HR629-119

What This Bill Does

The Ending Chemical Abortions Act of 2025 creates a new federal criminal offense for prescribing, dispensing, distributing, or selling any drug, medication, or chemical for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion on a woman. A violation is punishable by up to 25 years in prison, a fine under title 18, or both.

The bill includes several exceptions. The prohibition does not apply to contraceptive agents administered before conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional testing. It does not apply to treatment of a miscarriage under accepted medical guidelines. It also does not apply when a woman has a physical disorder, injury, illness, or life-endangering physical condition arising from the pregnancy that a physician certifies would place her in danger of death. A woman on whom a chemical abortion is performed or attempted may not be criminally prosecuted under the new section.

Who Benefits and How

Anti-abortion advocacy organizations benefit because the bill creates a nationwide criminal enforcement mechanism against prescribing, dispensing, distributing, or selling drugs for abortion. Unborn children, as defined by the bill, are the intended protected group because the prohibition is designed to prevent medication abortions. Physicians treating miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, molar pregnancies, or life-endangering physical conditions benefit from express exceptions that preserve those treatments. Women on whom chemical abortions are performed or attempted benefit from the bill's express bar on criminal prosecution of those women under the new offense.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Medication abortion providers, pharmacies dispensing abortion drugs, telehealth medication abortion services, and drug distributors bear the main burden because the bill exposes covered prescribing, dispensing, distribution, and sales to federal criminal penalties. Pregnant patients seeking medication abortion face reduced access because the supply and prescribing channels are prohibited. Federal prosecutors and federal courts bear new enforcement and adjudication work.

Key Provisions

• Creates a new federal crime for prescribing, dispensing, distributing, or selling drugs, medications, or chemicals for the purpose of performing or procuring an abortion.
• Sets penalties of up to 25 years in prison, a federal fine, or both.
• Provides an exception for contraceptive agents administered before conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed.
• Provides an exception for miscarriage treatment under medical guidelines.
• Provides an exception for treatment of physical conditions that a physician certifies would place the woman in danger of death.
• Prohibits criminal prosecution of a woman on whom a chemical abortion is performed or attempted.
• Adds definitions of abortion, pregnancy, and unborn child for the new criminal offense.