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MS SB2141
Bill
AI Summary
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Creates a private civil cause of action allowing individuals to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails, prescribes, or provides abortion-inducing drugs in Mississippi, with strict, absolute, and joint and several liability for wrongful death or personal injury to an unborn child or pregnant woman
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Prohibits creating websites, apps, or software that assist individuals in obtaining abortion-inducing drugs, and bans providing information on how to obtain such drugs when integral to conduct constituting a civil or criminal offense
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Establishes a 6-year statute of limitations and allows market-share liability against manufacturers when the specific source of the drug cannot be identified
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Eliminates most traditional legal defenses including comparative negligence, assumption of risk, consent, lack of proximate cause, and reliance on laws of other states including interstate abortion shield laws
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Provides immunity for internet service providers, search engines, and cloud service providers, and exempts pregnant women from liability for their own conduct in seeking or using abortion-inducing drugs
Legislative Description
Protecting Women and Children Act; enact.
Last Action
Died In Committee
2/3/2026