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Unborn Children's Civil Rights Act

Introduced: January 22, 1987 See on congress.gov
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Jan 26, 1987
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 8.
Jan 22, 1987
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Jan 22, 1987
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Unborn Children's Civil Rights Act - Prohibits the use of Federal funds to perform, promote, or do research on any procedure to take the life of an unborn child (except for medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant women or her unborn child).

Prohibits the Federal Government from entering into any contract for insurance which provides for payment or reimbursement for abortion services.

States that no institution receiving Federal financial assistance shall: (1) discriminate against any employee, applicant, or student on the basis of that person's opposition to abortion; or (2) require any employee or student to participate in abortion procedures.

States that attorney's fees shall not be allowed in any civil action involving a law prohibiting or restricting abortions.

Provides for Supreme Court review of lower court decisions which declare State and local anti-abortion statutes unconstitutional.

What's happening now January 26, 1987

Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 8.

 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1