H.R. 21 · 119th Congress · Crime and law enforcement
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jan 23, 2025
Roll call ↗217
204
Passed the House.
Passed the House on January 23, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- CommitteeJan 3, 2025
- Passed HouseJan 23, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 163
- all Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on the JudiciaryHouse Committee on the Judiciary
- Lobbying
- At least 22
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill adds a new section 1532 to the federal criminal code covering any child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, January 23, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill adds a new section 1532 to the federal criminal code covering any child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. It requires any health care practitioner present to give that child the same skill, care, and diligence a reasonably diligent practitioner would give any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and then to ensure the child is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital. Anyone at a hospital, physician's office, or abortion clinic who knows of a violation must report it to law enforcement. Violating the care requirement is punishable by a fine or up to five years in prison. Intentionally killing a child born alive is punished as murder under section 1111 of title 18. The mother cannot be prosecuted under the section. The woman on whom the abortion was performed may also sue any violator, recovering money damages, statutory damages equal to three times the cost of the abortion, and punitive damages. The bill also renames chapter 74 of title 18 from Partial-Birth Abortions to Abortions.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 22 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 51 quarterly reports filed by 22 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: American Society of Hematology; Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.; Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee; American Academy of Family Physicians; National Council of Jewish Women. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 17 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.