Federal pregnancy website excludes abortion providers from resource list

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.
• State grant programs (section 3401(2)(3)) incentivize states to build parallel resource-aggregation systems under the same 'prohibited entity' filter, potentially fragmenting access to abortion information at the state level.
• The bill defines 'relevant resources' to include 'comprehensive information on alternatives to abortion' and 'abortion risks,' embedding persuasive content categories into the statutory definition of what counts as a 'resource,' not merely a neutral information service.
• By excluding abortion providers from a federally funded pregnancy resource hub, the bill may indirectly subsidize crisis pregnancy centers and other anti-abortion organizations that will dominate the resource list, concentrating government-amplified visibility on one ideological perspective.

Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.

Who it affects

Pregnant women gain access to a centralized, searchable resource hub for prenatal and postpartum services, which is a genuine public benefit. However, the bill's definition of 'prohibited entity' excludes abortion providers and organizations that support them, narrowing the information available to pregnant women and potentially steering them away from a legal medical option—a concrete cost to reproductive autonomy and informed choice.

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)

Named in the bill

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Secretary of HHS, State Personal Responsibility Education Program, Title X of the Public Health Service Act, Pregnancy.gov website

Where it stands

15 cosponsors: 15 Republicans.

• May 8, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
• May 8, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.