Conscience Protections for Medical Residents Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3238 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3238

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit approved 
  medical residency training programs under the Medicare program from 
                  requiring opt-out abortion training.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 20, 2025

  Mr. Lankford (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. Lummis, Mr. 
  Daines, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Budd, Mr. Banks, Mr. 
Young, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Hawley) introduced the following bill; which 
        was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit approved 
  medical residency training programs under the Medicare program from 
                  requiring opt-out abortion training.

    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 ``Conscience Protections for Medical 
Residents Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING APPROVED MEDICAL RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAMS UNDER 
              THE MEDICARE PROGRAM FROM REQUIRING OPT-OUT ABORTION 
              TRAINING.

    Section 1886(h)(5)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(h)(5)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``Beginning on the date of enactment of the Conscience 
Protections for Medical Residents Act, such term does not include any 
such residency or other postgraduate medical training program that 
provides training in the performance of, or assisting in the 
performance of, induced abortions, or in counseling or referrals for 
such abortions, if such program--
                            ``(i) provides or requires such training 
                        for any participant in such program without the 
                        participant first voluntarily electing to opt-
                        in to undergo such training; or
                            ``(ii) subjects any participant in such 
                        program to discrimination on the basis that the 
                        participant does not--
                                    ``(I) voluntarily elect to opt-in 
                                to undergo such training; or
                                    ``(II) perform, assist in the 
                                performance of, or provide counseling 
                                or referrals for, such abortions.''.
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