Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, who gained national attention after her controversial response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union, has proposed a sweeping package of laws that would allow child support payments to begin for children during pregnancy and to establish a national clearinghouse of pregnancy care providers, except those providing abortion-related services.
The More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act, or MOMS Act, which has brought together co-sponsors including Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), creates specific exclusions prohibiting an entity that “performs, induces, recommends, or counsels abortions” by receiving funding or placement on a new Pregnancy.gov website, including swathes of OB-GYN services and sexual health clinics across the country.
The website would create a federal database of “relevant resources” for pregnant women, and ask users for contact information that the government could use to “conduct outreach by telephone or email.” Critics, including former Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath, say it’s a database of pregnant people.
“According to the GOP, America needs a national registry of pregnant women as well as the federal government tracking women’s menstrual cycles,” McGrath said on X.
The bill also calls for the creation of a database of “pregnancy support centers,” or crisis centers, which critics say provide women with misleading information in an effort to prevent them from having an abortion. . Britt’s state, Alabama, already has some of the strictest abortion bans in the country, currently barring women from seeking termination of a pregnancy except in the case of saving their mother’s life.
The program further modifies child support mechanisms at the federal level to allow women to seek support from their sexual partners from conception, replacing existing language from “child” to “unborn child.”
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