Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits governmental restrictions on the provisions and access to abortion services.

Highlights:

• Prohibits governmental restrictions on the provisions and access to abortion services (Sec. 3).

• Specifies that the federal government may not limit a provider’s ability to (Sec. 3):

• Prescribe certain drugs;

• Offer abortion services via telemedicine; or

• Immediately provide abortion services when the provider determines a delay risks the patient’s health.

• Prohibits the federal government from requiring a provider (Sec. 3):

• Perform unnecessary medical procedures;

• Provide medically inaccurate information;

• Comply with credentialing or other conditions that do not apply to providers whose services are medically comparable to abortions; or

• Carry out all services connected to abortion.

• Prohibits the federal government from (Sec. 3):

• Requireing patients make medically unnecessary in-person visits before receiving abortion services;

• Requiring they disclose their reasons for obtaining such services;

• Prohibiting abortion services before fetal viablity or after fetal viablity when a provider determines the pregnancy risks the patients’s life or health.

• Prohibits other governmental measures that are similar to the bill’s specifies restrictions or that otherwise single out and impede access to abortion services, unless a government demonstrates that the measure significantly advances the safety of abortion services or health of patients and cannot be achieved through less restrictive means (Sec. 3).

• Authorizes the Department of Justice, individuals, and providers to bring a lawsuit to enforce this bill, and specifies that states are not immune from suits for violations (Sec. 7).

• Establishes that this bill applies to restrictions imposed both prior and subsequent to the bills enactment (Sec. 7).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text