Bill > HR795

This bill aims to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), from treating pregnancy as an illness when considering the approval of abortion drugs. Specifically, the bill would prevent HHS from using pregnancy as a medical condition for approving abortion drugs under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or for establishing risk evaluation and mitigation strategies for such drugs. The legislation would nullify any existing approvals of abortion drugs that were granted based on treating pregnancy as an illness, with explicit mention of invalidating the current approval of mifepristone. By doing so, the bill seeks to create additional barriers to the approval and availability of abortion-related medications by challenging the medical classification of pregnancy and the regulatory process for abortion drugs. The bill's title, "Pregnancy Is Not an Illness Act of 2025," emphasizes its intent to reframe how pregnancy is understood in the context of medical drug approvals.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/795/all-info