H.R. 2497 (119th)Bill Overview

Abortion Care Awareness Act of 2025

Health|Health
Cosponsors
Support
Democratic
Introduced
Mar 31, 2025
Discussions
Bill Text
Current stageCommittee

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Introduced
Committee
Floor
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01 · The brief
Plain-English summaryWhat this bill actually does

This bill requires the HHS Secretary to run a national public education, awareness, and outreach campaign to enhance access to abortion and related health services. The campaign must provide medically accurate information about where and how to obtain abortions (including medication abortion and telehealth), explain legal availability and interstate travel rights, identify misleading crisis pregnancy centers and disinformation, protect visitor privacy, ensure cultural competency for underserved groups, and consult clinicians and nonprofits.

Why people may split

Liberals emphasize expanding access and combating disinformation.

Watch point

Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill establishes a clear statutory obligation for HHS to run a national public education and outreach campaign and specifies substantive content areas, stakeholder consultations, and privacy/misinformation constraints, but it omits key operational and fiscal details (funding, timelines, delegated authorities, and reporting/metrics) that would be expected for implementing a national campaign.

This bill requires the HHS Secretary to run a national public education, awareness, and outreach campaign to enhance access to abortion and related health services.

The campaign must provide medically accurate information about where and how to obtain abortions (including medication abortion and telehealth), explain legal availability and interstate travel rights, identify misleading crisis pregnancy centers and disinformation, protect visitor privacy, ensure cultural competency for underserved groups, and consult clinicians and nonprofits.

The statute bars promoting misinformation (including about abortion safety and purported "abortion reversal" claims), abstinence-only programs, and collecting personal data from campaign visitors.

Passage35/100

Limited administrative scope reduces fiscal objections, but high ideological controversy and lack of bipartisan compromise features lower odds, especially in the Senate.

CredibilityPartially aligned

Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill establishes a clear statutory obligation for HHS to run a national public education and outreach campaign and specifies substantive content areas, stakeholder consultations, and privacy/misinformation constraints, but it omits key operational and fiscal details (funding, timelines, delegated authorities, and reporting/metrics) that would be expected for implementing a national campaign.

Contention70/100

Liberals emphasize expanding access and combating disinformation.

02 · What it does

Who stands to gain, and who may push back.

Likely benefits vs burdens50% / 50%
Likely helpedFederal agencies

These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.

Likely helped
  • Potential benefitIncreases public awareness of where and how to obtain abortion and related services, reducing information barriers.
  • Potential benefitExpands information about medication abortion and telehealth, possibly increasing remote care utilization.
  • Potential benefitTargets underserved communities, potentially improving equitable access and culturally competent information delivery.
Likely burdened
  • Federal agenciesMay prompt legal challenges from states with restrictive abortion laws over federal information dissemination.
  • Federal agenciesCould intensify federal versus state authority disputes about abortion access and interstate travel information.
  • Federal agenciesWill require federal spending for campaign development and outreach, increasing administrative costs.
03 · Why people split

Why the argument around this bill splits.

Liberals emphasize expanding access and combating disinformation.
Progressive90%

Likely strongly supportive.

Seen as a targeted federal public-health response to restore access to accurate abortion information, combat disinformation, and help underserved communities.

Supporters will emphasize privacy safeguards, telehealth inclusion, and travel-rights information.

Leans supportive
Centrist60%

Cautiously favorable but pragmatic.

Values accurate public-health information and privacy protections, while concerned about federal-state tensions, unspecified funding, and potential litigation.

Would seek clarifications and limits to reduce legal and fiscal risks.

Split reaction
Conservative10%

Likely opposed.

Views the bill as a federal campaign that promotes access to abortion, facilitates interstate travel for abortion, and targets crisis pregnancy centers.

Concerns focus on federal intrusion, use of taxpayer resources, and undermining state abortion restrictions.

Likely resistant
04 · Can it pass?

The path through Congress.

Introduced

Reached or meaningfully advanced

Committee

Reached or meaningfully advanced

Floor

Still ahead

President

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Law

Still ahead

Passage likelihood35/100

Limited administrative scope reduces fiscal objections, but high ideological controversy and lack of bipartisan compromise features lower odds, especially in the Senate.

Scope and complexity
52%
Scopemoderate
24%
Complexitylow
Why this could stall
  • No explicit appropriation or funding source in the text
  • Legal challenges over state law preemption or travel information
05 · Recent votes

Recent votes on the bill.

No vote history yet

The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.

06 · Go deeper

Go deeper than the headline read.

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Liberals emphasize expanding access and combating disinformation.

Limited administrative scope reduces fiscal objections, but high ideological controversy and lack of bipartisan compromise features lower o…

Unlocked analysis

Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill establishes a clear statutory obligation for HHS to run a national public education and outreach campaign and specifies substantive content areas, stakeholder consult…

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