortion and post-abortion care, criminalization of pregnancy outcomes, pregnancy-related injuries and deaths, coercion and violence in health care, family planning access, disparities, and government responses.
Key Policy Areas
Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Reproductive Health, Reporting
Primary Purpose
Requires the State Department's annual country human rights reports to include detailed reproductive-rights reporting, including contraception, pregnancy and childbirth care, abortion and post-abortion care, criminalization of pregnancy outcomes, pregnancy-related injuries and deaths, coercion and violence in health care, family planning access, disparities, and government responses.
Policy Domains
Section 3 reproductive-rights content in annual country human rights reports
Identified Gains
- Women and girls in reported countries
- LGBTQI+ individuals in reported countries
- People with disabilities in reported countries
- U.S. reproductive health advocacy organizations
Identified Costs
- State Department human rights reporting staff
- U.S. embassy country teams
- Foreign governments restricting reproductive health care
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Johnson of Texas (for herself, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. McCollum, …
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Foreign governments restricting reproductive health care, State Department human rights reporting staff, U.S. embassy country teams
LGBTQI+ individuals in reported countries, People with disabilities in reported countries, Women and girls in reported countries
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "women_girls"
- → Women and girls in reported countries
- "lgbtqi_people"
- → LGBTQI+ individuals in reported countries
- "disabled_people"
- → People with disabilities in reported countries
- "state_department"
- → Department of State human rights reporting staff
- "foreign_governments"
- → Foreign governments covered by annual human rights reports
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Behavior that interferes with autonomous decision making about reproductive health outcomes, described by the bill as a human rights violation.
Required country-report content on reproductive health policies, pregnancy outcomes, coercion and violence, family planning access, disparities, and government responses.
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