Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2025

This bill aims to significantly improve the collection and reporting of abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It addresses current deficiencies where abortion data reporting is voluntary, inconsistent across states, and often incomplete, hindering public health and policy analysis. To rectify this, the legislation makes the receipt of federal Medicaid payments for certain family planning services and supplies contingent upon states submitting required abortion data to the CDC. Specifically, the bill amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate that the CDC maintain a standardized surveillance system for aggregate abortion data. This system will include a standard worksheet with mandatory questions covering variables such as maternal age, gestational age, race, ethnicity, abortion method, previous pregnancies, and whether the child survived the abortion. States are required to submit this data annually and must certify its accuracy to the CDC Director. Failure to submit the required data by the deadline could impact a state's Medicaid funding, though late submissions within the year may allow for retroactive payments. Furthermore, knowingly providing false information could result in the loss of Medicaid family planning payments for the subsequent fiscal year. The CDC is also tasked with providing technical assistance to states and publishing an annual report summarizing the collected abortion data.