Please Take Action to  Oppose this bill.  Call and email your State Senator and two Assembly members to oppose this legislation.  

Governor Murphy and Abortion groups have been pushing to pass this bill before summer.   Please pass this alert on to friends and family and urge them to contact their State Senator and two Assembly members immediately to Vote No on A3514. 

Please Note: This page will be updated periodically as new information becomes available.  We will do our best to keep you informed.  

Governor Murphy appears to be implementing much of this bill step by step through Executive Orders because the legislature has been reluctant to pass it.  

Bill A3514 was introduced on February 5, 2024.  It was written by Planned Parenthood and Governor Murphy.    This legislation is all part of larger plan to make NJ a sanctuary state for abortion.  The bill expands on components of the Abortion bill Murphy signed on January 13, 2022 (S49/A6260) and  two bills he signed on July 1, 2022 (A3974/A2642 and A3975/S2633) which the pro-abortion media and supporters say makes New Jersey a Safe Haven for Abortion.

The bill description for A3514 says the following: 

Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million, repeals various sections of law. 

Pro-Abortion Groups are calling it the Reproductive Equity Act.

 The current primary legislative sponsors are Asm. Herb Conaway (D-7) and Asw. Tennille McCoy (D-14).

Currently, there is no companion Senate bill.  

A3514 will include, but is not limited  to:

• Providing "Free" abortions on demand up until the moment of birth, even if both mother and child are healthy.   These abortions will be mandated in all health insurance plans with no co-pays,no deductibles, no co-insurance.  This will increase premiums in all health insurance plans and make taxpayers complicit in the performance of, and funding for, all abortions that take place  in our state.  The legislation includes a very narrow religious employer exclusion which only applies to churches or religious orders organized as non-profits.  These entities may request an exclusion to cover abortion if the coverage conflicts with their bona fide religious beliefs and practices, but will be allowed if the abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the covered person.   It is important to note, however, that this exclusion will not apply to other non-profit religious employers or privately held for-profit businesses whose owners have religious objections to covering abortion in their health insurance plans.  

Please Note:   The next three italicized bullet points were in the previous version of the bill, but are not currently reflected in A3514

• Mandating in law the new, unsafe rules adopted by the NJ Board of Medical Examiners that advanced practice nurses, certified nurse midwives and certified midwives can perform abortions in the first trimester as well as provide medication abortion.  It will also mandate in law that physician assistants can provide medication abortion and counseling.

• Also mandating in law the dangerous new rules adopted by the NJ Board of Medical Examiners that abortions can be performed in an office setting regardless of the stage of gestation, as long as the facility has one operating room.

• Mandating that a physician or other health care providers (includes nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, midwives, advanced practice nurse, physician assistants) acting within their scope of practice shall be authorized to provide and assist in abortion care in this state.  This specifically invalidates NJ's 1974 Conscience Clause law for health care providers.

• Expressly allowing minors to have abortions without parental consent or notification.

• Containing broadly worded language that will encompass and provide immunity from prosecution for sex traffickers, sexual predators of minors, and disreputable and unqualified clinicians and anyone else who comes from a state that has protections for babies in the womb for "receiving or seeking an abortion, performing or inducing a termination of an abortion, or knowingly engaging in conduct that aids or abets the performance, receipt or inducement of an abortion." It will also shield abortion providers in NJ (which now include nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, advance practice nurses and physician assistants) from disciplinary actions for performing an abortion on a patient who travels from another state if that state has laws that protects the life of babies in the womb.  (Note: This section appears  similar to  language contained in Bill A3975/S2633 which previously passed both houses of the legislature  on 6/29/22  and was signed into law on 7/1/22 so it will most likely be omitted from the final version of this legislation).

• Containing one-sided, extremely biased, and alarmingly broad language that will impose severe penalties and fines against individuals who peacefully exercise their first amendment rights outside abortion clinics.  See Sections 15-18. View bill HERE

• Providing a recurring $20 million Reproductive Access Fund (paid for with taxpayer funds) to be automatically disbursed annually in the budget as listed below.

                     $ 5M to Expand training in abortion to increase the number of racial and ethnically diverse abortion providers.

                      $ 5M Grants to provide security personnel and law enforcement personnel at facilities providing abortions.

                     $10 M to provide "free" taxpayer-funded abortions for residents and non-residents who don't have insurance.  

In addition, Section 23 authorizes the Department of Health to incentivize abortion groups by awarding grants to provide free abortions for "anyone who seeks care in the State, regardless of their ability to pay for such care."  The grants will be administered to health care providers and non-profit entities to support the uncompensated costs relating to the termination of a pregnancy for individuals who lack insurance coverage, are underinsured or whose insurance is deemed unusable by the rendering provider. The department shall also provide grants through the program to non-profit entities providing practical support to individuals traveling to NJ to get abortions.  

• The legislation creates multiple layers of abortion bureaucracy departments to be created within existing cabinets (Sections 19 et. seq.) to ensure oversight and continued funding for the above programs.

• Repeals the 1997 partial birth abortion statute, the 1999 parental notification statute.  Also repeals portions of P.L. 2021, C.375 (Reproductive Freedom Act) which enabled portions of A3514 to be implemented.  Also makes clear that abortions for medicaid patients will be provided for any reason.  Both the Partial birth abortion statute and the Parental Notification statute never went into effect. They were nullified by Court decisions.