Federal pregnancy website excludes abortion providers from resource list
H.R. 3287 — Pregnancy.Gov Act · Filed by Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) · 15 cosponsors · Introduced May 8, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create a website (pregnancy.gov) that aggregates pregnancy and parenting resources by ZIP code, funded up to $50 million through 2030. The website will include a searchable database of services, user feedback mechanisms, and state grant programs to support resource aggregation—but critically, it excludes any organization that performs, refers for, counsels in favor of, or financially supports abortion, creating a de facto ban on abortion providers and their affiliates from the resource list.
Why we flagged it
The bill's primary mechanism is a public information website—a legitimate government service—but the operative definition of 'prohibited entity' functions as a content filter that systematically excludes abortion-related information and providers, making the bill's true character a selective information architecture rather than a neutral resource clearinghouse.
What the text implies
- The 'prohibited entity' definition extends to organizations that merely 'provide financial support' to abortion providers, potentially excluding mainstream health systems, insurance companies, and nonprofits that fund comprehensive reproductive health services.
- The website's user-consent mechanism (section 3401(1)(5)) allows HHS to conduct outreach via phone/email to users who take the assessment, creating a government contact list of pregnant women—raising privacy and autonomy concerns if used for persuasion campaigns.
The full analysis lists 5 implications of this text.
Who stands to gain
Crisis pregnancy centers and anti-abortion nonprofits (primary beneficiaries of resource-list promin; Pregnancy support organizations aligned with abortion restrictions; State health departments (grant recipients for resource aggregation)