The 43-page measure, introduced Friday, may be the most meaningful attempt this year to block the ordering and mailing of medication abortion.
The Biden administration clarified that EMTALA requires hospitals to perform abortions when they are the necessary treatment to stabilize a patient, but the policy’s future is uncertain.
An emphasis on federal cost-cutting could create a complicated path forward for any effort to try to build out any new health care benefits.
Cases from Louisiana and Texas represent the first test of a key law used to circumvent state abortion bans.
Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, will be able to shape federal abortion policy and has expressed openness to national restrictions.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, would empower the Federal Trade Commission to regulate these often religiously affiliated centers.
It marks one of Kennedy’s clearest public statements on abortion since being nominated to lead the nation’s health department.
The executive order is likely to be challenged in court.
The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented.
Despite calls from lawmakers and advocates, abortion has been notably absent from the executive actions in the first days of the new administration.