Commending State and local governments for championing reproductive rights as human rights.

No law would change — Congress would call reproductive rights human rights and urge states to end abortion prosecutions.

The details

Nothing in your daily life or your wallet would change under this resolution. It creates no law, no funding, and no new rule. Congress would only go on record with a statement on abortion. It would say reproductive rights are human rights. It would condemn treating abortion, or any pregnancy outcome such as miscarriage, as a crime. It would urge states to repeal laws that make abortion a crime. It would also urge them to stop prosecuting people over their pregnancies. States would be free to ignore these requests. Both the House and the Senate would have to pass it, and it never goes to the President. Most of the text lays out the sponsors' reasons. It notes that the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion in June 2022. It says more than a dozen states now ban abortion fully. It says over 155,000 patients traveled to another state for abortion care in 2024. It says state prosecutors brought at least 412 cases against pregnant people in the two years after that ruling. It argues that these limits clash with human rights treaties the United States has joined. It cites a 2023 United Nations review that raised the same concerns. The resolution also praises local governments that have taken a stand. Examples include Austin, Texas; Baltimore and Montgomery County, Maryland; and Philadelphia. Carrboro and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are named too. Several of these places declared December 10 as Human Rights Day. It says Austin has spent over $400,000 to help low-income people get abortion care. It also faults the Trump administration for skipping a United Nations human rights review. The resolution went to two House committees in December 2025.