Chemical abortions prohibited

(a) In general Chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1531 the following: 1532. Chemical abortions (a) Prohibition Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whoever prescribes, dispenses, distributes, or sells, any drug, medication, or chemical for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion on any woman, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined under this title, or both. (b) Exceptions Subsection (a) shall not apply to any of the following: (1) The sale, use, prescription or administration of any contraceptive agent administered before conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional testing. (2) The treatment of a miscarriage according to medical guidelines as accepted as of the date of the miscarriage. (3) In the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death. (c) Bar to prosecution A woman upon whom a chemical abortion is performed or attempted may not be criminally prosecuted under this section. (d) Definitions In this section: (1) Abortion The term abortion means intentionally terminating the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with an intention other than— (A) to produce a live birth; (B) to remove a dead unborn child caused by miscarriage; or (C) to treat an ectopic or molar pregnancy. (2) Pregnant; pregnancy The term pregnant or pregnancy refers to the human female reproductive condition of having a living unborn child within her body throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages from fertilization to full gestation and childbirth. (3) Unborn child The term unborn child means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of being born alive as defined in section 8(b) of title 1, United States Code.. (b) Clerical amendment The table of sections for chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1531 the following: 1532. Chemical abortions..