ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM

Family issues/Abortion/Adoption

H.R.3492, Protect Children's Innocence Act, establishing criminal offenses for providing gender transition treatments to minors, all provisions. H.R.5483, Chloe Cole Act, prohibiting health care professionals, hospitals, or clinics from participating in the chemical or surgical mutilation of a child and providing a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation, all provisions. H.R.650/S.204, Families Rights and Responsibilities Act, protecting the right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children as a fundamental right, all provisions. S.3238, Conscience Protections for Medical Residents Act, prohibiting approved medical residency training programs under the Medicare program from requiring opt-out abortion training, all provisions. H.R.6372, D.C. Shield Law Repeal Act, repealing the Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022, all provisions. H.R.6253, Algorithmic Choice and Transparency Act, requiring online platforms to disclose policies and provide options relating to personalized recommendations systems to minors, and for other purposes, provisions relating to disclosure and age restriction. H.R.6489, Safeguarding Adolescents From Exploitative (SAFE) Bots Act, ensuring that providers of chatbots clearly and conspicuously disclose to users who are minors that chatbots are artificial intelligence systems, not natural person, and do not provide advice from licensed professionals, and for other purposes, provisions relating to disclosure and preemption. H.R.6257, Safe Messaging for Kids Act of 2025, protecting minors from harms associated with ephemeral messaging features and unsolicited direct contact on social media platforms by prohibiting certain ephemeral messaging features for minors and mandating the provision of parental direct messaging controls, and for other purposes, provisions relating to parental control and preemption. H.R.3149, App Store Accountability Act, safeguarding children by providing parents with clear and accurate information about the apps downloaded and used by their children and to ensure proper parental consent is achieved, and for other purposes, provisions relating to parental control, preemption, and age. H.R.6333, Parents Over Platforms Act, ensuring responsible age assurance practices within the mobile ecosystem, particularly concerning the protection of minors, and for other purposes, provisions relating to app developers, distributors, and preemption. H.R.6484, Kids Online Safety Act, protecting the safety of minors on the internet, and for other purposes, provisions relating to speech, preemption, and age. H.R.6291, Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act, amending the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to strengthen protections relating to the online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children and teens, and for other purposes, provisions relating to speech, preemption, and age. H.R.2657, Sammys Law, requiring large social media platform providers to create, maintain, and make available to third-party safety software providers a set of real-time application programming interfaces, through which a child or a parent or legal guardian of a child may delegate permission to a third-party safety software provider to manage the online interactions, content, and account settings of such child on the large social media platform on the same terms as such child, and for other purposes, provisions relating to age. H.R.6273, Stop Profiling Youth and (SPY) Kids Act, prohibiting market or product-focused research on children and minors, and for other purposes, provisions relating to age. H.R.6292, Dont Sell Kids Data Act of 2025, prohibiting data brokers from collecting, using, or maintaining the personal data of certain minors, and for other purposes, provisions relating to age.