Federal maternal support site excludes abortion information, steers women toward adoption
H.R. 3235 — MOMS Act · Filed by Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) · 25 cosponsors · Introduced May 7, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a federal website (pregnancy.gov) to aggregate resources for pregnant and postpartum women and mothers of young children, funded through grants to states and nonprofits. It excludes any organization that performs, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortion—or funds such organizations—from listing resources or receiving grants. It also establishes a national registry of licensed child placement agencies, creates grants for 'pregnancy support centers' (nonprofits that discourage abortion), funds telehealth equipment for prenatal/postnatal care in underserved areas, and amends child support law to allow mothers to seek child support from biological fathers beginning at conception, with payments potentially retroactive to the first month of pregnancy.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is not maternal support in the abstract—it is maternal support *conditioned on excluding abortion-related services and organizations*. The child support expansion to conception is a secondary but significant structural change to family law. The title 'More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed' obscures the abortion-exclusion mechanism that drives eligibility and funding decisions.
What the text implies
- The 'prohibited entity' definition is extraordinarily broad: it bars not only abortion providers but any organization that 'counsels in favor of abortions' or 'provides financial support' to such organizations. This could exclude Planned Parenthood affiliates, some family planning clinics, and health systems that offer abortion as one service among many, even if the grant is for unrelated maternal
- The pregnancy.gov website will aggregate 'relevant resources' but systematically exclude abortion information, alternatives counseling, and abortion-related medical services. A pregnant woman using the site will see a curated list that does not include all legal options available to her, creating an informational asymmetry funded by federal dollars.
The full analysis lists 5 implications of this text.
Who stands to gain
nonprofit pregnancy support centers and crisis pregnancy centers; licensed child placement agencies and adoption service providers; telehealth equipment vendors and remote monitoring device manufacturers