Conscience Protections for Medical Residents Act
This bill prohibits Medicare-approved medical residency programs from requiring residents to undergo abortion training without their voluntary consent. It specifically bans programs from making such training mandatory (requiring residents to "opt-in" rather than "opt-out") or from discriminating against residents who refuse this training or do not perform abortions. The law directly affects medical residents in Medicare-funded postgraduate training programs across the U.S., ensuring they cannot be forced into abortion-related clinical experiences or penalized for declining them.
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Nov 2025
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Introduced Nov 20, 2025
Last action Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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1 primary · 26 co-sponsors
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Gregory F. Murphy
RRepublican
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Adrian Smith
RRepublican
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Andrew S. Clyde
RRepublican
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Andy Harris
RRepublican
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Barry Moore
RRepublican
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Christopher H. Smith
RRepublican
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Claudia Tenney
RRepublican
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David Kustoff
RRepublican
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John J. McGuire III
RRepublican
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John Joyce
RRepublican
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Julia Letlow
RRepublican
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