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<title>Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2021</title>
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<action-date>2021-01-28</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of </b><b>2021</b></p> <p>This bill requires states, as a condition of federal payment under Medicaid for family planning services, to report certain abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (Currently, reporting is voluntary.) The CDC must develop standardized questions for states with respect to specified variables (e.g., maternal demographics and methods of abortion).</p>]]></summary-text>
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