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        <text><![CDATA[Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include breast-feeding (including expression of milk by a lactating woman) within the definitions of "because of sex" or "on the basis of sex" for purposes of the discrimination prohibitions of such Act.]]></text>
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