I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8985 
To provide for certain conditions on the enforcement of surrogacy contracts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2024 
Mr. OGLES (for himself, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. PENCE, Mr. SELF, Mr. BIGGS, Mrs. 
MILLER of Illinois, Mr. PALMER, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. 
STEUBE, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. MOONEY, and Ms. BOEBERT) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide for certain conditions on the enforcement of 
surrogacy contracts. 
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 ‘‘Preventing Forced 
Abortions Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. IN GENERAL. 
A Federal court— 
(1) may not enforce any provision in a 
surrogacy contract that requires the surrogate moth-
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er to have an abortion at the request of any in-
tended parent, party to a surrogacy contract, or 
agent of any party to a surrogacy contract; and 
(2) shall enforce any clause requiring the pay-
ment of a surrogate mother of any compensation 
agreed to in a surrogacy contract, notwithstanding 
any provision that requires the surrogate mother to 
have an abortion at the request of any intended par-
ent, party to a surrogacy contract, or agent of any 
party to a surrogacy contract, including any provi-
sion providing for— 
(A) liquidated damages based on a refusal 
to get an abortion; 
(B) reduction of payment based on a re-
fusal to get an abortion; or 
(C) otherwise requiring the surrogate 
mother to have an abortion at the request of 
any party or agent of any party to a surrogacy 
contract. 
SEC. 3. JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 85 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘§ 1370. Surrogacy contracts 
‘‘The district courts shall have original jurisdiction 
of all civil actions where the matter in controversy is a 
surrogacy contract (as such term is defined in section 4 
of the Preventing Forced Abortions Act of 2024) in or 
affecting interstate or foreign commerce.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for such chapter is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘1370. Surrogacy contracts.’’. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘intended parent’’ means any in-
dividual who is a party to a surrogacy contract and 
who is the party who will take permanent custody of 
a child born pursuant to such contract. 
(2) The term ‘‘surrogacy contract’’ means an 
agreement setting forth the terms and conditions for 
the conception and birth of a child to a female with 
the intent of all parties being that such child shall 
immediately thereafter enter into the permanent cus-
tody of another individual. 
(3) The term ‘‘surrogate mother’’ means a fe-
male who is a party to a surrogacy contract and who 
is the party who will bear the child pursuant to such 
contract. 
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