About the bill
Some states have triple as many anti-abortion crisis pregancy centers as pro-choice abortion clinics.
Context
False advertising has been illegal for more than a century, ever since enactment of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. Those laws apply regardless of the format or medium in which the false advertising appeared.
Opinions are a different story. For example, you can advertise that your pizza is “the best pizza on planet earth!” even if it’s almost certainly not, because that’s an opinion, rather than a claim of fact. But you’re not supposed to be able to advertise with fake statistics or outright inaccurate information.
Since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in June, many states are poised to ban or limit abortion. Democrats worry about nonprofit …
Sponsor and status
117th Congress (2021–2023)
This bill was introduced on June 23, 2022, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
78 Cosponsors (78 Democrats)
Position statements
History
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Jun 23, 2022
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Introduced
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H.R. 8210 (117th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 8210. This is the one from the 117th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 117th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2021 to Jan 3, 2023. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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