Federal maternal health funds exclude abortion providers, redefine child support for unborn children
S. 1630 — MOMS Act · Filed by Katie Britt (R-AL) · 29 cosponsors · Introduced May 6, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a federal website (pregnancy.gov) to aggregate resources for pregnant women, new mothers, and parents of young children, funded through grants to states. It also establishes a national list of licensed child placement agencies, creates grants for 'pregnancy support centers' (defined to exclude abortion providers), funds telehealth equipment for prenatal/postnatal care in underserved areas, and amends child support law to allow enforcement of support obligations against biological fathers of unborn children, with collection potentially beginning from the month of conception.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is funding maternal health resources and support services, but it is structured around systematic exclusion of abortion-related services and providers from all federal programs and resource lists, making the abortion restriction the operative principle rather than an incidental limitation.
What the text implies
- The 'prohibited entity' definition extends to any organization that 'refers for' or 'counsels in favor of' abortions, potentially capturing mainstream OB/GYN practices, Planned Parenthood affiliates, and medical schools that teach comprehensive reproductive health, effectively excluding them from federal maternal health networks.
- Child support enforcement beginning at conception creates a legal relationship between a woman and a biological father before birth, potentially enabling paternity disputes, custody claims, or enforcement actions that could affect a woman's pregnancy decisions and medical autonomy.
- The website's data collection mechanism (user contact information, ZIP code, assessment responses) creates a federal database of pregnant women and new mothers that could be used for outreach, follow-up, or future policy targeting.
- Pregnancy support centers receiving federal grants are not required to employ licensed medical professionals or meet clinical standards, only to provide 'information' and 'referral'—creating a two-tiered system where federally funded centers may lack medical credentials while abortion-providing clinics are excluded.
- The bill defines 'abortion' to include medication abortion and emergency contraception in some interpretations, potentially affecting coverage and referral policies for common medical treatments.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill funds genuine public health infrastructure (telehealth equipment, resource aggregation, maternal health support) that could benefit pregnant women and new mothers in underserved areas. However, it systematically excludes abortion providers and organizations that refer for abortion from all programs and resources, narrowing the range of medical options available to women and potentially restricting access to comprehensive reproductive health information. The child support enforcement for
Who stands to gain
- nonprofit pregnancy support centers
- child placement agencies (adoption services)
- telehealth equipment vendors
- state health departments (grant recipients)
Named in the bill
Department of Health and Human Services, US Children's Bureau, pregnancy.gov, State health departments, Pregnancy support centers, Child placement agencies, Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations
Where it stands
29 cosponsors: 29 Republicans.
- May 6, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 6, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $44,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 7 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Katie Britt, the sponsor, reported $476,800 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee — $44,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 14, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (19,856 characters) on Aug 11, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 14, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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