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MS SB2141

Bill

Status

Failed

2/3/2026

Primary Sponsor

Joey Fillingane

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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

  • 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

  • Establishes a 6-year statute of limitations and allows market-share liability against manufacturers when the specific source of the drug cannot be identified

  • 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

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Division A1/13/2026

Full Bill Text

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