Federal money helps train abortion doctors in some states.
S. 4878 — Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026 · Filed by Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill gives federal grants to medical schools and teaching hospitals. It also funds health centers in states where abortion is legal. The money helps them teach doctors, nurses, and other health workers. Schools serving poor areas and minorities get priority for grants. The grants pay for teacher training and scholarships.
Who it affects
People in states where abortion is legal gain access to more trained providers. Schools and hospitals in those states can expand their training programs.
One thing to notice
The bill only works in states where abortion is legal. It does not change state laws that ban abortion.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — 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
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $770,675 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 48 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Tammy Baldwin, who sponsored the bill, received $183,336 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc — $652,972 in 1 report
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists — $96,000 in 1 report
- Power to Decide — $21,703 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- federal grants — Money the U.S. government gives to schools or hospitals for a specific purpose.
- health centers — Places where people go to get medical care and health services.
- minorities — Groups of people who make up a smaller part of the population.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 9, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Jun 2026 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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