I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5806 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit chemical abortions, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023 
Mr. OGLES (for himself, Mrs. HARSHBARGER, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. WEBER of 
Texas, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. KELLY of 
Mississippi, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. ARRINGTON, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. CLYDE, 
Mr. ALLEN, Mr. SELF, and Mr. ADERHOLT) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit chemical 
abortions, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ending Chemical 
Abortions Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) In 2000, the Food and Drug Administra-
tion approved chemical abortion drugs for use in the 
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United States. The agency illegally categorized preg-
nancy as an illness and asserted chemical abortion 
drugs provide a meaningful therapeutic benefit. 
(2) In 2016, the Food and Drug Administra-
tion reduced the number of doctor visits required for 
administration of chemical abortion drugs from 3 
visits to 1 visit. The agency also removed the re-
quirement for both the in-person administration of 
misoprostol and a subsequent follow-up appointment. 
At this time, the agency also expanded the avail-
ability of inducing a chemical abortion from 7 to 10 
weeks. 
(3) In 2021, the Food and Drug Administra-
tion eliminated the in-person dispensing requirement 
for chemical abortion drugs, purporting to allow 
these drugs to be dispensed by mail in violation of 
longstanding Federal law. 
(4) When compared to surgical abortions, chem-
ical abortions are consistently more likely to result 
in complications that are miscoded as a spontaneous 
abortion or ‘‘miscarriage’’. 
(5) According to the Guttmacher Institute, the 
Abortion Industry’s think tank, since 2000, the ad-
ministration of mifepristone and misoprostol has 
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grown to comprise over 50 percent of all induced 
abortions in the United States. 
(6) There is a four times higher risk of experi-
encing complications due to a chemical abortion than 
a surgical abortion. 
SEC. 3. RENAMING CHAPTER 74 OF TITLE 18, UNITED 
STATES CODE. 
The table of chapters for part I of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by striking the item related to 
chapter 74 and inserting the following: 
‘‘74. Abortion crimes.’’. 
SEC. 4. CHEMICAL ABORTIONS PROHIBITED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 74 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1531 
the following: 
‘‘§ 1532. Chemical abortions 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, whoever prescribes, dispenses, distributes, 
or sells, any drug, medication, or chemical for the purpose 
of procuring or performing an abortion on any woman, 
shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined 
under this title, or both. 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
any of the following: 
‘‘(1) The sale, use, prescription or administra-
tion of any contraceptive agent administered before 
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conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed 
through conventional testing. 
‘‘(2) The treatment of a miscarriage according 
to medical guidelines as accepted as of the date of 
the miscarriage. 
‘‘(3) In the case where a woman suffers from 
a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical ill-
ness, including a life-endangering physical condition 
caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that 
would, as certified by a physician, place the woman 
in danger of death. 
‘‘(c) BAR TO PROSECUTION.—A woman upon whom 
a chemical abortion is performed or attempted may not 
be criminally prosecuted under this section. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) ABORTION.—The term ‘abortion’ means 
intentionally terminating the pregnancy of a woman 
known to be pregnant, with an intention other 
than— 
‘‘(A) to produce a live birth; 
‘‘(B) to remove a dead unborn child caused 
by miscarriage; or 
‘‘(C) to treat an ectopic or molar preg-
nancy. 
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‘‘(2) PREGNANT; PREGNANCY.—The term ‘preg-
nant’ or ‘pregnancy’ refers to the human female re-
productive condition of having a living unborn child 
within her body throughout the entire embryonic and 
fetal stages from fertilization to full gestation and 
childbirth. 
‘‘(3) UNBORN CHILD.—The term ‘unborn child’ 
means an individual organism of the species homo 
sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of 
being born alive as defined in section 8(b) of title 1, 
United States Code.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 1531 the 
following: 
‘‘1532. Chemical abortions.’’. 
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