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PA SB837
Bill
Status
6/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Amanda Cappelletti
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AI Summary
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Repeals Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act and replaces it with the Reproductive Freedom Act, removing requirements for 24-hour waiting periods, mandatory parental consent for minors, spousal notification, state-mandated informed consent materials, and the prohibition on abortions after 24 weeks gestational age
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Establishes abortion as a fundamental right in Pennsylvania and prohibits the Commonwealth from interfering with an individual's right to choose or obtain an abortion, contraception, or sterilization
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Expands who may perform abortions to include physicians, certified registered nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurse-midwives (termed "qualified clinicians")
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Creates a civil cause of action against reproductive coercion, defined as attempted control over a person's decision to have or forgo an abortion through force, threat, intimidation, or coercive control, with compensatory damages, punitive damages, and injunctive relief available
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Repeals the prohibition on abortion coverage in qualified health plans offered through the state health insurance exchange and authorizes telemedicine prescribing of abortion medications
Legislative Description
In provisions relating to abortion, repealing provisions relating to short title of chapter and to legislative intent, further providing for definitions, repealing provisions relating to medical consultation and judgment, to informed consent, to parental consent, to abortion facilities, to printed information, to Commonwealth interference prohibited, to spousal notice, to determination of gestational age, to abortion on unborn child of 24 or more weeks gestational age, to infanticide, to prohibited acts and to reporting, further providing for publicly owned facilities, public officials and public funds and for fetal experimentation and repealing provisions relating to civil penalties, to criminal penalties, to State Board of Medicine and State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and to construction; providing for reproductive rights; repealing provisions relating to compliance with Federal health care legislation as to regulation of insurers and related persons generally; imposing penalties; and making an editorial change.
Last Action
Referred to Judiciary
6/27/2025