Rep. Mark Messmer (R-IN) introduced legislation establishing federal criminal penalties for those who knowingly administer an abortion drug to a woman without her informed consent.
The bill, called the Forced Abortion Prevention and Accountability Act, says, “Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly and intentionally administers to a pregnant woman an abortion-inducing drug without the informed consent of the woman shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.” If the abortion-inducing drug results in “bodily injury or death to the woman to whom the abortion-inducing drug was administered, the offender shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 25 years in addition to any term of imprisonment under subsection (a), or both.”
A woman may take civil action against the individual administering the drug.
“I am against abortion in most cases, but it is unconscionable to even consider tricking a woman into killing her unborn baby,” said Messmer. “The federal government must unequivocally declare that underhandedly administering an abortion-inducing drug is murder and will not be tolerated. Those shameful perpetrators must face the full force of the law!”
A similar pro-life bill aims to repeal Washington, D.C.’s shield law. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), ends the Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022, which protects abortion providers and doctors prescribing cross-sex hormones and abortion pills from out-of-state lawsuits.
“Both abortion and cross gender hormone drugs have serious, irreversible consequences,” Clyde said of the bill. “We cannot allow the Left’s woke ideology, under the guise of ‘bodily autonomy,’ to infiltrate our states through the shipping of these drugs with zero legal repercussions. Congress must use its constitutional authority over our nation’s capital to hold D.C. providers liable for undermining state laws and to protect women, children, and the unborn.”
A companion bill in the Senate is led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).
