# Plain Language Summary: Adoption Information Act

This bill requires family planning clinics that receive federal funding to give patients a pamphlet with adoption center information whenever someone asks about family planning or abortion services. The pamphlet would list all adoption centers in the patient's region along with their phone numbers and addresses. Clinics would also need to give patients the opportunity to actually read the pamphlet before they leave.

The federal government would be responsible for creating these pamphlets, updating them every year, and sending them to all the clinics that receive this type of federal funding. The bill specifies that no new money would be spent on this requirement—clinics would have to use their existing budgets to print and distribute the pamphlets.

In practical terms, this means if you visit a family planning clinic that gets federal money and you ask about any family planning services or abortion options, you'd receive information about adoption as an alternative. The goal appears to be making sure patients know adoption is an option they can explore. However, the bill doesn't specify what happens if clinics don't comply with this requirement, so it's unclear what penalties or enforcement mechanisms would exist if a clinic failed to provide the pamphlets.

Adoption Information Act

Wittman, Robert J.

Adoption Information ActThis bill requires federally funded family planning programs to provide each person who inquires about medical or abortion&nbsp;services with specified information about adoption centers in their region. The Department of Health and Human Services must provide the programs with pamphlets containing the required information.