Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
This resolution designates a day in May 2025 as "Disability Reproductive Equity Day" and expresses the House's support for reproductive and sexual health rights for people with disabilities. It is a non-binding statement by the House that pledges to advance those rights and asks the President to uphold existing disability and health laws. It does not create new law, change existing law, or require federal action beyond the symbolic designation and statements.
This is a simple House resolution: it only requires action by the House, is not sent to the President, and does not have the force of law.
This House resolution designates a day in May 2025 as “Disability Reproductive Equity Day,” highlights historical and ongoing reproductive coercion and barriers facing people with disabilities, and pledges to advance their reproductive and sexual autonomy.
It calls on the President to uphold and enforce nondiscrimination laws (Rehabilitation Act, ADA, and section 1557 of the ACA) to protect people with disabilities’ reproductive and sexual health rights.
The text cites statistics and state-level restrictions on reproductive health, including post‑Dobbs abortion limitations, as disproportionally affecting people with disabilities.
Text is symbolic non‑legislative House resolution; such measures rarely become binding law and may not be taken up by the other chamber.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions as a standard commemorative resolution: it offers a detailed problem statement and statutory context, effects a symbolic designation and pledge, and calls on the President to act, but it provides little operational detail and omits a specific calendar date for the designation.
Symbolic recognition versus demand for enforceable policy actions
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Symbolic recognition versus demand for enforceable policy actions
Strongly supportive; sees the resolution as an important symbolic recognition of historical abuses and contemporary barriers to reproductive autonomy for people with disabilities.
Views the call to uphold ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557 as consistent with advancing civil rights and reproductive justice, while wanting follow‑up enforceable measures.
Generally favorable but pragmatic; views the resolution as low‑cost symbolic support for disability rights and reproductive autonomy.
Supports awareness and nondiscrimination enforcement but wants measurable outcomes and clarity to avoid partisan escalation.
Skeptical; concerned the resolution links disability rights to pro‑abortion framing and encourages federal pressure on states.
May accept protecting disabled people from abuse but distrusts symbolic resolutions that could be used to push expanded abortion access or federal overreach.
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Text is symbolic non‑legislative House resolution; such measures rarely become binding law and may not be taken up by the other chamber.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Symbolic recognition versus demand for enforceable policy actions
Text is symbolic non‑legislative House resolution; such measures rarely become binding law and may not be taken up by the other chamber.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill functions as a standard commemorative resolution: it offers a detailed problem statement and statutory context, effects a symbolic designation and pledge, and calls o…
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