Reproductive Freedom for Veterans Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4876 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4876

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to provide abortion care, counseling, and related 
services and medication to certain individuals who receive health care 
          furnished by the Secretary, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 2025

    Ms. Brownley (for herself, Ms. Norton, Ms. Dexter, Ms. Moore of 
Wisconsin, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. 
Moulton, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Craig, Mr. Gottheimer, Ms. Ross, Ms. Lee of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Peters, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. Takano, Mr. Min, Ms. Garcia 
 of Texas, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Ms. Strickland, Ms. 
Tokuda, Mr. Golden of Maine, Ms. Budzinski, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. 
Sorensen, Ms. Titus, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Garcia of California, 
 Mr. Lieu, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Schrier, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Ms. 
 Ansari, Ms. Chu, Mr. Levin, Mrs. Fletcher, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Doggett, 
  Mr. Ruiz, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Whitesides, Ms. Simon, Mr. Carson, Mr. 
 Case, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Sanchez, 
Ms. Leger Fernandez, Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. McBride, Mrs. 
Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Morrison, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Bonamici, 
   Mrs. McClain Delaney, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Randall, Mr. 
    Casten, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Schneider, Ms. 
    Barragan, Mr. Bell, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Friedman, Mr. 
  Olszewski, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Pappas, Mr. 
 Thompson of California, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Riley of New York, Mr. Torres 
   of New York, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
   DeGette, Ms. Houlahan, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. 
  Thanedar, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Ms. McClellan, Mr. 
    Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Ms. Pingree, Ms. 
 Goodlander, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Underwood, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Stanton, Mr. 
Smith of Washington, Ms. Sewell, and Mr. Johnson of Georgia) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to provide abortion care, counseling, and related 
services and medication to certain individuals who receive health care 
          furnished by the Secretary, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Reproductive Freedom for Veterans 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ABORTION CARE, COUNSELING, AND RELATED SERVICES AND MEDICATION 
              FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS ELIGIBLE FOR HEALTH CARE 
              FURNISHED BY SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 17 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 1720M. Abortion care, counseling, and related services and 
              medication
    ``(a) In General.--Hospital care and medical services furnished by 
the Secretary to a covered individual under this chapter shall include 
abortion and related care, services, counseling, and medication.
    ``(b) Covered Individual Defined.--The term `covered individual' 
means--
            ``(1) a covered veteran (as defined in section 1703 of this 
        title); and
            ``(2) an individual eligible for benefits under subsection 
        (a) of section 1781 of this title.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
1720L the following new item:

``1720M. Abortion care, counseling, and related services and 
                            medication.''.
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