Protecting Life on College Campus Act of 2025
Protecting Life on College Campus Act of 2025 would withhold all federal funds from any college or university that hosts or is affiliated with a campus-based health site that provides abortion services or abortion drugs to students or to employees. In addition, any institution that hosts such a site must annually certify to the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services that no on-campus site provides abortion drugs or abortions. The bill defines key terms (abortion drug, school-based service site, and institution of higher education) and narrows what counts as a school-based service site to on-campus clinics that accept federal funding and provide health, family planning, telehealth, or pharmaceutical services, while explicitly excluding hospitals from that category.
Key Points
- 1Prohibition on federal funds: No federal funds may be awarded directly or indirectly (including via contracts or subcontracts) to an institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with a campus-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students or employees.
- 2Annual reporting: Institutions must submit a yearly certification to the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Services confirming that no on-campus clinic/service site provides abortions or abortion drugs.
- 3Definitions:
- 4- Abortion drug: any drug or combination intended to terminate or kill a pregnancy, with specific exclusions for cases like producing a live birth or treating certain pregnancy-related conditions.
- 5- School-based service site: on-campus clinics that provide health care, family planning, telehealth, or pharmaceuticals to students (on campuses that receive federal funding), but not hospitals.
- 6- Institution of higher education: as defined by the Higher Education Act.
- 7Scope of sites: The rule covers on-campus clinics that accept federal funding; it does not apply to hospitals.
- 8Enforcement and funding flow: If an institution hosts or affiliates with a qualifying site, it loses federal funds (directly or indirectly); institutions must maintain compliance or risk withholding of federal support.