Official Summaries

American Values Act

This bill expands restrictions on using U.S. foreign assistance to pay for or promote abortions, involuntary sterilizations, or other related activities.

Specifically, the bill expands existing prohibitions, including prohibitions against using foreign assistance to pay for abortions or involuntary sterilization for family planning, to apply to all assistance provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA). (Currently, these prohibitions apply to only certain parts of the FAA.)

Furthermore, assistance provided under the FAA may not be made available to (1) pay for lobbying for or against abortion, or (2) any organization that supports a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. (These prohibitions have typically been in appropriations acts, but the bill would make the prohibitions a permanent part of the FAA.)

The bill also makes permanent a prohibition against using funds made available to the Peace Corps to pay for abortions except when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or when the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 334 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 334

To permanently enact certain appropriations Act restrictions on the use 
 of funds for abortions and involuntary sterilizations, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 30, 2025

 Mr. Risch (for himself, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Paul, Mr. Scott of Florida, 
 Mr. Mullin, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Daines, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. 
 Hagerty, and Mr. Cruz) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To permanently enact certain appropriations Act restrictions on the use 
 of funds for abortions and involuntary sterilizations, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American Values Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT ENACTMENT OF CERTAIN GENERAL PROVISIONS.

    (a) Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.--Section 104(f) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(f)) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(f) Prohibition on Use of Funds for Abortions and Involuntary 
Sterilizations.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
otherwise made available to carry out this Act may be made available--
            ``(1) to pay for the performance of abortions as a method 
        of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to 
        practice abortions;
            ``(2) to pay for the performance of involuntary 
        sterilization as a method of family planning or to coerce or 
        provide any financial incentive to any person to undergo 
        sterilizations;
            ``(3) to pay for biomedical research which relates in whole 
        or in part, to methods of, or the performance of, abortions or 
        involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning;
            ``(4) to lobby for or against abortion; or
            ``(5) to any organization or program which, as determined 
        by the President, supports or participates in the management of 
        a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.''.
    (b) Peace Corps Act.--Section 301(b) of the Peace Corps Act (22 
U.S.C. 2501a(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(3) Subject to section 614 of the Financial Services and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 2014 (division E of Public Law 113-76; 
128 Stat. 227), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
otherwise made available to carry out this Act may be used to pay for 
abortions.''.
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