Bill lets doctors give birth control and pregnancy care nationwide.
S. 4879 — Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act · Filed by Patty Murray (D-WA) · 23 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill stops states from punishing doctors who give birth control, IVF, and pregnancy care. These services must be legal in the state. The bill lets people sue states that break these rules. It gives money to help doctors pay for legal defense. It gives money for clinic safety. It stops the government from using money to prosecute doctors.
Who it affects
Doctors and health clinics would get protection from state punishment. People in states with strict rules could get legal care without fear. States with strict rules would lose power to enforce their own laws in court.
One thing to notice
The bill removes a legal shield that stops states from being sued. States could face many lawsuits and pay money from their budgets.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
23 cosponsors: 23 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $869,383 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 52 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.
Patty Murray, who sponsored the bill, received $294,700 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc — $652,972 in 1 report
- Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc — $79,708 in 1 report
- National Women's Law Center Action Fund — $75,000 in 1 report
- Reproductive Freedom for All — $30,000 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
- IVF — A medical way to help people have babies using eggs and sperm in a lab.
- prosecute — To charge someone with breaking a law and take them to court.
- legal defense — Money and lawyers to help someone fight a case in court.
- legal shield — A law that stops someone from being sued in a certain court.
- 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.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 5, 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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