[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 40 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 40

To make it a violation of a right secured by the Constitution and laws 
 of the United States to perform an abortion with knowledge that such 
abortion is being performed solely because of the gender of the fetus, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. Helms introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

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                                 A BILL


 
To make it a violation of a right secured by the Constitution and laws 
 of the United States to perform an abortion with knowledge that such 
abortion is being performed solely because of the gender of the fetus, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Civil Rights of Infants Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPRIVING PERSONS OF THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAWS BEFORE BIRTH.

    Section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``Every person''; and
            (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(b) For purposes of subsection (a), and for purposes of other 
provisions of law, it shall be a deprivation of a `right' secured by 
the laws of the United States for an individual to perform an abortion 
with the knowledge that the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion 
solely because of the gender of the fetus. No pregnant woman who seeks 
to obtain an abortion solely on the basis of the gender of the fetus 
shall be liable in any manner under this section.''.

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