Sen. Banks Introduces Forced Abortion Prevention and Accountability ActTuesday, September 30, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C,– Today, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced theForced Abortion Prevention and Accountability Act.The bill seeks to establish federal criminal penalties for individuals who deliberately give a woman an abortion-inducing drug without first obtaining her consent.
Senators Ted Budd (R- N.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.) John Cornyn (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), James Risch (R-Idaho), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) are cosponsors of the bill.
Senator Jim Banks: (R-Ind.)“No woman should ever be tricked or forced into ending the life of her child. This bill is simple: it holds abusers accountable and protects mothers and their babies.”
Key Provisions of theForced Abortion Prevention and Accountability Actare:
This bill is endorsed by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, American Principles Project, Concerned Women for America LAC, and National Right to Life Committee.
Full text of the bill can be foundhere.
Background:
Unsupportive partners, abusers, and traffickers have taken advantage of the deregulated safety protocols surrounding abortion pills to harm women and their unborn children. Since there are no checks on who is ordering the drugs on whether the individual is pregnant and accurately dated, abusers have purchased these drugs and given them to expecting mothers without their consent.
In a reported case in Texas, Justin Banta was charged with capital murder and tempering evidence for ordering abortion pills online and crushing the pills into his girlfriend’s coffee after her six-week ultrasound showing a healthy baby.
Unfortunately, not every abuser is charged with capital murder. Last year, David Coots was sentenced to only one year and one day in prison for assault, third degree rape, and forcing misoprostol into a woman, resulting in the loss of her baby.
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