Forced Abortion Prevention and Accountability Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Creates federal criminal penalties and a civil remedy for the nonconsensual administration of abortion-inducing drugs, and defines the relevant terms in a new title 18 offense.
Who Benefits and How
Pregnant women subjected to nonconsensual abortion-inducing drugs could gain a new federal protection and a direct path to damages and attorney's fees in civil court.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Individuals who administer or help administer abortion-inducing drugs without informed consent would face major criminal exposure and civil liability, and courts would need to adjudicate the new offense and related private suits.
Key Provisions
- Creates a new federal offense for knowingly and intentionally administering an abortion-inducing drug without the informed consent of the pregnant woman.
- Applies the same penalties to attempts and conspiracies and adds further penalties when serious bodily injury or death results.
- Authorizes a civil action for damages, punitive damages, and attorney's fees for the affected woman.
- Defines abortion, abortion-inducing drug, informed consent, conspiracy, serious bodily injury, and unborn child for the new offense.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates federal criminal penalties and a civil remedy for the nonconsensual administration of abortion-inducing drugs, and defines the relevant terms in a new title 18 offense.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Health, Civil Liability
Primary Purpose
Creates federal criminal penalties and a civil remedy for the nonconsensual administration of abortion-inducing drugs, and defines the relevant terms in a new title 18 offense.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Pregnant women protected against nonconsensual administration of abortion-inducing drugs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Individuals exposed to new criminal and civil liability under the forced-abortion prohibition and the courts enforcing it
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Budd, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Cornyn, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Pregnant women protected against nonconsensual administration of abortion-inducing drugs
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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