[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 192 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 192

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 22, 1997

   Mr. Helms introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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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 the knowledge that the 
 abortion is being performed solely because of the gender of the fetus.

    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:
    ``(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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