Alarming pro-abortion legislation planned for new Congress
November 06, 2026
Human Life Action (HLA), which works closely with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on matters of pro-life legislation, warned that “the expected agenda for the new Congress is alarming.”
“A Democrat Healthcare Working Group in the U.S. House of Representatives identified two extreme bills on abortion for action within the first 100 hours of the new Congress,” HLA wrote in a post-election email to supporters. “The Working Group consulted with over 60% of the Democratic caucus.”
The HLA email continued:
A top priority of the Democrat Working Group is the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which could more fittingly be characterized as the “National Abortion-on-Demand Act.” This legislation would impose a right to abortion on demand nationwide. It would eliminate state laws banning abortion at any stage of pregnancy, including laws that have been enacted post-Dobbs. Laws requiring parental involvement in a minor’s abortion, prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion, and laws requiring that only physicians perform abortions would be among those invalidated. Even conscience protection laws would likely be invalidated.
A second priority of the Working Group for the first 100 hours is legislation to remove restrictions on federal funding of abortion, including eliminating the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment has been law for 50 years and is accredited with saving more than 2.6 million lives. The anti-Hyde legislation is called the EACH Act (Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act).
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