[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4888 Engrossed in House (EH)]


  2d Session

                               H. R. 4888

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                                 AN ACT

                     To protect innocent children.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4888

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                                 AN ACT


 
                     To protect innocent children.

    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 ``Innocent Child Protection Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF INNOCENT CHILDREN.

    It shall be unlawful for any authority, military or civil, of the 
United States, a State, or any district, possession, commonwealth or 
other territory under the authority of the United States to carry out a 
sentence of death on a woman while she carries a child in utero. In 
this section, the term ``child in utero'' means a member of the species 
homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 25, 2000.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.