Abortion
PROPOSED / DRAFT — ABORTION & MATERNAL POLICY
POSITION
MPA supports legal elective abortion during early pregnancy, generally through 14 weeks, followed by greater legal protection for unborn life.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The law should establish a clear, workable standard that recognizes individual liberty and difficult medical circumstances while giving greater protection to unborn life as pregnancy advances. Ambiguous laws can delay legitimate emergency care, create unequal enforcement, and leave patients and medical professionals uncertain about what is lawful.
EARLY PREGNANCY
Elective abortion should remain legal generally through 14 weeks of pregnancy, subject to ordinary medical licensing, informed-consent, privacy, and safety requirements that apply without creating a disguised prohibition.
AFTER THE EARLY-PREGNANCY PERIOD
After the general 14-week period, elective abortion should be restricted, with lawful exceptions for:
Pregnancy resulting from rape
Pregnancy resulting from incest
A serious threat to the mother’s life
A serious threat of substantial irreversible physical harm
Severe fetal conditions incompatible with sustained life after birth
A completed criminal conviction should not be required before a rape or incest exception can be considered. The implementing law should establish a confidential, timely, and reviewable process that protects against both unjustified denial and deliberate fraud.
PREGNANCY EMERGENCIES & NONVIABLE PREGNANCIES
Treatment for ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, sepsis, hemorrhage, and other genuine pregnancy emergencies must remain legally available.
When delay creates a serious medical danger, a qualified clinician should be able to provide stabilizing treatment based on reasonable medical judgment without waiting for prior approval from a court, prosecutor, hospital lawyer, or government agency. Required documentation and later review should not delay emergency care.
Law should clearly distinguish elective abortion from treatment of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, fetal death, infection, hemorrhage, and another condition in which continued pregnancy is impossible or presents the specified serious danger.
CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT & DUE PROCESS
Women should not be imprisoned merely for obtaining an abortion. Laws should not encourage investigation of miscarriage, stillbirth, or emergency medical care without specific evidence of unlawful conduct.
Any enforcement against a medical professional or facility should require clear statutory language, proof of the required mental state, access to the evidence, medical-expert review, and ordinary due process. Good-faith emergency medical judgment should not be treated as deliberate criminal conduct.
REDUCING UNINTENDED PREGNANCY & SUPPORTING FAMILIES
MPA supports:
Lawful access to contraception
Accurate information about pregnancy and reproductive health
Prenatal and postpartum healthcare
Maternal-health and high-risk-pregnancy care
Adoption reform with transparent costs and timelines
Protection against coercion in abortion and adoption decisions
Practical support that helps parents choose to raise a child when they want to do so
The objective should be to make abortion less necessary rather than pretending government can eliminate the circumstances that lead to it.
PRIVACY & PUBLIC REPORTING
Public-health reporting should use de-identified information and must not become a system for tracking individual women. Reporting should focus on maternal health, gestational timing, medical complications, access to prenatal care, and whether emergency-care protections function as intended.
WHAT WE WILL MEASURE
Review should examine maternal mortality and serious morbidity, unintended-pregnancy rates, prenatal and postpartum access, delays in emergency care, adoption processing, geographic access, and evidence of coercion, discrimination, or unequal enforcement.
Related policies: Healthcare; Personal Rights & Freedoms; Social Security, Senior Security & Retirement; Criminal Justice, Prison, Jail & Detention Reform.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Originally published: August 15, 2026.
Last updated: September 25, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.3.